Adaptations by Rina Wintour & Pat Lavercombe of the Disturbance Prayer (Author unknown).

Jesus, make me a channel of disturbance.

Where there is apathy, let me provoke.
Where there is compliance, let me bring questioning.
Where there is silence, let me be a voice.
Where there is too much comfort and too little action,
Grant disruption.

Where there are doors closed and hearts locked,
Grant the willingness to listen.
When laws dictate and pain is overlooked…
When tradition speaks louder than need…
When we refuse to take control of our own spiritual growth…
Our own mission…
Our own poor,
Disturb me, O Lord ,
Teach me to be radical.

Rina Wintour

O Divine Master
Grant that I may seek rather
To do justice than talk about it;
To be with as well as for, the poor;
To love the hard-to-love as well as the lovely;
To kiss the children of the poor rather than the feet of the crucifix.

For it is in giving that we receive
It is in walking-with that we truly understand.
It is in challenging evil that we achieve justice.
It is in the struggles of this life that we touch eternity.
Lord, make me a channel of disturbance.

Pat Lavercombe