A
Peace Devotional
Disciples Peace
Fellowship
The following Peace Devotional was created by Rev. Job Cobos, Arizona Regional Pastor for Hispanic Ministries and member of the DPF Executive Committee and first used by the DPF Executive Committee at their March 2005 meeting in Washington, DC. Prior to the devotional, the leader should ask several participants to be prepared to offer the three prayers. The texts can be read by the leader or by individual participants.
Welcome (Leader)
Invocation:
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, the Beneficent, the Merciful, owner of the Day of Judgment. Thee alone we worship; Thee alone we ask for help. Show us the straight path: the path of those whom Thou hast favored; not of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray.
Qur'an 1: The Fatihah
Should anyone be victim of great anxiety, their body racked with maladies, beset with problems of home and family, with pleasure and pain alternating, wandering in all four directions without peace or rest Ð Should they then contemplate the Supreme Being, peaceful shall their mind and body become.
Adi Granth, Sri Raga, M.5
Prayer for those who need peace of mind
They that are desirous of victory do not conquer by might and energy so much as by truth, compassion, righteousness, and spiritual discipline.
Mahabharata , Bhishma Parva 21
Prayer for the leaders of the world
Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus replied, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22:36-40
What sort of religion can it be without compassion? You need to show compassion to all living being. Compassion is the root of all religious faiths.
Khuddaka Patha, Metta Sutta
Prayer for Jusice in the World
This is Peace, this is the excellent, namely the calm of all the impulses, the casting out of all "basis, "the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping, Nirvana.
Anguttara Nikaya v. 322
The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The Lord is good to all, and god's compassion is over all that God has made.
Psalm 145:8-9
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; national shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah 2:4
Closing: (All in Unison)
Peace be to earth and to airy spaces!
Peace be to heaven, peace to the waters, peace to the plants and peace to the trees!
May all the gods grant me peace!
By this invocation of peace may peace be diffused!
By this invocation of peace may peace bring peace!
With this peace the dreadful I appease, with this peace the cruel I appease, with this peace all evil I appease, so that peace may prevail, happiness prevail!
May everything for us be peaceful!