Spend a brief time in silence to surface concerns you have for people’s basic human needs and rights. Make a silent commitment as an individual or a group commitment to persist in helping someone seek justice. Then pray together the following verses from Sirach 17.6-7,10,14-15.
LEADER: God gives us tongues and eyes, ears and minds for thinking.
ALL: God fills us with knowledge and understanding. God shows us good and evil.
LEADER: God gives us commandments concerning our neighbors.
ALL: Let us praise God’s name, and proclaim the grandeur of God’s works.
LEADER: Let us remember that our ways are always before God;
ALL: We cannot hide from God’s eyes. Amen.