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We Look at You
Lord Jesus, we are gathered in your
love,
Responding to your call to be with
our brothers and sisters who are poor.
We cannot do it without you.
Look at each one of us,
and give us the courage
to also look at you.
All:
The day has just begun.
a new day, a new life ahead of us.
May the Spirit of God give us the
strength
to walk an extra mile (Mt. 5:41)
And offer the best that we have to
those in need (Num. 8:12)
Reader 1:
If anyone forces you to go one mile,
go also the second mile (Mt. 5:41).
Reader 2:
All the best of the oil and all the
best of the wine and of the grain,
the choice produce that they give to
the LORD, I have given to you
(Num. 18:12).
Response:
Bring all that you are, all that
you have, and all that you can be.
Come, have breakfast with God
All:
My Life has just begun
A new day, a new life ahead of me.
May I be able to see the beauty and
the needs around me (Isa. 58:10)
May I be able to give back to others
what God has given me (Mt. 25:29).
Reader 3:
If you offer your food to the hungry and
satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
then your light shall rise in the
darkness and your gloom be like the
noonday
(Isa. 58:10 )
Reader 4:
For all those who have, more will be
given,
and they will have an abundance; but
from those who have nothing,
Response:
Bring all that you are, all that you
have, and all that you can be.
Come, have breakfast with God
All:
Our deeper awakening has just
begun
for the needs of those who suffer in
poverty,
oppressed and unjustly treated ,
May we be just ourselves and do what
is right (Ps. 1:6)
Reader 5:
For the LORD watches over the way
of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish
(Ps. 1:6).
Reader 6:
Yet the righteous hold to their way,
and they that have clean hands grow
stronger and stronger (Job 17:9).
Response:
Bring all that you are, all that
you have, and all that you can be.
Come, have breakfast with God
All:
Our greater call has been known
You and I for those whom God has
favored
(Lk. 6:20-22)
May we recognize the Lord in the
poor and hungry, And in everyone
Jesus send to us. (Mt. 25:24-35)
Reader 7:
Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who are hungry now,
for you will be filled.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
Blessed are you when people hate
you, and when they exclude you,
revile you, and defame you on
account of the Son of Man (Lk. 6:2022).
Reader 8:
Come, you that are blessed by my
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the
world; for I was hungry and you
gave me food, I was thirsty and you
gave me something to drink, I was a
stranger and you welcomed me (Mt.
25:34-35).
Response:
Bring all that you are, all that