26/05/2026
On National Sorry Day, we bring you a prayer written by Larissa Minniecon, our Truth-telling and Reconciliation Missioner.
May our good intentions become genuine action for change.
A Prayer for National Sorry Day – 26th May, 2026
Almighty God,
Whose Son Jesus Christ wept with those who weep and bore upon himself the weight of human sin.
We come before you this day with humble and repentant hearts.
Today we acknowledge the deep wounds inflicted upon our First Nations brothers and sisters of this land –
The children taken from their mother’s arms,
The father returning home to only footprints,
The families scattered across this nation,
The languages that were silenced,
The violence inflicted on the innocence,
The spirits broken by the hand of those who should have shown mercy.
Forgive us, Lord, for the sins of our nation;
For pride that would not listen, for power that did not protect,
For silence that became complicity.
We give thanks for the courage of the Stolen Generations –
For those who survived, who remembered, who spoke,
And who have carried a burden not of their own making.
Grant them, we pray, the deep healing that only you can give.
Stir within us, O God, more than sorrow;
Kindle in our hearts a burning sense of justice, that our sorry may become action, and our words may be made of flesh, spoken in how we live.
Guide the leaders and our citizens of this nation in the paths of truth and reconciliation, that all Australians;
May we walk together on the ancient and sacred ground of this great nation - with honesty, with humility and with hope.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who makes all things new. Amen