05/30/2026
Since February 28th, the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has claimed thousands of lives across a dozen different countries. Here at All Saints, we have been praying the Great Litany every weekday at noon since the start of the war to honor the lives that have been lost and to pray for peace.
Today, the death toll passed 7,000.
May we all pray--and work--for a more just, peaceful world.
"That it may please thee to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; and to bestow freedom upon all peoples, we beseech thee to hear us, good Lord" (Book of Common Prayer, 151).
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God" (Matt. 5:9).