God our Creator, we ask for your healing of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations in our country. We particularly pray for all who have been impacted by the residential school system for First Nations, Inuit and Métis children that swept across our country an continues to affect many lives: For all the children who did not return home, may they rest in your peace and love. For all survivors, may they find sanctuary and abundant life. For all afflicted by intergenerational trauma, may they find hope in their grief, solace in their fear and compassion in their anger. We ask that you especially blessed these lives and walk with them. Watch over them, love them and guide them. For all government policy makers and workers, for Church leaders, clergy and religious communities and all others who have been involved in implementing the colonial agenda for the assimilation of the First Peoples up this country through residential schools and other formal and informal systems; May you, who alone are truth, have mercy on their souls. Moving forward, may our governments and religious organizations seek truth and justice, no matter how painful. May they repent of past failures to extend God's love and make amends. We all asked for the courage to find, face and act on the truths of the history in our country. We are sorry for any heartedness we have harboured. Help us find the wisdom and strength to correct are harmful actions in our inactions. Help us all hold space for those grieving and hurting because of faulty policies and systems and their intergenerational effects. Help us be humble and kind, not flush with anger but filled with your divine Mercy. Holy Spirit, we ask for your guidance, your wisdom, and your courage to love truth and to speak the truth with love. Teach us, as First Nations, Inuit, Métis and non - Indigenous peoples, who we are as your beloved daughter and sons. And heal our relationships with one another. We pray with humility and in gratitude for your love and your mercy. Through Christ our healer and our Redeemer. Amen
