Day to day happenings at the Prayer VigilMarch 12, 2009
On a crisp, sometimes snowy, but mostly sunny day, noon prayers were lead by Pagan Chaplain Brian Walsh and University of Toronto Pagan Society.
Rebecca Brooker began with a prayer to the Divine Source calling for us to work together to honour the Spirit of the Divine in each of us, recognize the Spirit that is burning in each of our hearts, so that we might share the Spirit in all the acts we do to create of world of peace and justice and plenty for all.
Brian than shared from "The Audacht Morainn" and explored some of how it relates to good government and what a good leader should be.
He challenged us that an important side to religion is to stand outside the status quo - and call for a better way of being, and better way of doing, a way rooted in awareness of our connectedness and interdependence. "In all times and places, there have been people of faith willing to call out from that awareness - people compelled to say we are all connected.
This is a vigil for economic justice in our society, for our citizenry. And I believe that its measure of health is determined by its most fragile members; the poor, the disenfranchised, the dispossessed."
Prayers were offered to those MPPs on the vigil prayer list that day asking them to "Let him/her raise justice, it will raise him/her".
A closing prayer by Rebecca ask us to envision in our mind the kind of world you would like to live in and that there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honour and humility, mirth and reverence within each of us as we join together to create a better world for us all.
The University of Toronto Pagan Society stayed at the Vigil for the rest of the afternoon, where more lively discussion, sharing, and occasional cups of coffee helped keep us warm against the elements.
