Prayer for a Peaceful World

Fourteen years ago today, at about this time, we watched the unfolding events of September 11, 2001. Let us pray for all those who suffered that tragedy, and for those throughout the world who suffer persecution, displacement, war, and terror.  May our remembering lead us to the realization of peace.

Katharine E. Harmon

Katharine E. Harmon, Ph.D., is Project Director for the Obsculta Preaching Initiative at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota.  A Roman Catholic pastoral liturgist and American Catholic historian, Harmon is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s liturgical studies program.  She has contributed over a dozen articles and chapters to the fields of both liturgical studies and American Catholicism.  She is the author of  There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-1959 (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2013) and Mary and the Liturgical Year: A Pastoral Resource  (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2023). She edits the blog, Pray Tell.

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  1. Chris McDonnell

    This year it was different in UK.
    I wrote this on Saturday morning.

    One September

    The day went by unnoticed,
    no headline news at eight.
    Overtaken by other stories,
    other events more pressing.
    Talk of elections and coups,
    records and famous people,
    politics, fashion and obituaries.

    Each took its place in studio
    discussions or made bold headlines
    at the News Stands on the streets.
    Reports of what had happened
    or analysis of what may come later,
    heralded by talking heads
    or in heavy print, with photographs.

    Only later that evening did I find
    mention of that brilliant New York City
    morning one September.
    Memorial pause to those lost
    amid the shower of falling paper
    and imploding dust.
    Years on, count the cost.

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