Morning bell

"Let my soul be listening, be given to the needs of others."

"Create in me a carefree tranquility, a place for every encounter."
- Iranian bishop Hassan Dehqani-Tafti

From morningbell:
"Hello morning bell pray-ers.
Wherever we are in the world, it is so important to remember that we are part of a world-wide Church, and that in some places our sisters and brothers trying to follow in the way of Jesus the Christ are under intense pressures.
So this week the morning bell takes inspiration from one of the Christian communities of the East. We'll work with a prayer by the Iranian bishop Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, who died earlier this year. He was the Anglican Bishop in Iran from 1961 to 1990. He had to spend the last 11 years of that time in exile following a shooting attempt on his life in 1979 in which his wife was wounded. The following year his only son, 24-year-old Bahram, was murdered.
This prayer by Hassan Dehqani-Tafti is a deeply personal prayer born out of struggle, and yet it has a real capacity to become a prayer for many, and something that may change us as we pray it.
pace bene!"
Ian