THE CHRISTY MOORE PRAYER

(this is the prayer I wrote for the end of The Gospel According To... Christy Moore, read by myself and Fr. Martin Magill, as featured on this morning's Sunday Sequence on BBC Radio Ulster.)

Lord, teach us to listen

To Listen to you

To listen to each other

To listen for the way forward for our country

Help us Lord, to get over our fears

To grow in understanding

And to learn to love one another without reason to surrender

Lord give us courage to stand for justice in Lenadoon

In Belfast, in Ireland and to the ends of the earth

God we pray that your kingdom would come and your will would be done

Here in Belfast as it is in heaven

God may we ride on into a shared future

May we ride on into a better day for our children

It is the least we can do

May we ride on after you... Father, Son and Holy Spirit

AMEN