A Prayer for Women
Dear God, creator of women in your own image,
born of a woman in the midst of a world half women,
carried by women to mission fields around the globe,
made known by women to all the children of the earth,
give to the women of our time
the strength to persevere,
the courage to speak out,
the faith to believe in you beyond all systems and institutions
so that your face on earth may be seen in all its beauty,
so that men and women become whole,
so that the church may be converted to your will
in everything and in all ways.
We call on the holy women
who went before us,
channels of Your Word in testaments old and new,
to intercede for us so that we might be given the grace
to become what they have been for the honor and glory of God.
(taken from A Litany of Women for the Church by Joan Chittister, OSB)
