Here’s
a litany from the Interfaith Worker
Justice website.
Labor
Litany
God
of all things, we thank you for work.
For
in our work you call us to give you honor,
serve
others and create a loving community.
God
of grace and hospitality,
we
thank you for the many immigrants
who
come to work and live in our land.
May
we serve them as they serve us.
May
we welcome them,
for
the Word tells us that as we entertain strangers we entertain God.
When
we give drink to the thirsty or feed the hungry,
we
serve Jesus our Savior.
God
of justice,
you
call us to treat the laborers in the vineyard fairly.
Your
prophets decry the oppression of the workers.
Your
people traveled forty years
to
escape the oppressive work of the Egyptians.
Merciful
and forgiving God,
when
we establish just and living wages,
when
we create safe and healthy working conditions,
when
we provide harassment-free working places,
we
are setting free the oppressed.
We
are creating justice.
We
are doing God’s work.
Thanks
be to God that in our work we can be faithful
and
that working with others makes us faithful to our God and Savior.
Amen.
~ adapted from Interfaith Worker Justice, “Labor
Litany,” www.iwj.org/pdf/presb_materials.pdf Posted on Acts
of Faith. http://actsoffaith.org/resources/downloads/Year_A/09%20Immigration_final.pdf
