A Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Prayer

January 20, 2020

by Communications

Let us pray.
Lord our God, see how oppression and violence are our sad inheritance, one generation to the next.

We look for you where the lowly are raised up, where the mighty are brought down.

We find you there in your servants, and we give you thanks this day for your preacher and witness, Martin Luther King Jr.

Fill us with your spirit: where our human community is divided by racism, torn by repression, saddened by fear and ignorance, may we give ourselves to your work of healing.

Grant this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

- University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. delivered the this closing prayer Monday (Jan. 18, 2016) at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Vigil Prayer Service, part of the University’s Walk the Walk Week events.