Written by Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), a bishop, writer, and doctor.
O Lord, we bring before you the distress and dangers of peoples and nations, the pleas of the imprisoned and the captive, the sorrows of the grief-stricken, the needs of the refugee, the impotence of the weak, the weariness of the despondent, and the diminshments of the aging. O Lord, stay close to all of them. Amen.
Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. [Proverbs 31:9]
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