O God, our words cannot express what our minds can barely comprehend and our hearts feel when we hear of women and girls deceived and transported to unknown places for purposes of sexual exploitation and abuse because of human greed and profit at this time in our world.
Our hearts are saddened and our spirits angry that their dignity and rights are being transgressed through threats, deception and force. We cry out against the degrading practice of trafficking and pray for it to end.
Strengthen the fragile-spirited and broken-hearted. Make real your promises to fill these our sisters with a love that is tender and good and send the exploiters away empty-handed.
Give us the wisdom and courage to stand in solidarity with them, that together we will find ways to the freedom that is your gift to all of us. S. Gen Cassani, SSND
Prayer to End Trafficking
Lord of freedom and love, we are saddened to know that more than one million people are trafficked into slavery each year. The effects of contemporary slavery are felt in every country around the world.
As sisters and brothers, we are tormented by this reality that will leave devastating repercussions for generations to come. Our hearts grieve for what our minds can barely comprehend, particularly when we hear of women, men, and children who are deceived and transported to unknown places.
We recognize this sexual and economic exploitation occurs because of human greed and profit. We are sorrowful and our spirits angry that human dignity is being degraded through deception and threats of force. Help the violators to be transformed and enlightened to realise the scope of their unjust actions. Allow them to see the value and the dignity of every human person. As a people in solidarity with God’s poor, we must protest this atrocity and work against the demeaning practice of human trafficking.
Lord of Life, strengthen those whose hearts have been broken and lives have been uprooted. Give us the light, grace, and courage to work with you so that we can all participate in the goodness of creation. Fill us with the wisdom and courage to stand in solidarity with the victims so that we may all enjoy the freedoms and rights which have their source in your Son and our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Remembering the Victims:
“But this is a people robbed and plundered;
All of them are snared in holes,
And they are hidden in prison houses;
They are prey, and no one deliver; For plunder, and no one says ‘Restore!’.”
~ Isaiah 42:22 ~
“Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.”
~ Leviticus 19:29 ~
“They cast lots for My people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink.”
~ Joel 3:3 ~
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