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WORLD DAY OF PRAYER

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The World Day of Prayer

Vera Petrosillo Velvet

Also this' year, the first Friday of March, worldwide Christian women pray together with words of hope and challenge. The liturgy of the World Day of Prayer (GMP), resulted in hundreds of languages \u200b\u200band dialects, each year written by women of a different country, which involved making tens of thousands of sisters, spread across all continents, situations of suffering and injustice of which they are witnesses.

At a time when women, for various reasons, are being targeted by the media spotlight, it is more rewarding than ever to relive the history of GMP, a significant history of women who believed in the power of prayer and in need of 'action, daily commitment to transform and liberate humanity from the evils that afflict.

all began back in 1887, when the United States, appena usciti da una tremenda guerra fratricida, avevano gravi problemi sociali e nazionali da risolvere. Mary Ellen James, presidente del Comitato Femminile dell’Opera Missionaria della Chiesa presbiteriana negli Usa, consapevole dell’urgenza di una riappacificazione nazionale, senza indugi lanciò un appello perché venisse celebrata una Giornata nazionale di preghiera in segno di «confessione dei peccati individuali e nazionali», con raccolta di offerte quale «adeguata manifestazione di pentimento».

Consapevole che alla forza della preghiera dovesse affiancarsi l’efficacia dell’azione, Mary Ellen James non lesinò il suo impegno nell’opera di risanamento della sua nazione lacerata dalla guerra civile. Si prodigò per aiutare gli immigrati venuti negli Stati Uniti a rifarsi una vita e con i suoi sette figli andò per il mondo dovunque ci fosse bisogno di aiuto. Tre anni dopo, Helen Barrett Montgomery, scrittrice e studiosa del Nuovo Testamento, e Lucy Peabody, missionaria in India, con ruoli importanti nella Chiesa battista degli Usa, lanciarono, a loro volta, un appello perché fosse organizzata una giornata di preghiera e raccolta di offerte da dedicare alla alfabetizzazione delle donne e dei bambini dell’Africa, dell’Asia, dell’India. Le due donne avevano avuto l’intuizione che i problemi delle popolazioni povere non sarebbero stati risolti con la carità, ma con progetti atti to promote culture and development and they also understand that disability is for women and lack of education for full inclusion in the life of the society.

Some years passed and in 1922 Canadian women, who already celebrated every year a national day of prayer, the sisters wanted to join the U.S. for a joint celebration. The idea spread rapidly, crossed the seas and in 1927 became a day of prayer by name and made the World Day of Prayer. The small seed at the end of some 800 Protestant women began to stay later became a movement that rightly can be called global.

So far the history. Today, Christian women in 170 countries joined the movement of the GMP, whose Executive Committee is composed of representatives from Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, the Pacific and, for some years, the Church Catholic. Mary Allen lit the lamp and held it high as far back as 1887, at times, may have dimmed but not extinguished if there are still women who, with the power of prayer anywhere in the world, work for justice, for right, for peace every day of their lives.

taken from Reform ,
February 25 2011 - YEAR XIX - ISSUE 8
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