There is Steven who was stoned and St. Peter who was crucified, There is Oscar Romero with
the eucharistic prayer of thanksgiving still issuing from his mouth; Dietrich Bonhoeffer, triumphant over the Nazi gallows; Martin Luther King Jr. still praying that his dream will come true for humanity; Sudanese Christian boys gunned down in their villages by Muslim fanatics.
Not exact matches
The
Eucharistic Prayer will, as we have seen above, include
thanksgiving and also remembrance
of Jesus» words and actions on the night he was betrayed.
Through its internal life
of eucharistic worship,
thanksgiving, intercessory
prayer, through planning for mission and evangelism, through a daily lifestyle
of solidarity with the poor, through advocacy even to confrontation with the powers that oppress human beings, the churches are trying to fulfil this evangelistic vocation.