Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

You are the energy within that atom, juggling a multitude of microcosms, each one a hologram of the universe of Hubble.

Help us to awaken.

God, you are the hound of heaven, following us down the years and down the days.

You are the tiger, prowling patiently in the garden of your delights.

And we, the prey who fearfully hide from the deadly embrace of being consumed by the mystery.

Help us to awaken.

And so we acknowledge all of our relations.

We acknowledge the stone people, the first children of the rock we call earth.

We acknowledge the plant people, whose intelligence invented photosynthesis and earth life.

We acknowledge the winged people, soaring in the vault of the sky, singing and searching.

We acknowledge the finned people, silently visiting the depths of the water world.

We acknowledge the four-legged people, who found the forests and the plains, the wilderness and the desert, and learned to be at peace in all those places.

We acknowledge the six-legged and the eight-legged, the most ubiquitous of us all, investigating and inhabiting Gaia like nobody before or since.

We acknowledge the hundred-legged and the thousand-legged, the lowly ones taking forever to go nowhere, because nowhere is where the present moment always is.

Help us to awaken.

and we acknowledge the two-legged ones, the human family, which you joined through incarnation.

We are one family, but we are the twin energies of our race, the feminine and the masculine, which are the two facets of your immanence.

We are the intrepid seekers who started in Africa and then discovered Asia and Europe, America and Australia, the Arctic and the Antarctic.

And everywhere we traveled, we found your footprints.

We are black and yellow.