O God, you call us to be your people and to minister to one another. Look with pity on all who are held captive by the bonds of addiction and other disorders. Free us from our own destructive impulses that we may choose life and enable others to find what is life-giving for them. Give discernment and wisdom to all who minister to those seeking liberation from any forms of addiction, that we may all know the joy of the freedom that is ours as your children. This we ask of you, Our Guardian, our God, Creator and Preserver of us all both now and in eternity.
~ The Sisters of Mercy
