May we receive God's Spirit to understand our role in this affluent society where so many are poor, and to use the tools of social analysis to accomplish social justice.
May we receive God's strength to pay the price for disengagement from the values of the so-called "middle class."
May we be ready to renounce our money, our life-styles, our levels of consumption, and the ways we have so far used our time, following the path that Jesus walked before us.
May we confront with strength the possibility that even our lives may be called for, as has been true for so many of our sisters and brothers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and our own homeland.
May we be sent forth to share with our communities the vision we have discovered or had reinforced.
May God bless us and keep us together in strength, hope and love.
Amen.
