12. Ritual of a Prayer

12. Ritual of a Prayer

Kyrie Eleison … oh Kyrie

In days like these churches around the world chants these two words with angelic voices… Kyrie Eleison*…

In Baghdad we do the same. Every year on Good Friday, churches will cover their altar with black or violet sheets, symbolizing the death of Christ… the death of His ideas in a very humiliating death… crucifixion

At the cathedral we would gather and say prayers…

Prayers that mostly reflecting the pain endured by…
a weak simple person…
a Mother who just witnessed the death of Her only Son…
a group of friends who just lost their Captain and Kyrie…

Friends and beloved ones…

This year the pain is not symbolic anymore in Baghdad… for this city lives through its great people this pain continuously … every day and every moment…

Kyrie… oh Kyrie… we ask you for mercy … for a second chance…

Let’s pray…

Kyrie… help Baghdad to rise …
Kyrie… make Baghdad accept your love and mercy…
Kyrie… forgive our weaknesses…
Kyrie… give us a hand to stand again…

To those who still live the fear and pain of failure and disappointment… I beg of you all… do not give up … look inside your hearts, and remember those days when you were praying with tears and a bleeding heart…

Kyrie does not a lamb for this year Easter Sunday…
Kyrie… asks and waits for your humble heart.. give it to Him
Kyrie... we look towards heavens through an empty tomb…
Kyrie… look at your rising believers…
Kyrie… we ask you for mercy… we ask you for a second chance…

Beloved ones… whether you are still in Baghdad or outside Iraq… my heart cries for your pain….

In the name of all mercy and eternal love…

Do not forget the moments we spent together on those wooden benches praying and revealing to Him our true self.

My heart aches for your sorrows…

I ask you to see with the eyes of your hearts… look at the flame of God’s love…

Allow His angels to remove the stone and reveal the empty tomb…

This year at Saturday midnight, when you light the Easter candle… repeat the Churches words…”Christ has risen…” then add to it… “Baghdad will rise too…”





* Kyrie Eleison… is a Greek phrase which means God (Lord) have mercy (save us)