hi all
this is slightly revised - feel free to use this!
i am in the process of e-mailing out over one hundred of these
to the 'media' - local radio and television stations, newspapers, etc.
the more the merrier!
janet
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Following is the prayer offered by Archbishop Tutu
for distribution by the Parkinson Information Exchange Network (PIEN}
in support of World Parkinson's Awareness Month (April)
and World Parkinson's Awareness Day (April 11th)
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April 8, 1999
Barbara Patterson
Parkinson's List (PIEN)
The text of the prayer follows. I leave it in your hands to distribute it
as you see fit. God bless you and your group as you strive valiantly to
raise awareness.
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Parkinson's Disease World Awareness Day Prayer:
O God You are the source of all goodness, life, light, and health and
knowledge.
We thank You for all that you have given us so lavishly - food, shelter,
life, love. We thank You for those who have loved and cared for us - our
fathers and mothers, our sisters and brothers, our relatives and friends -
others lack all of these things.
We come before You as Your children who are suffering from Parkinson's
Disease. The world is not always as aware of us as we would want. We
thank You for those striving to make us more visible. We, too, are human
persons with feelings and emotions. We are thankful for those who have
passed laws that seek to make Parkinson's Disease a national and indeed an
international issue. We want the world to know that we exist. We are
here. We are not shadows. We are not misfits. We are human beings with a
certain affliction. We pray that there will be greater awareness of our
plight. We pray that our governments will make adequate funds available
for research to discover a cure for Parkinson's Disease. We are on the
verge of a breakthrough. We pray for those who compassionately look after
us and those searching for a cure. Bless their efforts and crown them with
wonderful success. Bless us all.
Pour forth your Holy Spirit on us all abundantly now and always.
Amen.
Desmond M. Tutu
Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa
Nobel Peace Laureate
God bless you all.
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Yours sincerely,
Desmond M. Tutu
Archbishop Emeritus
Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Theology
DMT/jls
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members of the Parkinson Information Exchange Network (PIEN)
janet paterson - 52 now /41 dx /37 onset - [log in to unmask]
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