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# Another School Shooting: A Prayer
- URL: https://www.reyes-chow.com/a-prayer-another-school-shooting/
- Published: 2025-08-27T18:54:53.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-26T21:20:29.000Z
- Description: Words will never be enough, but here are a few if you need some
- Author: Bruce Reyes-Chow
- Tags: gun violence, gun violence prayers, worship, prayer, liturgy

Sadly, this could be any day in America, but as I am finishing up a project on prayers focused on gun violence, there has been yet another school shooting, this time at a [Catholic School in Minnesota](https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cly22nkpz8gt?ref=reyes-chow.com).

Here is an unedited prayer that I have written for school shootings. Please feel free to use and adapt this for your community. Please attribute and link back to this page if possible.

> Let us pray — 

> God of the expansive mind, body and spirit,   
> in another school shooting, your will is not being done. 

> Today, we lift up those who have lost their lives   
> to another act of gun violence in a place   
> where minds, spirits, and bodies   
> are meant to thrive,   
> not cease to be. 

> For those whose lives have been lost, we lift them to you, oh God. 

> We lift up their families, friends, and communities as they grieve and mourn this day and for the days, months, years, and lifetime ahead. 

> We cannot imagine the terror that teachers, administrators, staff, and children must have felt,   
> so we also lift up those who will live with the memories of   
> the sounds,   
> the smells,   
> the images,   
> and the trauma of the day. 

> May they find hope and healing in the ways and in the time they need.

> Give us the courage not to choose again   
> to repay these acts of violence with more acts of violence,   
> but repay them with acts of peace. 

> Give us wisdom not to choose a future of   
> active shooter drills,   
> bulletproof backpacks,  
> and armed educators 

> over a future of cultivating educational spaces   
> where young people can thrive, flourish,   
> and grow in body, mind, and spirit, as you hope and intend.

> And may school shootings cease to be the norm. 

> AMEN.

The project I am working on will include 20-ish prayers. I am not sure when it will be out, but I will let you know. 

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