Church of Saint Anne Fair Lawn, NJ issued the following announcement on Sept. 20

We watch as the jets fly in  with the power people and  the money people,  the suits, the budgets, the billions.

We wonder about monetary policy  because we are among the haves, and about generosity  because we care about the have-nots.

By slower modes we notice  Lazarus and the poor arriving from Africa,  and the beggars from Central Europe, and  the throng of environmentalists  with their vision of butterflies and oil  of flowers and tanks  of growing things and killing fields.

We wonder about peace and war,  about ecology and development,  about hope and entitlement.

We listen beyond jeering protesters and  soaring jets and  faintly we hear the mumbling of the crucified one,  something about  feeding the hungry  and giving drink to the thirsty,  about clothing the naked,  and noticing the prisoners,  more about the least and about holiness among them. We are moved by the mumbles of the gospel,  even while we are tenured in our privilege.

We are half ready to join the choir of hope, half afraid things might change,  and in a third half of our faith turning to you,  and your outpouring love  that works justice and  that binds us each and all to one another.

So we pray amidst jeering protesters  and soaring jets.  Come by here and make new,  even at some risk to our entitlements.

Original source can be found here.