General social justice prayers

God keeps on saving history.
And so, in turning once again
to the episode of Christ's birth at Bethlehem,
we come not to recall Christ's birth twenty centuries ago,
but to live the birth here,
in the twentieth century, this year,
in our own Christmas, here in [name of your country].
By the light of these Bible readings
we must continue all the history
that God has in his eternal mind,
even to the concrete events
of our abductions,
of our tortures,
of our own sad history.