Holy One,

We believe that in death all people are equal; yet sadly, in life we divide and separate and segregate people into artificial and tragic categories. We confess that we have all participated in this injustice.

And now, in remembering those who have died, may we learn from the death that awaits us, and while we yet live, to respect the humanity of every living person.

We pray especially for those whose bodies lie in Potter's Field, those who have died in obscurity, who have lived outside the expected norms of society and whom we have marginalized and forgotten. Particularly, we remember the unwanted children who are buried there.

May the goals of Picture the Homeless and the Interfaith Friends of Potter's Field be granted, that the bodies of the unidentified and forgotten thousands who die in this city each year may have in death the dignity that they have been denied in life.

This we pray in the name of justice.