PRAYER FOR PATIENCE Lord, teach me to be patient - with life, with people, and with myself. I sometimes try to hurry things along too much, and I push for answers before the time is right. Teach me to trust Your sense of timing rather than my own and to surrender my will to Your greater and wiser Read More...
OPEN OUR HEARTS Creator, open our hearts to peace and healing between all people. Creator, open our hearts to provide and protect for all children of the earth. Creator, open our hearts to respect for the earth, and all the gifts of the earth. Creator, open our hearts to end Read More...
MAY GOD BLESS YOU May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, superficial relationships, so that you will live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation of people so that you will work for justice, equality and Read More...
PRAYER OF ST. BONAVENTURE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT Lord Jesus, as God's Spirit came down and rested upon you, May the same Spirit rest on us, Bestowing his sevenfold gifts. First, grant us the gift of understanding, By which your precepts may enlighten our minds. Second, grant us counsel, by which Read More...
PRAYER TO SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, our elder sister in the Lord, discreetly, you watch over us; May your love for Jesus and Mary inspire in us words and deeds of friendship, of forgiveness and of reconciliation. Pray that God will give us the courage, the boldness and the Read More...
PRAYER FOR THE SICK Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give your angels charge of those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Christ. Rest your weary ones. Bless your dying ones. Soothe your suffering ones. Pity your afflicted ones. Shield your joyous Read More...
HEBREWS 13:1-2, 5-6 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. Be content with what you have, for God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I Read More...
PRAYER OF THANKS FOR PEOPLE God of Love, I thank You for the people in my life who are easy to love. I thank You for my family and friends who understand my actions, who support my decisions, and whose presence can life the burden of a thorny day. Help me with those who are difficult to Read More...
