TBT When we wrote our prayers in the walls of the new Chapel. 🙏
📷Fr. Mike writing his prayer in the recess for the Tabernacle.
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A Sonnet for Ascension
We saw his light break through the cloud of glory
Whilst we were rooted still in time and place
As earth became a part of Heaven's story
And heaven opened to his human face.
We saw him go and yet we were not parted
He took us with him to the heart of things
The heart that broke for all the broken-hearted
Is whole and Heaven-centred now, and sings,
Sings in the strength that rises out of weakness,
Sings through the clouds that veil him from our sight,
Whilst we our selves become his clouds of witness
And sing the waning darkness into light,
His light in us, and ours in him concealed,
Which all creation waits to see revealed.
-M. Guite
We unite in prayer for all the victims, children and adults from Uvalde and Buffalo.
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Dear God, I know you are always close to the afflicted.
Today I pray for all the victims, children and adults from Uvalde and Buffalo.
I ask you to sustain and embrace their grieving and devastated families.
You are a God of peace and healing.
See our human brokenness from the tragedy of mass shootings in our communities.
More than ever, we need the power of your Holy Spirit to enlighten our minds.
Give us common sense, open ears, and hearts committed to stopping the indiscriminate use of arms,
and anything that destroys the gift of human life in all its stages.
The blood of so many innocents continue to cry out to the heavens.
Give us coherence to live your gospel in its entirety, a gospel of love and mercy.
Give a greater fullness of life to those children whose life was cut too short.
Mother Mary, take into your maternal hands all families that have experienced acts of violence. We entrust ourselves to your powerful intercession and protection. Amen.
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Nos unimos en oración por todas las víctimas, niños y adultos de Uvalde y Buffalo.
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Amado Dios, sé que siempre estás cerca de los afligidos.
Hoy elevo esta oración por todas las víctimas, niños y adultos de Uvalde y Buffalo.
Te ruego que sostengas y abraces a sus familias afligidas y destruidas.
Eres un Dios de paz y sanación.
Ve nuestro quebrantamiento humano por la tragedia de los tiroteos masivos en nuestras comunidades.
Más que nunca, necesitamos del poder de tu Espíritu Santo para iluminar nuestras mentes.
Danos sentido común, oídos abiertos y corazones decididos para detener
el uso indiscriminado de las armas,
y todo lo que destruye el don de la vida humana en todas sus etapas.
La sangre de tantos inocentes sigue clamando al cielo.
Danos coherencia para vivir tu evangelio en su totalidad, un evangelio de amor y misericordia.
Da una mayor plenitud de vida a estos niños cuya vida fue demasiado corta.
Madre María, toma en tus manos maternas a todas las familias que han sufrido actos de violencia.
Nos encomendamos a tu poderosa intercesión y protección. Amén.
Amen 🙏
Brothers and sisters:
May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
give you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation
resulting in knowledge of him.
May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened,
that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call,
what are the riches of glory
in his inheritance among the holy ones,
and what is the surpassing greatness of his power
for us who believe,
in accord with the exercise of his great might:
which he worked in Christ,
raising him from the dead
and seating him at his right hand in the heavens,
far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion,
and every name that is named
not only in this age but also in the one to come.
And he put all things beneath his feet
and gave him as head over all things to the church,
which is his body,
the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.
Ephesians 1:17-23
#dailyingodsword
The God who made the world and all that is in it,
the Lord of heaven and earth,
does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,
nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything.
Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
He made from one the whole human race
to dwell on the entire surface of the earth,
and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,
so that people might seek God,
even perhaps grope for him and find him,
though indeed he is not far from any one of us.
For ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’
Acts 17:22-28
#dailyingodsword
The crowd in Philippi joined in the attack on Paul and Silas,
and the magistrates had them stripped
and ordered them to be beaten with rods.
After inflicting many blows on them,
they threw them into prison
and instructed the jailer to guard them securely.
When he received these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell
and secured their feet to a stake.
About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying
and singing hymns to God as the prisoners listened,
there was suddenly such a severe earthquake
that the foundations of the jail shook;
all the doors flew open, and the chains of all were pulled loose.
When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open,
he drew his sword and was about to kill himself,
thinking that the prisoners had escaped.
But Paul shouted out in a loud voice,
“Do no harm to yourself; we are all here.”
He asked for a light and rushed in and,
trembling with fear, he fell down before Paul and Silas.
Then he brought them out and said,
“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus
and you and your household will be saved.”
So they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house.
He took them in at that hour of the night and bathed their wounds;
then he and all his family were baptized at once.
He brought them up into his house and provided a meal
and with his household rejoiced at having come to faith in God.
Acts 16:22-34
#dailyingodsword
As we enter Laudati Sí week, it is a good time to reflect on our own personal responses. Click link for a fine virtual reflection for individuals, families or groups: ecologicalexamen.org
