Prayer for the Earth – Apr. 22, 2020
Spirit of loveThat flows against our fleshSets it tremblingMoves across it as across grass Erasing every boundary that we acceptAnd swings the doors of our lives wide— This is a prayer I sing: Save our perishing earth! Spirit that hears each one of us,Hears all that is—Listens, listens, hears us out— Inspire us now! Our own […]
From the Prayer of Saint Francis – Apr. 9, 2020
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love;Where there is injury, pardon;Where there is doubt, faith;Where there is despair, hope;Where there is darkness, light;Where there is sadness, joy. –St. Francis of Assisi
From the Prayer of Saint Francis – Apr. 7, 2020
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seekTo be consoled as to console,To be understood as to understand,To be loved as to love;For it is in giving that we receive;It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life. –St. Francis of […]
Lenten Psalm of Awakening – Mar. 27, 2020
Come, O Life-giving Creator, and rattle the door latch of my slumbering heart. Awaken me as you breathe upon a winter-wrapped earth, gently calling to life virgin Spring. Awaken in these fortified days of Lenten prayer and discipline my youthful dream of holiness. Call me forth from the prison camp of my numerous past defeats […]
