We center ourselves in prayer with you O Lord. The feast day of Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is October 4. We pray on how he modelled humility, concern for poor people; practicing a vow of poverty, peace and nonviolence, and care for creation for generations to come. Born into a wealthy Italian merchant family, Francis […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs. July 18, 2024
Recent days remind us of the strong grip of political violence in our world. The words from a speech on this topic of 1968’s United States Presidential candidate and assassination victim Robert Kennedy ring true. In Ecuador, five people have been imprisoned this month for their roles in last August’s assassination of presidential candidate Fernando […]
World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, July 4, 2024
Holy one of fire and transformation, O lord, upon us is the unfolding travesty begun more than fifty years ago with the U.S. intervention and destabilization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The news today reports of the world’s largest humanitarian crises as fighting and defending the mineral extraction industry in the east by […]
World News in Prayer for Thursday, May 23, 2024
Listen, O Israel, the LORD is God, the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:4-5 LISTEN! The prophet Isaiah began this passage with the Hebrew word, “Shema”- LISTEN. So, why aren’t we listening, Divine One? […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, April 11, 2024
‘To you who are ready for the truth, I say this: Love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the supple moves of prayer for that person.’ ~ Luke 6:27-28 The Message ‘We are not easily reduced to prayer’ – […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs., February 22, 2024
You who created them and called them good: Bless again these creatures who come to us as a blessing fashioned of fur or feather or fin, formed of flesh that breathes with your own breath, that you have made from sheer delight, that you have given in dazzling variety. Bless them who curl themselves around […]
World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, October 19, 2023
Words Found in the Rubble after the Final War Yes, we lived in a time of darkness and did nothing. Yes, we looked up and we saw the sky on fire and we knew that we had made the flames with our own hands. Yes, we wasted every breath on rage. Children, if any of […]
World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, August 24, 2023
The prayer this week is based on Psalm 103:1-8 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless God’s holy name. Sometimes when I look at the world around me, or when I look within my home and heart, I am overwhelmed with grief, fear and anxiety. It can be hard, […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, June 29, 2023
As the world marks the 60th anniversary of Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) by Pope John XXIII, the first papal encyclical intended for a universal, interfaith, and nonbelieving audience, we pause to pray for the intentions of this letter and world causes that still demand our attention: Every human being has the right to […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, April 13, 2023
During this season of Eastertide, as we celebrate resurrection and new life, let us take a moment in silence to center ourselves in your love. Let us pray: O Holy One, who is, and was, and ever will be; who loves, who saves, who makes all things new, as we celebrate the gifts of the […]
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