Give me strength to live peace, and speak peace, and be a peacemaker. Plant your words of healing and understanding within my heart. May your Holy Spirit reconcile and unify strangers and neighbors. May your loving touch heal those who dwell in anger, pain and sorrow. Fill the hearts of all peoples with honor for every human life. Slow me down, Lord Jesus, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life’s enduring values that I may grow toward the stars of our greater destiny. Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. Remind me each day that the race is not always won by the swift that there is more to life than increasing its speed. Teach me the art of taking “minute vacations” of slowing down to look at a flower to chat with an old friend or make a new one to pet a dog to watch a spider build a web to smile at a child or to read a few lines from a good book. Help me to know the magical power of sleep. Break the tensions of my nerves with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory. Give me, amidst the confusions of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Steady my harried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Slow me down, slow me down, O Most Blessed Lord! Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Grant that we may receive help in our needs through the intercession of him whose life was so pleasing to you. Peregrine, your beloved servant and patron, of those suffering from life-threatening diseases. Graciously hear the prayers which we present O God, to you in honor of St. Guide me as this journey through Advent begins. May my words be of kindness and compassion may my actions be generous and selfless. As a single candle lights up the darkness around me, let my words and actions today reflect your light and your love. Let this candle be a reminder that this is a season of hope and a promise of salvation. Loving God, today as we celebrate the first day of the season of Advent, I light the first candle of the Advent wreath. Finally Lord, we thank you for laying down your life for your sheep. We pray that you seek out all of your lost sheep and bring them home so that they may be healed of their wounds. Help us to recognize your voice so that we may come to know you and follow you faithfully. Gather us to you as a shepherd gathers his sheep. You call us to you by name and you know what is our written in our hearts. Save me from my bad habits, and my efforts to distract myself from the needs of others. 5Įnlighten me today with your loving presence. Nicklaus teach me to be generous as he was in providing out of his means. Open my eyes to the needs around me that I may fulfill, to the extent of my capability, and share with others out of the generosity You have shared with me. Give me the grace today to share what I have with the poor, especially in these times when so many are homeless and going hungry due to war, economic hardship or displacement. The lesson is clear that You want us to help provide along with You. Oh, Heavenly Father, the Gospel today tells of the multiplication of bread and fish. I can manage in spite of my difficulties to cling to You in every storm that comes my way. Lord, Jesus, you are my rock and salvation. Give me me Your grace to persevere for You may call me to a word in scripture to show me how When I experience trials and tribulations in this life, I need to bring myself to prayer and share my goods to You and listen attentively to what I can bring from prayer. To hear Your words and put them into practice. I realize to do that I have to be a person of prayer. Oh, faithful God, You invite me today to build my life on a rock like the wise man in today’s Gospel. Allow me to say with Mary, “Here I am Lord, I too come to do Your will.” Amen. In Mary You found a sinless soul, someone who was worthy to carry Your Son, Jesus, in her womb, not scared by sin, to raise Him to become our Savior. Give me the grace to be worthy of the promises of Christ. You always give to Your creation what is needed to save us from sin. Oh, God, who gives me this day to celebrate Mary’s Immaculate Conception. I, too, need Your grace to develop a deeper prayer life to be in communion with You, to share my life, trials, and tribulations and know Your will for me. His desire is to be in touch with Your will. In the Gospels Jesus goes off alone to spend more time in prayer with You. Give me the grace today to realize how much You desire that I spend time in prayer to know You better. Loving and gracious God, You sent Jesus to tell me how much You love us and want me to know You more.
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