Prayer of the Day: October 2008 Archives

Christ is shepherd over you,
Enfolding you on every side.
Christ will not forsake you, hand or foot,
Nor let evil come near you.

source: Unknown

Love is stronger than death.

So I must be content to know that

love is not affected by death--

it doesn't end, it doesn't diminish,

it doesn't change.

Instead, love is immortalized

and eternalized through death.

And the possibility of that love ever

being damaged or broken

is eliminated forever.

I'll put my trust in love.

source: Reprinted with permission of Andrews McMeel Publishing, from "Little Taps on the Shoulder From God" © 2002 Mary Hollingsworth

O Lord, omnipotent Father, we give you thanks for having given us children. They are our joy, and we accept with serenity the worries, fears, and labors which bring us pain. Help us to love them sincerely. Through us you gave life to them; from eternity you knew them and loved them. Give us the wisdom to guide them, patience to teach them, vigilance to accustom them to the good through our example.

Support our love so that we may receive them back when they have strayed and make them good. It is often so difficult to understand them, to be as they would want us to be, to help them go on their way. Grant that they may always see our home as a haven in their time of need. Teach us and help us, O good Father, through the merits of Jesus, your Son and our Lord.

Amen.

source: St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, Picayune, MS

For the mistakes we committed before You under duress and willingly.

For the mistakes we committed before You through having a hard heart.

For the mistakes we committed before you through things we blurted out with our lips.

For the mistake we committed before You through harsh speech.

For the mistakes we committed before You through wronging a friend.

For the mistakes we committed before You by degrading parents and teachers.

For the mistakes we committed before You by exercising power.

For the Mistakes we committed before You against those who know, and those who do not know.

For the mistakes we have committed before You through bribery.

For the mistake we have committed before You through denial and false promises.

For the mistake we have committed before You through negative speech.

For the mistakes we have committed before You with food and drink.

For the mistakes we committed before You by being arrogant.

For the mistakes we committed before You with a strong forehead (brazenness).

For the mistakes we committed before You in throwing off the yoke (i.e. refusing to accept responsibility).

For the mistakes we committed before You through jealousy (lit: 'a begrudging eye').

For the mistakes we committed before You through baseless hatred.

For the mistakes we committed before You in extending the hand.

For the mistakes we committed before You through confusion of the heart.

source: Traditional

As the deer longs for the water-brooks,

so longs my soul for you, O God.


My soul is athirst for God, athirst for the living God;

when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?


My tears have been my food day and night,

while all day long they say to me, "Where now is your God?"


I pour out my soul when I think on these things;

how I went with the multitude and led them into the house of God,


With the voice of praise and thanksgiving,

among those who keep holy-day.


Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul?

and why are you so disquieted within me?


Put your trust in God;

for I will yet give thanks to him, who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

source: Book of Common Prayer 1979; read a Jewish translation

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