Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of
you. You only know what I need. You know me better than I know myself. O Father, give to your child what he himself
knows not how to ask. Teach me to
pray. Pray yourself in me.
~Archbishop Francois
Fenelon
Scripture Reading for the Day: Philippians 1:3-11
Reading for Reflection:
There is no such thing as
prayer in which "nothing is done" or "nothing happens,"
although there may well be a prayer in which nothing is perceived or felt or
thought.
All real interior prayer, no matter how
simple it may be, requires the conversion of our whole self to God, and until
this has been achieved—either actively by our own efforts or passively by the
action of the Holy Spirit—we do not enter into contemplation and we
cannot safely relax our efforts to establish contact with God.
If we try to contemplate God without
having turned the face of our inner self entirely in His direction, we will end
up inevitably by contemplating ourselves. (Thoughts in Solitude
by Thomas Merton)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever
ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was
outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I
plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I
was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not
been in you they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and
you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled
my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now
I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for
more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.
~St. Augustine
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