Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: God of our creation and re-creation, you who
are constantly at work to shape me in the wholeness of Christ, you know the
hardness of the structures of my being that resist your shaping touch. You know the deep inner rigidities of my
being that reject your changing grace.
By your grace soften my hardness and rigidity; help me to become pliable
in your hands. Even as I pray this, may
there be a melting of my innate resistance to your transforming love. Amen. (Invitation to a Journey by
M. Robert Mulholland Jr.)
Scripture Reading for the Day: Galatians 5:16-26
Reading for Reflection:
As we learn God’s desires for us, as he
reveals himself more deeply, we realize the tinseled glitter of many of our
desires and needs. Gradually we come to
desire the desires of God himself, letting God desire in us. Jean-Claude Sagne says, “The Spirit makes our
desire live from the life of God himself, to the point where God himself comes
to desire at the heart of our desire.” (Beginning Contemplative Prayer
by Kathryn J. Hermes)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: Mighty Lord of heaven and earth, whose Son is the head of the church, shape and renew your people until we bear the image of Christ and show his true likeness to the world. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son. Amen. (The Little Book of Hours)
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