Shared Prayers Across Time and Distance
Tuesday July 14, 2020
SHARED PRAYERS
FOR GRACE TO SEEK GOD - Benedict of Nursia
Gracious and holy Father,
please give me intellect to understand
you, reason to discern you,
diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you,
a spirit to know you, a heart to meditate upon you,
ears to hear you, eyes to see you,
a tongue to proclaim you,
a way of life pleasing to you,
patience to wait for you,
and perseverance to look for you.
Grant me a perfect end, your holy presence,
A blessed resurrection, and life everlasting.
Amen.
FOR THE DIVERSITY OF RACES AND CULTURES
O God, who created all peoples in your image:
We thank you for the diversity of races
and cultures in this world.
Show us your presence in those
who differ from us, and enrich our lives
with their fellowship,
until our knowledge of your love
is made perfect in
our love for all your children;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
PRAYER IN TIMES OF SUFFERING OR WEAKNESS
Dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ:
I hold up all my weakness to your strength,
my failure to your faithfulness, my sinfulness
to your perfection,
my loneliness to your compassion,
my little pains to your great agony on the Cross.
I pray that you will cleanse me,
strengthen me, guide me,
so that in all ways my life may be lived
as you would have it lived,
without cowardice and for you alone.
Show me how to live in true humility,
True contrition, and true love. Amen.
THE SERENITY PRAYER – REINHOLD NIEBUHR
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy
with You forever in the next.
Amen.
CHRIST BE WITH ME – St Patrick
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ where I lie, Christ where I sit,
Christ where I arise,
Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every one who speaks to me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
Salvation is of the Lord.
Salvation is of the Christ.
May your salvation, Lord, be ever with us.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our debts and we forgive our debtors,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil,
for thine is the kingdom and the power
and the glory, forever.
Amen.
THE BLESSING
The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.
Recent Hope For Today
Giving Hope
Partners in Hope is supported wholly by our friends and community. We are thankful to everyone who partners with us to help bring hope to the discouraged, hurting, and hopeless.