Prayer for Rhe Safe Paasage Into for a Family Member That Was Murdered
Prayers During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Prayers for those with the Coronavirus, those who care for them, and those who are suffering from anxiety during this stressful fourth dimension.
Prayer for a New Normal
The World every bit we knew information technology is gone, and for what feels like such a long time we have experienced so much hardship during this Pandemic. Equally we prepare to walk into the future we pray for the "new normal" to come. May our hearts exist unified in You more than than always. May the tender moments of seeing someone again in person be all the more rich and treasured. May the reunions, interactions, and moments alee be held in such intentionality and may we turn to You in sincere gratitude. Help united states to come out of this Pandemic amend, not bitter. Help us to become more considerate of others, more than mindful of how we can assistance one another, and how nosotros tin serve You lot and Your children well. We thank You that no affair how dark the dark may get, in that location is the promise of the dawn to come.
Reflections on Changes & Transitions: A New Normal
The world has gone through upheaval. Lives have been lost and upended. A New Normal will hopefully be emerging soon.
Our University rose to the many challenges. Collaboration, innovation and cura personalis were our touchstones. New ways of learning and working were created. A New Normal is emerging.
Equally we embrace this changed earth for our students, our employees and our communities, some of us here today are inbound our own New Normal with new and different roles, responsibilities, adventures and dreams for our future.
Our New Normal isn't what it was. It isn't what it volition be. Nor are we.
With love and respect for the past, nosotros every bit a community face our new beginnings and journeys with anticipation, optimism, enthusiasm and care for each other — creating our own New Normal.
- Written by Brenda Southward. Levya-Gardner, Ph.D. five/24/2
Modify is the Simply Constant
"Modify is the merely constant in life." - Heraclitus (ancient Greek philosopher)
Many recent events in my work hither on campus got me to thinking about endings and beginnings – nigh change.
- We are ending our budget piece of work for one financial year and the beginning our work on time to come financial and fiscal year planning.
- Nosotros have finished one academic yr and are kickoff to ready for students to render in the fall.
- We simply held our commencement exercises, which signifies the terminate of our students' time here on campus and the first of their lives as Xavier alumni.
- Nosotros are ending our mask mandates and social distancing (hopefully) and beginning to return to some semblance of normal without masks and contiguous gatherings.
- A number of long-serving leaders, faculty and staff will be catastrophe their work on campus, and their successors will exist beginning theirs.
- And of class, the ending of the Fr. Graham's tenure and the showtime of new leadership under Dr. Hanycz here at Xavier.
Our lives and our piece of work are a constant series of endings and beginnings. Some of these endings come suddenly or unexpectedly. Others are planned and come more gradually. Some are happy. Some are deplorable. But each ending gives us the opportunity for a new beginning. As is said, "When 1 door closes, another door opens."
As I thought almost some of these recent endings and beginnings, what we have been through these past xv months, and the general step of our lives in the 21st century, I stepped dorsum to assess some of the things that I have found helpful to make these transitions. Hopefully some of them will resonate with you.
- Make time to reflect and be thankful for what is catastrophe. Be grateful for what was learned and what was achieved.
- Make time to celebrate the new outset and what we take to look forward to.
- Recognize there are things virtually endings and beginnings that we do not control. Act on what nosotros can command, but recognize and movement on from what nosotros can't control.
- Break to reflect and refresh. The pace, chaos, and emotion of change can exist stressful; brand fourth dimension to have care of ourselves and each other.
- Be grateful for what nosotros accept and for those around us with whom we share these changes.
- Remain optimistic and hopeful for what is nevertheless to come up and the new relationships that new beginnings may bring.
- And finally, take time to recollect that God is with united states through all the events of our lives, and that these endings and ancestry are no different.
I am not a regular reader of the Bible, but one of my favorite set of verses can be found in Ecclesiastes, Affiliate three, verses i and xi. iAt that place is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven. 11All that He does is apt for its fourth dimension; simply although He has given us an awareness of the passage of time, we can grasp neither the beginning nor the finish of what God does.
Let us ask for God's grace and help as we pursue these endings and these ancestry together with patience, perseverance, and trust in what He has planned for us.
- Written and offered by Phil Chick on 5/17/21 post-pandemic
We Asked
Before I begin, I would similar to offer a brief prayer of thanksgiving that I have relied upon heavily, especially throughout the past yr every bit we have suffered equally a community, and as a nation, and as a globe, in then many ways:
Loving Creator,
We asked for strength, and y'all gave the states difficulties to brand the states potent.
Nosotros asked for wisdom, and you gave us problems to solve.
We asked for prosperity, and y'all gave us purpose and brains to utilize.
We asked for courage, and you gave us fears to overcome.
We asked for patience, and you gave united states of america situations where we were forced to wait.
We asked for honey, and you gave us troubled people to help.
Nosotros asked for justice, and y'all chosen u.s.a. to be just and lead with integrity.
Lord, nosotros have received goose egg that we asked for or wanted.
And however, we receive everything that we needed.
For this we give thanks.
- ByColleen Hanycz, PhD incoming President at Xavier Academy
My Mask
Holy God, you see me and yous hear me.
Through my mask, you lot see if I smile or if I scowl.
Through my mask, you hear me if I whisper a brief prayer or mutter a muffled curse.
My friends don't come across or hear or know; nor practice my family; nor my colleagues.
But you do.
This mask takes away ability – the power of clear communication merely also the possibility to infect. But it also grants a liberty to be with.
My smiles, my thoughts, my mumbles, though – these I know, but they are a greater mystery to others now.
But not to you lot, Lord. You meet by my mask, you lot hear through it, you know.
But your mask, Lord, what about your mask? Who can see through your mask? Hear through it?
I cannot.
I cannot see if you lot smile or if you scowl.
I cannot hear if you lot whisper an reply to my prayer or brush off my curse.
I cannot sense if yous are pleased with me or if y'all are waiting for me to do much better.
Tin can we all take off our masks, Lord? Put them away?
When the disease that moves the states to mask our faces for prophylactic fades away, will our eyes and our ears be stronger, better able to see and to hear the smiles and the frowns, the cries and the whispers of those who fill up our lives? Who make our lives worth living?
Will we see, Lord, that what we call up of as your mask is actually too our ain, our inability to discover you in the blitz of our lives, our failure to see you in all the wonders y'all evidence us, our incapacity to hear your gentle voice in the tumult that surrounds us.
Tin can we know, Lord, that we put on many masks so nosotros tin can cope, avoid, pretend, be adequate? (What scar did the Phantom'south mask hide? "Who was that masked man?")
Help the states, Lord, to move beyond our masks. You are here for us to run across and to hear. Aid us. Let us take off our masks.
- PastFr. Edward Schmidt S.J.
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Pandemic 2020
2020. The year that taught usa to minimize. To improvise. To compromise.
2020. The year nosotros monitored, not the stock market. But rather open up time slots.
2020. The year we slowed down. We paused. We realized what we could do without. Our celebrations. Were muted. Understated. But no less joyous.
2020. The twelvemonth we cried. We mourned. For the unnecessary deaths. For task losses. For social justice.
2020. The year injustices were even more than pronounced. Economic disparity. Social disparity. Racial disparity. Age disparity. Immune system disparity.
We worried about the age. Alone and isolated. We worried nigh the youth. Could their young minds handle all that was existence thrown at them?
And then nosotros collected ourselves. We adjusted. We empathized. Nosotros sympathized. We stepped upwardly. And stepped in where needed. We reached out.
2020 is behind the states. And we stride into 2021. With hopes and some trepidation.
As nosotros transition through this time nosotros pray:
One twenty-four hour period at a fourth dimension sweet Jesus.
That's all that I ask of yous.
Lord assistance me today.
Show me the mode.
One day at a time.
Equally nosotros transition through these times, nosotros keep our faith as Bhagwad Gita, the Hindu Holy Scripture written more than 2000 years agone, says:
'Dharmo Rakshito Rakshita'...those who keep their religion strong during trying times are blessed with their organized religion carrying them through these times.
- Reflection past Aarti Jaisinghani
- Offered by Rashmi Assudani
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An Examen of Our Pandemic Year
It does non always feel good to reflect on challenging times, suffering, or loss, but our Ignatian tradition constantly reminds us that reflection is a practice that tin impact our present. This has been a peculiar twelvemonth, and so taking some moments, one twelvemonth from when the World Health Arrangement declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic, may give yous some insight on how to keep moving frontwards.
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- by Rev. Abby-King Kaiser
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Prayer for the Rubber of Returning to School in a Pandemic
Male parent delight hear us when we tell Yous of our concerns of sending our children and educators back to school.
Know that we are striving to brand all of the right decisions and demand Your love and power to aid us overcome any difficulties.
Please watch over anybody equally times and routines are about to change once over again.
We know that we tin can do anything through Y'all, so please assist us ensure wellness and semi-normalcy in the coming months.
We give our hearts to You lot, now and forever. Amen.
- Author unknown
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Force for this Challenging Time
We pray for your love and pity to abound
every bit we walk through this challenging season.
Nosotros ask for wisdom for those who acquit the load
of making decisions with widespread consequences.
We pray for those who are suffering with sickness
and all who are caring for them.
We ask for protection for the elderly and vulnerable
to non succumb to the risks of the virus.
We pray for misinformation to exist curbed
that fright may take no concur in hearts and minds.
As we practise the good sense that you in your mercy provide,
may we also approach each day in religion and peace,
trusting in the truth of your goodness towards united states of america.
-www.holyspiritewloe.com
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A Prayer in Response to
An Ignatian Examen on Working During The Pandemic
Lord,
I am thankful for practiced colleagues and the opportunity to collaborate with so many around me.
I am thankful for the opportunity learn and practice new things.
I am grateful for extra time with family, and for all the new ways I have found to connect with friends.
I am grateful for my health and for the wellness of my family unit.
Over the course of the final months,
I have felt your presence in the intendance and compassion of those working around and with me to notice the all-time path forrard for our community.
I take felt your presence in our continuous striving for better, striving to find solutions that serve the greatest number of people in the best way possible with the least adventure of harm.
I accept felt your presence on days when my work – at my workplace or at dwelling house – was not great, and I was apprehensive or needed to brand apologies.
I have been challenged and needed your guidance in thinking with a community-focus rather than an individual one, and I've been challenged in finding the right response on other occasions when I guess that others are falling into that same pit.
I accept felt challenged by all the meals I've cooked and dishes I've washed. I accept felt true joy in the tranquility moments of fellowship and connection that only could have happened because of this mutual effect.
I keep to welcome and exist open up to your presence in my life and in this work.
Equally I look ahead to the coming academic year,
I pray that we make sound decisions for our students, our faculty, our staff, that protect them and serve them well, and as well serve the institution well.
I pray that we continue to exist inclusive and broad in our thinking, that we proceed to exist imaginative and innovative, that we have the energy required to sustain united states.
I pray that we continue to be intentional collaborators, guided by your spirit.
- By Rebecca 50. Choose
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Retreat During a Fourth dimension of Isolation
We Bring Your Dear
Loving God,
Assist the states
to focus on what nosotros have
not on what is removed or changed.
Strengthen united states
when we feel discouraged
or overwhelmed.
Embrace us
so that u.s. we know your loving presence
within us and among u.s.a..
Walk with us
as nosotros bring your love,
and carry your light,
into our earth.
Amen.
- Sandra Lucas, MDiv., BCC
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The Other Side of the Virus, An Opportunity to Awaken...
Yes there is panic buying.
Yes there is sickness.
Aye there is even death.
But,
They say that in Wuhan later so many years of noise
Yous can hear the birds again.
They say that after simply a few weeks of quiet
The sky is no longer thick with fumes
Simply blue and grey and clear.
They say that in the streets of Assisi
People are singing to each other
across the empty squares,
keeping their windows open
and so that those who are solitary
may hear the sounds of family around them.
They say that a hotel in the Westward of Ireland
is offering free meals and delivery to the housebound.
Today a young woman I know
is busy spreading fliers with her number
through the neighborhood
so that the elders may have someone to telephone call on.
Today Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and Temples
are preparing to welcome
and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary.
All over the earth people are slowing downward and reflecting.
All over the world people are looking at their neighbors in a new way.
All over the world people are waking upwardly to a new reality
To how large we really are.
To how footling command we really have.
To what really matters.
To Beloved.
So we pray and we remember that
Yes at that place is fear.
Merely there does not accept to be detest.
Yes there is isolation.
But there does not accept to be loneliness.
Aye there is panic buying.
But there does non accept to be meanness.
Yes in that location is sickness.
But there does not have to be disease of the soul
Aye there is fifty-fifty expiry.
But in that location tin can always be a rebirth of love.
Wake to the choices you brand as to how to alive at present.
Today, exhale.
Listen, behind the factory noises of your panic-
The birds are singing again
The sky is immigration,
Leap is coming,
And we are always encompassed by Love.
Open the windows of your soul
And though you lot may not exist able
to touch across the empty foursquare,
Sing.
- Written by Fr. Richard Hendrick, OFM, March 13th 2020
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Covid Poem
When this is over,
may we never over again
take for granted
A handshake with a stranger
Full shelves at the store
Conversations with neighbors
A crowded theatre
Fri night out
The taste of communion
A routine checkup
The school blitz each morn
Java with a friend
The stadium roaring
Each deep breath
A boring Tuesday
Life itself.
When this ends,
may we find
that we have become
more than like the people
we wanted to be
nosotros were chosen to be
nosotros hoped to be
and may we stay
that style--ameliorate
for each other
because of the worst.
Litany of Solidarity and Hope During a Pandemic
For those who are ill.
For those with chronic illnesses and underlying wellness concerns.
For all those who are suffering.
For those who are lonely.
For those who have no one to check on them.
For families that are separated.
For those who are unemployed.
For those suffering financial hardships.
For those who face up an uncertain future.
For those who are suffering from concrete or emotional abuse.
For those who are disproportionately suffering considering of societal structures and unjust policies.
For those who are struggling with physical or mental disabilities.
For those who are overwhelmed past anxiety and stress.
For those who are dying.
For those who have died while saving the lives of others.
For all who have lost their lives.
For those who accept survived.
For those who have lost their spouses.
For children who have been orphaned.
For all those who mourn and those who comfort them.
For firefighters, police, and emergency medical workers.
For doctors, nurses, and all health care professionals.
For those who serve in the military.
For public officials.
For business concern leaders.
For educators.
For innovators and inventors who provide new solutions.
For peace in our city and in our globe.
For renewed friendships among neighbors.
For solidarity and unity amidst all peoples.
For a greater appreciation and love of all humanity.
For patience and perseverance.
For calm in the midst of fear.
For the grace to overcome arduousness.
For the generosity of spirit.
For hope in times of despair.
For light in the darkness.
Gracious and Loving God,
You are our comforter and our hope.
Hear our prayers as we come earlier yous.
Strengthen us in this time of need.
Inspire united states to acts of solidarity and generosity
and give us promise of a brighter futurity.
- Past Joseph P. Shadle
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A Prayer for Our Uncertain Times
May we who are merely inconvenienced retrieve those whose lives are at pale.
May nosotros who take no risk factors remember those most vulnerable.
May we who have the luxury of working from domicile remember those who must cull between preserving their health and making their hire.
May we who have the flexibility to care for our children when their schools close remember those who have no options.
May we who have to cancel our trips call back those who have no safe place to go.
May nosotros who are losing our margin coin in the tumult of the economical market think those who have no margin at all.
May nosotros who settle in for a quarantine at dwelling house recall those who have no home.
As fear grips our country, let us choose love.
And during this time when we may non be able to physically wrap our artillery around each other, let united states of america yet find ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbors. Amen.
Nosotros'll Become Through This
I'm a garbageman, I can't work from abode and my job is an essential city service that must get done. It's a tough job, from getting upwards pre-dawn to the physical cost it takes on my body, to the monotonous nature of the job, at times it's difficult to proceed on going.
Us garbagemen are gonna go along collecting the garbage, doctors and nurses are gonna keep doctoring and nurse-ering. It's gonna be ok, we're gonna arrive be ok. I love my city. I honey my state. I love my planet World. Be proficient to each other and we'll become through this.
Right now though, correct now I am feeling an extra sense of pride and purpose every bit I do my work. I meet the people, my people, of my metropolis, peeking out their windows at me. They're scared, nosotros're scared. Scared simply resilient.
- Found on Twitter: Jester D TGM - @JustMeTurtle
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Pandemic
What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
End from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the earth
unlike than information technology is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you lot commit your life.
Center downward.
And when your body has become still,
reach out with your centre.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in i another's hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Practise non accomplish out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Attain out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where nosotros cannot touch.
Promise this world your love–
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long every bit we all shall live.
– Lynn Ungar, March eleven, 2020 (posted with permission of the author)
for more than from this writer, view: http://www.lynnungar.com/poems/
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A Coronavirus Prayer
Loving God, Your desire is for our wholeness and well being.
We hold in tenderness and prayer the collective suffering of our world at this time.
We grieve precious lives lost and vulnerable lives threatened.
We anguish for ourselves and our neighbors, standing before an uncertain hereafter.
We pray: may love, not fear, go viral.
Inspire our leaders to discern and cull wisely, aligned with the common practiced.
Help us to practice social distancing and reveal to us new and artistic means to come together in spirit and in solidarity.
Phone call u.s. to profound trust in your faithful presence,
You, the God who does not abandon.
- By Sis Christine Koelhoffer, IHM
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An Examen for Times of Anxiety and Depression
I pause (exhale in and out) and thank you for this day. For the challenges, the emotions, the struggle. For in all this, I grow closer to yous.
I suspension (breathe in and out) and ask that in the darkness, I encounter your light and in my fear, I feel your strength.
I pause (breathe in and out) and remember that today, As in days before, I accept survived. When I've wanted to run, I've stayed. When I wanted to hibernate, I've faced the day.
I intermission (breathe in and out) and ask for forgiveness for The days I falter and the disease takes over. I inquire for compassion and love when I'm unable to requite those to myself.
I pause (breathe in and out) and resolve to love myself more tomorrow. And e'er feel your spirit surround me in safety.
I pause (breathe in and out) and rest.
- Past Erin Roush
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An Examen in Caring for Others
What interactions with others were pregnant to me today?
What care and compassion did I testify?
What was going on in my caput during these interactions? Was I truly present?
What control do I have over the circumstances of these individuals?
Did I do all that I could in this point in time?
What can I do for tomorrow?
Prayer for Compassion
Merciful God,
Open my heart and mind to be fully present to those I interact with throughout the day.
Allow me to listen to others without passing sentence or haste to solve what I cannot change.
Give me patience and understanding and grant me grace in my shortcomings.
Be with me in times of fatigue and lift me up with the strength to carry out your empathetic love to all those I meet. Amen.
- By Ashley Henkes, Hall Director, Residence Life
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An Examen to Go More than Loving
Creator, thank you for my many blessings, especially ______________.
Be with me at this moment,
and guide my thoughts to those places
where I could have been more loving in my day
and consider how I will improve.
Aid me to run into those places where I was loving
and strengthen those parts of me
then that I can better do your will.
Thanks for all the love I've been blessed with
and assistance me in the moments ahead.
- By Ellen Hurst, Senior Teaching Professor, Economics
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An Examen for Life During COVID-nineteen
Take a moment to settle. Have a deep breath. Go comfortable. Like a stone settling on the lesser of a lake later on it's thrown in, let yourself settle.
1. Acknowledge how you are feeling in this moment. If being calm is difficult, admit it. If y'all find yourself frustrated or stressed, acknowledge it. God wants to be nowadays in all parts of our lives—non but the easy or serene moments.
two. Ask for light and insight as y'all set up to review your day. For some that light may come in the grade of a sense of the Divine. For others information technology'southward from a deep sense of your truthful self.
3. Take a moment to remember almost how COVID-xix has impacted your life. Even every bit we are being asked to altitude ourselves from 1 another socially, enquire yourself what connections yous find yourself grateful for?Who makes you feel grounded and connected to God?
iv. Public health issues have a way of making u.s. recognize how interwoven our lives are with others in guild. It tin help united states of america realize who we may frequently choose non to run across or connect with. Is there a person or group of people particularly afflicted by COVID-nineteen that you don't often choose to see or connect with usually? What connections to others are you becoming more than enlightened of? Who do you unremarkably choose to reach out and connect to? Who do you avert or refuse to come across? If you can, film the faces of these people. What connections do y'all take for granted in your life? What connections affect you the most?
5. Note the emotions you feel when yous think of these individuals without judging or overanalyzing. Simply admit them, pay attention, and mind to where God may be speaking.
6. Every bit you retrieve of the means we are connected or disconnected to i another, pick a connection (or lack thereof) that seems of import, significant, or is manifesting itself the strongest. Intermission and reflect on where you're being invited to abound from that moment. If you are a person of religion, take a moment to pray with information technology.
vii. God gifted us with limitless creativity and imagination. Even in this time of separation and possible isolation, what is i mode you tin maintain meaningful connection to others—whether directly, through technology, or intentional focus and attention?
Take a deep jiff and moment of quiet. When you lot are ready, return to your day.
- By Susan Haarman, Loyola Academy Chicago
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Prayer in a Time of Anxiety
It seems that I return to you near easily when I demand comfort, O God.
How-do-you-do… here I am again, knowing that yous are waiting for me with love and warming light.
In the shadow of your wings I detect respite and relief that feeds my innermost cocky and renews my soul. Day and dark, you lot are my refuge.
These uncertain days of news conferences and quarantines tempt me to assume the worst for my loved ones, myself and my community. "Pandemic" is a frightening word, and I can hands feel dislocated or helpless to respond. Now I am relying on y'all to atomic number 82 and guide me, to put my anxiety in its place. Assist me see it as a homo response that keeps me witting of the seriousness of this moment, but practise non let it overwhelm my spirit. Buoyed by your love, I choose each day to allow peace reign in me. Breathing securely of your calm, I echo, over again and over again, "You are here."
Good and gracious Companion, my family unit and friends demand repose and balls. Aid me to offer them your tenderness. Those in my community who are suffering need care. Help me to exist generous and to keep contact with the forgotten. Our world calls for cooperation among national leaders, scientists, health intendance providers, and all who are instrumental in overcoming this crisis. May my prayers and back up be with them all.
I take come dorsum to you, and I will return, knowing that your open up arms will never neglect. God of hope, may your love blanket the earth, equally you teach u.s.a. to live more generously today than yesterday. May my anxiety be transformed into honey.
- Author requested to remain bearding
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Prayer for a Pandemic
May we who are simply inconvenienced, remember those whose lives are at stake.
May nosotros who take no risk factors call back those most vulnerable.
May those who have the luxury of working from dwelling house think those who must cull between preserving their wellness or making their hire.
May those who have the flexibility to care for our children when schools close remember those who have no options.
May we who accept to cancel a trip remember those who have no safe place to go.
May we who are losing our margin coin in the tumult of the economic market place retrieve those who have no margin at all.
May those who settle for quarantine at home remember those who take no home.
Every bit fear grips our state, permit united states choose dearest during this time when we cannot physically wrap our arms around each other, allow usa discover ways to be the loving comprehend to God and our neighbor.
- Prayer past Cameron Wiggins Bellm
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Prayer for People Critically Sick or Facing Slap-up Doubt
God of the present moment,
God who in Jesus stills the storm
and soothes the frantic middle;
bring hope and courage to all
who wait or work in uncertainty.
Bring promise that you will brand them the equal
of any lies ahead.
Bring them courage to suffer what cannot be avoided,
for your will is health and wholeness;
y'all are God, and we need you.
- Adjusted from New Zealand Prayer Book, p. 765
-Prayer originated from episcopalrelief.org/what-we-do/united states-disaster-program/religion-based-response-to-epidemics/
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Prayer in Fourth dimension of Affliction
Lord Jesus, you lot came into the earth to heal our infirmities and to endure our sufferings. You went about healing all and bringing comfort to those in pain and need. We come up before you now in this fourth dimension of illness asking that y'all may be the source of our strength in body, courage in spirit and patience in pain. May we join ourselves more closely to you on the cross and in your suffering that through them we may depict our patience and hope. Assist u.s. and restore us to wellness then that united more closely to your family, the Church, we may give praise and honour to your name.
- Prayer originated from https://world wide web.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=1822
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Prayer for the Sick
Male parent of goodness and beloved, hear our prayers for the sick members of our community and for all who are in need. Amidst mental and physical suffering may they find consolation in your healing presence. Bear witness your mercy as you close wounds, cure illness, make broken bodies whole and free downcast spirits. May these special people detect lasting health and deliverance, and so join us in thanking you for all your gifts. We enquire this through the Lord Jesus who healed those who believed. Amen.
- Prayer originated from https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=229
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A Coronavirus Prayer
Jesus Christ, you traveled through towns and villages "curing every illness and illness." At your control, the sick were made well. Come to our aid now, in the midst of the global spread of the coronavirus, that we may experience your healing love.
Heal those who are sick with the virus. May they regain their strength and health through quality medical care.
Heal us from our fear, which prevents nations from working together and neighbors from helping one another.
Heal us from our pride, which can make us claim invulnerability to a illness that knows no borders.
Jesus Christ, healer of all, stay by our side in this fourth dimension of dubiety and sorrow.
Be with those who accept died from the virus. May they exist at rest with you lot in your eternal peace.
Be with the families of those who are ill or have died. As they worry and grieve, defend them from illness and despair. May they know your peace.
Be with the doctors, nurses, researchers and all medical professionals who seek to heal and help those afflicted and who put themselves at risk in the process. May they know your protection and peace.
Be with the leaders of all nations. Give them the foresight to human action with charity and true concern for the well-being of the people they are meant to serve. Requite them the wisdom to invest in long-term solutions that will assistance set up for or prevent future outbreaks. May they know your peace, every bit they work together to achieve it on globe.
Whether nosotros are abode or abroad, surrounded by many people suffering from this illness or merely a few, Jesus Christ, stay with u.s.a. as we endure and mourn, persist and gear up. In place of our feet, give us your peace.
Jesus Christ, heal the states.
- Prayer originated fromhttps://world wide web.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/03/02/coronavirus-prayer
Pope's Prayer for Protection from Coronavirus
An English-linguistic communication translation of the Pope'due south prayer is below:
O Mary, you smoothen continuously on our journey as a sign of salvation and promise.
We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick.
At the foot of the Cantankerous you lot participated in Jesus' hurting, with steadfast faith.
You lot, Salvation of the Roman People, know what we demand.
Nosotros are certain that you lot will provide, and so that, as you did at Cana of Galilee,
joy and feasting might render after this moment of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love,
to conform ourselves to the Father's volition
and to practice what Jesus tells us:
He who took our sufferings upon Himself, and bore our sorrows to bring us,
through the Cross, to the joy of the Resurrection. Amen.
We seek refuge under your protection, O Holy Mother of God.
Do non despise our pleas – we who are put to the examination – and deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blest Virgin.
- Prayer originated from https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-03/pope-francis-prayer-our-lady-protection-coronavirus.html
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Burn Brighter
Ignatius calls usa
to go forth
and gear up
the globe on fire.
We embrace this metaphor
because we believe
our purpose
is inextricably linked
to helping others
clarify and attain theirs.
But how practice we
set our earth on fire
in this historic period of sickness,
uncertainty,
and fearfulness.
How do we
serve and lead
when we
are disconnected
from each other
and the physical infinite
that unifies our squad.
Who volition bear witness u.s.a.
how to press on?
Lives perish
while the flames
of leaders
around us
dance erratically
in the blistering
winds of change
their lights
flicker
to nigh extinction
their sparks
barely visible
struggle
to light the mode.
We cannot wait
for them
to pb.
Let us plough
to our God
and
to the sacred light
of the Holy Spirit
that burns
in
each of united states.
Let our spirits
draw closer
to each other
in spite of
the distance
betwixt us
and march boldly
into tomorrow.
Maybe information technology helps
to imagine
this fourth dimension
as a dousing
of gasoline
tossed onto our
already steady
burning flames
of
purpose and love.
Let this accelerant
consume and quicken us
for the greater good.
Smooth on
my friends
may the bright flames
of our spirits
burning in unison
create a bonfire
that
sparks hope
ignites faith
illuminates honey
and lights the way.
In this uncertain age
a fourth dimension when
our brothers and sisters
yearn for
peace and low-cal
we are called
and stand gear up
to exercise magis
to practise more
than we did
earlier.
To
burn
brighter.
- Past Ray Angle, Banana Vice President, Career and Professional Development, Gonzaga University
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A Prayer of Thanksgiving
"If the only prayer you lot ever say in your unabridged life is Cheers that will be enough." - Meister Eckhart
Holy and Living God,
in this Thanksgiving twelvemonth of 2020,
when nosotros are separated from family and friends,
when it'due south hard to travel and gather together,
and celebrate Thanksgiving every bit nosotros've done in the past,
assistance us to embrace what is.
Help us to give thanks within the uncertainty.
Assistance u.s. to give cheers within our sorrow, within our fears.
In all things, may we open our hearts and give You cheers.
Amen.
- bySandra Lucas, St. Andre Health Care
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A Prayer for Hope After A Hard Year
God, Thank you for helping the states to make it through this hard year. Thank yous that you lot've carried us through the dubiety of deep waters, through the flames of trials, and through the pain of hard losses. We are constantly aware of how much we need you, your grace, your force, your power working through fifty-fifty the toughest days.
Help us to continue our focus first on you this flavor. Please forgive us for giving too much time and attention to other things, for looking to other people before coming to you start. Help united states of america to reflect once more, on what Christmas is really all well-nigh. Thank you that y'all came to requite new life, peace, promise, and joy. Thanks that your power is fabricated perfect in our weakness.
Help u.s.a. to remember that the gift of Christ, Immanuel, is our greatest treasure, not merely at Christmas, but for the whole year through. Fill u.s.a. with your joy and the peace of your Spirit. Direct our hearts and minds towards you. Cheers for your reminder that both in seasons of celebration and in seasons of brokenness, y'all're nevertheless with us. For you never get out u.s.a.. Cheers for your daily powerful Presence in our lives, that we can be assured your eye is towards us, your optics are over us, and your ears are open to our prayers. Thank you that you surround usa with favor equally with a shield, and we are safe in your care.
We choose to press in close to you today, and keep you first in our hearts and lives. Without you we would surely neglect, but with y'all, there is groovy hope. Thank you for your healing power, thank yous for bringing u.s.a. into this new semester that will undoubtedly be filled with many challenges and opportunities. We look forward to all that You lot still have in store. In Jesus' name, Amen.
- Crosswalk.com
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Prayer for Ordinary Fourth dimension
Loving God,
Our church building calendar tells usa that we are dorsum again in Ordinary Time. Advent passed through its 4 weeks. We celebrated the nascency of Jesus with angels singing and shepherds visiting and magi following a star from the East and bearing gifts. Yes, nosotros have finished this holy season. All the same, somehow, this time does not seem ordinary; information technology is anything just that.
This "ordinary time" is marked by masked faces, social distancing, and "germ circles." Headlines shout out frightful numbers of individuals who have contracted Covid-19, thousands every day. Each of these numbers affects the lives of spouses, children, friends with intendance and worry, with piece of work to assist cure and coax loved ones dorsum to wellness. And the number of deaths chills survivors in worry and guilt – what should I accept done, what should I do now? Just to travel to a pocket-sized funeral to say proficient-bye to a loved ane and offer y'all our prayer leads to days of quarantine and actress separation. Holy God, loving God, can this actually be "ordinary time?"
This "ordinary fourth dimension" is marked likewise by deep economic hardship for many. Mothers and fathers have worked hard to provide for their families, and now their jobs are gone. "Sorry, the piece of work you have washed for us is not needed any more. Practiced-bye!" "Sorry, we appreciate what you do, just nosotros cannot afford it any more. Proficient-bye and good luck!" The ordinary means of working and providing and living have disappeared for many.
And recently in this "ordinary fourth dimension" we take seen our fellow citizens rising up in anger and violence, destroying, injuring, even killing others to push their narrow agendas. In scenes that would fit easily into war zones, they invade our honored spaces and violate standards of denizen beliefs. Neighbors have turned into crazed killers. Old friends and colleagues are now out of control. Where is ordinary time?
Mayhap, Lord, no fourth dimension is really ordinary. Where you are, the extraordinary tries to lift usa upwards, to let united states see beyond the everyday and grab hints of what tin be, of who we could exist if we gave room to our best selves, of what we could practice if we banded together in mutual purpose and resolve.
Part of ordinary time is the dedication of wellness intendance workers. Part is families sharing resources to get through economic breakup. Part must exist the guardians of public safety who adventure their lies and wellness, even give up that life, to keep social club and peace.
We come to you, loving God, with hope in our hearts and prayer on our lips. We pray that care and pity, watching and accompanying be office of our ordinary lives. We pray that our eyes be open to come across the needs of those who struggle to provide for their families and that if we can help, we practise help in ordinary ways. Nosotros pray that we attempt to understand each other in our struggles to make sense of the forces that are across whatever one of us, that we run into across threats imagined or real, that we hear beyond shouted anger or mocking taunts or blasphemous threats and note the cries for help that rest mostly silent in ordinary times.
Holy God, you make all times holy, all places, all people in all the seasons of our lives. Ordinary time? Information technology is all boggling with you.
- PastEd Schmidt, S.J., written Jan 12, 2021
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