Prayers and Meditations

The Lord’s Prayer (An interpretation from the Aramaic)

O Creative breath, ebbing and flowing through all forms, soften the ground of our being and hollow a place for the planting of your presence. Moving to the heartbeat of…

It Takes a Universe, by Thomas Berry

The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of wonder. Imagination to a world of beauty. Emotions to a world of intimacy. It takes…

Reflections from The Hours of the Universe, by Ilia Delio

Matins Awaken! Our universe is grand and wide It stretches like gum ready To blow a bubble. A universe indifferent to life Yet the mother of all life. It doesn’t…

 “Hymn to Matter,” from Hymn of the Universe, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Blessed be you, harsh matter, barren soil, stubborn rock: you who yield only to violence, you who force us to work if we would eat.   Blessed be you, perilous matter,…

Patient Trust, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient  in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages.…

Prayer by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

Lord, by every innate impulse and through all the hazards of my life, I have been driven ceaselessly to search for you and to set you in the heart of…

Canticle of Brother Sun, by St. Francis of Assisi

Most high, all-powerful, all good, Lord All praise is yours, all glory, all honor And all blessing. To you, alone, Most High, do they belong. No mortal lips are worthy…

Prayer for My New Shoes, by Juan V. Fernández de la Gala

Good Father God, I thank you for my new shoes and also for my old ones. You, who look with a Father’s loving indulgence on each of my steps on Earth,…

A Christmas Prayer

O God, during this Christmas season, help us see Your light–radiating in the tiniest grain of sand,In the fungi that grows beneath our feet, in the wildflowers and trees,–and in…

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