This week, as well as challenging ourselves with the activity below, we will continue our evening prayer around our Lenten wreath by lighting two candles and offering the prayer of St Francis for peace in our world:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow charity;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light; and
Where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
Prayer challenge:
During this week attend one extra Mass or Holy Hour, or make an outing with the kids to ‘make a visit’ to Jesus. The term ‘make a visit’ is one I’ve borrowed from a friend and priest who always spoke of his private prayer time with Jesus as making a visit.
On pilgrimage or at home in his parish, he’d duck off to ‘make a visit’ and even though this is such a simple explanation for what I know to be an inspiring prayer life, it is a beautiful way to present prayer as a relationship with Jesus.
If we can visit friends, we can visit Jesus.
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Originally posted 2015-02-22 22:18:54.