21 December 2020
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of love, all life comes from you. By the Holy Spirit you sustain all that is created. And, as we look towards Christ, we understand that your love never runs dry.
20 December 2020
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Eternal God, on this fourth Sunday of Advent, the Gospel prepares us to celebrate your coming. The unimaginable becomes reality. In Jesus, you come to share our life. Enable us to believe, as Mary did, that nothing is impossible for you. And so the joy of Christmas will break forth in a totally new way.
19 December 2020
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of goodness, so mysterious is your presence that it remains hidden from our understanding. With all who are longing for deeper justice, or who are hoping for healing, we pray to you: listen, Lord, and act according to your promise.
18 December 2020
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, you came to earth and you gave your life for every human being. By doing this you have shown us a way, and by the Holy Spirit you maintain in us a surge of trusting so that we can follow you.
17 December 2020
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, your presence gives life. In order to welcome you, we would like to leave behind our darkness and our bitterness and enter into communion with you. Your presence is light, and our way of looking at others too becomes light.
16 December 2020
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of all human beings, even if we pass through a valley of darkness, you are there with us. We need your life-giving presence as we need our daily bread. And you enable us to transmit your peace in the places where you have set us.
15 December 2020
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, you know our thirst to love and to be loved. Even though you may remain invisible to our eyes, in prayer we can come to you, listen to your words and put them into practice.
14 December 2020
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, you open the ears of our hearts so that we may listen to you with trust and understand the way which you open for us. You lead us along that way, and from all that hinders us you set us free.
13 December 2020
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of peace, praise be to you for John the Baptist, who wanted only to be "a voice that cries out in the desert". He recognised in Jesus the Messiah who comes humbly, without imposing himself. In his footsteps, we too would like to recognise the humble presence of Christ in the world today and in our lives.
12 December 2020
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Holy Spirit, in our trials you are our strength, in difficulties you inspire us to persevere. Give us a heart that is able to discern good from evil, a heart that does not judge but that understands others.