10 August 2019
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Holy Spirit, to each one of us you want to bring a healing of the soul. And so you set us free from whatever darkens our path. And we will discover the importance in our lives of the very simple goodness of the human heart.
9 August 2019
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of all consolation, you gather us into a communion in which there is room for a great diversity. It is because you love every human being as your only child.
8 August 2019
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Holy Spirit, Spirit of love, deep within us there is a desire and a longing: to experience an inner freedom. So essential to our lives, such a freedom opens us to simplicity of heart.
7 August 2019
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)You, Christ, our peace, you came to serve and to give your life. Enable us to welcome your love; and so in our turn we will be able to place ourselves at the service of others and in doing so to find a joy.
6 August 2019
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, we are longing for you to renew our lives by your light. Yes, we longing for a transfiguration of our being. You, Christ, penetrate our failures and our inner nights. You come to fill them with your invisible presence.
5 August 2019
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Holy Spirit, you awaken in us the desire to place ourselves simply in God’s presence. God is beyond everything we can imagine, but he is also very close to every human being. And in worship we can abandon ourselves to his love.
4 August 2019
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Holy Spirit, you place your gifts in each person. You want fullness of life for us. And you show us the way: it is to make life beautiful for those who are entrusted to us.
3 August 2019
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Praise be to you, Christ Jesus, for our Brother Jacques. We thank you for his life among us. He was made ready for ministry as a pastor in his church in Switzerland, and then at a very young age he heard your call to him to follow you as a brother of our Community.
For many years, with several of our brothers and with some Franciscan brothers, he was a witness to your Gospel in a poor neighbourhood in the United States.
And for more than forty years he lived with another group of brothers in Bangladesh. In that country, which he loved so (...)
2 August 2019
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, you did not come to the earth to condemn the world, but to save it. You welcome us, you bear our burdens. And we would like to leave behind everything that weighs down our steps in order to follow you.
1 August 2019
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Jesus, our peace, you lived on earth not as a master but as a servant. Risen from the dead, you are alive for ever in God’s presence, and you invisibly walk alongside every human being.