16 September 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of gentleness, your faithfulness gives us life. Remember us when we are far from you. You will wait for us, and you will even come towards us. In this way your love renews us day after day, in communion with you and with the people you entrust to us.
15 September 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, faced with the people who rejected you, you continued to love. And by your cross and your resurrection, you show us that nothing can separate us from that love. In your footsteps we would like no longer to live for ourselves, but to strive with a reconciled heart, a heart that gives without counting the cost, even when we are confronted with the resistances within us and around us. Open up the way!
14 September 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, born poor among the poor, in order for us to reflect your presence in all its fullness, you do not ask of us wonders which are beyond our reach. To be like a child, a little child on its mother’s breast, in peace and in silence - this is the way in which you will fulfil our longing.
13 September 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Jesus, image of the invisible God, for you love is never an idle word. It is the gift of your life for everyone. We too would like in our turn to give ourselves for the people you entrust to us. And in this way the smallest act of goodness for others leads us on the way of a greater love.
12 September 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, in the face of the harshness and injustice of certain situations, to speak of forgiveness is sometimes beyond our power. But when we look towards you, we understand that in you is found forgiveness. Then we move with you from death to life. And we are amazed: joy, even a very faint joy, becomes possible.
11 September 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of peace, when we want to live from your love, we cannot be indifferent when justice and right seem to be despised on our earth. But what you ask of us, you also give to us. Send your Holy Spirit to show us the way so that we may come to reflect your goodness.
10 September 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of love, eternal Wisdom, often we wonder: "What is your plan for me?" And you say to us: "Look towards Jesus and his life; listen to his call. There you will find everything that you need to know." And it is in the mystery of communion which is his body, the Church, that our response can be fulfilled, in journeying together with others in his footsteps.
9 September 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)When everything around us seems dark, help us to hand ourselves over to you, faithful God. Deep within us, your Holy Spirit whispers to us: "Do not be afraid. I am here. Fear no evil." And then we understand that you are the one we can rely on. And the next step forward becomes possible.
8 September 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, come and heal everything in us that is still closed to you and to others. And when you say to us "Ephphatha - be opened!" we would like to reply: "By your Holy Spirit let springs of living water rise up in the deserts of my heart and quench my thirst, so that I may love as you have loved me."
7 September 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of love, when we live from you, a little path opens up: the path of giving ourselves humbly for others. By your Holy Spirit, strengthen our steps so that may may reflect the merciful love which you have revealed in Jesus. And, little by little, the path is transformed and becomes the way of eternal life.