7 August 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of life, you love us with a generous love which has no limits. In the likeness of your Son Jesus, who came not to be served but to serve, may your Holy Spirit enable us to reflect his life day after day. Then serving others will become our joy.
6 August 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Transfiguration | Jesus, you who accomplish the plan of the Father’s love, may the light of the transfiguration drive our darkness away and transform our lives. Turn our eyes towards you, for it is you alone that we want to see, you that we want to listen to, you who say to us: "Get up! Do not be afraid!"
5 August 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, in a world where we are faced with violence and with the suffering of innocent people, give us a hunger and thirst for your justice. Lead us by your Holy Spirit to the wellspring of your presence, source of love without limits. There you will satisfy us, there we will come little by little to reflect your mercy. And we will welcome your joy.
4 August 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Jesus, bread of God, you who are life for the world; we would like to work for the food that lasts, the food that you give us and that will never perish – the food of your Word and of your Eucharist. Unite our thirst and our hunger, all the desire for meaning in our lives, for it is you alone who can satisfy them. We will come towards you and you will renew our trust, trust in your presence and in your love for every person.
3 August 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, Saviour of all people, following you is never the easy way, and what we understand of you can even make us afraid. But you never forsake us. And when there is anguish in our hearts, by your Holy Spirit we can hear the voice of your kindness: Give your trust; I am here; do not be afraid.
2 August 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Jesus, image of the Father’s love, you persevered right to the end, to the point of dying on the cross, to reveal to us that this love has no limits. When we have to pass as it were through a narrow door for your sake and for the Gospel, help us to hold firm in the beauty of a communion. Then we understand that journeying together with God and journeying together with others renews our trust.
1 August 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Jesus, face of the living God, you lived entirely turned towards your Father; in the same way, we would like to look towards you. Your Holy Spirit will remind us of what you have said. Your words become a source of life in us, rekindling deep within us the passion for a communion with you and with the people you entrust to us.
31 July 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, give us the gift of a life hidden in you. May it enable us to look in the right way on our own lives and on whatever is in front of us. Your Holy Spirit causes gratitude to well up in us: you will walk with us every step of the way, today, tomorrow, and on into the life of eternity.
30 July 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, you come to meet us in our human poverty. We would like to hold out our empty hands to you to welcome what you want to give us. But more still, it is to the poor that you promise the joy of the kingdom of God. You lift up the humble and you cast down the mighty from their thrones. Praise be to you!
29 July 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God our Creator, everything that comes from you is a promise of life. Through Christ, who wept at the death of his friend Lazarus, you show us that you are close to all those who are suffering from sorrow, to all who are in distress. By your Holy Spirit, rekindle in us the desire to choose the way of a greater love, the way of life.