13 April 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Jesus, light of the world, shine in our hearts to drive away the darkness which sometimes invades us. By the gift of your life on the cross, you have overcome evil to the point that nothing can separate us from your love. Be with us in our struggles, as well as in our joys.
12 April 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, you taught your friends without ceasing throughout your life. Nevertheless, they found it hard to grasp what you wanted to communicate. May what you say to us today take root in our hearts. The day will come when we can say: Jesus, it is by the gift of your life and of your resurrection that my life finds meaning.
11 April 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Praise be to you, Holy Spirit; you bring to mind for us everything that Jesus said when he was with the people who followed him. You help us to remember the words that turn us towards the same Jesus who is the way, the truth and the life.
10 April 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, rekindle in us the desire to seek you again and again. You always walk ahead of us, but where there is fullness of love and of peace in justice, your Holy Spirit brings us back to joy. And what is essential is already accomplished.
9 April 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Faithful God, for you truth is not just a word: it is your life, it is your love, which is always active. Help us to rely on your words. If it happens that we stumble, your word sets us on our feet again. And your Christ, the Risen One, always opens up the way for us.
8 April 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Everlasting God, with you nothing is impossible. Even though there can be struggles and inner combats within us, give us simplicity of heart so that we may say, like Mary, the mother of Jesus: "Let it be to me according to your word." Your word sets us free: it is mercy and joy for the heart.
7 April 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Risen Christ, you breathed your peace on the people who wanted to follow you. Help us today to welcome that peace in our hearts. And then, as it was for Thomas, our hesitations and everything that keeps us far from you can be calmed. And we are amazed to find that the way opens up from our doubts towards trust in your presence. Praise be to you!
6 April 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Risen Christ, as you sent out your friends to share all that they had understood of you, send us out to those you entrust to us as bearers of the good news of your love. Make of us pilgrims of peace and justice, so that by our lives we may communicate your desire for the world which you loved so much.
5 April 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Faithful God, you never want torment or distress for us. But if we are weighed down by trials, you do not leave us. As your Christ passed from death to life, you cause us to pass through the narrow gate to discover an unexpected way. And then peace comes back in our hearts and a song rises up deep within us. You are with us.
4 April 2024
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, we thank you for everything that you give us. You welcome us as we are; you heal us by your compassion; and you bring trust to birth within us. Even if this trust is very small, it sets us upright; it saves us, and by it you bring us back to life.