15 December 2023
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Jesus, Son of the living God, your presence in us remains a mystery. And nevertheless, you have made of yourself a gift for us, a gift of love, a gift of life. Pour out this life in us, and so we will be able to set out again, even with hesitant steps, on the path that leads us in our turn to love as well.
14 December 2023
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of life, give us the courage to stop and to dare sometimes to make time for calm and silence. That is where, turned towards you, we can draw water from the wellsprings of your love and your mercy. Renew in us the desire to seek you, for you are always there expecting us.
13 December 2023
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God, you who love us, often we are as it were blown about by the winds. Help us by your Holy Spirit, the Breath of Life, to live from what you have placed deep within us. And then the joy of following Jesus, your Son, gives strength to our hearts.
12 December 2023
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Light of our lives, Christ Jesus, enable us to reflect your goodness. Shine in us and chase away the shadows from our hearts, so that we may live in accordance with your love, which is utterly reliable, and in your righteousness.
11 December 2023
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God our Father, we give you thanks for all the people who have transmitted faith to us by their lives of by their words. That faith enables us to live with Jesus in a very simple trust. Send your Holy Spirit to make such trust grow in us, so that praise may overflow in our hearts.
11 December 2023
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God our Father, we give you thanks for all the people who have transmitted faith to us by their lives of by their words. That faith enables us to live with Jesus in a very simple trust. Send your Holy Spirit to make such trust grow in us, so that praise may overflow in our hearts.
9 December 2023
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Since your resurrection, O Christ, we understand that nothing can separate us from you any more. No-one is excluded from your love. At the point where each of us happens to be, give us the gift of turning towards you again and again to welcome your presence.
8 December 2023
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Jesus, you went to the point of giving your life so that we might understand your love for each one of us. Change our hearts and give us the strength to cast our sin and our failings at the foot of your cross, you who bring us back to life.
7 December 2023
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of love, you love all peoples and each person. And when the desire to love you in return moves us to come to you, open the ears of our heart so that we may listen to what you teach us. Your ways are ways of peace on which you bless us always.
6 December 2023
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Jesus, our strength and our song, help us to rejoice in what you give us. And when that seems to us to be only a little, give us thankful hearts, for you ask of us nothing else but to surrender ourselves in you.