12 March
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of all the ages, we give you thanks, for your revive in us the longing for the time when you will be all in all. May the Holy Spirit open the eyes of our heart to discern Christ in us and around us. And then, when we walk forward together in faith, we are one body in him, a visible signe of his humble presence in the world today.
11 March
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Let your spring of life, faithful God, pour out water to irrigate the deserts inside us. We want to quench our thirst in your presence. And the more our thirst is quenched, the more we desire you, you who guide us always.
10 March
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Eternal God, you watch over us; you never forget us. May our hearts in their hunger become a place of meeting with you; we desire nothing other than to respond to your love. And we say to you: "By the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Risen Christ, come and kindle a festival in the depths of my being."
9 March
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, when temptation assails us, help us to remember that you have already gone ahead of us. Faced with the one who wanted to sow division between you and your Father, painting an enticing picture of easy ways forward, you remained anchored in love; you held firm. And deep within us, our heart calls to you: "Be with me when I am tempted to turn from you; set me free from what still keeps me a slave!" And your Holy Spirit sings gently in answer: "I will never forsake you."
8 March
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Jesus, you who always open up the way for us, our heart calls out to you and wants to follow you. And when we begin to do so, a miracle occurs: we have left everything behind, but you transform our life into an unexpected fulness, a foretaste of an eternal communion. Praise be to you!
7 March
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Eternal God, you lead us to understand that loving you and loving our neighbour are one. You have set your people free; your Son shared bread with the hungry and opened his table to everyone. By your Holy Spirit, help each one of us to watch over the people you entrust to us. In this way, your light will shine and you will heal the wounds of the human family.
6 March
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Christ Jesus, in the depths of your trials, you turned towards your Father in prayer. We too, when we are shaken by the harshness of life, would like to find shelter in him. Even if we feel nothing of God’s presence, we understand that he has never stopped loving us. And then our heart begins to live again in the radiance of that love, which is the path of eternity.
5 March
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of compassion, when our heart wanders away from you, you continue to love us. In your patience, you wait for us, full of kindness. The day comes when a ray of your love pierces through the fog that clouded our vision. And the way becomes clear, the way on which we can come back to you.
4 March
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)Faithful God, you walk with us from the very beginning of our life. You love us with an eternal love. We would like to respond to this love; and when we hear your son Jesus say to us in the Gospel: "Come and follow me!" we understand that yes, it is possible to dare to take that step, to give everything to follow him.
3 March
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Short prayers (en)God of mercy, help us to look to the face of your Christ. Insulted, he did not return insult; in suffering, he did not threaten, but he surrendered himself to you and to your justice. With him, the one who is united to every human being without exception, we would like to rejoice with his joy and weep with him when he weeps.