Lenten Prayer

I know you receive what is in my heart.
Let me be inspired by your words
and by the actions of your son, Jesus.
Guide me to make sacrifices this Lent
in the spirit of self-denial
and with greater attention to you
and to those around me.
Help me to believe that you will grant me this
because of the sacrifice Jesus made for me.


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Lenten Prayer

Father of my soul,
Mother of my heart,
I know your love for me is limitless beyond imagining.
You care for me as a loving parent.
Through my smallest Lenten sacrifices,
help me to become less selfish
and more aware of your ways.
Fan the flame of my desire
to draw ever closer to you.
Guide me to seek your love.



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Daily Meditation: 

Bring us back to you. 

We repeat our desire that God bring us home from our wandering. 

We know that in the confusion that surrounds us and can fill us, 

we need the gift of Wisdom.

It is fitting that our very first “lesson” in our faith, 

is the last judgment scene that Jesus paints for us. 

We will be judged on whether we: 

  fed the hungry 

  welcomed the stranger 

  clothed the naked 

  comforted the sick 

  visited the imprisoned. 

It is powerful to re-learn this wisdom - 

Jesus identifies with each of these “least” cared for.

Who might we feed, welcome, clothe, comfort or visit this week?

As my heart might “resist” this mission, 

I might beg to be brought back, with all my heart.

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Daily Meditation: 

Bring us back to you. 

This week we pray for a renewal of our lives. 

We are beginning to be more attentive and alert. 

We are trying new patterns. 

The difficulties we encounter keep us humble.

Our desire is clear. 

We want the “self-sacrificing love of Christ” - 

which brings us mercy and healing - to be “reproduced in our lives.” 

In our journey, we seek to savor the meaning of Jesus' self-less love, 

that we might reflect that love to others. 

At the end of our journey, we will renew our baptismal promises. 

Dying with Jesus in baptism, we have a new life in him. 

Today, we desire nothing less than God's re-creating us - 

Bringing new life I to us.

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Lenten Prayer

O Lord, who hast mercy upon all,

take away from me my sins,

and mercifully kindle in me 

the fire of thy Holy Spirit.

Take away from me the heart of stone,

and give me a heart of flesh,

a heart to love and adore Thee,

a heart to delight in Thee,

to follow and enjoy Thee, for Christ's sake, Amen.

— Ambrose of Milan, 4th century bishop