prayers and creeds

I have been now posting weekly prayers on the blog Prayers and Creeds for about a year and a half. I have missed some weeks here and there, but I try to post a prayer every Friday, just in time for the weekend. I thought I would highlight several links to some popular prayers I have posted on the site, as well as some favorites of mine.

Just click on the prayer title and it will take you to the original post.

Celtic Morning Prayer Canticle
Taken from Northumbria Community Morning Prayer (St. Patrick’s Breastplate)

Celtic Evening Prayer Expression of Faith
Taken from Northumbria Community Celtic Evening Prayer Liturgy

Take, Lord, and Receive
St. Ignatius, from the end of the Spiritual Exercises

Twenty Three
Twenty Three lyrics by Aaron Strumpel
Enter the Worship Circle: Chair and Microphone, Volume 2

Litany of Creation

Taken from A Journey Into Wholeness (Lenten Guide 2009) by Christine Sine

Step Back and Take the Long View
Prayer attributed to Oscar Romero

The Examen of Consciousness
Taken from What Is Ignatian Spirituality by David L. Fleming, SJ. (Loyola Press, 2008)

Prayer of Mother Teresa
From the video Everyone, Everywhere

Hope Revived
By Jeanne Kun

Help Me to Believe in Beginnings
Taken from Guerrillas of Grace by Ted Loder

A Four-Fold Franciscan Blessing

Eastertide Prayers

Blessed be the God and Father

of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In His great mercy

He has given us a new birth

to a living hope through the resurrection

of Jesus Christ from the dead

and to an inheritance

that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading.

It is reserved in heaven for you,

who because of your faith in God

are being protected by His power

until the salvation

that is ready to be revealed at the end of time.

(Adapted from 1 Peter 1:3-5)

Lord,

the resurrection of Your Son

has given us new life and renewed hope.

Help us to live as new people

in pursuit of the Christian ideal.

Grant us wisdom to know what we must do,

the will to want to do it,

the courage to undertake it,

the perseverance to continue to do it,

and the strength to complete it.

(Taken from New Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book)

Holy Saturday

I am still in Cordoba, enjoying a refreshing and restful few days of Semana Santa. I will return to Buenos Aires tonight by overnight bus, arriving just in time for the Easter celebration with my church family here.

This morning I started my day by reading this reflection from Alan Fadling on Holy Saturday. I thought I would pass it on...

http://alanfadling.com/2010/04/03/holy-saturday/