Due to staff changes, we are not able to offer the Daily Prayer pages for this Easter.
The Weekly Guide for Daily Prayer resource can be a blesed support for our daily prayer during the Easter Season.
In these or similar words
The following brief prayer examples
can help us use our own words
to speak with our Lord. Raise me up! Renew my life!
Father of life, I see the light again!
I was in darkness and had lost hope
but Jesus Christ, your son,
has won out over death - for me.
I celebrate today, your love, the life you give me.
I feel your presence as you breathe on my mind
and open my heart.
So many times in my life my eyes are closed
but today I see the risen Lord
in the breaking of the bread.
Thank you for this morning of hope,
thank you for such incredible love.
Risen Jesus, help me to proclaim your loving power.
You have pledged me a gift - now help me to share it.
May my heart always long for sincerity and truth.
May I be inspired by the earliest apostles
to share what I have and to share what you have given me
with joy and a love for the needs of others.
My heart longs to open my ears
and listen for your words in my life today
so that I might lift my voice in praise of you.
God of Light, you came to share your presence
and call us into the light of the world.
With your grace, we can restore the dignity of our human nature;
By following your light we will possess
an unending love for the poor.
We have been called to take our place as your followers
and tell people everything about this life --
a life calling us to dedicate ourselves
to the service of others.
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Jesus Is Alive!
An
Easter Blessing
Doubting Comes from
Being Out of Communion
Finding Hope in the Easter Season
Our Hope for Everlasting Life
Easter Joy in Everyday Life
Letting Myself Be Reborn
The Servant Girl At Emmaus
Don't Work for Food that Perishes
Feeling Our Hearts Burn With Hope
Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
The Easter Prefaces
For he is the true Lamb
who has taken away the sins of the world;
by dying he has destroyed our death,
and by rising, restored our life.
Through him the children of light rise to eternal life
and the halls of the heavenly Kingdom
are thrown open to the faithful;
for his Death is our ransom from death,
and in his rising the life of all has risen.
He never ceases to offer himself for us
but defends us and ever pleads our cause before you:
he is the sacrificial Victim who dies no more,
the Lamb, once slain, who lives for ever.
For, with the old order destroyed,
a universe cast down is renewed,
and integrity of life is restored to us in Christ.
By the oblation of his Body
he brought the sacrifices of old to fulfilment
in the reality of the Cross
and, by commending himself to you for our salvation,
showed himself the Priest, the Altar and the Lamb of sacrifice. |
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Celebrating the Easter Season
Easter is a seven week season of joy and grace. Starting with the Triduum in Holy Week and ending with Pentecost Sunday, this 50 day season has been called "the radiant center of the liturgical year." We keep celebrating so that we might continue to enter into the meaning of the resurrection and to deepen the way it touches our daily lives.
After Easter Week's resurrection stories, the first reading for the rest of this long and glorious season is from the Acts of the Apostles. Every day we see how Jesus' followers reacted to his death, the challenges to their witness and the unexpected courage that comes to them. John's Gospel is used for the entire Easter Season, the one time of year we can enter into his poetic and layered stories on a daily basis.
Easter only begins with Easter Sunday. These daily prayers and meditations come together to remind us that Jesus is with us. He is not dead, but alive. And, that makes all the difference in the world in how much hope and courage we have, before any struggle, any possible fear of death.
In these 50 days, we are Easter People!
Praying with the Resurection during the
Online Retreat, during the Easter Season.
The Guide for Week 32: Recognizing who he is
Pope Francis on the "Pilgrimage of Hope"
that is this Jubililee Year
We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us, and help everyone to gain new strength and certainty by looking to the future with an open spirit, a trusting heart and far-sighted vision. The forthcoming Jubilee can contribute greatly to restoring a climate of hope and trust as a prelude to the renewal and rebirth that we so urgently desire; that is why I have chosen as the motto of the Jubilee, Pilgrims of Hope. This will indeed be the case if we are capable of recovering a sense of universal fraternity and refuse to turn a blind eye to the tragedy of rampant poverty that prevents millions of men, women, young people and children from living in a manner worthy of our human dignity. Here I think in particular of the many refugees forced to abandon their native lands. May the voices of the poor be heard throughout this time of preparation for the Jubilee, which is meant to restore access to the fruits of the earth to everyone. As the Bible teaches, “The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you; for your cattle also, and for the beasts that are in your land, all its yield shall be for food” (Lev 25:6-7).
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