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Topic: determination

Quote

“"You must put into the earth everything you take out and do it faithfully."”

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Prayer

Prayer for a brighter new year

Instead, I will ask that Your resolutions be mine.
Your path, my path. Your will, my will.
Let us walk headlong into this new year together.

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Prayer

Guide me, O God

Show me clearly the path Providence
is unfolding for me today.
Grant me the courage to walk it,
fearlessly as you want me to.

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Prayer

From darkness into light

And I knew that could happen
to our world too —
This growing in
and emerging from
Darkness into Light

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Prayer

Woman at the Well

I don’t even want to recount
what has happened
in my life this year.
I just want to be with the One
who already knows.
who knows me through and through
better than I know myself.

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Prayer

A nurses’ prayer to be enough during COVID-19 pandemic

Lord Jesus, You only have us,
to stand in for You. Make ours Your healing touch. Make ours the words You’d speak.
Make our outreach to families and loved ones the comfort and hope You’d give.
Let us be Your love.

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Prayer

Prayer in this Time of Need

Heal those who are sick. Restore them to full health.

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Prayer

May I see clearly …

May I see clearly with the eye of my beating heart. May I have the wisdom to listen with special care. May my heart and mind be in tune to…

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Prayer

Healer

Her voice echoes from of old, beckoning me to be still.

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Prayer

Prayer for guidance

At times when the way ahead,
or even the next step,
seems unclear,
assure me that You know what is to come;
that You envision
a plan to prosper me and not to harm me,
to give me a future full of hope.

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Quote

“We must pray: it is our food without which nourishment we perish.”

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Quote

“If ... you are quite determined to belong entirely to God, to work with all your strength ... I say to you with assurance, Come.”

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Quote of the day

March 19
Solemnity of Saint Joseph
“Every year I renew this same prayer, every year I pray you to watch over your words during Lent.”
– Saint Mother Theodore Guerin