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Please add the thoughts, prayers, poems, words ... that inspire you.

“In the measure that you desire God, you will find God.”

St. Teresa of Avila

Thoughts...

"Each person, no matter how old,
has important work to do.

This good work not only accomplishes
something needed in the world,
but completes something in us.
The work we do in the world,
when it is true vocation,
always corresponds in some mysterious
way to the work that goes on in us."

-Elizabeth O'Connor

"Soul is the ability to stretch ourselves--
our language, our responses, our reactions--
one notch higher than
our present circumstance seems to require."

- The Carmelites of Indianapolis

The True Carmelites

Please go to

http://www.praythenews.com/

You will be glad to know the Carmelites of Indianapolis and by the way it is possible to become a secular Carmelite. This is explained on their website where you can also light a votive candle and ask for the sisters' prayers.

The Sisters of Saint Clare, Les Clarisses

will soon have a community at La Chapelle de Ronchamp designed by Le Corbusier.

The photo (see below in "Master Let Me Walk with Thee") is one my husband took when on his spiritual journey in his belovèd France and Switzerland recently.

He did not know that my preferred (or one of them!) saint is Saint Clare.

You can find the Sisters of Saint Clare at Le Monastère Sainte Claire in Besançon (clarisses-besancon@wanadoo.fr) and at the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls at Clare's Well, a retreat center, in Annandale, Minnesota, one of my favorite places in the world, a place where my heart healed http://www.fslf.org/clareswell.html.

Clare. Clair. Clairvoyance.

For those of you now experiencing what I call a "soul's wilderness of grief and pain and all strife," know that the way does and will become clearer.

It is so. Thanks be to God.

Soli Deo Gloria.

Peace.

Celtic Prayers

From

The Celtic Way of Prayer

Esther de Waal

Marked by Claudia with a Salvador Dali bookmark from her 2003
trip to France to this:

"Making the bed provided them with the opportunity to reflect on God's many blessings.....

'I make this bed

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

In the name of the night we were conceived,

In the name of the night we were born,

In the name of the day we were baptised,

In the name of each night, each day,

Each angel that is in the heavens.'"

"A Celtic Prayer"

The Cross

In the Name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Amen.

THE INVITATORY

O God make speed to save me (us),

O Lord make haste to help me (us),

Glory to the Father,

and to the Son,

and to the Holy Spirit:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.

Amen.

THE CRUCIFORMS

Be the eye of God dwelling with me.

The foot of Christ in guidance with me,

The shower of the Spirit pouring on me,

Richly and generously.

THE WEEKS

[Pray each phrase on a separate bead.]

I bow before the Father who made me,

I bow before the Son who saved me,

I bow before the Spirit who guides me,

In love and adoration.

I praise the Name of the One on high.

I bow before thee Sacred Three,The ever One, the Trinity.

This prayer was created by Sister Brigit-Carol, S.D.

You can visit the website of the Solitaries of DeKoven,a community of Episcopal Hermits,

at http://www.solitariesofdekoven.org/

Rose

Rose, rose
Dis-lui
Combien je pense à elle....

Rose, rose
Tell her
How much I am thinking of her...

For those who grieve and whose hearts are heavy today

A Litany of Farewell (Episcopal Church)

Good Christian people, I bid you now pray for the saving presence of our living Lord

In this world:
He is risen.

In this Church:
He is risen.

In the hearts of all faithful people:
He is risen.

But especially I bid you pray and give thanks for
those I love who are now leaving [me and whom I must leave] our community.

For expectations not met:
Lord, have mercy.

For grievances not resolved:
Lord, have mercy.

For wounds not healed:
Lord, have mercy.

For anger not dissolved:
Lord, have mercy.

For gifts not given:
Lord, have mercy.

For promises not kept:
Lord, have mercy.

And now for this portion of your lifelong pilgrimage which you have made with these people in this place:
Thanks be to God.

For friendships made, celebrations enjoyed, and for moments of nurture:
Thanks be to God.

For wounds healed, expectations met, gifts given, promises kept:
Thanks be to God.

For bread and wine, body and blood:
Thanks be to God.

For all the thoughtful, little unheralded things done to make the day better for someone:
Thanks be to God.

And so, to establish a home in another place with other members of the family of Christ:
Go in peace.

To continue the journey with new friends and new adventures, new gifts to give and to receive:
Go in peace.

To offer wisdom and experience, competence and compassion, in the ministry to which you are called:
Go in peace.

With whatever fears, whatever sadness, whatever excitement, whatever dreams may be yours:
Go in peace.

With our faith in you, our hope for you, and our love of you:
Go in peace.

Your petitions and thanksgivings are invited at this time.

The Lord watch between us while we are absent one from the other—

in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Go in peace.

Amen.

Care thou for mine whom I must leave behind;

Care that they know who 'tis for them takes care;

Thy present patience help them still to bear;

Lord, keep them clearing, growing, heart and mind;

In one thy oneness us together bind;

Last earthly prayer with which to thee I cling--

Grant that, save love, we owe not anything.

From Diary of an Old Soul, George MacDonald, Entry for January 18


I am standing upon the seashore.

A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, ‘There! She's gone!' ‘Gone where?' ‘Gone from my sight, that's all'. She is just as large in mast and spar and hull as ever she was when she left my side; just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at that moment when someone at my side says, ‘There! She's gone!' there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, ‘Here she comes!' …..

Attributed to Victor Hugo
Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow,

I am the diamond glints on snow,

I am the sun on ripened grain,

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circling flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there; I did not die.

Attributed to Mary Fry