We pray that each one of us will hear and take to heart the cry of the Earth and the victims of natural disasters and climactic change, and that all will care for the world in which we live.
Loving God, we believe you are the God of the poor and that poverty includes being hungry, unemployed and orphaned, living on a pension or grant, meagre earnings for arduous and hazardous work, ill health, anxiety and stress and the Continue reading →
Come from the four winds, O Breath, And breathe upon these slain, that they may live. (Ezekiel 37:9)
Come from the South, O Breath, blow your life-giving promise of hope to our sisters in ponchos, Mothers of the Disappeared, political Continue reading →
Open wide the doors of grace Let every saint and sinner in. Welcome every tribe and race To help each person seek the face Of God who ever dwells therein.
“He leaves us at a time when we seem to need him even more, the only firm voice of brotherhood and peace.” Christian Carlassare, bishop of Bentiu, in South Sudan, remembers Pope Francis.
Father in heaven, may the faith you have given us in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of Continue reading →
On borders everywhere in the world today we find refugees, millions of them. They’re easily demonized, seen as a nuisance, a threat, as invaders, as criminals fleeing justice in their homelands. But mostly they are decent, honest people fleeing poverty, Continue reading →
We praise you for the beauty we see around us, for the infinite variety of your creation – the skies, the mountains, the valleys, the plains, the rivers and the seas. The bounty of your creation adds richness and providence Continue reading →
