Prayer from Mauritania

Your land, O Lord, is divided
and suffers from fighting between your children.

Injustices of all kinds, hatred and bitterness
are part of the daily life of the people.

Families seek reconciliation.
Tribes and ethnic groups need Continue reading →

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.

Good Continue reading →

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.

Open wide the doors of faith
To all who wander Continue reading →

“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.

The Pope has shown us God’s merciful Continue reading →

Bishop Christian Carlassare of Bentiu in South Sudan shares four key ways to get involved in the Jubilee from wherever you are. 

 Pilgrimage is a journey – The first keyword about the Jubilee Year is a pilgrimage. Pilgrimage is a Continue reading →

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 →