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Prayer for Openness
Loving God, by the gift of your Holy Spirit, you
form us into your people and call us to continue the work of Jesus
in the world. Gant that through the Spirit of Jesus, I will grow more
open to your word, so that I may know you better and trust the gifts
you have given me. Guide me in how I can best serve you and others.
Inspire in me wisdom and understanding to see your vision for my life,
and to respond with openness to whatever you call me to be and do. Give
me courage and humility to follow you will with a grateful and generous
heart. I love you and desire to surrender myself to you according to
the plan you have for my life.
Loving God, show me your way. Amen.
Deuteronomy 30:14
It is something very near to you, already in your mouth
and in your heart; you have only to carry it out.
Prayer for Vocations
O God, we pray that you give us generous hearts
and abundant courage to live out our personal vocation. We pray especially
for those who may be thinking about serving you a public church ministry
as a sister, brother, priest, deacon or lay minister.
Guide us as we learn to quiet our hearts and listen to our deepest and
truest calling. Amen.
Ephesians 1:4-11
Before the foundation of the world, our Creator chose
us to be holy in Christ, according to the purpose he has for all things.
God comes to us disguised as our own lives. - Richard Rohr
One Pace Beyond
Written about foundress of the Presentation Sisters,
Nano Nagle
Take down your lantern from its niche and go out!
You may not rest in firelight certainties,
secure from drifting of doubt and fear.
You may not build yourself confining walls and say:
“Thus far, and thus, and thus far shall I walk, and these things
I shall do, and nothing more.”
Go out! For need calls loudly in the winding lanes
and you must see Christ there.
Your pilgrim heart shall urge you still one pace beyond,
and love shall be you lantern flame.
M. Rapael Consedine, PBVM
God has created me to do something definite service.
God has committed some work to me which has not been committed to another.
I have my mission.
I may never know it is this life but I shall be told it in the next.
I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.
God has not created me for naught, I shall be an angel of peace,
a preacher of truth in my own place while not intending it,
if I but keep God’s commandments.
John Henry Newman
Acceptance of a Vocation
If I had no choice about the age in which I
was to live, I nevertheless have a choice about the attitude I take and
about the way and the extent of my participation in its living ongoing
events. To choose the world is not then merely a pious admission that
the world is acceptable because it comes from the hand of God. It is
first of all an acceptance of a task and a vocation in the world, in
history and in time. In my time, which is the present. To choose the
world is to choose to do the work I am capable of doing, in collaboration
with my brother and sister, to make the world better, more free, more
just, more livable, more human. And it has now become transparently obvious
that mere automatic "rejection
of the world" and "contempt for the world" is in fact
not a choice but an evasion of choice. The person, who pretends that
he can turn his back on Auschwitz or Viet Nam and acts as if they were
not there, is simply bluffing.
“Contemplation in a World of Action” by Thomas Merton; 1973:164-165.
Come , follow me! - Jesus
Jesus, you call me though baptism to follow
you. I want to be your friend and follow you every day. Help me to
share my gifts and your love with others. Rose Mary Heineck, SSMO
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two raids diverged in a yellow wood,
and sorry I could not travel both
and be one traveler, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim,
because it was grassy and wanted wear;
though as for that the passing there
had worn them really about the same,
and both that morning equally lay
in leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
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Phyllis Gill would be happy to visit with you about your vocational call.
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