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Prayers During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Prayers for those with the Coronavirus, those who intendance for them, and those who are suffering from anxiety during this stressful time.
Prayer for a New Normal
The Earth as we knew information technology is gone, and for what feels like such a long time we accept experienced so much hardship during this Pandemic. As we prepare to walk into the futurity we pray for the "new normal" to come. May our hearts be unified in You more ever. May the tender moments of seeing someone again in person be all the more rich and treasured. May the reunions, interactions, and moments alee be held in such intentionality and may we turn to You in sincere gratitude. Aid us to come up out of this Pandemic better, non biting. Help us to go more than considerate of others, more than mindful of how we can help one another, and how we tin can serve You lot and Your children well. Nosotros thank you that no thing how dark the dark may get, there is the hope of the dawn to come.
Reflections on Changes & Transitions: A New Normal
The world has gone through upheaval. Lives have been lost and upended. A New Normal will hopefully be emerging soon.
Our University rose to the many challenges. Collaboration, innovation and cura personalis were our touchstones. New ways of learning and working were created. A New Normal is emerging.
Equally we encompass this inverse world for our students, our employees and our communities, some of united states here today are entering our own New Normal with new and different roles, responsibilities, adventures and dreams for our future.
Our New Normal isn't what it was. It isn't what it will exist. Nor are we.
With love and respect for the past, nosotros equally a community face our new beginnings and journeys with anticipation, optimism, enthusiasm and treat each other — creating our ain New Normal.
- Written by Brenda South. Levya-Gardner, Ph.D. 5/24/2
Modify is the Simply Abiding
"Change is the only constant in life." - Heraclitus (ancient Greek philosopher)
Many contempo events in my work here on campus got me to thinking about endings and ancestry – virtually alter.
- We are ending our budget work for one fiscal yr and the get-go our work on future fiscal and fiscal year planning.
- We have finished one academic year and are outset to ready for students to return in the autumn.
- We only held our commencement exercises, which signifies the end of our students' fourth dimension here on campus and the outset of their lives as Xavier alumni.
- We are ending our mask mandates and social distancing (hopefully) and beginning to render to some semblance of normal without masks and confront-to-face gatherings.
- A number of long-serving leaders, kinesthesia and staff will be ending their work on campus, and their successors will be first theirs.
- And of course, the ending of the Fr. Graham'south tenure and the beginning of new leadership nether Dr. Hanycz here at Xavier.
Our lives and our work are a constant serial of endings and beginnings. Some of these endings come suddenly or unexpectedly. Others are planned and come up more gradually. Some are happy. Some are sad. But each ending gives the states the opportunity for a new beginning. Every bit is said, "When one door closes, some other door opens."
As I idea about some of these recent endings and beginnings, what we accept been through these past fifteen months, and the general pace of our lives in the 21st century, I stepped dorsum to assess some of the things that I take establish helpful to make these transitions. Hopefully some of them volition resonate with yous.
- Brand time to reflect and be thankful for what is catastrophe. Exist grateful for what was learned and what was achieved.
- Make time to gloat the new offset and what we have to look forward to.
- Recognize there are things about endings and beginnings that we do non command. Deed on what nosotros tin control, just recognize and movement on from what we can't control.
- Intermission to reflect and refresh. The pace, chaos, and emotion of alter tin can be stressful; make time to accept care of ourselves and each other.
- Exist grateful for what nosotros have and for those effectually united states of america with whom we share these changes.
- Remain optimistic and hopeful for what is yet to come and the new relationships that new beginnings may bring.
- And finally, take fourth dimension to call up that God is with united states through all the events of our lives, and that these endings and beginnings are no different.
I am not a regular reader of the Bible, but i of my favorite fix of verses can be institute in Ecclesiastes, Chapter iii, verses ane and eleven. 1In that location is a season for everything, a fourth dimension for every occupation under sky. xiAll that He does is apt for its fourth dimension; only although He has given us an awareness of the passage of time, we can grasp neither the beginning nor the end of what God does.
Let us ask for God's grace and help as nosotros pursue these endings and these beginnings together with patience, perseverance, and trust in what He has planned for us.
- Written and offered by Phil Chick on 5/17/21 post-pandemic
Nosotros Asked
Before I brainstorm, I would similar to offer a cursory prayer of thanksgiving that I accept relied upon heavily, especially throughout the past year as we have suffered as a customs, and as a nation, and as a world, in and so many ways:
Loving Creator,
We asked for strength, and you gave us difficulties to make us strong.
We asked for wisdom, and you gave the states issues to solve.
We asked for prosperity, and you gave u.s. purpose and brains to employ.
We asked for backbone, and you gave us fears to overcome.
Nosotros asked for patience, and you gave us situations where we were forced to wait.
We asked for beloved, and you gave u.s. troubled people to assist.
Nosotros asked for justice, and you called us to exist merely and lead with integrity.
Lord, we have received zilch that we asked for or wanted.
And still, we receive everything that we needed.
For this we give thanks.
- PastColleen Hanycz, PhD incoming President at Xavier Academy
My Mask
Holy God, yous see me and y'all hear me.
Through my mask, y'all see if I smile or if I scowl.
Through my mask, y'all hear me if I whisper a brief prayer or mutter a muffled curse.
My friends don't see or hear or know; nor practice my family; nor my colleagues.
But y'all exercise.
This mask takes away power – the power of articulate communication merely also the possibility to infect. But it also grants a freedom to be with.
My smiles, my thoughts, my mumbles, though – these I know, but they are a greater mystery to others now.
But not to yous, Lord. You see past my mask, you lot hear through it, yous know.
But your mask, Lord, what about your mask? Who tin can come across through your mask? Hear through it?
I cannot.
I cannot see if you lot smile or if you scowl.
I cannot hear if you whisper an reply to my prayer or brush off my expletive.
I cannot sense if you are pleased with me or if yous are waiting for me to do much better.
Can we all take off our masks, Lord? Put them away?
When the affliction that moves us to mask our faces for rubber fades abroad, volition our optics and our ears be stronger, better able to run into and to hear the smiles and the frowns, the cries and the whispers of those who fill up our lives? Who make our lives worth living?
Will we see, Lord, that what we think of as your mask is really also our own, our inability to find you in the rush of our lives, our failure to run across you in all the wonders yous show u.s.a., our incapacity to hear your gentle vocalism in the tumult that surrounds u.s..
Can we know, Lord, that nosotros put on many masks so we can cope, avoid, pretend, be acceptable? (What scar did the Phantom's mask hibernate? "Who was that masked human being?")
Help us, Lord, to motility beyond our masks. Y'all are here for us to see and to hear. Help united states. Let u.s. accept off our masks.
- ByFr. Edward Schmidt Due south.J.
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Pandemic 2020
2020. The year that taught usa to minimize. To improvise. To compromise.
2020. The year we monitored, not the stock market. But rather open time slots.
2020. The year nosotros slowed down. We paused. We realized what we could do without. Our celebrations. Were muted. Understated. But no less joyous.
2020. The year nosotros cried. Nosotros mourned. For the unnecessary deaths. For job losses. For social justice.
2020. The yr injustices were even more than pronounced. Economic disparity. Social disparity. Racial disparity. Age disparity. Immune system disparity.
We worried almost the age. Lone and isolated. We worried about the youth. Could their immature minds handle all that was being thrown at them?
And and then we collected ourselves. Nosotros adjusted. We empathized. We sympathized. We stepped upwardly. And stepped in where needed. We reached out.
2020 is backside u.s.. And we step into 2021. With hopes and some trepidation.
Equally we transition through this time we pray:
One twenty-four hour period at a fourth dimension sugariness Jesus.
That'due south all that I inquire of yous.
Lord help me today.
Testify me the fashion.
One twenty-four hours at a fourth dimension.
Equally we transition through these times, nosotros go on our organized religion as Bhagwad Gita, the Hindu Holy Scripture written more 2000 years ago, says:
'Dharmo Rakshito Rakshita'...those who continue their faith strong during trying times are blest with their faith carrying them through these times.
- Reflection by Aarti Jaisinghani
- Offered by Rashmi Assudani
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An Examen of Our Pandemic Yr
It does not e'er feel good to reflect on challenging times, suffering, or loss, but our Ignatian tradition constantly reminds us that reflection is a practice that tin impact our present. This has been a peculiar twelvemonth, and and so taking some moments, one twelvemonth from when the World Health Organization alleged COVID-19 to be a global pandemic, may requite you some insight on how to keep moving frontwards.
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- by Rev. Abby-King Kaiser
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Prayer for the Condom of Returning to Schoolhouse in a Pandemic
Begetter please hear us when nosotros tell You lot of our concerns of sending our children and educators back to school.
Know that we are striving to make all of the correct decisions and need Your love and power to aid us overcome whatever difficulties.
Delight lookout man over anybody as times and routines are about to change in one case again.
We know that we can practise anything through You, then please assist us ensure health and semi-normalcy in the coming months.
We give our hearts to Yous, now and forever. Amen.
- Author unknown
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Strength for this Challenging Time
We pray for your love and compassion to abound
every bit nosotros walk through this challenging season.
We ask for wisdom for those who conduct the load
of making decisions with widespread consequences.
We pray for those who are suffering with sickness
and all who are caring for them.
Nosotros ask for protection for the elderly and vulnerable
to not succumb to the risks of the virus.
We pray for misinformation to be curbed
that fear may take no concord in hearts and minds.
As we do the good sense that you in your mercy provide,
may we also approach each day in organized religion and peace,
trusting in the truth of your goodness towards us.
-www.holyspiritewloe.com
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A Prayer in Response to
An Ignatian Examen on Working During The Pandemic
Lord,
I am thankful for good colleagues and the opportunity to collaborate with so many around me.
I am thankful for the opportunity learn and practice new things.
I am grateful for extra time with family, and for all the new ways I have found to connect with friends.
I am grateful for my wellness and for the health of my family.
Over the grade of the last months,
I take felt your presence in the care and pity of those working around and with me to notice the best path forward for our community.
I have felt your presence in our continuous striving for meliorate, striving to find solutions that serve the greatest number of people in the best mode possible with the least take chances of impairment.
I have felt your presence on days when my work – at my workplace or at abode – was not great, and I was humble or needed to make apologies.
I have been challenged and needed your guidance in thinking with a community-focus rather than an individual one, and I've been challenged in finding the correct response on other occasions when I judge that others are falling into that same pit.
I accept felt challenged by all the meals I've cooked and dishes I've washed. I accept felt truthful joy in the quiet moments of fellowship and connection that only could have happened because of this common event.
I continue to welcome and be open to your presence in my life and in this work.
As I look ahead to the coming bookish year,
I pray that we make sound decisions for our students, our faculty, our staff, that protect them and serve them well, and as well serve the institution well.
I pray that we continue to be inclusive and broad in our thinking, that we proceed to be imaginative and innovative, that we have the free energy required to sustain the states.
I pray that nosotros proceed to be intentional collaborators, guided by your spirit.
- By Rebecca 50. Choose
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Retreat During a Time of Isolation
We Bring Your Dearest
Loving God,
Help united states of america
to focus on what nosotros have
not on what is removed or changed.
Strengthen usa
when we experience discouraged
or overwhelmed.
Embrace us
so that us we know your loving presence
within united states and amongst us.
Walk with the states
as nosotros bring your love,
and carry your light,
into our world.
Amen.
- Sandra Lucas, MDiv., BCC
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The Other Side of the Virus, An Opportunity to Awaken...
Yeah in that location is panic buying.
Yes there is sickness.
Aye there is even death.
But,
They say that in Wuhan after then many years of noise
You tin can hear the birds again.
They say that after just a few weeks of placidity
The heaven is no longer thick with fumes
Merely blue and grey and clear.
They say that in the streets of Assisi
People are singing to each other
beyond the empty squares,
keeping their windows open up
so that those who are alone
may hear the sounds of family unit effectually them.
They say that a hotel in the West of Ireland
is offer free meals and delivery to the housebound.
Today a young woman I know
is busy spreading fliers with her number
through the neighborhood
so that the elders may accept someone to phone call on.
Today Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and Temples
are preparing to welcome
and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary.
All over the world people are slowing down and reflecting.
All over the globe people are looking at their neighbors in a new manner.
All over the earth people are waking up to a new reality
To how large we really are.
To how trivial control nosotros actually have.
To what really matters.
To Dear.
So nosotros pray and we call up that
Yes there is fear.
But there does not have to exist hate.
Yes in that location is isolation.
But in that location does not accept to be loneliness.
Yeah there is panic buying.
But there does not take to exist meanness.
Yes there is sickness.
Merely there does non have to be disease of the soul
Yes there is even death.
Simply there can always be a rebirth of love.
Wake to the choices you lot brand as to how to live now.
Today, breathe.
Listen, behind the factory noises of your panic-
The birds are singing again
The sky is immigration,
Spring is coming,
And we are ever encompassed past Honey.
Open the windows of your soul
And though you may not be able
to touch across the empty square,
Sing.
- Written past Fr. Richard Hendrick, OFM, March 13th 2020
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Covid Verse form
When this is over,
may we never once more
accept for granted
A handshake with a stranger
Full shelves at the store
Conversations with neighbors
A crowded theatre
Fri night out
The taste of communion
A routine checkup
The school rush each morning
Coffee with a friend
The stadium roaring
Each deep breath
A irksome Tuesday
Life itself.
When this ends,
may we find
that we take become
more than like the people
we wanted to exist
we were called to be
nosotros hoped to be
and may we stay
that way--better
for each other
considering of the worst.
Litany of Solidarity and Hope During a Pandemic
For those who are sick.
For those with chronic illnesses and underlying health concerns.
For all those who are suffering.
For those who are lonely.
For those who have no one to check on them.
For families that are separated.
For those who are unemployed.
For those suffering financial hardships.
For those who face an uncertain future.
For those who are suffering from physical or emotional abuse.
For those who are disproportionately suffering considering of societal structures and unjust policies.
For those who are struggling with concrete or mental disabilities.
For those who are overwhelmed past feet and stress.
For those who are dying.
For those who accept died while saving the lives of others.
For all who accept lost their lives.
For those who have survived.
For those who have lost their spouses.
For children who have been orphaned.
For all those who mourn and those who comfort them.
For firefighters, police, and emergency medical workers.
For doctors, nurses, and all health care professionals.
For those who serve in the military.
For public officials.
For business leaders.
For educators.
For innovators and inventors who provide new solutions.
For peace in our city and in our world.
For renewed friendships among neighbors.
For solidarity and unity among all peoples.
For a greater appreciation and love of all humanity.
For patience and perseverance.
For calm in the midst of fear.
For the grace to overcome adversity.
For the generosity of spirit.
For hope in times of despair.
For light in the darkness.
Gracious and Loving God,
Yous are our comforter and our hope.
Hear our prayers as we come before you.
Strengthen usa in this time of need.
Inspire us to acts of solidarity and generosity
and give united states of america promise of a brighter hereafter.
- By Joseph P. Shadle
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A Prayer for Our Uncertain Times
May we who are merely inconvenienced call back those whose lives are at stake.
May nosotros who have no risk factors retrieve those most vulnerable.
May we who have the luxury of working from home remember those who must choose betwixt preserving their health and making their rent.
May we who have the flexibility to care for our children when their schools close call up those who take no options.
May we who have to cancel our trips remember those who have no safety place to go.
May we who are losing our margin money in the tumult of the economical market remember those who have no margin at all.
May we who settle in for a quarantine at habitation remember those who have no dwelling.
Every bit fear grips our land, permit us cull love.
And during this time when we may not be able to physically wrap our artillery around each other, allow united states of america yet notice ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbors. Amen.
We'll Get Through This
I'm a garbageman, I can't piece of work from abode and my job is an essential city service that must get done. It'southward a tough job, from getting upwards pre-dawn to the physical cost it takes on my body, to the monotonous nature of the task, at times it's hard to keep on going.
Us garbagemen are gonna keep collecting the garbage, doctors and nurses are gonna proceed doctoring and nurse-ering. It'southward gonna be ok, we're gonna make it exist ok. I love my city. I love my country. I love my planet Earth. Be skillful to each other and nosotros'll get through this.
Right now though, right now I am feeling an actress sense of pride and purpose as I do my work. I run into the people, my people, of my city, peeking out their windows at me. They're scared, we're scared. Scared but resilient.
- Found on Twitter: Jester D TGM - @JustMeTurtle
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Pandemic
What if you idea of it
every bit the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the nearly sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Surrender, only for now,
on trying to make the earth
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Impact simply those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.
And when your body has become still,
accomplish out with your centre.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You lot could inappreciably deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in 1 another's hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do non achieve out your hands.
Attain out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Attain out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.
Promise this world your love–
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall alive.
– Lynn Ungar, March 11, 2020 (posted with permission of the author)
for more from this author, view: http://world wide web.lynnungar.com/poems/
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A Coronavirus Prayer
Loving God, Your want is for our wholeness and well being.
We hold in tenderness and prayer the collective suffering of our globe at this time.
Nosotros grieve precious lives lost and vulnerable lives threatened.
We anguish for ourselves and our neighbors, continuing earlier an uncertain future.
We pray: may love, not fearfulness, get viral.
Inspire our leaders to discern and choose wisely, aligned with the mutual good.
Aid us to practice social distancing and reveal to usa new and creative ways to come up together in spirit and in solidarity.
Telephone call u.s.a. to profound trust in your faithful presence,
You, the God who does not abandon.
- Past Sister Christine Koelhoffer, IHM
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An Examen for Times of Anxiety and Depression
I pause (breathe in and out) and thank you for this day. For the challenges, the emotions, the struggle. For in all this, I grow closer to you.
I suspension (breathe in and out) and ask that in the darkness, I run into your light and in my fright, I feel your forcefulness.
I suspension (breathe in and out) and remember that today, As in days before, I accept survived. When I've wanted to run, I've stayed. When I wanted to hide, I've faced the day.
I pause (breathe in and out) and ask for forgiveness for The days I falter and the disease takes over. I enquire for pity and love when I'm unable to give those to myself.
I interruption (exhale in and out) and resolve to beloved myself more tomorrow. And always feel your spirit surround me in condom.
I suspension (breathe in and out) and residuum.
- By Erin Roush
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An Examen in Caring for Others
What interactions with others were significant to me today?
What care and compassion did I show?
What was going on in my head during these interactions? Was I truly nowadays?
What control practise I have over the circumstances of these individuals?
Did I exercise all that I could in this indicate in time?
What can I practice for tomorrow?
Prayer for Compassion
Merciful God,
Open my centre and mind to exist fully present to those I collaborate with throughout the day.
Allow me to heed to others without passing judgement or haste to solve what I cannot alter.
Requite me patience and understanding and grant me grace in my shortcomings.
Be with me in times of fatigue and lift me upward with the strength to conduct out your compassionate dearest to all those I meet. Amen.
- By Ashley Henkes, Hall Managing director, Residence Life
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An Examen to Become More Loving
Creator, thank you for my many blessings, specially ______________.
Be with me at this moment,
and guide my thoughts to those places
where I could have been more loving in my day
and consider how I will amend.
Help me to come across those places where I was loving
and strengthen those parts of me
so that I tin can ameliorate exercise your will.
Thank you for all the love I've been blessed with
and assist me in the moments alee.
- By Ellen Hurst, Senior Instruction Professor, Economics
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An Examen for Life During COVID-xix
Take a moment to settle. Take a deep breath. Get comfortable. Like a rock settling on the lesser of a lake later it's thrown in, let yourself settle.
1. Acknowledge how you are feeling in this moment. If being calm is hard, acknowledge information technology. If y'all discover yourself frustrated or stressed, acknowledge it. God wants to exist nowadays in all parts of our lives—not just the easy or serene moments.
ii. Ask for calorie-free and insight as you ready to review your mean solar day. For some that low-cal may come in the form of a sense of the Divine. For others it'due south from a deep sense of your true cocky.
3. Take a moment to think almost how COVID-nineteen has impacted your life. Fifty-fifty as we are being asked to distance ourselves from one another socially, ask yourself what connections y'all discover yourself grateful for?Who makes y'all experience grounded and connected to God?
4. Public health bug take a way of making united states of america recognize how interwoven our lives are with others in society. It can assistance us realize who we may oftentimes cull not to see or connect with. Is at that place a person or group of people peculiarly affected by COVID-19 that you don't often choose to run into or connect with normally? What connections to others are you lot condign more aware of? Who practise you normally choose to reach out and connect to? Who do you avoid or refuse to see? If you can, flick the faces of these people. What connections exercise you take for granted in your life? What connections impact you the most?
v. Note the emotions you feel when you call back of these individuals without judging or overanalyzing. Simply acknowledge them, pay attending, and mind to where God may be speaking.
6. As you think of the ways we are connected or disconnected to 1 some other, pick a connectedness (or lack thereof) that seems important, significant, or is manifesting itself the strongest. Interruption and reflect on where you're beingness invited to abound from that moment. If y'all are a person of faith, take a moment to pray with it.
seven. God gifted us with limitless creativity and imagination. Even in this time of separation and possible isolation, what is one way you tin can maintain meaningful connection to others—whether directly, through applied science, or intentional focus and attending?
Take a deep breath and moment of tranquillity. When you lot are ready, return to your solar day.
- By Susan Haarman, Loyola University Chicago
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Prayer in a Fourth dimension of Feet
It seems that I return to you most easily when I need comfort, O God.
How-do-you-do… here I am again, knowing that you are waiting for me with dear and warming lite.
In the shadow of your wings I find respite and relief that feeds my innermost cocky and renews my soul. Twenty-four hours and night, you are my refuge.
These uncertain days of news conferences and quarantines tempt me to assume the worst for my loved ones, myself and my customs. "Pandemic" is a frightening word, and I tin can easily feel confused or helpless to answer. Now I am relying on you to atomic number 82 and guide me, to put my feet in its place. Help me meet it as a man response that keeps me conscious of the seriousness of this moment, simply practise not let it overwhelm my spirit. Buoyed by your honey, I cull each day to let peace reign in me. Animate deeply of your calm, I repeat, again and once again, "Y'all are here."
Good and gracious Companion, my family and friends need repose and assurance. Aid me to offer them your tenderness. Those in my customs who are suffering need care. Help me to be generous and to keep contact with the forgotten. Our earth calls for cooperation among national leaders, scientists, health care providers, and all who are instrumental in overcoming this crunch. May my prayers and support exist with them all.
I have come back to yous, and I will return, knowing that your open arms will never fail. God of hope, may your love blanket the earth, as you teach us to alive more generously today than yesterday. May my feet exist transformed into love.
- Author requested to remain bearding
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Prayer for a Pandemic
May we who are but inconvenienced, remember those whose lives are at stake.
May we who have no risk factors remember those most vulnerable.
May those who accept the luxury of working from home remember those who must cull between preserving their health or making their hire.
May those who take the flexibility to care for our children when schools shut remember those who have no options.
May we who have to abolish a trip remember those who have no safe identify to get.
May nosotros who are losing our margin money in the tumult of the economic market retrieve those who have no margin at all.
May those who settle for quarantine at home remember those who take no abode.
As fearfulness grips our country, let us cull love during this fourth dimension when nosotros cannot physically wrap our artillery around each other, permit us find ways to be the loving encompass to God and our neighbor.
- Prayer by Cameron Wiggins Bellm
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Prayer for People Critically Sick or Facing Great Uncertainty
God of the present moment,
God who in Jesus stills the storm
and soothes the frantic centre;
bring promise and courage to all
who await or work in incertitude.
Bring promise that you volition make them the equal
of whatever lies alee.
Bring them courage to endure what cannot be avoided,
for your will is health and wholeness;
you are God, and nosotros need you.
- Adjusted from New Zealand Prayer Book, p. 765
-Prayer originated from episcopalrelief.org/what-we-do/u.s.a.-disaster-programme/organized religion-based-response-to-epidemics/
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Prayer in Fourth dimension of Illness
Lord Jesus, yous came into the world to heal our infirmities and to endure our sufferings. You went most healing all and bringing condolement to those in hurting and need. Nosotros come up earlier you now in this time of illness asking that you may be the source of our strength in trunk, backbone in spirit and patience in hurting. May we join ourselves more closely to yous on the cross and in your suffering that through them we may draw our patience and hope. Aid us and restore us to health so that united more than closely to your family, the Church building, we may requite praise and award to your name.
- Prayer originated from https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=1822
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Prayer for the Sick
Father of goodness and love, hear our prayers for the sick members of our customs and for all who are in demand. Amid mental and physical suffering may they discover consolation in your healing presence. Show your mercy as you close wounds, cure illness, make cleaved bodies whole and costless downcast spirits. May these special people find lasting health and deliverance, and so join us in thanking you for all your gifts. We ask this through the Lord Jesus who healed those who believed. Amen.
- Prayer originated from https://www.cosmic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=229
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A Coronavirus Prayer
Jesus Christ, yous traveled through towns and villages "curing every illness and illness." At your command, the ill were fabricated well. Come to our assist at present, in the midst of the global spread of the coronavirus, that we may feel your healing honey.
Heal those who are sick with the virus. May they regain their forcefulness and wellness through quality medical care.
Heal us from our fearfulness, which prevents nations from working together and neighbors from helping ane another.
Heal us from our pride, which can make usa merits invulnerability to a disease that knows no borders.
Jesus Christ, healer of all, stay by our side in this time of uncertainty and sorrow.
Be with those who have died from the virus. May they be at remainder with you in your eternal peace.
Be with the families of those who are sick or accept died. As they worry and grieve, defend them from disease and despair. May they know your peace.
Be with the doctors, nurses, researchers and all medical professionals who seek to heal and help those affected and who put themselves at risk in the procedure. May they know your protection and peace.
Be with the leaders of all nations. Give them the foresight to act with charity and truthful concern for the well-being of the people they are meant to serve. Give them the wisdom to invest in long-term solutions that volition help ready for or foreclose hereafter outbreaks. May they know your peace, as they work together to achieve it on earth.
Whether we are home or abroad, surrounded past many people suffering from this illness or only a few, Jesus Christ, stay with united states as we suffer and mourn, persist and set. In place of our anxiety, give u.s. your peace.
Jesus Christ, heal us.
- Prayer originated fromhttps://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/03/02/coronavirus-prayer
Pope'due south Prayer for Protection from Coronavirus
An English language-language translation of the Pope'due south prayer is below:
O Mary, yous shine continuously on our journey as a sign of salvation and hope.
We entrust ourselves to y'all, Health of the Sick.
At the pes of the Cross you lot participated in Jesus' pain, with steadfast organized religion.
Y'all, Salvation of the Roman People, know what nosotros need.
We are certain that you will provide, then that, every bit you did at Cana of Galilee,
joy and feasting might return later this moment of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love,
to adjust ourselves to the Father's volition
and to do what Jesus tells united states of america:
He who took our sufferings upon Himself, and bore our sorrows to bring united states,
through the Cantankerous, to the joy of the Resurrection. Amen.
We seek refuge under your protection, O Holy Mother of God.
Do not despise our pleas – we who are put to the test – and deliver the states from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.
- Prayer originated from https://world wide web.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-03/pope-francis-prayer-our-lady-protection-coronavirus.html
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Burn Brighter
Ignatius calls united states of america
to go forth
and prepare
the world on fire.
We embrace this metaphor
considering we believe
our purpose
is inextricably linked
to helping others
clarify and reach theirs.
But how practise we
set our world on fire
in this age of sickness,
uncertainty,
and fear.
How practise we
serve and lead
when we
are disconnected
from each other
and the physical space
that unifies our team.
Who will show us
how to printing on?
Lives perish
while the flames
of leaders
around the states
trip the light fantastic toe erratically
in the blistering
winds of change
their lights
flicker
to near extinction
their sparks
barely visible
struggle
to low-cal the way.
We cannot wait
for them
to pb.
Allow united states of america turn
to our God
and
to the sacred light
of the Holy Spirit
that burns
in
each of us.
Let our spirits
draw closer
to each other
in spite of
the distance
between u.s.a.
and march boldly
into tomorrow.
Maybe it helps
to imagine
this time
as a dousing
of gasoline
tossed onto our
already steady
called-for flames
of
purpose and love.
Let this accelerant
swallow and quicken united states
for the greater skilful.
Shine on
my friends
may the bright flames
of our spirits
burning in unison
create a bonfire
that
sparks hope
ignites faith
illuminates love
and lights the way.
In this uncertain historic period
a time when
our brothers and sisters
yearn for
peace and lite
nosotros are called
and stand set up
to do magis
to do more
than we did
before.
To
burn
brighter.
- Past Ray Bending, Assistant Vice President, Career and Professional Development, Gonzaga University
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A Prayer of Thanksgiving
"If the just prayer you lot ever say in your entire life is Give thanks You that will be enough." - Meister Eckhart
Holy and Living God,
in this Thanksgiving year of 2020,
when nosotros are separated from family unit and friends,
when it'south hard to travel and gather together,
and celebrate Thanksgiving as we've done in the by,
aid us to embrace what is.
Help united states to give thanks inside the doubtfulness.
Help u.s.a. to give thanks within our sorrow, within our fears.
In all things, may we open up our hearts and give Y'all thank you.
Amen.
- bySandra Lucas, St. Andre Health Intendance
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A Prayer for Hope After A Difficult Year
God, Thanks for helping u.s. to make it through this difficult twelvemonth. Thank you lot that y'all've carried us through the uncertainty of deep waters, through the flames of trials, and through the hurting of hard losses. We are constantly aware of how much we need you, your grace, your strength, your power working through fifty-fifty the toughest days.
Help us to keep our focus first on you this flavor. Please forgive u.s. for giving also much fourth dimension and attention to other things, for looking to other people before coming to you first. Aid us to reflect again, on what Christmas is really all about. Cheers that you came to give new life, peace, promise, and joy. Cheers that your ability is made perfect in our weakness.
Assistance us to remember that the gift of Christ, Immanuel, is our greatest treasure, not just at Christmas, only for the whole yr through. Fill u.s. with your joy and the peace of your Spirit. Direct our hearts and minds towards you. Give thanks yous for your reminder that both in seasons of commemoration and in seasons of brokenness, yous're still with u.s.. For you never leave us. Thank you for your daily powerful Presence in our lives, that we can exist assured your heart is towards us, your eyes are over united states of america, and your ears are open to our prayers. Thank you that y'all surroundings us with favor every bit with a shield, and we are safe in your care.
Nosotros choose to printing in close to you today, and keep you lot starting time in our hearts and lives. Without you we would surely fail, only with you, there is great hope. Give thanks yous for your healing power, thanks for bringing usa into this new semester that will undoubtedly be filled with many challenges and opportunities. Nosotros look forward to all that You notwithstanding have in store. In Jesus' proper noun, Amen.
- Crosswalk.com
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Prayer for Ordinary Time
Loving God,
Our church calendar tells the states that we are dorsum once more in Ordinary Time. Advent passed through its iv weeks. We celebrated the birth of Jesus with angels singing and shepherds visiting and magi post-obit a star from the Eastward and begetting gifts. Yes, we accept finished this holy flavor. Still, somehow, this time does not seem ordinary; it is annihilation but that.
This "ordinary time" is marked past masked faces, social distancing, and "germ circles." Headlines shout out frightful numbers of individuals who have contracted Covid-xix, thousands every mean solar day. Each of these numbers affects the lives of spouses, children, friends with care and worry, with work to aid cure and coax loved ones back to health. And the number of deaths chills survivors in worry and guilt – what should I have washed, what should I do at present? Just to travel to a small funeral to say good-cheerio to a loved 1 and offering you our prayer leads to days of quarantine and extra separation. Holy God, loving God, can this actually be "ordinary fourth dimension?"
This "ordinary time" is marked besides past deep economic hardship for many. Mothers and fathers have worked difficult to provide for their families, and now their jobs are gone. "Sorry, the piece of work you have done for united states is not needed any more. Good-bye!" "Sad, we appreciate what y'all exercise, but we cannot afford it any more than. Expert-bye and good luck!" The ordinary ways of working and providing and living have disappeared for many.
And recently in this "ordinary time" we have seen our young man citizens rising up in anger and violence, destroying, injuring, even killing others to push button their narrow agendas. In scenes that would fit easily into state of war zones, they invade our honored spaces and violate standards of citizen behavior. Neighbors take turned into crazed killers. Old friends and colleagues are now out of command. Where is ordinary time?
Possibly, Lord, no time is really ordinary. Where you are, the extraordinary tries to lift us up, to let united states of america run across across the everyday and catch hints of what tin can be, of who we could be if nosotros gave room to our best selves, of what nosotros could do if nosotros banded together in common purpose and resolve.
Role of ordinary time is the dedication of wellness care workers. Part is families sharing resources to get through economic breakdown. Office must be the guardians of public safety who run a risk their lies and health, even requite up that life, to keep order and peace.
Nosotros come to you, loving God, with hope in our hearts and prayer on our lips. We pray that intendance and pity, watching and accompanying be part of our ordinary lives. We pray that our eyes exist open to see the needs of those who struggle to provide for their families and that if we can assist, nosotros do help in ordinary ways. We pray that we try to understand each other in our struggles to make sense of the forces that are across whatsoever 1 of united states of america, that nosotros see across threats imagined or existent, that we hear beyond shouted anger or mocking taunts or cursing threats and note the cries for aid that rest generally silent in ordinary times.
Holy God, you make all times holy, all places, all people in all the seasons of our lives. Ordinary time? It is all extraordinary with you.
- PastEd Schmidt, S.J., written Jan 12, 2021
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