Father,
Please Bless this food real good we pray
And may it give us strength today
To love each other heartfully
And share your love quite artfully
In Jesus’ Name, Amen!
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Thanks Lord for letting me scatter Your Word
Thanks in advance for the wat’ring You’ll do
Thanks in advance for the fruit from what’s heard
Help us all fall in love only with You. Amen!
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Holy Spirit help me preach.
Give me words Your Word to teach.
Every hardened heart do breach,
From them lies and sin impeach.
Fill my heart with love for each,
Confidently I beseech.
Let me preach not just by speech,
But by arms of love that reach.
Amen!
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Lord Jesus please have mercyon all the sick and poor
Provide for all your children
in famine and in warProtect all who are threatened
especially the unborn
And Christians who are targets
of violence, hate, and scornPour out Your mercy through me
on all who feel despair
May all my thoughts and actions
flow from our love affairHave mercy on all people
both enemy and friend
Please lead all souls to heaven
to praise you without endAmen!
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(Pope Francis declared that the period from the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8), 2015 to the Feast of Christ the King (November 20), 2016 as the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. Pope Francis says, “It is my burning desire that, during this Jubilee, the Christian people may reflect on the corporal and spiritual works of mercy” (The Face of Mercy, 15) and of course he desires us to practice them as well)
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(A poem expressing my 30-day silent Ignatian Retreat experience at Broomtree Retreat Center in South Dakota)
Thank You Father,
For freaky frantic flies,
For multitudinous mucky moths,
For nasty noisy gnats,
And lest I forget,
For aromatically effective Off,
Thank You Father!
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Thank You Father,
For great green grass,
For big burly hay-bales,
For dry dingy dirt,
And lest I forget,
For sundry satisfying showers,
Thank You Father!
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Thank You Father,
For large luscious lunches,
For seriously succulent suppers,
For dreadfully delicious desserts,
And lest I forget,
For earnest eager exercise,
Thank You Father!
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Thank You Father,
For massive mooing mammals,
For sweet sonorous songbirds,
For happy hyperactive hounds,
And lest I forget,
For really reticent retreatants,
Thank You Father!
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Thank You Father,
For silent silvery sunsets,
For colorful coagulating clouds,
For toweringly tall trees,
And lest I forget,
For absence of electronic entertainment,
Thank You Father!
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Thank You Father,
For refreshingly recollective Rosaries,
For spiritually scrumptious Scripture,
For heart-healthy Holy Hours,
And lest I forget,
For nearby kneeling neighbors,
Thank You Father! -
Oh Father You’re my Everything
I thank you for your love
Your Spirit’s pow’r I’ll ever sing
when I join You aboveIf on the morrow You should claim
my life by close of day
Dear Jesus please prepare my soul
for death I humbly pray, Amen.*
This was inspired by the classic prayer, perhaps by Joseph Addison:
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take
Rhymes for the Rejoiceful 