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PRAYERS
O Lord,
make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury,Ê pardon,
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is darkness, light,
And where there is sadness, joy;
O divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
it is in dying that we are born
to eternal life.
Francis of AssisiÊÊÊÊÊ
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A general thanksgiving
Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.
To you be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus from generation to generation evermore.
Almighty God, of all mercies, Father, we, your unworthy servants, give you most humble and hearty thanks for all your goodness and loving kindness to us and to all men.
We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessing of this life.
But, above all, we thank you for your infinite love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace and the lope of glory.
And, we pray, give us a due sense of all your mercies, that our hearts may be truly thankful, and that we may declare your praise not only with our lips but in our lives, by giving ourselves to your service and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be all honour and glory world without end.
The Catholic Prayer Book
Magnificat
My soul glorifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour. He looks on his servant in her nothingness; henceforth all ages will call me blessed.
The Almighty works marvels for me.
Holy his name!
His mercy is from age to age, on those who fear him.
He puts forth his arm in strength and scatters the mighty from their thrones and raises the lowly.
He fills the starving with good things, sends the rich away empty.
He protects Israel his servant, remember his mercy, the mercy promised to our fathers, for Abraham and his sons forever.
Luke 1:45 Ð 55
Psalm 102
My soul, give thanks to the Lord,
All my being, bless his holy name.
My soul gives thanks to the Lord and never forget all his blessings.
It is he who forgives all your guilt, who heals every one of your ills, who redeems your life from the grave, who crowns you with love and compassion, who fills your life with good things, renewing your youth like an eagle's.
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Psalm 129
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,
Lord, hear my voice!
O let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleading.
If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, Lord, who would survive?
But with you is found forgiveness: for this we revere you.
For the Presence of God ÊÊ ÊÊ ÊÊ
Through every moment of this day: Be with me, Lord.
Through every day of all this week: Be with me, Lord.
Through every week of all this year: Be with me, Lord.
Through every year of all this life: Be with me, Lord.
So that when time is past,
By grace I may at last,
Be with you, Lord
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God be in my head, and in my understanding,
God be in my eyes, and in my looking,
God be in my mouth, and in my speaking,
God be in my heart, and in my thinking,
God be at my end, and at my departing.
The Book of Hours
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Praise and Thanksgiving
O Light Invisible, we praise Thee!
Too bright for mortal vision.
O Greater Light, we praise Thee for the less;
The eastern light our spires touch at morning,
The light that slants upon our western doors at evening,
The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight,
Moon light and star light, owl and moth light,
Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade.
O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!
We thank Thee for the lights that we have kindled,
The light of altar and of sanctuary;
Small lights of those who meditate at midnight
And lights directed through the coloured panes of windows
And light reflected from the polished stone,
The gilded carven wood, the coloured fresco.
Our gaze is submarine, our eyes look upward
And see the light that fractures through unquiet water.
We see the light but see not when it comes.
O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee.
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