Novena Day 3

..beckoning us into  

Heart….compassion…love

“Be Still and Know that I am God”

Opening Ritual for 3 minutes - 

           As you breathe in, say       

             O Mystery

As you breathe out - say         

  Alive in me

At the end of the 3 minutes – pray

May this gift of breathing allow us to touch mystery, alive in the deepest part of ourselves, and may it enhance our communion with the Mystery of all that is.

 

Pray -God of the Universe

in this time of great vulnerability

throughout our world

you beckon us to create space to engage

in deep listening.

May we listen to you in silence.

May we open our hearts to listen

to the voices of one another

and may we listen to all of Creation

with wonder and respect.

In our listening may we be guided to -

speak courageously,

love inclusively,

imagine creatively

and co-create a more peaceful

and just world

that flows from living a spirituality

of being in communion.

IPA Assembly Prayer 2023

Read and reflect – and take 5 minutes stillness

“Mary set out at that time and went as quickly as she could to a town in the hill country of Judah. She went into Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. (Lk.1:38-40)

 

“The spiralling energies of God

Defy containment. The Spirit sweeps aside

Our fragile windbreaks, and with a shout

Summons us beyond where untouched ground

Waits bare for planting.

Like water freed from patient holding rock

Our God’s newness floods across the land

Till every arid place will sway green-gold.

Then let us seize the time and run with it,

Sow broadcast now what other hands will reap.

Become the seed that in death gives life.

O who would hold back now when all’s to give

And every fibre yearns to be drawn deep

Into the holy purposes of God!

For there will be a harvest and a feast

Where all the hungry ones will have their fill

And all the broken leap with joyous life.

See! Already springs the newness from the void.

See! Already now the Centrepoint draws all.

Already dawns the seventh day.

From Presentation, Raphael Consedine in Songs for the Journey.

 

What is staying with you? Where is God asking you to go?  

Where is God beckoning you to?

Today, we remember our Sisters, Brothers, Friends of Nano, Co-Workers, Associates, the people with whom we are in ministry especially in India and Pakistan

Have  a Moment of Gratitude – what are you grateful for today?

End Prayer – IPA Assembly 2017

Creator God,

you are luring us into a future

more expansive than our minds can conceive.

Grace us and make space

in the womb of our hearts

for the possibilities you offer us.

Unsettle us!

Disturb us!

Move us to the edge of new horizons

that we may be open

as you come to us

in our sisters and brothers

and the cry of our earth.

May wisdom’s flame shine for us,

within us and from us –

our feet know the way;

our hearts carry the light.

IPA Assembly 2017

 

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