Let Franciscan Father Greg Friedman inspire you to pray in creative, deep, and personal ways.
Sometimes, a video can help us be transformed!
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This one is especially for catechists.
Author Terry Hershey discusses how busy catechists can practice sanctuary in their daily lives. |
Start your day on a positive note with this video! |
A brief prayer can lift our minds and hearts:
PEACE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. 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, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. FRAGRANCE OF CHRIST PRAYER by BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Help me to spread your fragrance everywhere I go - let me preach you without preaching, not by words but by my example - by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to you. |
PRAYER OF ST. DOMINIC May God the Father who made us bless us. May God the Son send his healing among us. May God the Holy Spirit move within us and give us eyes to see with, ears to hear with, and hands that your work might be done. May we walk and preach the word of God to all. May the angel of peace watch over us and lead us at last by God's grace to the Kingdom. HOLY SPIRIT PRAYER of ST. AUGUSTINE Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love only what is holy. Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always may be holy. |
PRAYER OF ST. BENEDICT Gracious and holy Father, grant us the intellect to understand you, reason to discern you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, a spirit to know you, a heart to meditate upon you. May our ears hear you, may our eyes behold you, and may our tongues proclaim you. Give us grace that our way of life may be pleasing to you, that we may have the patience to wait for you and the perseverance to look for you. Grant us a perfect end--your holy presence, a blessed resurrection and life everlasting. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. PRAYER FOR GENEROSITY of ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA Eternal Word, only begotten Son of God, Teach me true generosity. Teach me to serve you as you deserve. To give without counting the cost, To fight heedless of wounds, To labor without seeking rest, To sacrifice myself without thought of any reward Save the knowledge that I have done your will. |
Online Resources for Spiritual Help
CLICK HERE for a brief online article by Sr. Janet Schaeffler, OP, in Catechist magazine on ways a catechist might pray.
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CLICK HERE for prayers from the National Catholic Partnership on Disability to increase the sense of belonging for every one of God's children.
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CLICK HERE to go on an online Ignatian Prayer Adventure from IgnatianSpirituality.com.
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CLICK HERE for Orientations for Spiritual Growth, for "points of departure ... suggestions ... hints ... landmarks ... maps ... etc., to be used or not used in as much as they are helpful for the landscape of the spirit."
From Jesuit fathers in Canada. |
CLICK HERE for Minute Meditations, from Franciscan Media, a ministry of the Franciscan Friars.
Find "The Other Person is Not Your Problem," "God Makes Grace Out of Grit," "What Can We Do with Our Fear," and much more. |
CLICK HERE for a variety of simple yet powerful Ignatian Prayers, plus short bits of spiritual advice from Jesuits throughout history. From Xavier University.
Consider this advice: THE SLOW WORK OF GOD Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are, quite naturally, impatient in everything to reach the end Without delay. We should like to skip The intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on The way to something unknown, Something new, And yet it is the law of all progress That it is made by passing through Some stages of instability --- And that it may take a very long time. And so I think it is with you. Your ideas mature gradually --- Let them grow, Let them shape themselves, Without undue haste. Don't try to force them on, As though you could be today What time will make you tomorrow. Only God could say what this new spirit Gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing That his hand is leading you, And accept the anxiety of Feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.. |
Borrow these Diocesan Library resources
to refresh and renew your spirit:
Books for spiritual strengthening:
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or call 330 744-8451 ext 297, or email library@youngstowndiocese.org.
or call 330 744-8451 ext 297, or email library@youngstowndiocese.org.
Recording formats change,
but our spiritual need for music never does.
BORROW these CDs from the Diocesan Library:
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or call 330 744-8451 ext 297, or email library@youngstowndiocese.org.
or call 330 744-8451 ext 297, or email library@youngstowndiocese.org.