Midnight Prayer
God of the seasons, Lover of the ages, Master of
every moment: You who are beyond time yet within
all time. We return
to you what you have given to us — the moments,
the minutes, the hours, the days, the weeks, the
months, and the year of 2004. Time has been gracious
to us again,
and we thank you for freely giving us these human
bodies, these events, and these relationships. We
have lived another year and we have died another
year, and now you are granting us the beginnings
of another.
We now hand over to you the
blessed year, 2004, with all that it gave us and
all that it took from us, knowing that both are
necessary, just like our breath. We trust you
in both the givings and the takings, the inhalings
and the exhalings. May every breath of 2005 be
a breath of the Holy Spirit, joyfully received
and joyfully returned, beginning with this one
right now.
Amen.
Trinity Prayer
God For Us, we call You Father,
God Alongside Us, we call You Jesus,
God Within Us, we call You Holy Spirit.
You are the Eternal Mystery
That enables, enfolds, and enlivens all things,
Even us, and even me.
Every name falls short of your
Goodness and Greatness.
We can only see who You are in what is.
We ask for such perfect seeing.
As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be. Amen.
-
Richard Rohr, OFM
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