Welcome to our page of Prayer & Reflection.  On this page, we wish to offer you, in written word an opportunity to read and reflect on the prayers and reflections that are posted here.  This page is intended to ignite a spark of everlasting connection with God and to each other as children of God.   Prayers and reflections will continually be added and others will change periodically.

   Take down your lantern from its niche and go out!  You may not rest in firelight  certainties. 
   Secure from drifting fog of doubt and fear.  You may not build yourself confining walls and say:”Thus far, and thus, and thus far shall I walk.  And these things shall I do, and nothing more.”  Go out!  For need calls loudly in the winding lanes and you must seek Christ there.  Your pilgrim heart shall urge you still one pace beyond and love shall be your lantern flame.

          ~One Pace Beyond by M. Raphel Consedine PBVM

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The wise tell us that God abides in silence-
that God speaks in the silent serenity of the heart.
Let us not speak of silence; rather, let silence speak to us of God.
Together, let us enter, through the door of serenity, the silence of our heart

                                               -LCWR July 2002 Reflection

These are our words as God’s people:

Compassion
Love
Forgiveness
Peace

Together we live and celebrate these words both within ourselves, and without, among all those we meet.
                                             -Janice Morgan, SSJ
                                         -LCWR August 2002 Reflection

"We are the mediocre, we are the half givers,
we are the half lovers, we are the savorless salt.
Break the hard crust of complacency.
Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire."
             provided by Caryll Houselander, England (1901-1954)
                                                 -LCWR  September 2002 Reflection

"Let us lay aside the sword of busyness and allow God to fill the ensuing emptiness with God's self and thus reshape us into instruments of reconciliation."
                 provided by Board member Susan Borgel, CPPS
                                   -LCWR  November 2002 Reflection

Moments of Reflection
provided by the LCWR

    A Way to Pray..............

  • Set a regular quiet time and place for prayer
  • Become consciously aware of being in God’s presence
  • Speak with, listen to or wait quietly upon God
  • Conclude by speaking as openly and personally with God
    or Jesus or the Spirit as you would with a close friend

Pray
“Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive”

I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that He may grant you in accord with the riches of His glory to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner self, and that Christ may dwell in your heart through faith...
That you, rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to accomplish far more than all we ask or imagine, by the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.  ~Ephesians 3
 

God of the weak and the strong, poor and the rich, those who believe in you and those who don’t
You hold us all in your love... help us become better and more faithful through our crises, give us   peace and pleasure to do our tasks, re-tooling ourselves with all the gifts around us.
Your love calls us on to service, to celebration of your gifts and to make miracles in your kingdom by using our gift of faith.
Help us put down our blanket, open our picnic basket, unpack the goods, blow some bubbles,
   and gobble up life.
We ask you to bless our life celebrations, the many tools you give us to live our lives
In your name,
Amen
                                                                         - Vickie Schmidt - 2002 Annual Prayer Center Brunch

Prayers/Reflections

    Prayer For Non-Violence

    In this time of sadness and grief, we bring you this prayer to both comfort you and to assure you that our God   cares for you.  Do  not despair, but hope in our God. Please join us in our prayer for peace, compassion and comfort for the families and all who have been touched by the national tragedy of September 11, 2001.

    Provident God, aware of our own brokenness, we ask  the gift of courage to identify how and where we are in need of conversion in  order to live in solidarity with all the earth's people.
       Deliver us from the violence of anger and resentment, grant us the willingness and the honesty to examine our own actions and attitudes so we may recognize the need for forgiveness and acceptance.
       Deliver us from the violence of superiority and disdain, grant us the desire and the humility to listen with special care to those whose experiences and attitudes are different  from our own.
       Deliver us from the violence of greed and privilege, grant us the desire and the will to live simply so others may have their just share of the earth's resources.
       D eliver us from the silence that gives consent to abuse, war, and evil, grant us the desire and the courage to risk speaking and acting for the common good.
       Deliver us from the violence of irreverence, exploitation, and control, grant us the desire and the strength to  act responsibly within the cycle of creation.
       God of love, mercy, and justice, acknowledging our  complicity in those attitudes, actions, and words that perpetuate violence, we beg the grace of nonviolent hearts.   ~Amen