The Other Side of the Street

Just when we imagine that we have you figured out you show up working the other side of the street in your frightening freedom. You meet us behind and before as promise and as threat, and we are overmatched whenever we sit to deal with you. So we bid you to pay less vigorous...
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Hymn to the Holy Spirit

Come, true light. Come, eternal life. Come, hidden mystery. Come, treasure without name. Come, unutterable thing. Come, unknowable person. Come, incessant joy! Come, light unfading. Come, hope which will save all. Come, resurrection of the dead. Come, O powerful one, who fills,...
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A Prayer of Wonder

I glory in your handiwork, O God: towering mountains and deep valleys, dense forests and expansive deserts, fathomless depths of blue below and immeasurable heights of blue above. When I peer into the universe of the telescope and the universe of the microscope I stand in awe at:...
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Prayer of St. Brendan

Help me to journey beyond the familiar and into the unknown. Give me the faith to leave old ways and break fresh ground with You. Christ of the mysteries, I trust You to be stronger than each storm within me. I will trust in the darkness and know that my times, even now, are in...
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Prayer to the God of Love

Heavenly Father, great and boundless is the expanse of your kingdom. You support the constellations and the pillars of a widening universe; you bear up the weight of a weary world; and you direct the tiniest footstep on the pathways of earth. The grains of sand along the ocean’s...
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