Our Lord's Prayer

GOD
Our Father and Mother in Heaven
and Earth!
May your name be honoured
by every person and in everything !
May your kingdom come
through the control of environmental pollutiion,
rather that through more sophisticated factories and faster cars,
through the widow's mite rather that the millionaire's might;
through the sprouting seed rather than the exploding atom.
Your will be done
in our waters so that fish can swim safely in them;
in our atmosphere so that we can breathe it freely,
in our buildings, so that children can play in them,
and the aged find a play to live
Give us today the courage and the imagination to search for a new way of life
Give bread to the hungry
and to those who have bread hunger for the bread of life.
Forgive us when our love is calculating and our concern
mechanical;
when we enjoy the fruits of the earth
but do not care for the sweat that watered it;
nor for the soil in which it grew.
Forgive us
so that we learn to forgive ourselves and those around us
And do not allow us to fail in the test,
by collaborating with the strong against the weak.
But save us from the evil one at work
in an industry that thrives on war,
in gurus who offer instant salvation
and in a church made up only of docile sheep. AMEN

Ignatius Loyola’s

Precious Gift to Me and my fellow Jesuit Brothers...

Praying the Examen

“ Become aware of God/s presence. Take time to

quiet your body and your mind. Pray for a graced

understanding of the day.

“ Thank God for the blessings of the day and ask

yourself:

What were the gifts of the day?

How was I a gift to someone today?

“ Notice the different feelings in the day. Recall and

examine the events of your day

and ask yourself:

Where was God in the events and the

persons of the day?

What moved me to act the way I did?

What habit helped me or hindered me?

Did these feelings move me toward God’s

peace or away from God’s peace?

“ Choose a positive or negative feeling and pray

over it.

That feeling is a sign that something

important is going on.

Simply express spontaneously the prayer that

surfaces as you attend to the

source of the feeling.

“ Look toward the future with hope and ask yourself:

If I am going to be in a situation again that I

did not handle well today, how

Do I want to handle it next time?

“ End with the Lord’s Prayer.

(Courtesy: Wisconsin Newsletter)