Day 2 of Novena leading up to Presentation Day
Mystery..beckoning us into
courage and daring…possibility…risk
“Be Still and Know that I am God”
Opening Ritual for 3 minutes -
As you breathe is, say
O Mystery
As you breathe out - say
Alive in me
At the end of the 3 minutes – pray
May this gift of breathing allow us to touch mystery, alive in the deepest part of ourselves, and may it enhance our communion with the Mystery of all that is.
Pray -God of the Universe
in this time of great vulnerability
throughout our world
you beckon us to create space to engage
in deep listening.
May we listen to you in silence.
May we open our hearts to listen
to the voices of one another
and may we listen to all of Creation
with wonder and respect.
In our listening may we be guided to -
speak courageously,
love inclusively,
imagine creatively
and co-create a more peaceful
and just world
that flows from living a spirituality
of being in communion.
IPA Assembly Prayer 2023
Read and reflect – and take 5 minutes stillness
“ I am the handmaid of the Lord’, said Mary, ‘let what you have said be done to me” Luke 1:38
“Mary, by your unconditional YES,
Lean down to us who stammer out our weak assent
And tremble lest God take us at our word.
By your swift love, redeem our paltriness,
When with a sparing hand we dole
From what, unmeasured, has been heaped on us.
Without a backward glance
You followed when He led to Calvary.
Come, lest from that all-demanding love
We turn, Lot’s wife, immobile, hard as stone.
Ah Mary, little one
Whom God raised from the depths to the heights,
Help us, we pray, grow small enough again
To marvel at the wonder of our call.
From Presentation, Raphael Consedine in Songs for the Journey.
What is staying with you? What is God asking you to say “yes” to?
Where is God beckoning you to?
Today, we remember our Sisters, Brothers, Friends of Nano, Co-Workers, Associates, the people with whom we are in ministry especially in – the Philippines and Thailand
Have a Moment of Gratitude – what are you grateful for today?
End Prayer – IPA Assembly 2017
Creator God,
you are luring us into a future
more expansive than our minds can conceive.
Grace us and make space
in the womb of our hearts
for the possibilities you offer us.
Unsettle us!
Disturb us!
Move us to the edge of new horizons
that we may be open
as you come to us
in our sisters and brothers
and the cry of our earth.
May wisdom’s flame shine for us,
within us and from us –
our feet know the way;
our hearts carry the light.
IPA Assembly 2017