Faith Solidarity Day

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The aim of Faith Solidarity Day is that in Faith we show our Solidarity for the world and ourselves by having some time during a day once a week set aside to pray and reflect.

To show solidarity with each other by having a common prayer/reflection once a week on a Tuesday.
To show solidarity with those with whom we work and live in our common struggle in life, celebrating the good things, asking for help with the difficult things.
To celebrate the unity and diversity that is Viatores Christi, at all times remembering the family of the association.
To show in a practical way our concern for the world in which we live.schristi.com

Prayers & Reflections for

Septmeber 2011

Choice of Readings/Reflections etc.

Oonagh Twomey has chosen the readings and reflections for September 2011

Tuesday 13th September 2011

Pray always, pray with ceasing. Pray as you can, no as you can’t

Trying to pray is praying. Our part is to go on trying, doggedly. Then from

time to time the Father will come down, pick us up and carry us to the top.

In Gods own way of doing things, if he ever does carry us to the top,

he then always puts us back again at the bottom of the stairs to start

all over again. It is only right at the end of life that he takes us to

the top and keeps us there.

(Basil Hume 'In my own Word')

Tuesday 20th September 2011

Lord give me the open heart of a child.

Let me come trustingly to you,

Not afraid to ask for your love.

Deliver me from the belief that I am self-sufficient.

Show me my need of you.

Give me the grace to reach out to you.

Lord, give me a child’s simplicity and a sense of wonder

May my enthusiasm for you never dim.

Let me hasten to converse with you in the intimacy of prayer.

Give me discernment to realise there is no detail of my life too

tiny for your concern.

Help me to perceive your glory in the helplessness of the cross.

Son of God, who for my sake,

Took on the dependency of childhood,

Help me to accept the readiness of the Father’s grace.

(St. Therese of Lisieux ‘the prayers of…)

Tuesday 27 September 2011

Some days, although we cannot pray

A prayer utters itself

So a woman will lift her heard from the sieve of her hands and stare

At the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift

(part of a perm by Carl Ann Duffy)

When we cannot pray as we ought, the Spirit himself prays with us, with sighs too deep for words.