Pray With Us

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The JPIC Department offers this prayer for your consideration as we grieve the loss of life, the insecurity and fear of the children who witnessed the horror of violence, and the many souls whose lives have been forever changed by this act of terrorism.

Before humans appeared on the Earth, the basic rate of extinction of species was one to five a year. The basic rate now stands at upwards of one thousand a year.

Pope Francis remind us that our faith impels us to care for the earth – to live in right relationship with all that exists.

On this 140th anniversary of the death of Blessed Theresa, we commit ourselves to "joyfully direct our entire lives toward that oneness for which Jesus Christ was sent" (Trust and Dare)

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• As the day draws to a close, I pause to recall that I am in the presence: 
  ...of our Creator God who looked with pleasure on everything that was made;
  ...of Jesus who delighted in the flowers of the field and the birds of the air;
  ...of the Spirit of wind and flame, the energy that fills the cosmos.
   
• I ask for the grace to see creation as God sees it – with delight in its wonders and with a heart broken by the cries of Earth and people in poverty.