Pray With Us

Advent is a season of patient waiting. It is a sacred time.

Join us in this Advent Prayer PDF found here

Advent Prayer Calendar 2019

The Generalate has prepared an Advent prayer calendar asking for prayers for specific intentions each day leading up to Christmas.

A Thanksgiving Prayer for the Journey

“May the Lord of the vineyard give growth so that what his love has called into being may bear blessed fruit in its time.” (Bl. Theresa Gerhardinger, Letter 3339, March 15, 1862)

The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

In Mexico in 1531, Spanish forces had violently taken over the land and oppressed the indigenous people there. It is in this context that the Blessed Mother appeared and chose a poor, indigenous man to bring her message of compassion and peace to his nation and all the world.

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Day!

On October 14, our province celebrates Canadian Thanksgiving Day with our sisters, associates, and staff in Canada. We give God praise and thanks for all we have received and pray in gratitude for the abundant blessings bestowed upon us, our family, friends, and congregation.

A Prayer for Our Earth

"Hear both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor." - Pope Francis

Prayer Service for July 30 - World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

O God, our words cannot express what our minds can barely comprehend and our hearts feel when we hear of children and adults deceived and transported to unknown places for purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor because of human greed.

World Refugee Day 2019

Prayer Service - World Environment Day

For a printable version of this prayer please click here

Reflections by Sisters

Reflections on Integral Ecology by Sister Kay O’Connell We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS

For the Community of Chabad, Poway, CA

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.

Tragedy of Extinction

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.

Earth Day Prayer Service

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

In Celebration of the Feast Day of Blessed Theresa

Earth Examen of Consciousness

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;