Prayer

• 12 January 2026

  As Jesus descended into the waters of the Jordan, we await your Breath, God our Father.
  The Breath that recreates, that makes new things out of our weariness, our brokenness,
  the Breath that regenerates in us the desire to be in your image: living beings,
  capable of creating fraternal relationships in turn,
  the Breath that constantly heralds the new world
  and gives us the energy to build it,
  through Jesus, the Firstborn, our brother…

• 9 January 2026

  We are all born in prayer.
  We are all born with a cry on our lips,
  a cry that begs for air, for help, for a little tenderness.
  We are born with a cry that expresses our thirst, our hunger, our need for others
  in order to live, to simply be.
  What if we let this native cry spring forth from deep within us…
  this very simple cry of prayer to the Other, to others,
  in order to be!

• 6 January 2026

  Jesus,
  you are the One awaited since the dawn of time,
  you are the One awaited by Israel’s long patience,
  but also by all our wisdom,
  by all the lights of art,
  by our most beautiful intuitions.
  You are the One awaited,
  the human heart is hollowed out
  by an irrepressible longing,
  and we believe that it is for a beyond, for infinity…
  But you, you are the One awaited already – since the beginning of time…
  You are born in humanity, in the emergence of love,
  in the flash of gratuitousness,
  in astonishing goodness and enduring truth.
  You have always been born in us,
  you ask only for a little space
  so that we may let you grow
  and that from Christmas to Easter, Life may prevail,
  the Life of God in our humanity, against all odds,
  through time – for Eternity.

• 2 January 2026

  Lord our God, you have visited your people. Hope is your sign among us.
  With open doors, it rushes in, awakens, overwhelms, enlightens…
  May its momentum carry us away and make us creators of life, following in the footsteps of so many others
  who, listening to your Word, have ventured their lives!

• 30 December 2025

  God our Father, in the long march of peoples crossing the land of shadows, we come
  to you, in convergence, to give you thanks.
  Amazed to have seen a light rise for humanity,
  amazed at the whisper of hope in our hearts, we give you thanks.
  For the dawn that tears through the cloak of night, for the wheat
  that sprouts and cracks the earth, we give you thanks.
  For the silence that awakens praise in our hearts,
  for the people you visit with your tenderness, we give you thanks.