Journal

8 February 2025

Father of Jesus Christ,
you sent your Son to serve humanity: teach us to serve, too, with simplicity…
To do justice to the poor, the oppressed and those who are despised,
may we be your servants!
That refugees and migrants may be welcomed and respected, may we be your servants!
That all may have bread and peace, shelter and work, may we be your servants!
So that every people may benefit from the fruits of its labour, and build its social life in freedom
may we be your servants!
That prayer may unite us in praise and fraternal intercession, may we be your
your servants!

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7 February 2025

God our Father,
From the beginning you have been the God who blesses the adventure of life, and of this adventure,
you instil in us a deep desire for it. It is not by conquering worlds
that humanity will be able to satisfy its quest for the infinite, but in its own heart.
That’s where Love, the infinite, cries out to us tirelessly.
It is through the call to love, ever more deeply,
that the adventure of life is relaunched unceasingly, opening up our being to its best possibilities,
a never-ending journey towards the other.
You are the One who gave rise to this desire, and who will fulfil it in us,
because you wanted to be with us throughout our lives, in Jesus Christ, our Brother?
He who is your blessing on us, today and for ever.

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1 February 2025

Friend of mankind, Jesus the Saviour, at the beginning of this day, welcomes our faith.
Solid refuge, sure shelter, goodness that excludes all injustice, welcome our faith.
You who from our impossible offerings can make the impossible possible, welcome our faith.
You who give yourself even when we have betrayed you, welcome our faith.
You who have no memory of evil and who open a path for us into the future, welcome our faith.
May today’s new time be an opportunity to learn wisdom, that art of living that harmonises differences, that conveys true values, that protects life and nurtures the little seeds of hope from which new things spring.

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28 January 2025

Once again this evening, we take the path of listening, which is also the path of our quest.
The quest for your Word and the revelation of your Face, God!
We take the path of listening to hear what alone can give meaning to our journey:
The hope that there is a course of righteousness, of goodness, of justice,
that responds to the most constant and true aspirations in each of us.
We take the path of listening to be available to your Spirit,
to allow ourselves to be led to that point of no return where Jesus, your Beloved,
preceded us on the day he gave his life into your hands, leaving us as our only commandment :
Love for this time, for eternity.

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24 January 2025

God,
mystery in each one,
each one unique in You,
You who revealed yourself in Jesus Christ.
In Him, life is multiform, exuberant, unfolding in the multitude of faces.
Bless you for the witnesses of all time
who have paved the way
who have opened our eyes, our ears, our hearts,
who before us welcomed the mystery of God into their lives
and believed in your presence in the world beyond space and time.
With them we tell you of our faith in the subterranean and overflowing source
of the grace of the Son of Man, Jesus Christ.

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20 January 2025

God,
you alone are holy, but your holiness is not a sacred enclosure; it spreads like light,
it is breathed like air. Your holiness is relational.
And you know that we too are nothing without the relationships
that have woven our lives, all those with whom we have shared the road, the bread,
the days and nights, shoulder to shoulder, remain bound to our flesh.
We want to entrust them to you, each and every one, with the intuition that the love
that still lives in us for them is linked to yours.
Take care of them, give them this happiness over which evil no longer has any hold.
Strengthen our confidence that nothing can separate us from your love, Jesus Lord,
First-Born in Resurrection Life.

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18 January 2025

Thank you, Lord, for your Word, which tells us of the joy of service, the joy of giving to make others happy, which comes back to us a hundredfold, like ripe fruit that is good to share.
Keep us throughout the day in the dynamic of giving, in recognition of the first gift that comes to us from You, God of goodness.
We pray this through Jesus, who offers us his Gospel as a path to happiness,
for today and for the rest of our days.

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16 January 2025

With the men and women in the Church who ensure that we live the Gospel, we turn to You, Lord: sharpen in us the vigilance of the prophets!
With the researchers and artists who are inventing the world of the future, we turn to You,
Lord: share with us the wisdom that builds the universe according to your plan!
With those whose job it is to look after the health and safety of their sisters and brothers,
we turn to you, Lord: give us the awareness
that makes all work a service of love!
With the men and women who no longer keep watch, who no longer plan ahead, out of weariness or discouragement,
we turn to You, Lord: grant us the faith that opens the way to the impossible.

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11 January 2025

God of Life, tonight we listen, we contemplate the Life of origins,
light in the depths of our nights.
Your Life visits us, venturing onto human soil, slipping into our clay vessels.
It entrusts itself to the tenderness of the poor; in the vigilance of the humble,
in the vigilance of the humble and the rejected.
This evening we listen and we see, God, your Life exposed in a land of pain and violence,
Your Life offered, given, abandoned.
We listen, we contemplate, from the split trunk, it revives, it re-emerges, ardent sap,
it crosses the world.
Your Life, God, opens a passageway, it is a tiny child who carries it.

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7 January 2025

Jesus, Lord, came into this world to give us a full share in life:
Open our hearts to accept the signs you offer us!
You offer us the sign of the weakness of a newborn baby lying in a manger.
You offer us the sign of being below, washing the feet of your friends.
You offer us the sign of water turned into wine for the feast!
You offer us the sign of the cross, the sign of a love lived to the end.
You offer us the sign of the fraternal community: a reconciled church with open doors.
Open our hearts to your action!

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