O God, create in me a new heart
and put your faithful spirit within me.
Do not turn away from me.
Do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalm 51, v.10
Sidney Condray
O Gracious One
Used with permission of author
May all who hang upon a cross of suffering,
or stand beneath one today,
find comfort and consolation in your abiding presence.
Ease their suffering. Free them from discouragement.
Gentle their anger. Cease their restlessness.
Coax them away from despair.
Joyce Rupp
Your Sorrow Is My Sorrow
Used with permission of author
If there is any path at all on which I can approach You, it must lead me
Through the very middle of my ordinary daily life.
If You have given me no single place to which I can flee and be sure of finding You,
Then I must be able to find You in every place in each and everything I do.
Fr. Karl Rahner, SJ
“Trust in God will remain unshakably firm only if it is willing to accept from the Father’s hand anything and everything. God is the only One who knows what is good for us. If this can be done, then one can freely live on for the present and for the future.”
(St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), 1891-1942)
