Weekly Peace Prayer

The Holy Spirit will teach you everything
and remind you of all I told you.
 John 14:26

Constitutions:
With confidence in the working of the Spirit
we live our obedience in peace and truth.
In this way we witness to the values with nurture peace-
respect, mutuality, and collaboration.  #61

Reading:       
The Spirit helps us in our weakness for we do not know how to pray
as we ought but the Spirit makes intercessions for us
with groanings that cannot be expressed in speech.
God who searches the heart knows what the Spirit means,
for the Spirit intercedes for the saints as God wills. 
Romans 8:25-27

A Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Come Spirit of God,
grant us  the power to be gentle,
the strength to be forgiving, the patience to be understanding,
the endurance to accept the consequences of holding on to what is right.

Come Spirit of God,
help us to put our trust
in the power of good to overcome evil,
the power of love to overcome hatred.

Come Holy Spirit,
enkindle in us the fire of your love.
Send forth your Spirit and we shall be created,
and you shall renew the face of the earth. amen
Pax Christi USA, As printed in Good News
from the Seattle Archdiocese Mission Office
(adapted)

 
Quiet Reflection

Poem

Mystery
To live with the Spirit of God is to be a listener.
It is to keep the vigil of mystery,
earthless and still.
One leans to catch the stirring of the Spirit,
strange as the wind’s will.

The soul that walks where the wind of the Spirit blows
turns like a wondering weather-vane toward love.
It may lament like Job or Jeremiah,
echo the wounded heart, the mateless dove.
It may rejoice in spaciousness of meadow
that emulates the freedom of the sky.
Always it walks in waylessness, unknowing;
it has cast down forever from its hand
the compass of the whither and the why.

To live with the Spirit of God is to be a lover.
It is becoming love, and like to Him
toward Whom we strain with metaphors of creatures:
fire-sweep and water-rush and the wind’s whim.
The soul is all activity, all silence;
and though it surges Godward to its goal,
it holds, as moving earth holds sleeping noonday,
the peace that is the listening of the soul.
Jessica Powers

Quiet Reflection

A Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Come Spirit of God, enlighten us
with the vision to see and the faith to believe in
a world free from violence,
a new world where fear will no longer lead us
to commit injustices
nor selfishness cause us to bring suffering to others.

Come Spirit of wisdom and love,
Source of all good,
teach us your truth
and guide our actions
in your way of peace.  Amen

Come Holy Spirit,
enkindle in us the fire of your love.
Send forth your Spirit and we shall be created,
and you shall renew the face of the earth. amen
Pax Christi USA, As printed in Good News
from the Seattle Archdiocese Mission Office
(adapted)