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| Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability- and that it may take a very long time. And so I think it is with you. Your ideas mature gradually ? let them grow. Let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don?t try to force them on as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstance acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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Lord, to see everything now with new eyes, to discern and test the spirits that help me read the signs of the times, to relish the things that are yours, and to communicate them to others. Give me the clarity of understanding that you gave Ignatius. |
| Bless Our Earth, O Lord O God, you love our earth; from sunrise to sunset you fill land and sea with riches; the hills rejoice at your touch; the valleys shout for joy, yes, they sing. |
| Open our
eyes to your resplendent world, that we may care for the earth as our companion in creation. May the pure song of air, water, and trees broaden our minds, lift up our hearts, and guide us to you. |
| Our resplendent world in its form and functioning is what enables us to have such a splendid sense of God. Any degradation of the earth in its primary functioning inevitably affects our sense of the divine, just as we lose the full range of our thinking when we lose our experience of the great birds in flight, our experience of the animal or vegetative world, our experience of the rivers and the sea, or our experience of atmospheric phenomena. -Thomas Berry, CP |
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| PATIENT TRUST |
| Personal Prayer of Pedro Arrupe |
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| Lord, teach
me to be generous. Teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to ask for reward, save that of knowing that I do your will. - St. Ignatius of Loyola |
| Prayer for Generosity |
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Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my entire will, all that I have and possess. You have given all to me to you, Lord, I return it. All is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me. - St. Ignatius of Loyola |
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