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Lenten Reflections 2015: Easter Sunday

We rejoice and are glad and we sit back and relax, reveling in the light. And so it begins. It is the First Day.  
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Prayer for African American History Month

This prayer for African American History Month helps us to celebrate African American culture, mourn the long struggle against injustice and discrimination, and look with hope to the future.  
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Prayer for World Day of Social Justice

In this prayer for February 20, World Day of Social Justice, we are reminded that we need to see the injustices happening in the world and to envision the kind of world where God's justice is...
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Extinguishing the Fire of Human Trafficking

This prayer calls us to see, reflect, and act on the problem of human trafficking around the globe, to reject indifference, and to move beyond our comfort zones to bring this injustice to an...
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Prayer for the New Year

This prayer invites us to "stretch our souls" in the year ahead, seeing new possibilities for solidarity and hope.  
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Prayer to End Human Trafficking

On January 11, Human Trafficking Awareness Day, we join with the global community in remembering all those who fall victim to human trafficking and to the effects of contemporary slavery which are...
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Prayer for Christian Unity

We pray to bring unity to our human community. We ask that we be healed and made whole as the family of God; we pray to draw deeper into communion with God and one another.  
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Vocation to Social Mission

This prayer is based on the Bishops' Conference document on Sacraments and Social Mission. It reflects on the meaning of the call of Baptism and Confirmation, and on the experience and challenge of...
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Christmas Prayer: Help Us See You

“Christmas Prayer: Help Us See You” is a contemporary Catholic Christmas prayer that invites believers to encounter the newborn Christ in the lives of those who are most vulnerable in a world...
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Prayer for Pausing and Being More

This prayer reminds us of St. John Paul's II dictum that we should live to be more, not to have more, an appropriate reminder that we need to step back from our consumer culture, pause, and consider...
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Prayer for the U.S. Women of Faith Murdered in El Salvador

This prayer uses phrases from the Beatitudes to focus on the lives and deaths of four American women of faith who were brutally slain in El Salvador on December 2, 1980. Their courage as disciples...
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Prayer in a Time of Ebola

Let us pray to move beyond fear and panic and help us to be concerned for others in our global community. It is a time for solidarity and compassion for those that suffer with this disease. Help our...
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