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Let us please pray for the people who have asked us to remember them and their families, friends in our prayers. We pray for all who are in need at this time.
Prayer for those of us who are due to sit State Exams
that the right decisions will be made for us at this time.
Please pray for the safety of all
those frontline staff working to help us during this hard time
Pray please for all those who are
sick and who will die alone.
Let us remember our priests who are
working so hard and who are also fearful and concerned for their families and
parishioners.
Pray for my friend who is very
depressed.
Please, pray for those who are afraid
that they will get courage from God.
I ask our guardian angels to protect us all and especially my family
PRAYER OF POPE FRANCIS DURING THE PANDEMIC
O Mary, you always shine on our path as a sign
of salvation and of hope. We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick, who
at the cross took part in Jesus’ pain, keeping your faith firm.
You, Salvation of Your People, know what we
need, and we are sure you will provide so that, as in Cana of Galilee, we may
return to joy and to feasting after this time of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform to
the will of the Father and to do as we are told by Jesus, who has taken upon
himself our sufferings and carried our sorrows to lead us, through the cross,
to the joy of the resurrection. Amen.
Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy
Mother of God. Do not disdain the entreaties of we who are in trial, but
deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.
Congratulations to the Faithful Companions of Jesus
All of us in Vocations Ireland wish the FCJ Sisters God’s blessings and warmest congratulations on the celebration of your bicentenary. May the Lord guide you through the next 200 years.
Greetings from Glencairn
Dear Family, Friends and Neighbours:
Here in Glencairn we are united in prayer with all of you, asking the Lord to shield you and protect you under His wings. We are confident that the Lord in his infinite mercy will not delay in answering us and will drive away this dreadful virus. May our efforts to control the spread be blessed and successful.
All of us now are in some kind of isolation, a kind of imposed enclosure. Maybe those of us who live monastic life and enclosure might be able to offer a few tips to help you survive these challenging weeks. Just a few ideas:
Ø Keep a strong daily structure: getting up and going to bed at the same time each day; taking your meals around the same time each day
Ø In between those fixed times do other things more or less at the same time each day: cleaning and cooking; a bit of outdoor work, even cleaning windows can be outdoor; time for communication, emails, phone calls, texts, contact different people each day;
Ø Do something purposeful each day, de-cluttering some wardrobe or drawer, putting old photos in albums, cleaning out the kitchen cupboards, keep a journal; something that will give you a sense of achievement at the end of the day
Ø If you are a person of faith pencil in some times for prayer throughout the day, maybe a Hail Mary or some of the lovely prayers we know by heart from the Mass, e.g. the Gloria, the Creed, Our Father, Lamb of God. Read a psalm or a story from the Gospels. Pray the Rosary. Have a fixed time for this. Here in the monastery we have to drop everything when the bell goes for prayer!
Ø Do a bit of reading – all those books that you never have had time to read.
Ø Join us in keeping up a constant and trusting prayer for all our medical and health care workers and for all humanity
One of the psalms which we pray at night prayer each day is Psalm 90:
Those who dwell in the shelter of the Most High
and abide in the shade of the Almighty
say to the Lord: ‘My refuge,
my stronghold, my God in whom I trust!’
It is he who will free you from the snare
of the fowler who seeks to destroy you;
he will conceal you with his pinions
and under his wings you will find refuge.
You will not fear the terror of the night
nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the plague that prowls in the darkness
nor the scourge that lays waste at noon.
A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand fall at your right,
you, it will never approach;
his faithfulness is buckler and shield.
– Abbess Marie Fahy, Glencairn