Parent's Prayer

O Heavenly Father, make a better parent.
Teach me to understand my children, to listen
patiently to what they have to say , and to
answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from
interrupting them or contradicting them.
Make me as courteous to them as I would
have them to me. Forbid that I should ever
laugh at their mistakes or resort to shame or
ridicule when they displease me.
May I never punish them for my own selfish
satisfaction or to show my power. Let me not
tempt my child to lie or steal. And guide me hour
by hour that I may demonstrate by all I say and do that
honesty produces happiness. Reduce, I pray, the meanes in me.
And when I am out of sorts, Help me , O Lord,to hold
my tongue. May I ever be mindful that my children are children
and I should expect of them the judgement of adults. Let me not
rob them of the opportunity to wait on themselves and to make decisions.
Bless me with the bigness to grant them all their reasonable requests and
the courage to deny them privileges I know will do them harm. Make me
fair and just and kind. And fit me, O Lord, to be loved and respected and imitated
by the children.

Xavier School

A Prayer of LOVE

I found this prayer online and we would like to share it with you.
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"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres." 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Dear Lord:

Because love is patient: Help me to be slow to judge, but quick to listen, hesitant to criticize, but eager to encourage, remembering your endless patience with me.

Because love is kind: Help my words to be gentle and my actions to be thoughtful. Remind me to smile and to say "Please" and "Thank You" because those little things still mean so much.

Because love does not envy or boast, and it is not proud: Help me have a heart that is humble and sees the good in others. May I celebrate and appreciate all that I have and all that I am, as well as doing the same for those around me.

Because love is not rude or self-seeking: Help me to speak words that are easy on the ear and on the heart. When I'm tempted to get wrapped up in my own little world, remind me there's a great big world out there full of needs and hurts.

Because love is not easily angered and keeps no record of wrongs: Help me to forgive others as you have forgiven me. When I want to hold onto a grudge, gently help me release it so I can reach out with a hand of love instead.

Because love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth: Help me stand up for what is right and good. May I defend the defenseless, and help the helpless. Show me how I can make a difference.

Because love always protects and always trusts: Help me to be a refuge for those around me.When the world outside is harsh and cold, may my heart be a place of acceptance and warmth.

Finally, because love always perseveres: Help my heart continually beat with love for You and others. AMEN.

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Prayer in a time of financial crisis

The political and economic implications of the global financial crisis are widely commented on. How might the financial crisis influence our prayer?

Lord, all this financial turmoil seems to touch my prayer in two ways. Sometimes I feel moral indignation at the greed of the fat cats whose desire for ever-greater profits has exploited the weak. I hope that they may move from blindness to a sense of the real world of people, and realise the futility of their greed that wants more and more money. “What does it profit to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of your soul?” (Mark 8:36) But I know that such indignation is not always from the good spirit; it may be mixed with Schadenfreude in which there is little charity. I need to watch it. At other times I feel fear and insecurity for myself and my loved ones. This pushes me to look at myself.

Does insecurity make me more self-seeking and less caring about the needs of others, lessening my humanity, clouding my sense that people matter more than money? Or does this worldwide turmoil strengthen my compassion? Poverty is not good in itself, but where it leads to a deeper dependence on God and coexists with generosity it can be a rare grace - remember Jesus marvelling at the widow’s mite (Mark 12:41-43).

‘Trop est avare à qui Dieu ne suffit.’
You’re too greedy if God is not enough for you.

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Why Do WE need to pray?

Prayer is born of a longing, a need. We are empty and long to be filled. We seek solace in things and relationships until they all fail us. Eventually, we know only God can fill us.

We have no choice but to pray because our other choices, the choices born of our well-intentioned but puny intellectual efforts to know God, are hopelessly inadequate. Prayer, then, in its simplest form is any conscious attempt to experience the presence of God.

But this is only the beginning. As we seek through prayer to know God, our awareness of God as us increases and expands. And as prayer fills us more and more, we become more and more aware of the experience of being part of God. This means that as we pray, we are drawn inexorably into the creative flow of the universe, so that we begin perceiving things not with human eyes or human ears or human minds but from the absolute core of us—the divinity within us. As we approach this point in our prayer life, the emphasis of our prayers begins to make a subtle shift.

Rather than praying to God to help us or for God to be with us, we begin praying from that sacred presence which is our very essence. So we can say, then, that when we pray, we are lifting our personal identity to a higher awareness—the awareness that it is God that is praying! When we pray, it is the mind of God seeking to fulfill itself as us.

So the longing that we feel to “come home” to Spirit is Spirit Itself calling us to awaken, to open our hearts and see what is in there, and once having seen, to let It come forth into our everyday world.

( article taken from : unity.org)

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" Beware of the BARENESS of a busy Life"

A snare from the enemy, misleading you , taking your time away from your family, lies that you need more money to survive...etc...( in some form of material responsibilities) most of importantly it robs away quality time for yourself and your GOD...all because of a race, This prevent you to enrich your soul.
After all, DO we really need to compete with the world? "

if we can think of 5 reasons why? then maybe it is time for us to ask God for guidance and help we're merely living a lie even if we have good intentions, it is a fact that when we try to compete with the world , spending sleepless nights and bareness weariness of the day, it is a sign that we are slowly drifting away from him. To free us from useless enticement so we can live simply , trusting and generous with our time to the people that matters most.

We are all guilty of these and it's never too late to start and be aware of the loop and the scary snare we are getting into...money,depression,voidness, weariness and incompleteness.

The Rosary helps us in reminding how the passion of christ was when we become tired and helpless.

The Rosary doesn't necessarily grant any material wishes but we grow in virtue and that was the promise, WHICH TO ME IS THE GREATEST GIFT to us christians, I for one is a living witness on how my heart became meek and grateful. I pray for everyday that I will always remember this. Never to get carried away because we should always be vigilant of our faith. IT has to be nourished everyday, whenever it is possible. Whenever you have idle time, try to find time thinking about God so we can grow deeper in our faith, sometimes it even takes a life time. ;)