Wednesday, October 5, 2011

An Evening of Prayer

Tonight we didn't have the usual class, instead we met at Most Holy Trinity Church for an evening of prayer. This was an opportunity for us to be attentive to another area of our formation - our spiritual formation. The invitation said, "We have gathered for class and now we pause to gather as a community of faith, to give thanks and praise to God".

We sang a gathering song called "O Love of God" which is one of the songs that I really like. It begins, "Oh Love of God, gather us, amor de Dios, haznos uno, that we may share the gifs we are given; para construir la comunidad, para constuir la communidad". The first reading was from Ephesians 3:14-21 which begins, "For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strenghtened with power through his spirit". It was actually read three times, slowly, Lecto Divina style, by different readers who put emphasis on different words and phrases.

The Psalm was also the theme for the ILM Evening of Prayer, "Let my prayer be incense before you". "Even before a word is on my tongue, Lord, you know it all. Behind and before you encircle me and rest your hand upon me". After this there was a prayer for the faithful, then an Our Father, a conluding prayer, a blessing and dismissal.

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