8/27/23

NIGHT PRAYER: Sunday 8/27



On Sundays, Night Prayer will focus on an element from the day's celebration of Mass. Tonight's prayer follows up on the KEYS mentioned in today's gospel - and introduced in last night's prayer...

Last night, Lord,
    I prayed for you to use your keys 
        to unlock and open my heart...

Tonight I pray 
    for the grace to open my neighbor's heart
        with the keys I hold in my hand...
 
Help me turn the key of my mercy
    to forgive anyone who has wronged me...
 
Help me share the keys to my happiness
    to unlock the joy in my neighbor's heart...

Help me unlock my neighbor's grief
    with my keys of compassion and comfort...

Let me use the keys of kindness and care
    to open doors to those lost and alone...

Show me the keys I need to turn
    to free my neighbor from anxious fear...

And above all, Lord, let me use the key that 
    unlocks my heart to welcome the stranger,
    opens the door of my home to all
    and unchains the shackles that hobble my thinking
        with prejudice, bias and doubt...

So many locks,
    keeping folks out and shutting them in, 
    restraining their freedom to come and go 
        to enter your heart through my heart, Lord
    with the keys of mercy and grace...

Help me safeguard such precious, golden keys
    and teach me to use them freely:
as you, Lord, unlock the door of my soul,
    help me open up my heart to all...
 
Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake
    and watch over me while I sleep
that awake, I might keep watch with you
    and asleep, rest in your peace...
 
Amen.
 
God Will Open A Door by Pepper Choplin

If a video doesn't appear below, click here!
 
 
God will open, open a door
God will open, open a door
God will open, open a door  
 
The Spirit draws us to it,
    with faith we walk through it
as we follow the Lord 
    through the open door
 
God will open, open a door...
The Spirit draws us to it,
    with faith we walk through it
as we follow the Lord 
    through the open door
 
So ask, it shall be given to you,
    seek and you shall find.
        knock, it shall be opened to unto you 
Ask, it shall be given to you,
    seek and you shall find.
        knock, it shall be opened to unto you
 
God is calling us, God is calling us all
    let us leave behind our waiting
        we'll go forward celebrating
there are blessings in store 
    through the open door
 
God will open,  open a door...
Let us follow the Lord
    through the open door... MMMMMMMM



  

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