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

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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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