NIGHT PRAYER: Sunday 6/16

On Sundays, Night Prayer takes its inspiration from an element of the day's mass.  Today's second reading today (2 Corinthians 5:6-10) is the source of the lines in Marty Haugen's well-known hymn, We Walk By Faith...

 

We walk by faith, Lord, not by sight

    and so we pray tonight:

for the gift of faith
   for  all who seek it...

for the strengthening of faith

    in those who have doubts...

 

for deeper faith for all

   in harder times...

 

for faith to help us make it

   day to day - and through the night...

for those whose faith
   is shaken, broken, lost...

for faith to give us strength

    to act on our beliefs...

for the wisdom of faith
   to guide our search for truth...

for prudent faith

    to inform our words and deeds... 

for the grace we need

    to share our faith with others...  

Lord, grant us the faith we need

           to follow the gospel,

           to love our neighbor,

           to live the truth,

           to bear our grief,

           to do what is just, 

           to love our enemies,

           to trust in you,

           to live in hope

           to work for peace,

           to act with justice

           and to follow where the Spirit leads...

 

We walk by faith and not by sight

    so grant us, Lord, the grace to see

        what only faith reveals...

Protect us, Lord while we're awake

    and watch over us when we sleep

that awake, we might keep watch with you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

 

We Walk by Faith by Marty Haugen

 

Although most of us know this hymn through Marty Haugen's melody, the lyrics were written in 1844 by the Brittish composer, Henry  Alford who draws both on today's text from 2 Corinthians and on the story of Thomas meeting the risen Jesus.

 

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We walk by faith and not by sight
No gracious words we hear
Of him who spoke as none e'er spoke
Yet we believe him near

 
We may not touch his hands and side
Or follow where he trod
Yet in his promise we rejoice
And cry "My Lord and God"

 
Help then, oh Lord, our unbelief
And may our faith abound
To call on you when you are near
And seek where you are found

 
That when our life of faith is done
In realms of clearer light
We may behold you as you are
In full and endless sight

 
We walk  by faith and not by sight
No gracious words we hear
Of him who spoke as none e'er spoke
Yet we believe him near

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