NIGHT PRAYER: Sunday 11/24

On Sundays, Night Prayer will focus on an element from the day's celebration of Mass, today, the feast of Christ the King.  Jesus seeks to reign over our hearts with his love and mercy, to rule our words and deeds with the grace of his Spirit.

 

I have one heart, Lord,

but many suitors

seeking to seduce me,

to follow any way but yours

or any word, save your word, Lord,

whispered in my heart,

where you seek to stake your claim on me

on all I am, all I have

and all I hope to be...

You fashioned my heart,

    it belongs to you, Lord, and no one else;

I cannot claim it as my own 

    - it's on loan, in trust from you -

a gift I don't deserve but one I must preserve

'til the day that my heart's one with yours

and yours is one with mine...

 

Break into my heart, Lord,

let your mercy reign and rule

and make of me, at last, 

the person you created me to be...

 

Have dominion over my life:

be sovereign of my words and deeds,

my thoughts and dreams,

my hopes and schemes,

the whole of who I am...

 

Enthrone yourself within my soul,

make of me a loyal subject:

    grateful for your love,

    faithful to your word

    and humbled by your presence in my heart...

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.

 

 

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