Author: University of the Incarnate Word

Here's our Prayer Blessing... May the rhythm of your breath Your step Your prayer Bring you to the now. May the rhythm of the wave The tide The stream Bring you to the now. May these rhythms Connect and unify you With the eternity Of being in the now. A Celtic Blessing for Being in … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – May 13, 2021

Help us walk in God’s light You who forms our future, Help us to look beyond horizons. Help us envision peace that we may carry it and pour out your peace as vessels in your hand. You who sees our souls, help us to look beneath the surface. Help us to recognize the needs we … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – May 12, 2021

Sixth Sunday of EasterAdapted from a reflection by Fr. Wayne Cavalier, O.P. Province of St. Martin de Porres San Antonio, TX I recently studied Spanish in Costa Rica after first learning it in Mexico. As with all languages, there are regional variations. One variation between Mexico and Costa Rica is the use of the 2nd … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – May 10, 2021

For Peace Much too late I learned to love youbeauty how old you are how new you aremuch too late I learned to love you.You were within me, I was outsideand I sought you as a blind man seeingoutside myself and, poured out like water,I ran away from you and I was lostamid so much … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – May 6, 2021

The FawnBy Mary Oliver Sunday morning and mellow as precious metalThe church bells rang, but I wentTo the woods instead. A fawn, too newFor fear, rose from the grassAnd stood with its spots blazing,And knowing no way but words,No trick but music,I sang to him. He listened.His small hooves struck the grass.Oh what is holiness? … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – May 5, 2021

Can I Really Tell God How I Feel? I was talking with a friend the other day, and she said, “I am so sad and angry and disappointed that I just can’t pray! I feel too much negativity right now. I’ve got to get myself together before I can pray again.” The situation my friend … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – May 4, 2021

Faith does not spring out of nothing. It comes with the discovery of the holy dimension of our existence. Suddenly we become aware that our lips touch the veil that hangs before the Holy of Holies. Our faith is lit up for a time with the light from behind the veil. Faith opens our hearts … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – May 3, 2021

John 13:16-20 Prayer to the Holy Spirit The four verses of today’s Gospel lie between Jesus’ washing the feet of all twelve disciples and Judas washing his hands of the whole business and his heading out to betray Jesus ... Jesus has invited them all to reflect or incarnate Him as those who will be … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 29, 2021

A Meditation Help us put our baptism into action. Sometimes, we hardly believe that tomb is empty.Sometimes, our grief holds a vigil outside many tombs.This week we let the reality of the resurrection of Jesus penetrate our hearts.We died with Jesus in baptism, and we will rise with him in glory.We can pause throughout our … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 28, 2021

The Contemplative Call of Nature The monk here and now is supposed to be living the life of the new creation in which the right relation to all the rest of God’s creatures is fully restored. Hence, Desert Father stories about tame lions and all that jazz. —Thomas Merton, The Hidden Ground of Love Poet … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 27, 2021