Author: University of the Incarnate Word

Advent PrayerIn our secret yearningswe wait for your coming,and in our grinding despairwe doubt that you will.And in this privileged placewe are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do weand by those who despair more deeply than do we.Look upon your church and its pastorsin this season of hopewhich runs so quickly to fatigueand … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – December 1, 2021

An Advent Prayer by Karl Rahner  I’ve begun to understand something I have known for a long time: You are still in the process of your coming. Your appearance in the form of a slave was only the beginning of your coming, a beginning in which you chose to redeem men by embracing the very … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – November 29, 2021

Giving Thanks For the expanding grandeur of creation, worlds known and unknown, galaxies beyond galaxies, filling us with awe and challenging our imaginations:We give thanks this day.For this fragile planet earth, its times and tides, its sunsets and seasons:We give thanks this day.For the joy of human life, its wonders and surprises, its hopes and … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – November 23, 2021

Aware When I found the doorI found the vine leaves speaking among themselves in abundant whispers. My presence made them hush their green breath, embarrassed, the way humans stand up, buttoning their jackets, acting as if they were leaving anyway, as if the conversation had ended just before you arrived. I liked the glimpse I … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – November 18, 2021

Gift A day so happy.Fog lifted early I worked in the garden.Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.I knew no man worth my envying him.Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.To think that once I was the same man didn't embarrass me.In my body I felt no … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – November 17, 2021

Quote for your day...“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart.The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”Carlos Santana, musician (b. 20 Jul 1947) Here's our Prayer Blessing...This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs:to question, explore, experiment, experience,walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – November 16, 2021

A reading from the holy Gospel according to  Luke       18:35-43 As Jesus drew near to Jericho there was a blind man sitting at the side of the road begging. When he heard the crowd going past he asked what it was all about, and they told him that Jesus the Nazarene was passing … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – November 15, 2021

Waiting and Longing ~ Prayer from Walter Brueggemann God of the seasons,God of the years,God of the eons,Alpha and Omega,before us and after us. You promise and we wait:we wait with eager longing,we wait amid doubt and anxiety,we wait with patience thinand then doubt,and then we take life into our own hands. We wait because you … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – November 11, 2021

Faith does not spring out of nothing.It comes with the discoveryof the holy dimension of our existence.Suddenly we become aware that our lips touchthe veil that hangs before the Holy of Holies.Our faith is lit up for a timewith the light from behind the veil.Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy.This is … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – November 9, 2021

Psalm 139 1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.  2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.  4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.  5 You … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – November 8, 2021