Author: University of the Incarnate Word

Loving and gracious God, You show your love for all your children by putting special people in our lives. We thank you for giving us the faith-filled friends who support our work to build your kingdom here on earth. During this National Catholic Sisters Week, we ask you to bless all women religious. Guide us, … Continue reading Prayer for National Catholic Sisters Week

For Resilience Lord, your Word promises that you “will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.” Your Truth nourishes the root of our hearts, helping us bloom in the desert. Your love revitalizes us when circumstances threaten to dehydrate out faith. When we are surrounded by the dryness of uncertainties, fears, or change, saturate us … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – March 4, 2021

May What I Do Flow From Me Like a River I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what awaits within me So that what no one has dared to wish for May for once spring clear Without my contriving. If this is arrogant, God, forgive me, But this … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – March 3, 2021

With Joyful and Generous Hearts God of all comfort,all our delight is in you.As a deer pants for streams of water,so our hearts pant for you.Your blessing restores us.Your love sustains us.Your Word guides us. Even as we fast, you fill us.Even as we pray, you answer.Even as we cry, you comfort.When we seek, we … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – March 2, 2021

Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver, Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, Loving God, in whom is heaven: The hallowing of your name echo through the universe! The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world! Your heavenly will be done by all … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – March 1, 2021

May the God of strength be with us, holding us in strong and loving hands, May we be the sacrament of God's strength to those whose hands we hold, May the blessing of strength be with us. May the God of gentleness be with us, caressing us with sunlight and rain and wind. May God's … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – February 25, 2021

Marked by Ashes by Walter Brueggemann Ruler of the Night, Guarantor of the day ... This day — a gift from you. This day — like none other you have ever given, or we have ever received. This Wednesday dazzles us with gift and newness and possibility. This Wednesday burdens us with the tasks of … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – February 24, 2021

Oh, Great Spirit, Whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all the world. Hear me! I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever hold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – February 23, 2021

Surrounded by the silent powers of goodness, protected and secured against all fear, so may I walk with you into the future and confidently meet the coming year. When burdens from the past return to haunt us, when heaviness or evil brings distress, O Lord, then grant our frightened souls and spirits the saving grace … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – February 22, 2021

God who is found in the Word become flesh, God who is found in what words won’t express: we give thanks that silence and art and movement help us make sense of life in ways that thinking and reasoning and masterful theses will always fail to achieve. Help us balance ourselves so we can find … Continue reading Daily Prayers/Reflections – February 11, 2021