Author: University of the Incarnate Word

O Lord, Risen, alive and full of grace. You paid such a price that we may live in freedom today. We worship your holy name and give thanks for your redeeming grace. Heavenly Father, May we drink in your tender love so that we can pour this love out to others. Come reign in our … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 20, 2021

Easter Prayer Good and gracious God, our glorious creator, may we greet the signs in nature around us as spring once again blooms. In the singing of the birds and in the fields waiting to be planted, may we give you praise for an even greater sign of new life: the resurrection of your son … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 15, 2021

A Prayer for Easter by Rachel Young Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia! Our alleluias are filled with sorrow, God, over a year lost to a global pandemic, over ongoing racial injustice and the violence of hate, over people killed in spas and grocery stores. This is our second Easter where worship is … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 14, 2021

Easter Reflection 2021: Crisis, Transformation and Rebirth Crises of unforeseen proportions, like the present pandemic, are bound to result in disruption and chaos. So the call this Easter is to lead from the emerging future. Pope Francis tells us that sometimes uprooting can be healing or result in a radical makeover. It gives one the … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 13, 2021

In Turbulent Times We share this excerpt in honor of St. Peter Faber’s birthday, April 13. “Desire what is essential and original,” Faber writes in Memoriale. This sentence gets at the psychological brilliance of the Exercises and how they specifically transformed Peter’s life. Faber discovers that desires are good, not bad, and that finding what’s … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 12, 2021

Easter Prayer of Saint Hippolytus Christ is Risen: The world below lies desolate Christ is Risen: The spirits of evil are fallen Christ is Risen: The angels of God are rejoicing Christ is Risen: The tombs of the dead are empty Christ is Risen indeed from the dead, the first of the sleepers, Glory and … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 8, 2021

As the world sings triumphant cries to heaven over death that you conquered, help us, Lord, tomorrow as well, when the dresses are put away and the candy is all eaten and on with life we go let us not forget. The celebration of your resurrection over death is a celebration of life that should … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 7, 2021

Thursday of Holy WeekVinita Hampton Wright Holy Week is a solemn week of extra prayer and fasting. It involves the Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. During those three days we recall—and through our prayer participate in—Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples, his arrest, trial, and execution, the long day of silence … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – April 1, 2021

Is 50:4-9a The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, That I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; And I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – March 31, 2021

Eucharist in the Time of CoronaBy Fr. Roger Keeler Each year the familiar stories and their liturgical rhythm: Palm Sunday: elated Hosanna’s before distress in disbelief at what follows. Holy Thursday: contented satisfaction in celebrating the most anticipated – and familiar – feast of the year, yet marked with inexplicable words and actions. Good Friday: … Continue reading Daily Prayer/Reflection – March 30, 2021