O Jesus Christ,
I acknowledge You as King.
All that has been made,
has been created for You.
Exercise all Your rights over me.
I renew my baptismal vows,
renouncing Satan and his works;
and I promise to live as a good Christian.
I pledge myself to work, to the best of my ability,
August 4, 2017
August 4, 2017
As a new millennium dawned, the Columbans looked back on their achievements in the 20th century, while similarly casting an eye to the future of the Society.
August 2, 2017
Deliver Us
Show us, we beseech You, O Lord,
in Your clemency,
Your unspeakable mercy,
that You may cleanse us from all our sins,
and deliver us from the punishments which they have deserved.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
Who lives and reigns
world without end.
Amen.
August 1, 2017
Since 2014, St. Joseph's Parish in Ballymun, Ireland, started to look at ways to respond to the needs of young people in the parish. Parents asked if there was a program that could help them nourish the spiritual aspect of the lives of their teenage sons and daughters. It was through that inquiry that Lifeteen came to be.
August 1, 2017
Milly Hampson is eleven years old. She lives with her parents Darren and Beatriz in a tower block of flats overlooking the River Mersey in a rather unfashionable part of Stockport, Greater Manchester (UK) called Lancashire Hill.
August 1, 2017
This spring a pair of great horned owls took over a large nest in a tree not too far from the Narragansett Bay shoreline. As one would expect before too long little owls could be seen safely peeking from the nest high in a tall evergreen.
August 1, 2017
A Night Prayer
Eternal Father,
I desire to rest in Your Heart this night.
I make the intention of offering to You
every beat of my heart,
joining to them as many acts of love and desire.
I pray that even while I am asleep,
I will bring back to You souls that offend You.
I ask forgiveness for the whole world,
July 31, 2017
Plead for Us
Save us, Christ our Savior,
by the virtue of Your holy Cross:
You Who saved Peter in the sea,
have mercy upon us.
Mary, Mother of mercy,
pray for us,
and we shall be delivered;
Mary, our advocate,
speak for us,
and we shall be saved.
July 30, 2017
We Offer Ourselves
Eternal Father,
Jesus is ours;
ours His Blood,
ours His infinite merits;
to You we offer ourselves wholly;
then, if You love Him,
and hold precious this gift we make You,
You surely will deliver us;
and for this we hope with fullest confidence.
July 29, 2017
Live Out Your Mission
Lord, our God,
help us to walk with you
on the pathway of the beatitudes
and to live out your mission
in today's world.
Bind us to all men and women
of our time so that together
we may bring the Good News
to the ends of the earth.
The Columbans are a society of missionaries, including priests and lay people, who minister to people of various cultures as a way of witnessing to the universal love of God.