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Praying at Home in
January: Download a PDF Prayer does not make us less involved in the world. On the contrary, nothing is more responsible than to pray. The more we make our own a prayer which is simple and humble, the more we are led to love and to express it with our life. |
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Praying at Home in
February: Download a PDF Watch, dear Lord, with those who wake or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ, rest your weary ones, bless your dying ones, soothe your suffering ones, shield your joyous ones, and all for your love’s sake. Amen. |
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Praying at Home in
March: Download a PDF A pure heart create for me, O God, put a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, Nor deprive me of your holy spirit. O rescue me, God my helper, and my tongue shall ring out your goodness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise. |
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Praying at
Home in April: Download a PDF While you are working, while you sleep, while you are on a journey, while you eat, while you drink or are resting, do not cease to pray. Don’t wait until Sunday comes, or a feast day or a holy day, or a visit to church, but, as the prophet David said, pray in any place on earth. |
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Praying at Home in
May: Download a PDF Holy Mary, Mother of God... show us Jesus. Lead us to him. Teach us to know and love him, so that we too can become capable of true love and be fountains of living water in the midst of a thirsting world. |
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Praying at Home in
June: Download a PDF Since you make up the body of Christ and are his members, your mystery rests on the table of the Lord; you receive your own mystery.... Be what you see; receive what you are. |
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Praying at Home in
July: Download a PDF For me, prayer is a surge of the heart: it is a simple glance toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, in the midst of both trial and joy. |
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Praying at Home in
August: Download a PDF Prayer is the highest achievement of which the human person is capable. |
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Praying at Home
in September: Download a PDF If you love Mary, then share in her great sorrow, so that she might come to your assistance when you yourself are burdened with trials... Stand for a time next to the Virgin Mother and learn from her, whose bitter tears are capable of penetrating the depths of your heart, what it is to lament. |
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Praying at Home
in October: Download a PDF O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life... |
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Praying at Home
in November: Download a PDF To the Most Holy Trinity, ever ancient, ever new, ever powerful in heavenly splendor: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, be my saving and my guarding from tonight until a year from tonight, and especially tonight. |
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Praying at Home during
Advent: Download a PDF Loving mother of the Redeemer, gate of heaven, star of the sea, assist your people who have fallen yet strive to rise again. To the wonderment of nature, you bore your Creator, yet remained a virgin after as before. You who received Gabriel’s joyful greeting, have pity on us poor sinners. |
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Pray with the
Cathedral's Icons during Advent Cathedral iconographer Joan Brand-Landkamer has given us a rich collection of icons based on the Orthodox tradition. This prayer includes an icon and meditation for each Sunday of Advent. |
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Christmas Journey: A Pilgrimage of Prayer through St. James This way of prayer will guide you to the art and images in the Cathedral that speak to the holy season of Christmas. Meditations are drawn from saints and prayers of the Church. |
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The Gospel in Glass: The Cathedral's East
Apse Stained Glass Windows Explore the Cathedral's glorious East Apse windows with scriptures and meditations. |
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Gracious God, |
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