May the glories of Sunday forward throughout your week and seep into our day to day struggles as we begin a new week, Lord renew us in your love.
"Teach a searching heart that God's love is unchanging. That human love begins and grows by touching His Love"
Retablo Housed at Anna House, St. Simeon Skete
Lord, renew us in your love
Father, you call us to "shout for joy" but our hearts are burdened, our spirits are weary and our hands are heavy.
Lord, renew us in your love
Father, the root of bitterness grows deep within, we find it hard, at times, to give or to receive love.
Lord, renew us in your love
Father, we have been hurt by others; in our jobs, schools, churches, families and places of recreation, by those we had loved and trusted.
Lord, renew us in your love
Father, we still carry the hurts of childhood. We had been made to feel inadequate, unable to cope, unwanted.
Lord, renew us in your love
Deep within us, there is a child which needs to grow up; a half-person that needs to come into the light of the New Creation.
Lord, renew us in your love
Lord, Jesus, we have wasted our years, the locusts have devoured our harvests. Stretch forth your hand and renew us and restore what the locusts have eaten.
Lord, renew us in your love
Reach out and touch our past, Lord, so that we may live in the present and not be afraid of the future.
Lord, renew us in your love
Lord, we rejoice that you RENEW our lives in your love, and that you SING over us at the festivals. Sing to us as you sang to Mary at the dawn of the New Creation.
Lord, renew us in your love
(Pgs 16/17 adapted...Healing Light of the Rosary, Fr. Gabriel Harty,OP)