Pray

We are grateful for your prayerful advocacy for our work making God’s abundance available to all.  

Here’s a prayer in honor of St. Benedict, a 6th century Christian whose beliefs and instructions on religious life formed what is now known as the Rule of Saint Benedict:

Stir up in your Church, O Lord, the spirit that animated Benedict, that we may learn to love what he loved and practice what he taught.  As You filled Benedict with the spirit of all the righteous, grant us, your servants, who celebrate his life and all the good You have accomplished through him, his followers, and his holy Rule, to be filled with his spirit, that we may faithfully accomplish Your complete will.  Amen.

Here’s a prayer attributed to Saint Benedict himself:

Gracious and Holy Father, give us the wisdom to discover You, the intelligence to understand You, the diligence to seek after You, the patience to wait for You, eyes to behold You, a heart to meditate upon You, and a life to proclaim You.  Amen.