Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. Philo of Alexandria

A Lakota Prayer O our Father, the Sky, hear us and make us strong. O our Mother the Earth, hear us and give us support. O Spirit of the East, send us your Wisdom. O Spirit of the South, may we tread your path of life. O Spirit of the West, may we always be

Lord Jesus Christ, you have said that you are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Do not allow us to stray from you, who are the Way, not to distrust you, who are the Truth, nor to rest in anything other than you, who are the Life. Erasmus

My dear friends, let us love one another,since love is from Godand everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 1 John 4.7-8

One cannot be good simply by avoiding evil. To be indifferent or apathetic to the needs of one’s neighbor, to stand aloof from a world begging for help, is already to be guilty. Robert O. Johann

Creator God, you raise Jesus to new life and promise we who believe in him life with you forever. Help us become bringers of new life to places of death and destruction in our world. Amen.

Because a woman brought deatha bright Maiden overcame it,and so the highest blessingin all of creationlies in the form of a woman,since God has become manin a sweet and blessed Virgin Hildegard of Bingen, “Quia ergo femina”

Grant me to recognize in others, Lord God, the radiance of your own face. Teilhard de Chardin, SJ