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Prayer of the Day: For Social Workers
05-20-2011
God, we pray for all the people across the country who work in social services. Please bless them in their tireless efforts to serve those who need it most. Renew their strength and commitment.
Voice of the Day: Saint Teresa of Avila
05-20-2011
"To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that."
- Saint Teresa of Avila
Verse of the Day: 'do the works I do'
05-20-2011
"The truth of the matter is, anyone who has faith in me will do the works I do -- and greater works besides. Why? Because I go to Abba God."
- John 14:12
Verse of the Day: Justice For All
05-19-2011
"When you come upon your enemy's ox or donkey going astray, you shall bring it back.
Voice of the Day: Wendell Berry
05-19-2011
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy."
Prayer of the Day: Discretionary Spending
05-19-2011
Lord, we pray to you as members of Congress debate the national budget for 2012. May programs that affect the most vulnerable in our country receive the provisions they need. Amen.
Prayer of the Day: Afghanistan
05-18-2011
God of peace, we pray for the country of Afghanistan where violence continues. We mourn the cost of war, the consequences of conflict, the lack of peace and stability.
Verse of the Day: Share Your Faith
05-18-2011
"I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective when you perceive all the good that we may do for Christ."
- Philemon 1:6
Voice of the Day: Jane Addams
05-18-2011
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in midair, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
Voice of the Day: Laozi
05-17-2011
"Kindness in words creates confidence. / Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. / Kindness in giving creates love
Prayer of the Day: Natural Disaster
05-17-2011
We pray for Spain during the aftermath of the nation's earthquake and those affected by floods in Mississippi.
Verse of the Day: On Greed
05-17-2011
"But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat.
Prayer of the Day: For Conflict
05-16-2011
God, there is so much war, so much violence, so much conflict. And it is the poorest and most vulnerable who suffer even more as a result: in displacement, in victimization, in loss of life.
Verse of the Day: Be Like Newborn Infants
05-16-2011
"Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation -- if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good."
- 1 Peter 2:2-3
Voice of the Day: Meister Eckhart
05-16-2011
"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."
- Meister Eckhart
Prayer of the Day: Love and Healing
05-13-2011
God, we pray for the LGBTQ community in South Africa. May they no longer face such persecution and brutality.
Voice of the Day: Emma Goldman
05-13-2011
"No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
Verse of the Day: Mustard Seed
05-13-2011
"The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith!’ The Lord replied, 'If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and pla
Voice of the Day: Emmanuel C
05-12-2011
"To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda or even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery; it means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God
Prayer of the Day: A prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola
05-12-2011
Lord Jesus, teach me to be generous, to serve you as you deserve: to give without counting the cost, to fight needless of the wounds, to work and not seek for rest, to toil and not seek for reward,