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Prayer of the Day: Healing in the Congo
10-05-2010
Protector of the weak and the helpless, we pray for healing in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Voice of the Day: Wayne Lee Jones
10-05-2010
Teach me, God, to pray / in works as much as in words / to make my actions thoughtful messages / to make my actions more beautiful than words.
Verse of the Day: 'Beware of the yeast'
10-04-2010
Meanwhile, when the crowd gathered by the thousands, so that they trampled on one another, [Jesus] began to speak first to his disciples, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypoc
Voice of the Day: Maya Angelou
10-04-2010
I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
Prayer of the Day: Finding Common Ground
10-04-2010
Give us a heart of love for those with whom we disagree, O Lord. May we interact with these people with civility, gentleness, and respect.
Prayer of the Day: Forgiveness
10-01-2010
God, teach us how to forgive one another. Help us to remember how many times you have forgiven us when we have blatantly denied you.
Verse of the Day: God's Days
10-01-2010
May he live while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations. May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.
Voice of the Day: Henry David Thoreau
10-01-2010
The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Prayer of the Day: Write Your Blessed Name
09-30-2010
Write your blessed name, O Lord, upon my heart, there to remain, so indelibly engraved that no prosperity, no adversity shall ever move me from your love.
-Thomas a Kempis
Voice of the Day: Aung San Suu Kyi
09-30-2010
The quest for democracy in Burma is the struggle of a people to live whole, meaningful lives as free and equal members of the world community.
Verse of the Day: 'One does not live by bread alone'
09-30-2010
The devil said to him, "If you are the son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread." Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'One does not live by bread alone.'"
Prayer of the Day: Doers of the Word
09-29-2010
Heavenly God, Give us courage today to be doers of your word. In a world that cherishes rhetoric and eloquent speeches, may we move beyond lofty words to do Your will.
Verse of the Day: "the Lord shall renew their strength"
09-29-2010
Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Voice of the Day: Adolfo P
09-29-2010
We live in hope because we believe, like St. Paul, that love never dies.
Verse of the Day: 'Live in harmony'
09-28-2010
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another.
- Romans 12:14-16
Voice of the Day: Bernard of Clairvaux
09-28-2010
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
Prayer of the Day: Hunger
09-28-2010
Loving God, place a burden on our hearts today for your children across the world who are hungry.
Voice of the Day: Karl Rahner
09-27-2010
If God's incomprehensibility does not grip us in a word, if it does not draw us into our super-luminous darkness, if it does not call us out of the little house of our homely, close-hugged truths
Prayer of the Day: Peace on the West Bank
09-27-2010
God of reconciliation, today we pray for peace on the West Bank. Give the leaders of that land a desire to pursue peace with one another.
Verse of the Day: Honey, Wisdom, and Your Soul
09-27-2010
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.