“Verity will ...

bestow true wisdom

enabling us to discern things

as they truly are”

                                    Mary Ward

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We pray with the Church and the world

Pope Benedict’s message for the New Year: The Human Person: Heart of Peace - “Peace is in danger when human dignity is not respected and when social coexistence does not seek the common good. Every offence to the human person is a threat to peace and every threat to peace is an offence against the truth of the human person and against God.”

(1 January: Extract from Pope Benedict’s peace message)

We pray with Pope John XXIII: “May all the Christian Churches reunited in prayer find unity in what is essential, freedom in the unimportant things and love in everything they do.”

(18 – 25: Week of prayer for Christian Unity)

For the World Social Forum. May we continue the process of seeking and building alternatives in order to create a better society for all “because another world is possible”.

(20 – 25 January: Nairobi, Kenya)

We pray with the Institute

We rejoice with the Indian Province and give thanks for the First Professions of Adeline Toppo, Jhuma Purkait, Loyola Lakra, A. M. Sharmila, V. Punitha and A. Thivya. May they continue cherishing God’s vocation in them.

(23rd January in Kolkata)

Mary, as women of faith we look to you: for the courage to say yes to God in our daily lives; for the willingness to be “apt instruments” in God’s service and for the humility to participate fully in life according to God’s plan.

(1st January: Feast of the Institute)

During the International Polar Year we pray for all those who will study the effects of global warming on the Polar Regions, that they may help us to become more aware of the seriousness of this threat to our planet and to be active in righting it.

(UN International Polar Year)

One Small Voice

As Mary Ward companions:

May we be open to God’s generosity:

embracing through us every person

and particle of this wondrous creation

that is our common heritage,

responsibility and glory.

May we dream of creating

“a new heaven and a new earth”

which is not determined

by our age, our health or our degrees,

but by our hearts and the

burning desire to act for God,

and to make God’s love

and healing presence

visible in a hurting world.

May we believe that we are called by Jesus

to new places and ministries

that respond to the new needs of today

as Mary Ward was called to do in her time.