of the human heart

is for God.

William A. Barry S.J.

To print the August House of Prayer in English, click on the link  August HOP English 2007

We pray with the Church and the world 

August 9th  International Day of the World’s  Indigenous People

Let us pray for our indigenous sisters and brothers in their search for identity, dignity and recognition.

August 12th International Youth Day

As we remember the young people of our world let us also support with prayer the preparations underway for the World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia next year.

From the International Apostleship of Prayer for this month:

“We face a choice between a society where people accept modest sacrifices for a common good, or a more contentious society where groups selfishly protect their own benefits”. from Newsweek

Solving the crises that bedevil society requires the replacement of the current ethic of individual rights with an ethic of the common good. 

We pray with the Institute

Again, Bishop Kevin Dowling reflecting on our Calls at the Provincials’ meeting said this about communion:

This focus on individualism and on personal autonomy and development as a life project, especially in the Western world, has led to the demise of the awareness that we become most fully a person in so far as we are in a relationship of respect and reverence with others.

However, there seems to be a slow but growing appreciation that personal identity and worth can only grow to their fullness through communion with others. We are created for relationship; we become more fully who we are as a unique individual through the way this uniqueness is moulded by the human experience of living and interacting with others, in other words through mutual interdependence.

One Small Voice

…speaking the truth in love

we are to grow up in every way

into Him who is the head,

into Christ,

from whom the whole body,

joined and knit together

by every joint

with which it is supplied,

when each part is working properly,

makes bodily growth

and builds itself up in love.