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You may want to pray ahead of time about the coming Sunday's Mass. If so, this page is for you. “Getting Ready to Pray” is to help you quiet down and engage your imagination (not just your mind).

Getting Ready to Pray                     

We were introduced into the Christian way and the Eucharistic Community through rituals/gestures and words.

Two weeks ago we re-celebrated a re-newing gesture/word in our baptism in water and the Holy Spirit.

At the liturgy this week we will celebrate again our identity and the identification we receive at the Eucharist.

Some Thoughts                     

We keep rising from the dusts of failure, shame and self recrimination.

Living is what grace is about. Graceful living is how we proclaim that Jesus has risen.

We do not know how Jesus rose, but we do hear how the early apostles did it, and rose and lived their faith in the risen Lord.

Jesus rose once and by his grace we keep rising from the dusts of failure, shame and self recrimination.

We prepare for this celebration by celebrating the reality of our personal and small risings.

Larry Gillick, SJ

Larry Gillick, SJ, of Creighton University’s Deglman Center for Ignatian Spirituality, wrote this reflection for the Daily Reflections page on the Online Ministries web site at Creighton.
http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/online.html


Art by Martin Erspamer, OSB
from Religious Clip Art for the Liturgical Year (A, B, and C). This art may be reproduced only by parishes who purchase the collection in book or CD-ROM form. For more information go http://www.ltp.org