Visible Expression

The ecclesial community, while always having a universal dimension, finds its most immediate and visible expression in the parish. It is there that the Church is seen locally. In a certain sense it is...

"... the Church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters..."

Pope John Paul II
Christifideles Laici [27]

Friday 29 May 2009

Send Forth Your Spirit O Lord...


To God be honour and glory for ever.
 May He fill us with hope
 and with power of the Holy Spirit:
    Lord You are our help and salvation

Almighty Father, send Your Holy Spirit
to turn our words into prayers
and our seeking into finding:
    Lord You are our help and salvation

Send Your Holy Spirit to turn
our darkness into light,
and our falseness into truth:
    Lord You are our help and salvation

Send Your Holy Spirit to make
order out of chaos
and love out of hatred:
    Lord You are our help and salvation

Send Your Holy Spirit to change
contempt for the weak into 
reverence for your children:
    Lord You are our help and salvation

Our Father,
who art in Heaven,
hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day
our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.