Stay with me, Lord,
because I am weak and I need your strength. You are my life and without you I
am without fervor. You are my light and without you I am in darkness. Stay with
me because I desire to love you and always be in your company. Stay with me
tonight, Jesus, in life with all its dangers.
John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Prayer: Robert Louis Stevenson
Go with each of us to
rest; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day
returns, return to us, our sun and comforter, and call us up with morning faces
and morning hearts, eager to labor, eager to be happy if happiness should be
our portion, and if the day be marked for sorrow, strong to endure it.
Friday, March 30, 2018
Prayer: Pope Francis
When we journey without
the cross, when we profess Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of
the Lord, we are worldly. My wish is that all of us will have the courage to
walk in the presence of the Lord – with the Lord’s cross.