Photo: Rowe's Wharf, Boston

 

Spirituality: "Hope," by Barbara Kingsolver

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.”

Photo: A Jesuit, Catholic College

 

Prayer: Joseph Bernardin

Grant us the gift of modesty. When we speak, teach us to give our opinion quietly and sincerely. Help us in success to realize what we owe to you and to the efforts of others, in failure to avoid dejection, and in all ways to be simple and natural, quiet in manner and lowly in thought, through Christ our Lord.

Prayer: Alcuin of York

Give me the grace, Lord, to be strong, prudent, just, and wise in all things. Give me an exact faith, generous love, and unshakeable trust in you. Fill me with the spirit of intelligence and wisdom. Let me always be considerate of other people. O perfect and eternal light, enlighten me.