Arklow Parish | Diocese of Dublin » Today’s Thought http://www.arklowparish.ie Fri, 08 Nov 2024 22:57:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Building Hope Prayer http://www.arklowparish.ie/2024/07/the-building-hope-prayer/ http://www.arklowparish.ie/2024/07/the-building-hope-prayer/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:54:44 +0000 parishoffice http://www.arklowparish.ie/?p=13979 Pilgrim God, we give you thanks and praise.
You constantly journey with us even in our darkness and doubts.
We seek your way of loving kindness to walk together as one family.

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Pilgrim God, we give you thanks and praise.
You constantly journey with us even in our darkness and doubts.
We seek your way of loving kindness to walk together as one family.
Open our eyes to recognise you in the faces of one another,
in the breaking of bread and in the splendour of creation.
May the risen Christ sow seeds of hope and new life deep within us.
May our hearts and minds be filled with your Word,
bringing forth truth, justice and peace.
May the Holy Spirit working in and through us do much more
than we can dare to imagine
as we live out our baptismal calling in humble and loving service.
We make this our prayer through Christ Our Lord.
Amen.

Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us.
St Laurence O’Toole, pray for us.
St Kevin, pray for us.
St Brigid, pray for us.

]]> http://www.arklowparish.ie/2024/07/the-building-hope-prayer/feed/ 0 Pope’s October prayer intention: ‘For the Synod’ http://www.arklowparish.ie/2023/10/pope%e2%80%99s-october-prayer-intention-%e2%80%98for-the-synod%e2%80%99/ http://www.arklowparish.ie/2023/10/pope%e2%80%99s-october-prayer-intention-%e2%80%98for-the-synod%e2%80%99/#comments Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:10:34 +0000 parishoffice http://www.arklowparish.ie/?p=13954 “Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries.”

]]> http://www.arklowparish.ie/2023/10/pope%e2%80%99s-october-prayer-intention-%e2%80%98for-the-synod%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 Our Heavenly Queen http://www.arklowparish.ie/2023/05/our-heavenly-queen/ http://www.arklowparish.ie/2023/05/our-heavenly-queen/#comments Tue, 09 May 2023 14:06:19 +0000 parishoffice http://www.arklowparish.ie/?p=13940 Hail Mary,
Our Mother,
Our Heavenly Queen,
whose loving arms
embrace those who are poor
and protect those who are week,
Our Lady, we love you.

]]> Hail Mary,
Our Mother,
Our Heavenly Queen,
whose loving arms
embrace those who are poor
and protect those who are week,
Our Lady, we love you.

Hail Mary,
Our Mother,
Our Heavenly Queen,
whose loving care
will soothe all who suffer
and calm those in fear,
Our Lady, we need you.

Hail Mary,
Our Mother,
Our Heavenly Queen,
whose loving gaze
looks into our hearts
and eases our pain,
Our Lady, we honour you.

Hail Mary,
Our Mother,
Our Heavenly Queen,
whose endless love
surrounds us completely
and is always present,
Our Lady, pray for us.

Cathrine Wignall/CAFOD

]]> http://www.arklowparish.ie/2023/05/our-heavenly-queen/feed/ 0 ‘Do it Anyway’ by Mother Teresa http://www.arklowparish.ie/2023/04/do-it-anyway-by-mother-teresa/ http://www.arklowparish.ie/2023/04/do-it-anyway-by-mother-teresa/#comments Sat, 29 Apr 2023 21:09:38 +0000 parishoffice http://www.arklowparish.ie/?p=13915 “People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
FORGIVE them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives
BE KIND anyway.

]]> “People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
FORGIVE them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives
BE KIND anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
BE HONEST anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
BE HAPPY anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
DO GOOD anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
GIVE YOUR BEST anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.”
~ Mother Theresa

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to feel abandoned
lost and afraid.

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to feel abandoned
lost and afraid.

Walk with us

And show us how to walk with others,
who live in fear,
who face death
through hunger or war.

Show us how to pray
for those we do not know
and will not meet,
but who are always loved by you.

Walk with us Jesus, Amen.

Linda Jones/CAFOD

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