Starting today, Palm Sunday, a series of special prayers—written by Cabrinian sisters and laypeople—begins to accompany the most important days of Holy Week and Easter.
Grateful, in fact, for what we experienced during the past Jubilee Year—particularly during the Jubilees of Communication, Health, Youth, the Missionary World and Migrants, Consecrated Life, and the World of Education—we asked one participant from each of these Jubilees, which were also celebrated within the Cabrini community, to write a prayer related to their ministry.
On Palm Sunday we will pray with two teachers from our schools in Nicaragua, on Holy Thursday with a sister who works with refugees in Africa, on Good Friday with a person who accompanies the sick in a hospital in Australia, on Holy Saturday with our Superior General for Consecrated Life, on Easter Sunday with a young woman from our college in Madrid, and finally on Easter Monday with someone who works in communications in schools in Brazil.
Today, Palm Sunday, let us recite the prayer written by Irene and Jessenia.
Have a blessed prayer, everyone!
Lord Jesus!
Just as you entered Jerusalem and were welcomed with joy, we today open the doors of our school and of our hearts to you.
We acknowledge You as the King who has always done good, and as teachers, we feel called upon to safeguard the treasure entrusted to us each year by parents, which we place under the gaze and presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Mother Cabrini, the one who knew how to discover the height, breadth, and depth of the Heart of Jesus.
Heavenly Father and Teacher, teach us to discover Your presence in every child and young person entrusted to us.Help us, Father, to recognize and nurture the talents You have sown with love, patience, and hope.
Grant us, Lord, a heart that is simple to serve, strong to guide, and full of tenderness to accompany.
Remain with us, Lord; bless our work and grant that all we do may be for Your glory and for the good of all.
Lord Jesus,
You have taught us that serving requires humility, simplicity, and love for our neighbor.
Therefore, we ask you for the grace of a heart that is open, sensitive, and attentive to the needs of the most vulnerable of our time, our brothers and sisters who are migrants and refugees.
May we have the courage to bow before the suffering of humanity, which endures the consequences of so much violence against the human person and against our common home.
Grant us the grace to recognize in every migrant and refugee your own feet, which we are called to wash.
May all our actions be for your greater glory.
Amen.
Yesterday we prayed with Sr. Joseane Cabral MSC, who works with refugees in Africa; today, to mark the Jubilee of Health, we prayed with Michael, who cares for the sick at our hospital in Australia.
Have a blessed time of prayer, everyone!
Lord Jesus,
You lay down your life for us because you love us in all of our woundedness.
As you go to your death, you teach us the way of mercy and forgiveness, not violence and retaliation.
Soften our hearts to your compassion for us and for all who are victims of conflict in our world today.
Make us courageous and faithful like Mother Cabrini – companions to all who come to Cabrini for healing and hope.
Help us to listen to each other with tenderness.
Fill us with hope that when all seems dark, you are there, our help and our strength.
Be with us in the hour of our death as we say with you, “Father, into your hands, I commend my spirit.”
Amen.
Lord Jesus,
as women in consecrated life and pilgrims of Christian hope,
we face the mystery of Holy Saturday;
we remain in silence to listen and contemplate Your face in our brothers
suffering due to war and slavery that massacre human life;
we enter into the mystery of your silence
we await in faith
the new life of Your Resurrection
for a world of peace, reconciliation, justice, solidarity
and resurrected life for all.
With Your Light, humanity shall overcome darkness
and together, men and women, we shall all sing
“Behold, the Light of Christ. Let us give thanks to God”!
Yesterday we prayed with our Superior General, Sr. Maria Eliane Azevedo Da Silva MSC, and today we commemorated the Youth Jubilee with the help of Paula from Cabrini College in Madrid.
Happy Easter to everyone!
O Jesus, our Risen Lord,
You who have instilled the joy of seeking you and the courage to proclaim you in the hearts of young people, let them recognize even today the signs of your new life in the midst of the world.
As the beloved disciple ran to the tomb with love and hope, let the young people run to You with an open and generous heart.
And, like Mother Cabrini, let them not be afraid to go further, to cross borders and bring your love to those most in need.
Let them be witnesses of your Resurrection, sowers of peace and hope, hands that serve and hearts open to the whole world.
Accompany their dreams, strengthen their faith and make them a living light for all.
Amen
Yesterday we prayed with the help of Paula Martìnez from Cabrini College in Madrid; today, to commemorate the Jubilee of Communication, we are praying with the help of Isabella Sprovieri, a communications specialist from our schools in Brazil.
Have a blessed time of prayer, everyone!
O Jesus, our Risen Lord,
just as you entrusted Mary Magdalene with the announcement of your Resurrection,
entrust to us also the joy of sharing the Life that conquers death.
May we, inspired by the zeal of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini,
bring the Good News with joy and courage,
overcoming distances, borders, and difficulties.
Make us missionaries of your hope
and instruments of your love,
so that the world may hear through us:
The Lord is alive and walks with us.
Amen.
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