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Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday Prayer for Ash Wednesday We are dust– cosmic remnant of stars, soot glistening in the sunlight, embers flickering warmth, dark fertile soil. We are stuff that matters, one, with all our relations, as common and extraordinary as is the Earth. Creator, we are dust, and to You–our home–we shall return. Amen. Words: Jennifer…
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Pancake Grace
Pancake Grace Ordinary blessings…milk and flour, an egg and a bit of butter. The ingredients of joy are common things that with a little sweetness combine in humble celebration. The sugary taste of maple, the comfort of a place at the table, tender hands in shared service, hearfelt memories, and the precious sound of children’s…
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Prayer for Minnesota
Prayer for Minnesota Holding the people of Minnesota in the light after another murder today as the terror of ICE continues to reign at the behest of the President. In the midst of this grief and pain, may the light of truth, compassion, justice, solidarity and human dignity burn brighter and brighter. I see it…
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New Year’s Prayer
New Year’s Prayer This year, may our intentions bloom in undeterred compassion, unanticipated kindness, unprecented justice, and unexpected joy. We pray to the God of surprising hope. Amen Words: Jennifer Henry Image: Jessica Fadel Unsplash January 2026
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Christmas Today
Christmas Today We hear the voice of Mary still In women the whole world around Who bring the hope of God to birth, And free those who are bound. Her voice is in the dream of all that terror and want will end. She stirs our passion even now. Her faith to us she lends.…
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Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Return kindness to the sun and the moon and the stars. Return kindness to the mountains and the deserts and the waters. Return kindness to the swimmers and the flyers and the fur bearing ones. Return kindness to all living things. May we show gratitude to the Creator through respect of the earth and…
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Missing Sisters
Missing Sisters This year as remains of precious sisters and daughters were found in landfills we were poignantly reminded of the terrible ongoing reality of #MMIWG2S. May all across this country, all levels of government, law enforcement, and the service sector, dedicate renewed efforts to understanding and implementing the Calls to Justice of the Final…
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Holy Week
Holy Week Reflection year as I journey into this story of betrayal and suffering, of God broken among us, by us, of the power of divine solidarity, I am holding in my heart the refugees and migrants of this world–those fleeing in fear, those deported, detained or disappeared, those wrenched from family, those abandoned to…
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Christmas 2024
Christmas 2024 Into this now, this night, this world You come. Vulnerable, beautiful, impossible Hope. Sink deep into our worried hearts. Inhabit our wounded lands. Unsettle our established injustice. Find us, Blessed Christ Child. Find us. Words: Jennifer Henry 2024 Image: Greyson Joralemon, Unsplash
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International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia You made humanity in your likeness, Each and every human identity, in all our sexual and gender diversity, in all our racial and cultural diversity, bears Your sacred image. Press us, compel us, inspire us to fully live the power and beauty of this truth every day. In…
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P.I.E. Day Prayer
Creator of the Great Diversity Help us to proclaim Your extravagant grace embody Your radical justice and be a living sacrament of Your immeasurable and limitless love. Amen Words and image: Jennifer Henry March 14, 2024
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Mothering
Mothering Creator, we give thanks for all those who mother in diverse and wonderful ways. We celebrate opportunities to gather and lament the distance that might be between us at this time. May we find words and ways to express our gratitude. We pray: Encircle us in your transforming love. For the mothers who build…
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Easter Morning
Easter Morning Early in the morning, Mary comes to the grave of her friend… Today we lift up those who like Mary are in grief, pain, trauma, injustice, turmoil or distress. Those whose belief in change and possibility is dashed. Let these be the first to glimpse hope, to feel grace– the grieving, the oppressed,…
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Tree of Life
Tree of Life Holy One, across this aching world we come to you with many names, each a glimpse of the good and sacred mystery beyond humanity’s grasp. Help us to see ourselves as branches on a common tree of life, relatives who share a common home. Amen Words and image: Jennifer Henry January 2022
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When Grief Lingers
When Grief Lingers Thinking tonight about how grief lingers, sticks to each bone and sinew, presses into our flesh and whispers in our breath. Never ends, really. Never leaves. And while this is the sad essence of life, it is also the most powerful testimony of our capacity to love. While I am thinking about…
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Pentecost 2021
Pentecost 2021 Gracious One At the first Pentecost, the diverse spirit-filled words, spoken and heard, were of the great things You have done. Words of deep gratitude. In these trying times, let us pray that we too can find those words. Gracias, miigwech, thank you, merci, nai:wen, marsi, kinanaŝkomitin, obrigado, arigatou, gozaimasu. Amen. Words: Jennifer…
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Prayer for Creation
A Prayer for Creation Creator, you loved this world into being. Rustling grasslands, spectacular mountains, lush forests, quiet desserts — your handmade landscape welcomes us home. Mysterious seas, rushing rivers, calm lakes, playful ponds — your intricate waterways offer abundant life. You set us here, among winged, gilled, scaled and furbearing relatives, to live in…
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Easter
Easter Risen Crucified One, recruit us to your conspiracy of hope. Today in the chorus of the Creator’s impossible grace may we sing together, full throated, a boisterous, Alleluia. Amen easter 2021
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Prayer for 110th International Women’s Day
Prayer for 110th International Women’s Day Sister Spirit of Struggle, we claim your presence, in the marchers and rollers, for women’s voice and vote, in the striking workers, for bread, herring and roses too, in the women peacemakers, resisting the warring of yesteryear and today. Sister, we see you in the women on the frontlines…
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In Our Day: Epiphany Prayer
In Our Day: Epiphany Prayer As we enter into this story in our day, may we decry tyrants that still rule, expose forces that still terrorize, confront the realities that still displace. As we enter into this story in our day, may we celebrate the ones who follow their heart, who centre the child, who…
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