Prayer for Sunday (Orthodox Palm Sunday)

Today is Palm Sunday for Eastern Orthodox Christians. Its is also the Jewish holy day of Lag B’Omer. The Mayan Rain Festival continues today.

Not everything that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
~ James Baldwin

Our Lord and God, make us worthy to set out for your reception on
this your day of entry in to Jerusalem with brighter garments and an inner beauty
and with Holy and pure thoughts. We cry aloud carrying the branches of glory
“Blessed is He, who comes in the name of the Lord God, Hosanna in the highest.”
Amen

(from the Syrian Orthodox Church in Malaysia)

This Week’s Affirmation:

“My possibilities are endless.”

(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)

 

Prayer for Saturday

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies
instead of making peace with his neighbors.
~ Elbert Hubbard

I pray to you, God, for the families of my neighborhood. Visit them. Throw their troubles out of them and bring hope. Make the daily cares that devour the heart disappear. Present solutions to life’s problems. Settle the disturbed relationships among members of different families whom I know or don’t know.

O Lord, remind the people of our area that you exist, that you are a strong and loving Protector. Keep away, Lord, anything that causes the disturbance of peace from souls, and the escape of sleep from our eyes. Stay a little while more tonight in our neighborhood. Spread peace along with the night. Let the harshness of the day and its struggles not spread over the night too, God.

(a prayer by Demetrios, Archbishop of America, Greek Orthodox;
Source: Bob Hostetler’s Prayer Blog)

This Week’s Affirmation:

“I am feeling more and more connected to others each and every day.”

(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)

Prayer for Sunday (All Saints)

Today is All Saints day in the Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions.

Wake at dawn with a winged heart
and give thanks for another day of loving.
~ Kahil Gibran

We bless Thee, O most high God and Lord of mercy, Who art ever doing numberless great and inscrutable things with us, glorious and wonderful; Who grantest to us sleep for rest from our infirmities, and repose from the burdens of our much toiling flesh. We thank Thee that Thou hast not destroyed us with our sins, but hast loved us as ever, and though we are sunk in despair, Thou hast raised us up to glorify Thy power. Therefore we implore Thy incomparable goodness, enlighten the eyes of our understanding and raise up our mind from the heavy sleep of indolence; open our mouth and fill it with Thy praise, that we may be able undistracted to sing and confess Thee, Who art God glorified in all and by all, the eternal Father, with Thy only-begotten Son, and Thy all-holy and good and life-giving Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

(St. Basil the Great, Source: Myriobiblos – e-Library of the Church of Greece)

This Week’s Affirmation:

“I can accomplish anything I set my mind on.”

(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)