Benedictine Sisters of FL

Holy Name Monastery
Founded 1889

Hope

Ash Wednesday

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Ashes of death on our foreheads,
seeds of hope in our hearts. 
As we begin the journey, beyond the cross,
let us remember,
God prepares us for life, not for death,
for resurrection and not for crucifixion,
for love and not for hate.
In a world where death holds us bound, and violence seems to reign
in thought and deed,
may this journey of Lent get us ready
to be God’s good news
of hope and wholeness,
peace and reconciliation,
and resurrection life.
Christine Sine

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Happy Valentines Day!

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There are several legends about Saint Valentine and most especially that there were three who all shared February 14th as their feast day.  Each lived around 250 A.D.  While they shared a great love of Jesus, legend has it that one performed weddings in secret for soldiers who were forbidden to marry.  Thus the feast day connection to love, young people and happy marriages.

 

Love and affection from the,

Benedictine Sisters of Florida

 

 

 

 

 

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Daily Noon Prayer for Peace

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Daily Noon Prayer for Peace

Pax Christi Florida invites all members and friends to join in a prayer at noon, from inauguration week through Easter.

We pray for the healing of our nation.

Peace Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.

 

~Article from Pax Christi, Florida which is a regional section of Pax Christi USA

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