Today we pray that we become instruments of God’s work in the world. Pope Francis talks about a Transactional Christianity — a Christianity that is not compassionate but sees the poor as charity cases, or as people to give money to and then go on with the rest of the day. We pray that we become more compassionate than that. We pray that we stop and do not move on. We pray that we learn to cry. We pray that we become His heart today.
1. Think of one concrete thing that you can do in order to be an instrument of God in the world. Do it first thing in the morning before you become busy with the rest of the day.
Your Heart Today
Manoling Francisco SJ
Where there is fear I can allay
Where there is pain I can heal
Where there are wounds I can bind
And hunger I can fill
REFRAIN:
Lord, grant me courage
Lord, grant me strength
Grant me compassion
That I may be Your heart today
Where there is hate I can confront
Where there are yokes I can release
Where there are captives I can free
And anger I can appease (REFRAIN)
BRIDGE:
When comes the day I dread
To see our broken world
Compel me from my cell grown cold
That Your people I may behold
Where there is fear I can allay
Where there is pain I can heal
Where there are wounds I can bind
And hunger I can fill (REFRAIN)
CODA:
And when I’ve done all that I could
Yet there are hearts I cannot move
Lord, give me hope
That I may be Your heart today
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