This Lent Devote Yourself to Prayer Emulating Jesus who Prayed Unceasingly

“If my people who belong to me will humbly pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Our Prayer Goal — Commitment to Daily Prayer


Prayer is a "personal relationship with the living and true God" (CCC 2558). God always wants us to pray to encounter Him so that He may transform our hearts. However, prayer isn't easy. We are so easily distracted, and we often get satisfaction from seeing our "To Do" lists completed, and scrolling through social media for that mental break. Prayer gets pushed to the end of the day, when we are too tired to concentrate. Lent is a time to commit to prioritizing our communication with God.


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Greener Lent Prayer

Praise to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit!
You, Lord, have provided a beautiful earth and given us the ability to contemplate its beauty.
You have provided abundance to meet the needs of all, yet many of the most vulnerable people are losing their land and livelihoods due to a climate crisis that they did little to create and don’t have the resources to combat.
Forgive me for not valuing and protecting every life that you have created with the same fervor that I value those closest to me.
Help me align my will to Yours this Lent and stay dedicated to my Lenten commitments. Help me to follow in Your footsteps more closely and with greater resolve.
Please convert the hearts of those who do not hear the cry of the poor, suffering from the climate crisis.
Please help those who do not turn to you for answers, refuse to acknowledge their share of responsibility, or fail to acknowledge You.
Please grant that those who do not confess Christ will find truth by walking with a sincere heart.
O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You.

"The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, where we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him."

Bishop Robert Barron, Founder of Word on Fire, bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, author, speaker and theologian.

"People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers."

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Lord, Thank you for Greener Lent. May it encourage more people to have a conversion of heart toward more compassion for the cry of the earth and for the way animals are treated in factory farming.

Terri Millard, Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, High Point, NC

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"This land has been blessed with tremendous opportunities. I pray that you may all be good and generous stewards of the human and material resources entrusted to you." From Pope Francis in final remarks before returning home from his 2015 US trip.

Beautiful reflection from two Parishioners from St. Therese in Mooresville, NC

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.

St. Francis of Assisi

Weekly rosary for the poor, for the vulnerable, for youth, to open hearts and minds, and for action

Patrick Garrity, Church of the Resurrection

Lord, Strengthen the Greener Lent community to share this effort and help us to inspire others to hear the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor in order to care for our common home. Strengthen also the new Raleigh Diocese initiative now forming called NC Catholics Caring for our Common Home.

Barbara Quinby,Director--Office of Human Life, Dignity, and Justice Ministries, Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral/Sacred Heart Cathedral

The Holy Spirit keeps us humble this Lent, even as Christ is humble before man and before his partners in the Triune God.

Louise, St. Mary's, Shewsbury, MA

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