SCJ Philippine District

Christ, as we begin this season of Lent, help us to open our hearts, minds and souls so we may transformed within. You have given us your teachings and your own life as a model of compassion, mercy and forgiveness; may we reflect on these more deeply as we prepare for the hope of Easter.

Help me to love you, Lord, and heed your voice as I listen intently to your scriptures and the social doctrine of your Chruch. Help me to always choose life and fulfillment by choosing the way of solidarity with everyone in the global community. May this Lent be a time when I move closer to understanding how I can live out your callings and challenges and how I can recognize myself as a part of your human family.


Thank you for the light you have given me, Creator, and guide me during this season of Lent, so I can reflect on your call and respond to your healing teachings. Help me to share my talents and gifts to build your Kingdom, where the hungry are fed and the oppressed are set free.


Lord, I trust in your promise to guide me and give me a rich inner life when I follow your call to share my bread with the hungry and help the afflicted. I delight in your goodness and the wisdom of our Church.


I give thanks for your unending love, Creator and Lord. You nourish my soul and I grow in knowledge, spirit and discernment as I listen to your teachings. I long to be ever more authentically human and to be open to the work of transforming structures and systems that prevent others from being fully human.


You invite us to follow you, Lord, and challenge us to love all your children, especially the poor, the marginalized, and even the sinners. Help us not to retreat in fear from them, but give us the courage to truly look at your least ones and to see you in them. We trust in your liberating mercy for all of us.


You nurture us as a loving parent, O God, and you delight in our creativity. Forgive us when we do not use this gift to build up your Kingdom; free us to work in joy and with our full powers to sow the seeds of truth, justice and peace.


Create in us a renewed and open heart, O Lord, and help us not remain indifferent to social injustice anywhere in your world. Help us shape the words "justice" and "peace" and teach us to use them daily so we can proclaim your goodness.


Dear God, your commandment to love our neighbor is so simple and so difficult. Guide us through the complexities of responding to this commandment and grow us in love.


Peace you offer us, Lord, but we so often turn away. Deepen our desire for peace every day, and help us be open to promoting peace every day.


You came to us in love, O Lord, and you offered yourself up to suffer and die out of love for us. Give us a love that is as wide as the whole world and let us rejoice in this love.