Monthly Archives: May 2017

Covenant Prayer

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Weekly Covenant Prayer

SPIRITUAL COMMUNION

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y Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You have already come, and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.

The Gift – the Offering

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You, my Father,
Gift me.
At Your behest,
At Christ’s bequest.

You place on my tongue,
The sweet Body of Your Son.
You place within my living body
The dying and the rising of Your Son.

© 2017 Joann Nelander

My Sun

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With the rising of each sun,
I seek the Sun of Justice,
That coming up over hill or horizon,
He might climb the sky,
Shattering my limits, my lacks,
And poor persuasions.

O, Conqueror of Death,
And King of New Day,
Let nothing deter
Your mounting my sky.

As nothing could chain You in the Tomb,
Or dissuade Your Rising,
To pick up Life,
And surrmount High Heaven,
Here, at my beginning,
Call me forth.
With the Force of the Commingled,
And Communal Love,
That begot Thee,
For I choose Thee,
Thou, Who gave my soul substance without Matter,
Spirit without Space,
Dependant, only on Thee,
My Champion.

Love begot Thee.
Loves conceives in His Knowing,
And Love,
Takes wing,
To welcome me,
One God,
Thee, My Three,
Now regarding me.

O, Sun of Justice,
Arise, and in myself, ever be.

© 2017 Joann Nelander

Hard As Nails

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You are.
You are called.
You are great.

Called to greatness.
Called to suffering.
Called to travel your road.

No soul alone.
No soul without suffering
No soul unloved.

He’s gone before you.
He goes with you.
He is the greatness living in you.

Embrace your pain.
Count it all gain. Call on His Name,
Jesus.

© 2017 Joann Nelander

The Least of These

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Jesus, Son of God,
Human and divine,
Reign at the core of my being.

In Eucharist,
You supply all.
You are cause and sustenance.

My Lord, my Lover, my holy Meal,
Giver of Gifts,
I place my all at Your service.

As rays of the Sun,
Shining and emitted for Your glory,
Unite my heart with Your Church.

Send forth Your Spirit,
Purifying as purgative flame,
The Church Militant and Suffering.

You, Savior, Victor, King,
Regard and guard “the least of these”,
Going forth from Your Most Sacred Heart.

© 2016 Joann Nelander