SEND OFF DINNER - March 24, 2010

P: Let us put ourselves before the Holy Presence of God.

In the name +
May the Lord who fills you with his bounty be with you always!

All: And also with you.

Heavenly Father, as we gather together this evening to give thanks to you

for the gifts & blessings you have bestowed upon our university during the
past years, we ask you to bless this wonderful event.
Thank you dear Father for being with us in this Send-off Dinner as a tribute
to our graduating students, the fruits our labor, the rich harvest of our
Vincentian Educational Apostolate.
Lord, grant every graduate the willingness to forget what is behind him now
and learn to let go of the past and the joy to do his best to reach what lies
ahead and to run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize of a life
in Christ.
Instill in every Adamsonian graduate the breath, the depth and the height
of Forward 2010 Into a New Decade of Academic Brilliance and Inspiring
Service.
Bestow your blessing upon the OSA, AUAAI and OIA for having initiated this
brainchild project as they put the Vincentian Imprint into the heart of every
graduate.
God source of Divine Providence, we join all creation in raising a hymn of
praise and thanksgiving to you. We ask you to bless the food which we will
partake tonight with grateful hearts and being mindful of those who have
nothing on their table.
Continue to bless our University with your bounty. Mary our Mother, lay
down your mantle of love and protection upon us all encompassing. Let our
love for you be radiated in our service of the poor and the marginalized,
in the pursuit of peace, probity and justice and in our generous response to
those in need. May the tiny flame of Vincentian Spirit among the graduates
become a wild fire of charity spread through the whole world.
This we ask though Christ our Lord who lives and reigns forever and ever.
AMEN