Morning Prayer

Prayer for Meetings

Opening Prayer:
 Lord, as we gather in your name,
we want to be in your presence.
Grant us a spirit of dialogue and
illumine our minds with the light
of truth and strengthen our
fraternal spirit that we may always
seek and do your will. Through
Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen
 GOSPEL
READING
Mark 10:28-31
 28 Peter began to say to Jesus, “We have given
up everything and followed you.”
29 Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no
one who has given up house or brothers or sisters
or mother or father or children or lands for my
sake and for the sake of the Gospel
30 who will not receive a hundred times more now in
this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and
mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and
eternal life in the age to come. 31 But many that are
first will be last, and the last will be first.”
• Reflection: Reward for Following Jesus
• The gospel reading above follows immediately the passage about the
rich man who cannot follow Jesus because of his wealth. Jesus then
said it is difficult for a rich to enter the kingdom of God. This is in
contrast to the apostles who have left everything to follow Him. Jesus
then made the promise that anyone who gave up possessions and
even family will receive a reward that is a hundred times more. More
importantly, they will get eternal life in the age to come.
The Prayer of St. Gertrude
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most precious
Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union
with the masses said throughout the world
today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for
sinners everywhere, for sinners in the
universal church, those in my own home and
within my family. Amen
CLOSING SONG: