Vow Renewal Day

Section: 
prayers

August 10

Environment:  Prayer candle
 
Hymn Suggestions:
For You Are My God (Foley)
My God and My All (Zargoza)
One Spirit, One Church (Keil)
Earthen Vessels (Foley)
Now We Remain (Haas)
We Walk By Faith (Haugen)
Only This I Want (Schutte)
Center of My Life (Inwood)
Magnificat (Haas)
Remain As One (Roberts)
Praises of God (Likovich)
Let Us Adore the Lord (Talbot)
Clare’s Blessing (Roberts)
Lord Whose Love in Humble Service
(HOLY MANNA)
Psalm Suggestions:

116:12-19; 123; 125; 131; 139:1-12
 
Reading Suggestions:

Appropriate in whole or in part are:

Constitutions of the Sisters of St. Francis Philadelphia: “The Call and the Response,” Chapter 1
“Later Admonition and Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance” The Second Version of St. Francis Letter to the Faithful: # 19-21; # 47-53
(As found in Francis Of Assisi, Early Documents: The Saint. Volume I)


Excerpts from the Writings of Mother Francis.
 

Response Suggestions:

1.  Let us love and adore God with a pure heart and a pure
     mind—Let us love...

     And let us praise God and pray to the Holy One day and
     night... with a pure heart...

     Glory to You, Source of All Being, Eternal Word and Holy
     Spirit—Let us love...

2.  A sung response such as John Michael Talbot’s "Let us
     Adore the Lord."

Gospel Canticle Antiphon:

Holy Virgin Mary, among the women born into the world, there is no one like you. Daughter and servant of the most high and supreme King and of the Father in heaven, Mother o our most holy Lord Jesus Christ, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, pray for us.  

Excerpt from “The Office of the Passion,” page 141 in Francis Assisi: Early Documents Vol. 1, edited by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM Cap., J.A. Wayne Hellmann, OFM Conv., William J. Short, OFM. New York: New City Press, 1999. Used with permission.


Intercessions:

Response: My God and my All

That we may be peacemakers in our places of work, in our homes, and with all whom we serve, we pray ...

That we who have chosen the vowed life may witness to God’s love by giving generously of ourselves, we pray ...

That we may live in hope as we plan for the future of the congregation, we pray ...

That all our members may cherish the heritage that is ours carrying it forward into the future, we pray ...

That those sisters who have gone before us may enjoy the presence of God, we pray ...

Closing Prayer Suggestions:

Almighty, eternal, just, and merciful God, give us miserable ones the grace to do for You alone what we know you want us to do and always to desire what pleases You. Inwardly cleansed, interiorly enlightened and inflamed by the fire of the Holy Spirit may we be able to follow in the footprints of Your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and, by your grace alone, may we make our way to You, Most High, Who live and rule in perfect Trinity and simple Unity, and are glorified God almighty, forever and ever. Amen.
 

Excerpt from “The Letter to the Entire Order,”  page 121 in Francis Assisi: Early Documents Vol. 1, edited by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM Cap., J.A. Wayne Hellmann, OFM Conv., William J. Short, OFM. New York: New City Press, 1999. Used with permission.

“Clare’s Blessing” (Roberts)