Pilgrimage: A Journey of Transformation

Prayers for The Way

Monica C.
1–2 minutes

Reimagining the Face of God – April 13, 2024

Celebrating Creation

Almighty God, Creator:
The morning is Yours, rising into fullness.
The summer is Yours, dipping into autumn.
Eternity is Yours, dipping into time.
The vibrant grasses, the scent of flowers, the lichen on the rocks, the tang of seaweed.
All are Yours.
Gladly we live in this Garden of Your creating.

Esther de Waal, Every Earthly Blessing:  Celebrating A Spirituality of Creation (Ann Arbor, Michigan:  Servant Publications, 1991), 102.

Pilgrimage on the Camino – Roncesvalles to Zubiri – June 11, 2024

Celebrating the Earth

Deep peace of the quiet earth to you, who,
herself unmoving, harbors the movements
and facilitates the life of the ten thousand creatures,
While resting contented, stable, tranquil.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you!

Christine Valters Paintner, Water, Wind, Earth & Fire: The Christian Practice of Praying with the Elements (Notre Dame, Indiana: Sorin Books, 2010), 103.

Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago – Day 1 – April 6, 2024

Prayer of Mary (the Magnificat)

My soul magnifies the Lord,
  and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant,
  Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
for the Mighty One has done great things for me,
  and holy is his name.

His mercy is for those who fear him
  from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm;
  he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

He has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
  and lifted up the lowly;
he has filled the hungry with good things,
  and sent the rich away empty.

He has helped  his servant Israel,
  in remembrance of his mercy,
according to the promise he made to our ancestors,
  to Abraham and to his descendants forever.

Luke 1: 46-55 (NRSV)