Let Me Welcome You:

Let me seek and find you, recognize and serve you in all who suffer. Give me the grace, O Savior of the world, to bring your presence even to your enemies and to persist faithfully in witnessing to them even when I find it painful to do so.

A prayer:

If I have committed sins in word, deed or thought because of the weakness of our nature, do not let your eyes discover them. You who have power on earth to forgive sins, forgive me so that I may be refreshed.

- St. Macrina (327?-379)

always be open:


may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it’s sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefullyand love yourself so more than truly there’s never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile