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A website for God's Children and Roman Catholics List of Catholic Parishes in Orange County, California
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| Prayer of lectors Dear Jesus, thank You for calling me to be a lector at Your Eucharistic celebrations. Let me take this role seriously and diligently prepare myself for it by studying the sacred texts before mass, and by striving to be a better Catholic Christian. By my physical action of reading, I AM the instrument through whom You become present to the assembly in Your word and through whom You impart Your teachings. Let nothing in my manner disturb Your people or close their hearts to the action of Your spirit. Cleanse my heart and my mind and open my lips that I may worthily proclaim Your word. Amen+
Prayer for Preparation for Lectors Lord, make me a window, not a door. Help me break open Your Holy Word to let Your people through point them outward help them see and hear and feel Just like windows, Your people will know I'm there, but through me, may they watch the marvelous display of Your Presence that Your Word unfolds for them. Lord grant me humility as I approach the task of proclamation. The last thing I want to do is be an obstacle. Grant me the wisdom to know I must prayerfully prepare with other Lectors to really open myself to what You would have me learn before I can open Your Holy Word for others. Bless my efforts to do Your will by proclaiming Your Word. May You be in my heart and an my lips each time I read that I may worthily proclaim Your Holy Word. Amen+
Lectors’ Prayer Together before proclaiming (A)Lector 1:While everything else has its season and turns to dust, God’s Word lives forever. The Hebrew scriptures are eloquent in speaking about the creative, effective, dynamic, eternal reality that we call the Word of God, which continues to live and breathe and work its way in human history. Lector 2:God’s World dwells among us… In the Beginning was the Word; The Word was God’s presence, and the Word was God. He was present to God in the Beginning. Through him all things came into being, and apart from him nothing came to be. Together:May the Lord be in our hearts and on our lips each time we read that we may worthily proclaim His Holy Word. Amen+
Lectors’ Prayer Together before proclaiming (B)Lector 1:The ministry of a Lector is a wonderful work. Through us God’s living Word continues to speak to His people, to the young and the old, the troubled, the hopeless, the happy and the content, To those in need of challenge and those in need of comfort. Lector 2:Our task is like that of the sower who generously casts the seed on the earth, Knowing that some will take root and bear good fruit. Together:May the Lord be in our hearts and on our lips each time we read that we may worthily proclaim His Holy Word. Amen+
Prayer of Preparation for a Lector of the Word.“Prayers for the Servants of God”, Edward M. Hays, Shantiavanam House of Prayer Lord, invest me with Your Power as I prepare to proclaim the Marvel of Your Message. I have prepared my readings, I have tried to take within me the meaning of what I AM about to proclaim; help me, I ask, to read not just with my lips but with my whole heart and soul. Lord, make me a hollow reed so that Your Voice will be heard by all who will hear me. Free me of excessive concern over my performance, over the impression I create in this Sacred Action. Convert my feelings of nervousness, turn all my apprehensions into an energy for proclaiming Your Word with power and authority. May Your Spirit fill me as it fills the holy words that I AM about to proclaim. Amen+
Prayer of Thanksgiving for a Lector of the Word.“Prayers for the Servants of God”, Edward M. Hays, Shantiavanam House of Prayer My Lord and Source of Divine Wisdom, Womb of the Word which I have been gifted to read to my brothers and sisters, help me as I now return to my daily duties, to live out in the fullest what I have proclaimed as Truth, what I have heralded as the Way and the Life. I ask that my life may be an open gospel to all who observe my actions. May my speech echo the Love of God, speak of the Lord's Generosity and Patience. Lord, what I ask is that I might become Your Word to my family and to all whom I encounter. May this request be granted in Your Divine and Compassionate Mercy, through Jesus Christ, my Brother and Lord. Amen+ |
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