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Compassion Take Home Section Week 2

The document discusses the significance of prayer during Lent as a transformative practice that can enhance daily life and awareness of God's presence. It suggests incorporating simple prayers into everyday activities to foster a deeper connection with spirituality. The excerpt emphasizes the discipline of prayer and its ability to bring about profound change in individuals.

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Compassion Take Home Section Week 2

The document discusses the significance of prayer during Lent as a transformative practice that can enhance daily life and awareness of God's presence. It suggests incorporating simple prayers into everyday activities to foster a deeper connection with spirituality. The excerpt emphasizes the discipline of prayer and its ability to bring about profound change in individuals.

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Acts of Compassion - Day by Day

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Lent - Week Two

Lent is a transformative time, a time to shed Prayer changes us. If our everyday activities
those habits that diminish us as human beings. became moments of prayer, we could be
It was in prayer that Jesus was changed and continuously transformed and become what
transformed. we love.

• How can we use this period of Lent to Can our everyday lives be transformed, every
commit to a time of prayer each day - or to moment with awareness of God’s presence?
an extra time of prayer each day? • Making beds - thanksgiving for sleep; for
It could be as simple as a breath prayer rest; for loving relationships.
prayed for just one minute: • Washing dishes and clothes - cleanse me
Choose a simple prayer that can be prayed from my sins; make me whiter than snow -
in two phrases - one on the in-breath and call to mind our sins and ask forgiveness.
one on the out-breath, such as • Dusting - we are made from dust and to
• Loving God ... bring peace. dust we return. An opportunity to pray for
others.
• God of compassion ... live in me.
• Gardening or caring for pets - bringing to
• Merciful God ... come near. awareness the sacredness of all creation.
• ‘Yes,’ God ... I choose you. • Cooking - the gift of hospitality - sharing
with others; nurture of body and soul.
• Sweeping, mopping and vacuuming - what
are the things I want to let go of today? To
sweep out of my life?
• Packing the dishwasher - a little examen -
what needs to fit in my life, and what can
be put aside?
• Driving the car or the sound of a siren -
prayer for emergency service workers and
those in distress.

“The discipline of prayer makes us stop and listen, wait and look, taste and see, pay
attention and be aware... it actually demands much willpower and motivation....
Every attempt to ‘live it through’ or to ‘stay with it’ is so contrary to our usual habits
that all our impulses rise up in protest. But when discipline keeps us faithful, we
slowly begin to sense that something so deep, so mysterious, and so creative is
happening here and now that we are drawn towards it.”
Henri Nouwen, Donald McNeill, Douglas Morrison, Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life, (p105).

Excerpt from Compassion: Reflecting Sharing Living the Good News (Lent Year C)
© Archdiocese of Brisbane 2019. Used with Permission
Image: Return of the Prodigal Son (detail), Hans Peter Feddersen (1848-1941), Common Domain

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