Prayer Leader: Response Loving God, we thank Thee
For flowers that bloom around our feet...
For tender grass so fresh, so sweet ….’
For the song of birds and hum of bee, for all things fair we hear and see
For blue of stream and blue of sky
For pleasant shade of branches high
For fragrant air and cooling breeze, for beauty of the blooming trees
For this new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night
For health and food, for love and friends
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We praise and thank You, Lord, for the gift of living water.
Guide us to use it wisely, learn from its humility, consume it sparingly, and protect its purity, so that with St. Francis, we may truly enjoy water. Amen!
Cathal Duddy
Prayer Leader: Response We pray in gratitude and ask your blessing
For this tree that has sheltered all the sisters who have for years made Siena their home
For all sisters who made the decision and took the action to make this spot
‘Heart of the Racine Dominicans’…
For all who live and serve in this place
For the Associates and Sisters who find unity and common ground here
For many who meet or retreat on this sacred ground
our neighbors
We lift these prayers to you as we all say AMEN
Let us give thanks for the world around us. Thanks for all the creatures, stones & plants. Let us learn their lessons and seek their truths, so that their path might be ours, and we might live in harmony, a better life. May the Earth continue to live. May the Heavens above continue to live. May the rains continue to dampen the land. May the wet forests continue to grow. Then the flowers shall bloom. And we people shall live again.
Hawaiian Indigenous Prayer
Loving God who loves to walk in gardens, we offer thanks for the blessings of this fine garden.
May we be a garden!
Bless the staff who have helped make this garden possible, the Sisters and Associates who have tended it, and the kitchen staff who have made such good use of the harvest. Keep us mindful of our neighbors who go without. We ask your blessings on the food and our sharing as we pray Bless us, oh Lord, and these thy gifts which we are about to receive from Thy bounty through Christ our Lord. AMEN
