Mary Sullivan

“Who teaches the soul if not God?”

(St. John of the Cross)

Who will be our good teacher?

Who best knows what we ought do?

Who teaches our souls truths divine?

Who will teach us if that be not You?

Take us up to Your classroom,

The steep and the steady climb.

Teach us the lessons we need to learn.

Pour divine truths into our minds.

Fill us with deep understanding.

Fill us with Your wisdom too.

Show us how to think clearly.

Show us what we ought do.

Come sit by our side dear Jesus,

Help us hear all that You say,

Grant us the grace to understand,

That we follow along your way.

Dear Jesus, just as You teach us,

Teach each of our loved ones today.

Give them lessons in living.

That no more may they go astray.

Make us good students, Lord Jesus.

With grace to learn all Your lessons.

Lord, You are our good Teacher.

Let Your class in our lives be in session.

St. John of the Cross, pray for us!

Saint Augustine, you who lived a wretched sinner’s life.

You turned back to the Lord, away from sin and strife.

Pray we not push God away, or place Him on some shelf.

You said if we are filled with love, we are filled with God Himself.

Let us now fill ourselves with God; thus, fill ourselves with love.

That grace may flow into our souls, from heaven up above.

When we are feeling quite unloved; and start making a fuss.

May we know God loves each of us, as if there were but one of us.

Saint Augustine, in your mercy, pray for loved ones lost.

As Christ, Himself, for us all has hung upon a cross.

No matter what lost souls have done, no matter where they’ve been,

Pray we may love the sinner, while we hate the sin.

May we be granted patience, with the good Lord as our guide,

To listen to their story, to hear the other side.

Saint Augustine, pray loved ones, will now truly see,

Our hearts will be so restless, until they rest in Thee.

Saint Augustine, we beg of thee, on this grace-filled day,

Pray for all our dear loved ones. St. Augustine do pray.

“It is a lesson we all need—

to let alone the things that do not concern us.

He has other ways for others to follow Him;

all do not go by the same path.

It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him,

and to follow Him in that path.” (St. Katharine Drexel)

Father, help us to let be, what should not be our concern.

Guide us along the holy path, the path we ought not spurn.

The path by which, you have willed, life’s lessons we ought learn,

Show to us where we must walk.  Help us our path discern.

All do not walk by the same path, nor endure the same trials.

You call each to a different path; You call some for many miles.

Show to us, dear Father, the path for us that’s best,

Show to us, gracious Father, that path willed by You and blessed.

Lead us along the holy path, though sorrow we may know.

Through mercy lead us home to You. Help us let others go

Along the path You will for them, though it be a painful one.

We trust You to show our loved ones the way back to Your Son.

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.

From it flows the unity which heals us of all strife.

For through the Holy Eucharist, which means in truth Thanksgiving,

God unites us on a path to pure and holy living.

Let us receive Him worthily; through confession He forgives,

That we be not defiled or commit a sacrilege.

One dresses in clean garments when at a wedding feast.

Our Lord deserves the best from us and not our very least.

In Most Holy Communion, we receive You, precious Lord.

You give to us Your very self, O God Who we adore.

And through this precious bit of bread which has been consecrated,

We become more like You in Whose image we’re created.

Send Your Holy Spirit, Lord, to rest on all our souls.

May receiving Jesus worthily be first of all our goals.

Give to us the wisdom to see the cause of our disunion:

Your body is badly bloodied by sacrilegious Communions.

May confession wash from our souls all grime and dirt and mud.

May peace be found with one another through Your Body, Soul and Blood.

Lord Jesus, there are many who do not believe You’re there.

Find a way to show them, Lord, just how much You care.

Help all along the path of truth to find the way to You.

Bring all to confession and to pure living too.

With You may we now unite, as our first common bond.

You call all to Communion   Help us all to respond.

There is no rest outside You, Lord; in You is our true peace.

Only through the Eucharist will our divisions cease.

Be our teacher, Jesus, instruct us on our way.

Through the Holy Eucharist, unite all in truth today.