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You can also read the prayer here:
God,
Do you call for today?
Do you call for real?
How can I hear? How can I feel?
How do you make yourself known?
But yes, you do.
I hear it and see it in your witnesses.
They have heard your voice.
They have followed.
They have become your voice.
For it has changed their very lives.
Perhaps unpredictably,
Perhaps unexplainably,
Especially for themselves.
They who boldly jumped.
They made peace with their place,
The place you have given.
They could find no better.
A place to love
- you and neighbour
They dared to step into the
adventure of the Spirit.
And this is the answer to ‘who is Jesus’?
They say with their lives
what Jesus dared to ask.
The only thing that can,
The only thing that may.
Through their YES
Your call has rippled to others.
Changing lives.
Through their witness.
Through their yes.
In their poverty.
In their riches.
For now they are truly themselves,
More than ever.
And yet no slave to themselves,
for they are fully given.
Yes, you continue to call
today O God.
Open our hearts,
Open our eyes,
Open our ears.
Mankind needs you.
Mankind needs us.
We give thanks
for those who know this call,
for those who seek this faithful path.
Stand by them every day.
Lead o kindly light
One step enough
No more
Until the hour
of your call is known.
Your Kairos moment.
Our Kairos moment.
The hour that takes a life,
And fills a life,
And gives a life.
Your life.
Lode Van Hecke, OCSO
Bishop of Gent (Belgium)