Community Meditations
We spend a good part of each day in prayer and meditation. Our prayer takes many forms and part of the purpose of our Benedictine life is to make all aspects of our lives acts of worship and prayer. In prayer we seek to make ourselves ready to hear God's word and to act on it.
We hope you will join in our prayer life. The web is a wonderful medium for prayer since all prayer is in some sense virtual. And you can send your requests for prayer to Holy Cross. While we can not answer every e-mail, we do honor every prayer request.
Morning
+ O God, this morning I have come, into the quietness and stillness of your presence, to begin the day, so that out of this moment, I may take with me a quiet serenity, which will last me through the rough, and the smooth of this day's life. Read More...
Nature
For flowers are great blessings.
For there is no height in which there are not flowers. Read more...
Confession
Oh Lord, I confess that I seek safety more than I seek you.
I seek to hide. Read more...
Litany of Penitence
We confess to you, to one another, and to the whole communion of saints in heaven and on earth, that we have sinned by our own fault in thought, word, and deed. Read more...
Reflection on Death
"Jesus began to weep." This poignant verse (John 11:35) shows us the fully human Jesus sharing the grief of Mary and Martha at the death of their brother. Read more...
Church Unity
Dear God - in the Church we are one body. Your Body.
Minds, hearts, various limbs and extremities - one body. Your Body. Read more...
Pentecost
We know not how the day
is to be born,
Whether in clouds of glory,
tongues of flame, Read more...
Inspired by St. Francis
Most high, omnipotent, good Lord
to thee be ceaseless praise outpoured
and blessing without measure. Read more...