Prayer
Find a Prayer Group- Silent prayer or meditation helps us center our thoughts on God’s goodness and offers renewal in a noisy, hectic world.
- Lectio Divina is a way of praying with the sacred Scriptures. Find a Scripture passage that speaks to you. Read it out loud and then reflect upon it silently for several minutes. Read it again. Notice any words or phrases that stick with you. Ask God what you are to learn from this passage. Listen.
- Keep a prayer journal with all of your wants, needs, thoughts and reflections related to your prayer life.
ROSARY:
Rosary for Life: Every 2nd Friday at 9:30AM after 9AM Mass in the Hampstead sanctuary.
Rosary for World Peace: Every 2nd Saturday after 5PM Mass in the Hampstead sanctuary. All are invited. May at times be held in the large classroom used for Mass overflow space, or in the courtyard around the prayer pavilion.
PRAYER GROUPS:
Tuesdays at 11AM: Our Lady of Mount Carmel prayer group
Tuesdays at 4:30PM: Divine Mercy Chaplet prayer for the sick, dying, caregivers (after 4PM Mass)
Wednesdays at 1:30PM (1st & 3rd Wed. each month, except summer break): Prayer Shawl -- knit, crochet, prayer, fellowship
Prayer for Protection during a Hurricane
[Composed by Most Rev. Maurice Schexnayder (1895-1981), Second Bishop of Lafayette (1956-1973), following Hurricane Audrey in 1957]
Shared from the Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida
O God, Master of this passing world,
hear the humble voices of your children.
The Sea of Galilee obeyed Your order and returned to its former quietude.
You are still the Master of land and sea.
We live in the shadow of a danger over which we have no control;
the Gulf, like a provoked and angry giant,
can awake from its seeming lethargy,
overstep its conventional boundaries, invade our land,
and spread chaos and disaster.
During this hurricane season we turn to You, O loving Father.
Spare us from past tragedies whose memories are still so vivid
and whose wounds seem to refuse to heal with passing of time.
O Virgin, Star of the Sea, Our beloved Mother,
we ask you to plead with your Son on our behalf,
so that spared from the calamities common to this area
and animated with a true spirit of gratitude, we will walk in the footsteps of your Divine Son
to reach the heavenly Jerusalem, where a stormless eternity awaits us. Amen.