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First Friday Prayer
Photos and Blog Post by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDS
Kateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota
Admittedly, it’s easy to be attentive to the gift of Creation when living in a place that has more space full of natural things than human-made things.
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… where trees seem to grow right before your eyes…
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… where in a single day, a field goes from empty to the green lines of early corn.
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Last year, during the stay-at-home times of the pandemic, I participated in an online training program to become a Laudato Si Animator. Not only was this an excellent opportunity to take a deep dive into the Encyclical, but it offered new ways for me to continue to integrate the Gospel call, reflected in Catholic Social Teaching, with my own daily life.
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One of the practices I am finding meaningful is joining others around the globe each first Friday to pray together. Some days there are fifty people praying together; other days, several hundred. Each time, a different continent “hosts” the prayer. It’s translated so it is available across languages. It is a way (an additional way) to live the solidarity that humanity so desperately needs to see in this time of such division and isolation, of politicization and polarization.
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And, even though it is set for the first Friday of each month, one can easily access it any time, any day. Prayer, like most of life, doesn’t require a strict schedule.
We so often bemoan the fact that we can no longer march in the streets or undertake some other action that underscores our belief that we can make a real difference in our world or respond to a call for justice.
Prayer is one way that’s open to all of us. Why not join with all the others who have committed to one day, one hour a month to unite in prayer for all of Creation and for all of the poor? It is both a powerful solidarity and a powerful witness.
Here’s the prayer from June: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ZGuxKVreo
Here’s the general web location: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClR9vhKimNUhIVyKM1X3QVA