Short Prayer Instructions

The prayer meeting in Assisi where the pope and leaders of other religions said their prayers for justice and peace is a thing of the past but nevertheless it is still working. In Cologne young people take up the pope's message (intent). Will they too return to their countries on/in a different (other) way (spiritually understood) to recognize Christ in his humble sisters and brothers, and to offer him/them with their special gifts?

Let's pray for justice and peace for those poor and for ourselves to the rhythm of our breathing.
You need not become an expert in breathing techniques. Normally it will be quite sufficient to sit down, lay one hand into the other one, relax, become aware of your breathing, take some deep 'drags' - inhaling this most precious breath of life - and exhale in the same slow and attentive way. You can pray in this way also while you are walking or resting on your bed.
Then you will connect with your breathing the words of the formula chosen by you. There will be no sound of words, because you're saying them in your mind or heart.

By breathing in say the cursive,
by breathing out the underlined words.

My Lord and my God,
set me free from myself and let me give myself to You.

My Lord and my God
take from me everything that keeps me from You.

My Lord and my God
give to me everything that leads me to You.

You will keep doing this for as long as you have decided before - remaining in silence. Since I do not know the circumstances of your life, I cannot advice you how much time you should give to praying by breathing. If 10 or 20 minutes daily are enough for you or not you will find out yourself.

Other Payers
Imagine the Lord God in Paradise, breathing Life into Adam.
Alternately you may imagine the Risen Lord greeting the Apostles, "Peace be with you", breathing on them the Holy Spirit, and granting them the ability to forgive sins.

A - dam

Peace  be with you

Für Teilnehmer anderer Religionen

Scha - lom

Sa - lâm
As-salâmu - 'alaykum

Om - mane padme hum

Living modestly

As its name suggests, the prayer community 'CON-Spiration for/with/of the poor' is a poverty movement too. Here poverty does not mean material need but to get rid of the attachment to possessions, to become free of greed. Nobody wants to choose poverty in itself.
In the Christian creed the revelation of the mystery of God's love is taught by the dogma of his Trinity. His being three in one is founded in the Father's giving himself totally away to his Son. The Son too gives himself up to the Father. The personified love of both of them is named 'Holy Spirit'.
Since the Son of God has chosen the path of poverty (manger and cross), and - as the risen Lord - identifies himself totally with his humble brothers, I will ask him to move my heart this way: To identify myself more and more with the poor, and so become eventually identical with God who became poor out of love to me.
Hence poverty means to follow the example of Christ, means discipleship. For example to take up the Lord's advice, and to bind oneself by the vow of poverty to the poor Christ, as it happens in religious orders.
There is happiness and bliss in people who are really poor, poor in spirit and mind. God's blessing rests on them (Cf. Mt 5,3). They are the ones who have the capability to be in union and in peace as is shown by their lives. To strive after that kind of poverty, pays off.
The natural trend of our life points to this goal. We will leave everything behind in the hour of our death. To be prepared for it means to give up a lot of things and persons that have troubled my heart.

By meditating on poverty you will certainly find more reasons to side with it or, as Saint Francis said, to gain her as your bride.

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