Daily Archives: November 12, 2009

Athlete’s Prayer

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We thank you, God, for the opportunity to participate in this basketball game. For it is Your gift of our basketball talent and our response of hard work, practice, and teamwork that have brought us here.

Today, we play by man-made rules and, at game’s end, we accept the outcome of the scoreboard on the wall. We are reminded, too, of Your scoreboard, the scoreboard etched in our hearts, which asks 3 questions:

(1) Did we play fair?
(2) Did we play hard and to the best of our abilities?
(3) And most of all, did we have fun?

We play this game, through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

By: Ken Clark, Alum

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Lord, Grant Me a Holy Heart

Lord, grant me a holy heart
that sees always what is fine and pure
and is not frightened at the sight of sin,
but creates order wherever it goes.

Grant me a heart that knows nothing
of boredom, weeping and sighing.
Let me not be too concerned
with the bothersome thing
I call “myself.”

Lord, give me a sense of humor
and I will find happiness in life
and profit for others.

St. Thomas Moore
Submitted by, JJ Mueller, S.J.

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You Are A Blessing

Give me the courage
to open my eyes.
To open the eyes of
my heart and my soul.
To wake up my wisdom
so I can see the blessings.
Everywhere and in everything
and in every one.

by Aman Motwane
www.powerof wisdom.com

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