In preparation for meeting their Rome-appointed episcopal overseers, the nuns who are part of the LCWR have published this prayer: (bolding not mine, but from another site).
God’s Spirit
A Prayer for our Sisters
In this time of pain and promise,
we call on God’s Spirit to bless
the leadership of LCWR, of our
Congregation, and all women religious
who strive to live the gospel in these
uncertain times.
We call on the Spirit of God to reveal
the way forward that is faithful to God’s
dream for us and our lives together.
May all who are called to engage
in prayer and conversation come to
the table with hearts that are open,
transparent, and faith-filled. May their
reflection be marked by a deep listening
to the voice of the Spirit at work in
our world.
May the holy ones who have gone
before us inspire us by their courage
and wisdom and affirm that we are
not alone.
May we continue to faithfully live the
questions of our time and witness to
the people of God that we are women
at home with mystery and filled with
fierce hope for our shared future.
Amen.
by Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Chris Koellhoffer
Aside from the literary unmerit of the tired faux-intense tone and the empty hyped phrases, plus the fact that it is not a prayer, speech directed to God, as much as a set of self-referential hortatories, here's a hint to Sister Chris and her fellows (!) about what the basic problem is: Whose Name, very like yours, is totally missing from this text?
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1 comment:
So, wouldn't the references to "God's Spirit" and the "Spirit of God" rather than to the Holy Spirit seem to reject the concept of the Trinity, making the whole faux-prayer heretical?
These women aren't even Catholic anymore.
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