Catholic Health Prayers and Reflections

Beauty in Breakdown (a meditation) Pause. Breathe. Heal. Dwell in the beauty you have found and bring it with you into the rest of your day. Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breathe and heal, knowing you are not alone.    One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of...

BOTH DAY AND NIGHT  BELONG TO YOU  Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breath, and heal knowing you are not alone.    The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.  - Psalm 74:16

YOUR STEADFAST LOVE  ENDURES FOREVER  Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breath, and heal knowing you are not alone.    The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.”  - Psalm 138:8

GOD’S EYE ON THE SPARROW  GOD’S EYE ON ME  Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breath, and heal knowing you are not alone.    “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the ai...

DO NOT BE AFRAID  I AM WITH YOU Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breath, and heal knowing you are not alone.    Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.  - Psalm 23:4

I FIND REST  IN YOUR SHELTER Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breath, and heal knowing you are not alone.    Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. - Psalm 91:1

YOU ARE OUR REFUGE  AND OUR STRENGTH  Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breath, and heal knowing you are not alone.    God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.  - Psalm 46:1 

I WILL NOT BE AFRAID  FOR YOU ARE WITH ME Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breath, and heal knowing you are not alone.    Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.  - Psalm 23:4

BE STILL  AND KNOW THAT YOU ARE GOD Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breath, and heal knowing you are not alone.    He says, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."  - Psalm 46:10

NOTHING CAN SEPARATE ME  FROM THE LOVE OF GOD Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breath, and heal knowing you are not alone.    For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to s...

HUMBLE AND GENTLE ONE,  YOU ARE REST FOR MY SOUL Even now, God is with you, as near to you as your breath. Continue giving yourself the gift to pause, breathe, and heal knowing you are not alone.   Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. - Matthew 11:28-30 www.chausa.org/meditations

We celebrate this Easter that no matter what, we are beloved of God – not even death can separate us, and in spite of all that may point to the contrary, we belong to one another. Where we had been broken, Christ mends us. Where we had been scattered, Christ binds us together. Where we had fallen, Christ lifts us up again. Where we had been dead, Christ brings new life. Take a moment now to celebr...

During Holy Week, when we walk with Jesus in his Passion and ultimate death on the Cross, we are offered the chance to enter God’s suffering in the way that God enters ours. While we know that our show of care does not change Jesus’ ending, or make the suffering go away, we are reminded that—as ‘God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every other name’—we, too, are stro...