Answer: Prayers During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Prayers for those with the Coronavirus, those who care for them, and those who are suffering from anxiety during this stressful time.
Prayers
We Asked
My Mask
Pandemic 2020
Prayer for the Safety of Returning to School in a Pandemic
Strength for this Challenging Time
A Prayer in Response to An Ignatian Examen on Working During the Pandemic
We Bring Your Love
The Other Side of the Virus, an Opportunity to Awaken...
Lightening the Load
Covid Poem
Litany of Solidarity and Hope During a Pandemic
A Prayer for Our Uncertain Times
We'll Get Through This
Pandemic
A Coronavirus Prayer
An Examen for Times of Anxiety and Depression
An Examen in Caring for Others
An Examen to Become More Loving
An Examen for Life During COVID-19
Prayer in a Time of Anxiety
Prayer for a Pandemic
Prayer for People Critically Ill or Facing Great Uncertainty
Prayer in Time of Illness
Prayer for the Sick
A Coronavirus Prayer
Pope's Prayer for Protection from Coronavirus
Burn Brighter
A Prayer of Thanksgiving
A Prayer for Hope After a Hard Year
Prayer for Ordinary Time
See Also
Healing Prayers
Strength Prayers
Loss and Sorrow Prayers
Calmness Prayers
God's Love Prayers
Unity Prayers
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We Asked
Before I begin, I would like to offer a brief prayer of thanksgiving that I have relied upon heavily, especially throughout the past year as we have suffered as a community, and as a nation, and as a world, in so many ways:
Loving Creator,
We asked for strength, and you gave us difficulties to make us strong.
We asked for wisdom, and you gave us problems to solve.
We asked for prosperity, and you gave us purpose and brains to use.
We asked for courage, and you gave us fears to overcome.
We asked for patience, and you gave us situations where we were forced to wait.
We asked for love, and you gave us troubled people to help.
We asked for justice, and you called us to be just and lead with integrity.
Lord, we have received nothing that we asked for or wanted.
And yet, we receive everything that we needed.
For this we give thanks.
- By Colleen Hanycz, PhD incoming President at Xavier University
My Mask
Holy God, you see me and you hear me.
Through my mask, you see if I smile or if I scowl.
Through my mask, you hear me if I whisper a brief prayer or mutter a muffled curse.
My friends don’t see or hear or know; nor do my family; nor my colleagues.
But you do.
This mask takes away power – the power of clear communication but also the possibility to infect. But it also grants a freedom to be with.
My smiles, my thoughts, my mumbles, though – these I know, but they are a greater mystery to others now.
But not to you, Lord. You see past my mask, you hear through it, you know.
But your mask, Lord, what about your mask? Who can see through your mask? Hear through it?
I cannot.
I cannot see if you smile or if you scowl.
I cannot hear if you whisper an answer to my prayer or brush off my curse.
I cannot sense if you are pleased with me or if you are waiting for me to do much better.
Can we all take off our masks, Lord? Put them away?
When the disease that moves us to mask our faces for safety fades away, will our eyes and our ears be stronger, better able to see and to hear the smiles and the frowns, the cries and the whispers of those who fill our lives? Who make our lives worth living?
Will we see, Lord, that what we think of as your mask is really also our own, our inability to find you in the rush of our lives, our failure to see you in all the wonders you show us, our incapacity to hear your gentle voice in the tumult that surrounds us.
Can we know, Lord, that we put on many masks so we can cope, avoid, pretend, be acceptable? (What scar did the Phantom’s mask hide? “Who was that masked man?”)
Help us, Lord, to move beyond our masks. You are here for us to see and to hear. Help us. Let us take off our masks.
- By Fr. Edward Schmidt S.J.
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Pandemic 2020
2020. The year that taught us to minimize. To improvise. To compromise.
