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PARISH PRAYER FOR 2010

Trust God from the bottom of your heart;
Don’t try to figure out everything on your own.
Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go;
He’s the one who will keep you on track. (Proverbs 3:5-6 MSG)

Where there is no vision, the people perish;
But he that keepeth the law, happy is he. (Proverbs 29:18 KJV)

Be thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

Be thou my Wisdom, and thou my true Word;
I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father; Thine own may I be,
Thou in me dwelling, and I one with thee.

Riches I heed not, nor the world’s empty praise;
Thou mine inheritance, now and always:
Thou and thou only, first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my treasure thou art.

High King of heaven, when victory is won,
May I reach heaven’s joys, bright heaven’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.

Text: Irish hymn; Mary Elizabeth Byrne; Eleanor H. Hull



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