Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community Quotes

“Prayer is a small fire lit to keep cold hands warm. Prayer is a practice that flourishes both with faith and doubt. Prayer is asking, and prayer is sitting. Prayer is the breath. Prayer is not an answer, always, because not all questions can be answered.”
― Pádraig Ó Tuama, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community

“May we find our foundation in the work of Love; demanding, tiring, true and human and holy.”
― Pádraig Ó Tuama, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community

“God of the ground, whose body was − like ours − from dust, and who fell − like we fall − to the ground.  May we find you on the ground when we fall. Oh, our falling fallen brother, may we find you, so that we may inhabit our stories, our selves.”
― Pádraig Ó Tuama, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community

“Prayer can be a rhythm that helps us make sense in times of senselessness, not offering solutions, but speaking to and from the mystery of humanity.”
― Pádraig Ó Tuama, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community

“At Corrymeela, we do not seek to undo differences, merely we hope and pray that we can learn to hold our differences differently.”
― Pádraig Ó Tuama, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community

“Gods of Pilate, you are loud and lazy, following the fashions of the day making lies out of love and making mockeries of meaning. And − so often − we follow you. May we instead, follow that small whisper, even when we barely hear it, even when we barely believe it, even when it hurts. Because this is what love is. This is what love is.”
― Pádraig Ó Tuama, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community

“May we be like you in this way, finding friends at crossroads and bus-stops, in queues and crises, in kindness and curiosity. Because we, like you, need the company of others.”
― Pádraig Ó Tuama, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community