{"id":4396,"date":"2010-05-10T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/05\/prayer-to-st-damien.html"},"modified":"2010-05-10T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:46:18","slug":"prayer-to-st-damien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/05\/prayer-to-st-damien.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayer to St. Damien"},"content":{"rendered":"

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St. Damien, brother on the journey,
\n
Happy and generous missionary,
\n
who loved the Gospel more than your life,
\n
who for love of Jesus left your family,
\n
your homeland, your security, your dreams,<\/p>\n

Teach us to give our lives
\nwith a joy like yours,
\n
to be in solidarity with the outcasts of the world,
\n
to celebrate and contemplate the Eucharist
\n
as the source of our committment.<\/p>\n

Help us to love to the very end
\n
and, in the strength of the Spirit,
\n
to persevere in compassion
\n
for the poor and forgotten
\n
so that we might be
\ngood disciples of Jesus and Mary.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n— From the Diocese of Honolulu.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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