Join Us in Prayer | Meet Me in the Desert | Catholic Relief Services

The desert landscape in southern Balochistan, flooded by Cyclone Yemyin in 2007, forced many families to relocate. CRS provided families with clean water, sanitation facilities and shelter from the summer sun. (Staff/CRS)

Meet Me in the Desert
(A Lenten Prayer)

Lord of Lent, Lord of Easter,

As you went into the desert
So do I follow
Putting aside that which distracts me
Grabs at me
Falsely claims me.

To search inside
To confront myself
My best, my worst
My good works and my sins.

And each time, I find you there
To call to me again
With words of challenge and words of mercy.

And as I fall to my knees, in prayer, in fasting
In sacrifice and penitence
Somehow, you have it in yourself to reach out
   and gently lift me
To renew me
To claim me as nothing of this world can claim
   me.

 

Meet me in the desert, Lord.
Claim me anew.

Amen.

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Miserere Mei Deus

I hope the Holy Spirit moves you to listen to this performance during lent. The following comment accompanies the video.  This particular version includes the subtitles of the verses in English.

This piece is Psalm 51, but first set to music by Allegri around 1630. It is one of the finest and most popular examples of renaissance polyphony. It is often heard in Churches of the apostolic Christian tradition on Ash Wednesday[...] Beautifully performed here by The Sixteen, listen out for the simplicity, humility and reverence.

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