Saint Columbanus

Grant, O Lord, that the light of your love may never be dimmed within us. Let it shine forth from our warmed hearts to comfort others in times of peace and in seasons of adversity, and in bright beams of your goodness and love may we come at last to the vision of your glory; through Christ our Lord. Amen

Saint Columbanus, protect us from floods.

Saint Christopher's Protection

Dear Saint Christopher, protect me today
in all my travels along the road's way.
Give your warning sign if danger is near
so that I may stop while the path is clear.
Be at my window
and direct me through when the vision blurs
from out of the blue.
Carry me safely to my destined place,
like you carried Christ in your close embrace.
Amen.

Saint Christopher, protect us from floods.

The Ascension

He who ascends
never ceases to go from beginning to beginning,
through a series of beginnings that never ends.
The one who ascends never ceases to desire
what he already knows.
But continually ascending,
from one desire for something newer and greater
to still another that is higher,
the soul continues its course towards the infinite,
by means of ever more upward flights.
Thus, to the one who is ascending
there comes ever more insistently a call
which leads him to rise ever more on high,
"Come, my love, my dove, hiding in the clefts of the rock."

Gregory of Nissa, Homily 8 on the Song of Songs

Take My Yoke