Prayer service on silver Jubilee:
SYMPHONY OF
GRATITUDE
INTRODUCTION;
There
is a promise in each sunrise, there is a hope for each day, there is a new day
before us to begin a new life in our inner world of thought, feelings and
emotions as well as in the world around us
Lord we than you for the gift of life and love. We thank you for your
son Jesus who is a real friend to us and especially to Sr. Mary. Above all we thank you for the gift of Sr.
May as she celebrates her silver Jubilee. She is a wonderful person who is
possessed with lot of potentialities and talents. Her sisterly love touches each members of our
congregation as she celebrates her silver Jubilee.
Yes
Lord, a gift is not a reward, it is not something that one deserves, nor can
one demand it. A true gift is always
free. A greatest and the most precious gift each one has received is the gift
of life. Today the real gift for us is
Sr… a gift can be acknowledged, accepted, utilized, ignored, rejected,
discarded or buried. But today as we
celebrate the Jubilee of Sr. Mary her gifts are really to be acknowledged,
accepted, and utilized for good, it brings greater happiness to both receiver
and giver. It is said that life is God’s
gift to us, and what we make of life is our gift to god.
Sr.
Mary has worked 25years tirelessly with zeal and enthusiasm even though at
times the life was not smooth yet she always rendered her service with
cheerfulness. With these sentiments of
gratitude we welcome you in our midst with chandas and kukum. As
flowers add beauty to the garland so dear sister you add joy to this
celebration. Today our hearts are filled
with symphony of gratitude as a token our love we garland to you as we welcome
you to this hour of prayer.
Symbolic
offering
Dear
sister as a symbol of the deeper offering of self, we invite to do deepanjali
to express your homage, reverence thanksgiving, praise, adoration and total surrender
of yourself to god.
Dearest
Lord as our dear sister offers herself a ‘deep’ at your altar we offer
her through Jesus, her body, mind, spirit thoughts, feelings, her desires,
aspirations words and actions her 25 years past religious life, present and
future her joys and sufferings achievements and failures. Her strength and weakness, her prayers and
work, her relationship and, solitude her hopes and dreams, the whole of herself
and every part of her beings let our humble prayer of praise and thanksgiving
arise before you like incense through this deepanjali ‘deep’ which is
the symbol of life of our ‘deep’ which is the symbol of life of our dear sister
which is enlightened continuously by Jesus himself and enlighten many in her 25
years of religious life.
Dearest
Lord, with deep sense of gratitude in our hearts, we praise and thank you Lord
for all the marvelous and wondrous deeds you have done past 25 years of her
religious life. God of life and love as
you planned her existence in this world, the very moment she was conceived in
her mothers womb, you are accompanying in her life journey, you are constant
companion in every moment of her life till this very moment and in future too.
As
we rejoice with sr, …. on this special occasion, thanking and praising god for
her dedicate4d and exemplary life, the gates of our hearts are flung open and
our joy flow far over the seas and oceans at this joyous moment we congratulate
you dear sister and are reminded of your 25 precious years of religious life. A life, which is traveled alone, a life with
challenges and uncertainties, a life with surprises and amazements, a life,
which is shared with others. We thank
you Lord for all the blessings that you shower upon her each and every moment
of her life. Bless her abundantly Lord
for the years to come.
Dear
sister it is the day for you to recollect the most meaningful moments in your
life to list those blessings you never found the time to be thankful, to accept
every good things that came on you way and reflect on the valuable lessons you
have learned in life, the truth that you found, the miracles that touched
you. As you recollect the past 25 years
remember all the time most memorable and precious to your heart, hook in to
today and feel his presence overwhelming you and look forward to tomorrow with
great hope.
Dear
sister we rejoice with you at this special occasion and celebrate your ever
loving dedicated life. God’s blessing
upon you are countless, he continues to bless you and is always there in your
life with His warm light of piercing love.
Today we are grateful to the almighty for the precious gift of your life
to the church, to our congregation, to our community and to each one of us. Thank you for the laughter, love and joy,
which you bring in to our hearts. Thank
you for inspiring us with your missionary zeal and enthusiasm.
On
this special day our very prayer for you is that you may experience the
presence of God walking along with you wherever you go, may he make you a
channel through which your blessings flow to others. Hymn C.54 [W.J.L]
SCRIPTURE READING
Word of
God is a lamp for your steps and a light for your path. Let us listen to the voice of god as we hear
the scripture reading, which is taken from the prophet Isaiah 61:10-11.
Call
to consecrated life is a call to follow the footsteps of Jesus on the way of
perfect love. The source of religious
life is a radical discipleship to Jesus, which is based on deep faith and
commitment. It is only then that our
service will become an authentic witness and prophetic way of responding to the
reign of God.
Dear
sister today you are called to be a prophet a call, which originates from Jesus
himself. The prophet utters a hymn of
thanksgiving and praise for the fidelity of god towards His people. He rejoices in the Lord for making known to
him the righteous things to do.
Mary
our mother is the first disciple to announce to the world the messianic age and
the prophetic mission of Jesus. Lk, 1:46-55 invites us to join with miry to
raise our hearts in thanksgiving to the Lord and master who came down to dwell
in the midst of us. 1 Sam 2:1-10 the
canticle of Hannah also reminds us to praise and thank god. Hannah bursts in to sentiments for God’s
marvelous deeds in bringing about a reversal of order. Dear sister with grateful hearts we the
community sisters acknowledge your greatness and goodness and all that you have
been to each one of us, above all the mighty deeds of God in your life. We continue to sing a hymn of thanksgiving.
C.56.[W.J.L]
Psalm
111
It
is fitting to praise and thank the Lord along with the psalmist so we invite
you dear sister to express your sentiments of gratitude for the past 25 years
of His faithfulness and fidelity to your commitment in religious life. Now let us listen to psalm 111
Silence………….
As sister celebrate her jubilee let us also rejoice with her by singing
Jubilate A .127.
Intercession: Lord on this day
with immense joy and gratitude we bring to your care our dear Sr… her past and
future life, may the Lord of Love be with you as you walk along, may God’s love
in you burn fires of hope and faith.
Lord you had led her and we ask you to confine to lead her as she
journeys towards you. Let us pray to the
Lord.
Res:
Till the end of my days O Lord
I will bless your name sing your praise.
Give you thanks all my days.
2.
We pray for all of us specially the
silver jubilarian, her parents brothers and sisters, relatives and well wishers
who have gathered here on this special occasion that the spirit of the Lord may
abide with us and bless each one of us and fill us with His graces and love
peace and joy. Let us pray to the Lord………………
3.
We Pray for our Pope Benedict XVI, Our
bishops, priests and religious that we may encounter God in our daily life and
grow in His wisdom and knowledge and we may carry out our responsibilities in
teaching and preserving the faith of the community. Let us pray………..
4.
We pray for our country, which is
going through a lot of turmoil because of intolerance, violence and natural
calamities. May Christ’s teaching
inspire us to live by it with total commitment and the N.G.Os and Government
leaders may take immediate action to reach out the needy. Let us pray………..
5.
Lord we place before you all the
missionaries who are working in the different parts of the world, especially
who are working in the interior parts of our country. Grant them Lord your zeal and enthusiasm to
withstand the trials and difficulties.
May your Holy word be a source of inspiration in their lives as they go
about. Let us pray……….
CONCLUDING
PRAYER
Dear sister May you be able to look beyond today
and days to come for blessings, Look beyond the trials and difficulties when
God will turn night today. May you be
able to trust in the Lord who wants the best for you, He is walking beside you
in the valley, His grace will see you through, look beyond today and forever
blessings. God in His time will reveal
to you the may joys that are waiting, the joys he has chosen just for you and the
happiness ahead for you.
Lord we pray to you to bless to
adorn you with all the virtues. May God
bless you with all the choicest blessings, carve you in His palm, deepen your
faith enrich you with his love feed you with his everlasting words, guide you
in His path inspire you with His insight.
May he continue to use you as an effective instrument to draw people to
Jesus. We make this prayer through the
intercession of all saints, our foundress and your beloved son Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy spirit one God forever and ever
Amen.
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