Wilderness Outreach

Prayers from the Liturgy of the Hours:

Lord, God of strength, You gave your Son victory over death. Direct Your Church's fight against evil in the world. Clothe us with the weapons of light and unite us under one banner of love, that we may receive our eternal reward after the battle of earthly life. Amen

God our Father, work is your gift to us, a call to reach new heights by using our talents for the good of all. Guide us as we work and teach us to live in the spirit that has made us your sons and daughters. In the love that has made us brothers and sisters. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen

Father, Yours is the harvest and Yours is the vineyard: You assign the task and pay a wage that is just. Help us to meet this day's responsibilities, and let nothing separate us from Your love. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen

God of mercy, this midday moment of rest is your welcome gift. Bless the work we have begun, make good its defects and let us finish it in a way that pleases You. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Send the fire of the Holy Spirit deep within us, Lord so that we can serve you with chaste bodies and please you with pure minds. Amen

Verses from the Liturgy of the Hours and the

 Holy Bible:

Responsory:

We are warriors now, fighting on the battlefield of faith, and God sees all we do; the Angels watch and so does Christ.

  -What honor and glory and joy, to do battle in the presence of God and to have Christ approve our victory.

Let us arm ourselves in full strenght and prepare ourselves for the ultimate struggle with blameless hearts, true faith and unyileding courage.

  -What honor and glory and joy, to do battle in the presence of God and to have Christ approve our victory.

From Psalm 24:

The Lord's is the earth and its fullness

the world and all its peoples.

It is He who set in on the seas;

on the waters He made it firm.

Who shall climb the mountain of the Lord?

Who shall stand in his holy place?

The man with clean hands and pure heart,

who desires not worthless things,

who has not sworn so as to decieve his neighbor.

Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion

  who turns darkness into dawn,

  and darkens day into night;

Who summons waters of the sea,

  and pours them out upon the surface of the earth;

  Whose name is Lord

Antiphon:

Armed with God's justice and power, let us prove ourselves through paitient endurance.

Psalm 104 verses 16 through 23:

The trees of the Lord drink their fill

the cedars he planted on Lebanon;

there the birds build their nests:

on the tree top the stork has her home,

the goats find a home on the mountains

and the rabbits hide in the rocks.

You made the moon to mark the months

the sun the time for its setting.

When You spread the darkness it is night

and all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

The young lions roar for their prey

and ask their food from God.

At the rising of the sun they steal away

and go to rest in their dens.

Man Goes forth to his work,

to labor till evening falls.

Job 38:3

Gird your loins like a man. I will question you and you shall declare me.

Preferred Reading:

1. The Holy Bible
2. The Liturgy of the Hours
3. The Book of Christian Prayer
4. John Eldridge: Wild at Heart, The Way of the Wild Heart
5. Spiritual Combat Revisited by Jonathan Robinson
6. Saint Jose Maria Escrivia: The Way
7. Pope Benedict: Spe Salvi, Christianity and the Crisis of Culture
8. Pope John Paul 2: The Theology of the Body, Laborem Excercens