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NEW COMMANDEMENT

NEW COMMANDMENT

I give you new commandment; love one another as I have loved you, says the Lord.



A Prayer for Self-Acceptance

O Lord, you know me through and through, and your love for me knows no bounds
I thank you for creating me the person I am,
and I ask that I may be given the strength always to love you and others as you love me.
Lord, I thank you for my sexuality; I ask you to make it a source of many blessings, for the ones I love and for me, I ask you to uphold me in your love, that I may always use my sexuality as you would have me use it, for commitment and in love.
Help me, O Lord, to be patient and kind with others and with myself; and help me to give myself fully to you in all the relationships in my life.
Through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Amen.

                                                                                                               Gaudium et Spes Institute


   

Faith in the law of God

Your word, O Lord, will last forever, it is eternal in heaven.
Your faithfulness endures through all the ages;
you have set the earth in place, and it remains.
All things remain this day because of your command,
because they are all your servants.
If your law had not been the source of my joy,
I would have died from my sufferings.

I will never neglect your instructions,
because by them you have kept me alive.
                   I am yours – save me!                    
                                                                                         psalm


GOD IS LOVE
 

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