Foucauld Prayer Project

Father Lennie Tighe posted this: 

Can you write a prayer to St Charles de Foucauld??

Wil you write that prayer for us??

A new project and I need your help.

Perhaps you have never written a prayer. All our lives we read the many prayers that people have written in the past. Some we can recite from memory, some from early childhood.

St Bernard, the great saint known for his writings on Our Lady, wrote the Memorare.

All our great Catholic prayers were written by someone, somewhere, for some reason.

St Charles de Foucauld wrote many prayers, to Our Lady and a multitude of his saintly community. Of course the "Prayer of Abandonment"

Now the challenge. I am asking you to write a prayer, your own prayer directly from your heart and life to Charles de Foucauld. From your heart. Nothing poetic, if you chose, not a literary gem..It can be as long or as short as your heart speaks.,

You create, you write your own personal prayer to St Charles, Brother Charles for most of us.

Your prayer can be for any reason, maybe a petition, maybe for health, maybe for cancer,

What could he be patron saint of in your life? Where would that prayer come from? And of course, praying for those we love, searching for God as he did? Those away from Church and the Sacraments?

Already you are thinking of something coming up from your spiritual heart, what you would say and ask, or thank.

Now all prayer is directed to God, Our Father, through the eternal unending prayer of Jesus, now as the contemplative of His Fathers face, but by means of the love and the fire of the Holy Spirit..But we do ask our family in the very concrete communion of the saints, for the help, the healing, the hearing, and their personal intercession, of however that works.

So now you have the invitation, There is no right way and no wrong way to do this, only YOUR way.

Can you please send them back to me?

I will compile them. Into something, not sure what that would look like.

It would be a sharing of our own open hearts, to read and share the faith of others in the life, holiness and friendship we have with our crazy friend, Charles Eugene de Foucauld, Charles of Jesus.

I will gather them into something to share with you. If you could send them before September 30.

Finally, Can I ask you to share this email with others, others you think might enjoy the invitation to create and share their prayer with us. Please use this email address: [stchdefoucauld@gmail.com](mailto:stchdefoucauld@gmail.com)

Are you in, with me on this??

St. Charles de Foucauld, you who lived and died in a violent world, I ask you to consider the violent state of my country, the United States of America. You who grew to abhor violence and knew that is not what Jesus taught. I beg for your intercession. Please continue my praying. Help my country to reflect Jesus. May God bless America. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.