Food For The Poor bases every aspect of what they do first and foremost in prayer. This was our departure prayer at Ft. Lauderdale Airport in route to Kingston, Jamaica.

Blessed are you Lord, our God
for you have created a wide and wonderful world in which we can travel.
We ask your blessing upon us
as we are about to leave on a journey.
Be our ever-near companion, O Holy Guide of Travelers,
and spread the road before us with beauty and adventure.
May all the roads ahead of us be free of harm and evil.
May we be accompanied by your Holy Spirit,
your angelic messengers, as were the holy ones of days past.

On this trip may we take with us,
as part of our traveling equipment a heart wrapped in wonder with which
we rejoice in all that we shall meet.

Along with the clothing of wonder,
may we have room in our luggage for a mystic map
by which we can find the invisible meanings of the events of this journey
of possible delays, of possible breakdowns, and rainy day troubles.
Always awake to your Sacred presence,
to your divine compassionate Love.
May we see in all that happens to us,
In the beautiful and the bad,
the mystery of your Holy plan.

May the blessing of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
be upon us throughout this trip,
and bring us home again to safety and peace.
Amen.
 

 

 

 

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