PRAYER COMPANIONS

Companion

The Praying with Scripture series provides 25 recommended scriptures for use throughout the five-week series – one a day for five days each week.

For each scripture, a Prayer Companion is provided with the scripture verse, a guided reflection, and the steps in the Ignatian prayer session. You may use your own journal, or feel free to print the Prayer Companion (posted at archspm.org/synod) to journal as you pray.

ARCHDIOCESE OF
SAINT PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS SYNOD
PRAYING WITH SCRIPTURE SERIES

WEEK 1

  1. BARTIMAEUS ~ “What do you want me to do for you?” Mark 10:46-52
  2. JESUS’ WORDS OF INVITATION ~ “Come to me, all you who labor …” Matthew 11:25-30
  3. JEREMIAH’S WORD OF HOPE ~ “I know the plans I have for you.” Jeremiah 29:11-14
  4. FEAR NOT ~ “You are precious in my eyes, / and honored, and I love you.” Isaiah 43:1-7
  5. GOD AT THE ORIGIN OF MY BEING ~ “You knit me in my mothers’ womb.” Psalm 139:1-18

WEEK  2

6.POTTER AND CLAY ~ “Like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.” Jeremiah 18:1-6

7.SAYING “YES” TO GOD ~ “God … said to him, ‘Abraham!’  And he said, ‘Here am I.’” Genesis 22:1-19

8.A CRY OF UTTER SINCERITY ~ “Create in me a clean heart, O God.” Psalm 51:1-19

9.ZACCHAEUS ~ “Make haste and come down; for I must stay at your house today.” Luke 19:1-10

10.CONSECRATED IN THE SPIRIT ~ “He saw the Spirit … descending like a dove, and alighting on him.” Matthew 3:13-17

WEEK 3

11.THE FIRST OF THE SIGNS ~ “Do whatever he tells you.” John 2:1-11

12.THE SAMARITAN WOMAN ~ “If you knew the gift of God …” John 4:1-42

13.“PUT OUT INTO THE DEEP” ~ “At your word I will let down the nets.” Luke 5:1-11

14.THE COURAGE TO TELL JESUS EVERYTHING ~ “Daughter, your faith has made you well.” Mark 5:24-34

15.SPEND YOUR LIFE FOR THE GOSPEL ~ “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them …” Matthew 9:35-10:16

WEEK 4

16.WALKING ON WATER ~ “Lord, if it is you, bid me to come to you on the water.” Matthew 14:22-33

17.A GLIMPSE OF GLORY ~ “His face shone like the sun.” Matthew 17:1-13

18.FROM DEATH TO NEW LIFE ~ “See how he loved him!” John 11:1-44

19.“HE LOVED THEM TO THE END” ~ “Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet.” John 13:1-17

20.THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL ~ “This is my body which is given for you.” Luke 22:7-30

WEEK 5

21.NOT MY WILL BUT YOUR WILL ~ “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me.” Matthew 26:36-46

22.JESUS GIVES HIS LIFE ~ “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Luke 23:26-49

23.THE WOMAN IN TEARS ~ “Mary … Rabboni!” John 20:1; 11-18

24.A JOURNEY INTO HOPE ~ “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road?” Luke 24:13-35

25.DO YOU LOVE ME? ~ “They knew it was the Lord.” John 21:1-19