Prayer
Formal opportunities for prayer at Little Flower include Sunday and weekday Masses as well as services such as centering prayer, Taizé prayer, and Bible study. Please look at our home page or weekly bulletin (on publisher's site) for current schedules.
Informally, you are welcome to pray in the main worship space of the church as well as in the adjacent chapel. You might also visit our outdoor prayer garden, which is described below.
Many online resources are available to foster your prayer life, such as the daily features of American Catholic or Notre Dame's pray.nd.edu site. Please visit our suggested links for other sites.
Service Prayer
We say this prayer at each Mass, following the prayers of the faithful:
Loving God,
We, the people of God at Little Flower Catholic Church, accept the call to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our world today. Be with us as we comfort the suffering, heal the sick, feed the hungry, welcome the refugee, offer friendship to the lonely, visit those in prison, and forgive the sins which wound and divide our world. Open our eyes to see Jesus in all people, in whose Name we pray. Amen.
Memorial Garden and Labyrinth Prayer Walk
In memory of Sue Schowalter Kleva (June 20, 1941 - December 7, 1999), Marty Kleva, his family, and the Schowalter family have donated this wonderful sacred space. Marty, a landscape artist, designed the garden.
The labyrinth was an ancient way of walking in prayer - of "centering" oneself... in God... in Christ... of being on pilgrimage. There many patterns for the walk. Before you visit the garden, consider reading and printing this prayer sheet (58k PDF) to bring with you.
