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prayerPrayer of Abandon
"Abba, Daddy, The Foucauld family prayer... Little Sisters of Jesus in Italy, Tre Fontane, Rome Tre Fontane is the family house of the Little sisters of Jesus and their world-wide centre in Rome. Little Sisters of Jesus in Greenland. Dignity, respect, friendship and faith. NuukThe Little sisters in Nuuk write about village life and how they deeper bonds of friendship. Little Sisters of Jesus in Japan, in the fishing village of Wakkanai WakannaiLittle sister Emiko after retiring from her job as a home carer in Japan has come to live in the community of the Little sisters in Bishopscourt, Northern Ireland. When we met she told us about how she spent two years in Wakkanai on the farthest tip of Hokkaido Sapporo facing Russia. The community had started with the special intention of praying for the people of Russia. Little Sisters of Jesus in Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories and Syria. Sea of Galilee
To you, Creator of nature and humanity, of truth and beauty, I pray: Hear my voice. It is the voice of the victims of all wars and violence among individuals and nations. Little Sisters of Jesus in France. Le Tubet, our family house. Tubet Chapel
Little sister Magdeleine received this house as a Christmas present in 1940, one year after she had founded the Little sisters of Jesus in Touggourt, Algeria. It was a real miracle as at that time she had nowhere to house her little community. Generations of Little sisters have stayed there who consider it to be their ‘family house’. My prayer has always beenMy prayer has always been, Lord, send me any number of trials and any amount of suffering, but allow me to be always in perfect harmony with your Church. The evangelisation that I am called to liveThe evangelisation that I am called to live is not through the word but through the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, the offering of the sacrifice of the Mass. It is through prayer and penance and the practice of the Gospel virtues - love, fraternal and universal love, sharing even my last mouthful of bread with every poor person, with every visitor, every stranger, and welcoming each person as a beloved brother or sister. It's the same thing every dayIt's the same thing every day, poor people, sick people, one after the other. I reproach myself interiorly for not spending enough time in prayer and purely spiritual things. By day people never stop knocking at my door, and at night when it would be a good time for it I fall asleep like a wretch. 
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