OPENING PRAYER DAY TWO

celebrated the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, and so in these days we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of many documents. 2014 is the 50th anniversary of three documents from Vatican II: one on the Eastern Churches, one on ecumenism, and one on Lumen Gentium, the document about the structure of the Church which, in a way, has set us on our course, identifying the Church as the people of God, stressing the collegiality, the participation that all of us share by baptism in the future and in the growth of the Church.

Rev. Tom Smolich

International Director, Jesuit Refugee Services

Member of the Board of Directors, The Leadership Roundtable

These days we’ve been celebrating the 10th anniversary of the National Leadership Roundtable. A couple of years ago, we

I’d like to start with the prayer that began every session of Vatican II, the Adsumus, as it was called in Latin. So let’s put ourselves in God’s presence and pray the prayer that those at the Second Vatican Council did each day.

Here we are, Oh Lord, Holy Spirit. We stand before you hampered by our faults, but for a special purpose gathered together in your name. Come to us and be with us and enter our hearts. Teach us what we are to do and where we ought to tend. Show us what we must accomplish so that with your help, we may be able to please you in all things. May you alone be the beginning and catalyst of our judgments, who alone with God the Father and His Son possess a glorious name. Do not allow us to disturb the order of justice, you who love equity above all things. Let not ignorance draw us to what is wrong. Let not partiality sway our minds or respect of riches or persons pervert our judgment. But unite us to you effectively by the gift of your grace alone that we may be one in you and never forsake the truth. Inasmuch as we are gathered together in your name, so may we in all things hold fast to justice tempered by mercy, so that in this life our judgment may in no way be at variance with you, and in life to come, we may receive an everlasting reward for deeds well done. Amen.

National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management

2014 Annual Meeting

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Loyola University Chicago | Lake Shore Campus | June 24-26, 2014 www.TheLeadershipRoundtable.org/AnnualMeeting