The Scientific Communicators of Faith network has published a free prayer booklet for Lent on scientific themes, which gives a prayer, liturgy, or reflection for each day of this liturgical season.
Included in the booklet is a prayer from our director, Dr Nicola Hoggard Creegan, which you can read below.
From Quiddity to Calvary: A Prayer for Lent from Aotearoa/New Zealand
God of love
God of the implicate order
God of evolution in a minor key
God of the noosphere
God who is so close to us in wairua/spirit
And incarnation
God who has placed us between the alpha and omega
God whose love has ricocheted through every living form
And into every living star
Every quark, every boson
Into gravity and nuclear forces
Into fields of attraction and repulsion
Every vitality,
Every breath
Every journey
Every absence
Every longing
Is yours
God of the logos, breathing form into
the chanciness of development and exploration
Silence us in the face of the Great Silence
Give us language to speak in these desolate times
Favor us to imagine your thoughts after you
We who are in submission to the law of your creation
We who indwell the folds of logos and quiddity
It has been our privilege to count the stars
To imagine the horizon of a black hole
To find God in a particle
To see the rise and scattering of ancient homo
To watch the first stuttering signs of our presence in caves and spears
To recognize your signature in other creatures
To breach the portal of every living cell
Guide us to Calvary
We who have glimpsed your eternal mysteries
Favour us in your love, to live again
With thanks to David Bohm, Tim Ingold, Peter Higgs, Agustín Fuentes, Michael Polanyi, Teilhard de Chardin, Johannes Kepler, Duns Scotus and every scientist
