Rainbow Prayer

Rainbow Prayer is a meditation rendering of 39 passages from the book of Psalms, 11 Canticles, 35 passages from Hebrew and Christian scriptures, and the 15 Psalms of Francis of Assisi.

Part A, drawn from the Commons of Mary, Apostles, Martyrs, Pastors & Doctors, and Holy Women & Men, has proven especially helpful for those trying to discern whether they are being called to pray the Liturgy of the Hours.

Part B (Midday Work Hours) is inspired by the psalms and readings of the Midday Hours and reflection on years of working as a student, janitor, launderer, clerk, landscaper, accountant, and parish priest.

Part C (In Health & In Healing) has roots in a hospital chaplaincy internship, often offering short readings from the Psalter, and watching faithful Methodists, Baptists, Jews and others taking in the sacred word with a reverence that resembles a Catholic receiving holy communion.

Part D (Psalms of Francis of Assisi) is 15 sets of fragments of psalms and other scripture collected for Franciscan mendicant beggars, a small prayerbook arranged for the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent (and Ordinary Time) and Easter.

Stephen Joseph Wolf has prayed the Psalter for over thirty years from several different translations.