2. REDESIGNING OUR PRESENCES Meeting for the American Continent 18 May 2010 Today let us pray for Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic

3. Let us pray with the Daughters of St. Paul present in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic

4. The words of Fr. Alberione Pauline Poverty When lived in the spirit of Jesus Christ, evangelical poverty is much more than simple detachment: it liberates us from the things that chain us to the world, and at the same time it provides us with the impetus we need to multiply our energies and use everything to serve the Gospel. (Pauline Spirituality, 1962, 374).

5. The Word of God We will tell you of the grace of God which has been granted to the churches of Macedonia, and how, throughout continual ordeals of hardship, their unfailing joy and their intense poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. And they had kept imploring us most insistently for the privilege of a share in the fellowship of service to God’s holy people—it was not something that we expected of them, but it began by their offering themselves to the Lord and to us at the prompting of the will of God (2 Co. 8:1-2,5).

6. Prayer Here I am, Lord, in all my poverty, before the One who commands all wealth; in all my weakness before the One who is all-powerful; a sinful child before the Father she has offended.