Prayers for Competitive Cubicles | The Divine Helper of Man

Prayers for Competitive Work Spaces are words of encouragement for those trying to be salt, leaven, and light in vocational cultures of animosity, antagonism, and ambition. 

O DIVINE HELPER OF MAN, 

Help us to act on the ontological dignity of our colleagues, partners, and interns when they are extremely combative and obstinate.

Help us to appreciate the richness of our cubicles that you have so mercifully granted us despite our negligence and unworthiness.

Help us to value the precision of Your orchestrations when we are inconvenienced and the kairos of our frustration arrives. 

Help us to appreciate the safety afforded under your wing when we miss our children and nearly get bulldozed by a car in the crosswalk.  

Help us to contemplate the command of Your sovereignty as we read of assassination attempts and public school groomings. 

Help us to stand erect and justified as your elect who are worthy of imitating you and fighting against these powers and principalities. 

Help us discern how to display, represent, mirror, and show you to a witnessing and watching world that trips over its dullness of sense. 

Help us to to acquire and absorb whatever virtues we can while we seek the welfare of the city in the belly of the beast.

Help us to muster up the fortitude to resist egoism, reject autonomy, abandon hedonism, and slay our fat sin in the morning. 

Help us, O Helper, to be the new Eve who is a suitable helper to You, the New Adam, and lead You to rejoice in song and dance. 

Help us, O Helper of Man, to be a Bride worthy of a King like You, Who was mocked and tortured for the lives of His citizens.  

Help us, O Divine Helper of Man, to be a Child of God, Who through You, calls upon the Father with audacity and expectation.

Help us, O Divine Helper, to hang on the cross of your arms as the blood and sweat of our toil is justified by the curtain of your grace. 

AMEN.