Christ Has No Online Presence but Yours

Back in 2010, I created this contemporary take on Saint Teresa of Avila’s well-known prayer, Christ Has No Body. It came to me while I was preparing for a consulting engagement with Loyola Press, where I had the delight of working with staff in marketing and sales for two days.

Since then, my take on this prayer has showed up elsewhere (e.g., DRE Connect, Liturgy, FamVin). Someone even contacted me for permission about setting it to music! This morning, a slightly altered version showed up on the Episcopal Prayer for Young People page on Facebook (H/T Elizabeth Drescher for letting me know!).

I welcome the ecumenical embrace of my work and will have more to say about that in another post. But now, for your contemplative pleasure:

Christ Has No Online Presence but Yours 
Christ has no online presence but yours, 
No blog, no Facebook page but yours,
Yours are the tweets through which love touches this world, 
Yours are the posts through which the Gospel is shared, 
Yours are the updates through which hope is revealed. 
Christ has no online presence but yours, 
No blog, no Facebook page but yours. 


 ─ Meredith Gould