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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.

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Stephen Joseph Wolf is retired, a former parish priest (22 lents & holy weeks), spiritual director and retreat leader, and before that a certified public accountant (14 tax seasons), who before that worked as a landscaper, desk clerk, laundry worker, janitor, paper boy, and student, growing up the second of eight sons of a parish secretary and Nashville's best television repairman. He completed a B.S. at MTSU, an M.B.A. at Belmont University, and an M.Div. at Mundelein Seminary. He continues to write poems and songs and paint folk art icons, sing baritone for the LGBTQ+ chorus Nashville in Harmony, play the ukulele with Music for Seniors and others, volunteer as a bookkeeper for two non-profits, serve on the board of PFLAG Nashville, and gather with the LGBTQ+Catholic group Always God's Children. He lives in Nashville with his husband Billy.

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