Praying the 12 Steps & Traditions of CoDA
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This prayer book is presented as a guide to those seeking healing through prayer and meditation. Its format is based on the Roman Catholic tradition of the Liturgy of the Hours. The Liturgy of the Hours is the prayer of the Church. The Liturgy of the Hours follows a set pattern of antiphons, psalms and readings. This prayer aid is modeled on that pattern. The selected psalms and readings would correspond with steps and traditions of most 12-step groups. The scripture passages are from the New Living Translation. The steps and traditions contained here are those of CoDA – Co-Dependents Anonymous. Other parts are adapted from various books of Christian prayer in the spirit of the Liturgy of the Hours. This small guide is humbly submitted for those seeking a loving Higher Power and spiritual support in the 12-step journey to healthy and loving relationships.
Laura Thompson
Laura Thompson is the author of several critically acclaimed works of non-fiction. Her first book The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing won the Somerset Maugham Award. Rex V. Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award. She has written biographies of Nancy Mitford and Agatha Christie, A Different Class of Murder about the Lord Lucan scandal, The Last Landlady about her grandmother, and the New York Times-bestselling Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters.
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Praying the 12 Steps & Traditions of CoDA - Laura Thompson
Praying the Steps and Traditions of CoDA
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Contents (EP = Evening Prayer; MP = Morning Prayer)
Introduction
Serenity Prayer
EP: STEP 1 – We admitted we were powerless over the others, and that our lives have become unmanageable
MP: TRADITION 1 – Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery for depends upon CoDA unity.
EP: STEP 2 – Came to believe that a loving Higher Power, greater than ourselves, could restore us to sanity
MP: TRADITION 2 – For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving Higher Power as expressed to our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
EP: STEP 3 – Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood God.
MP: TRADITION 3 – The only requirement for membership in CoDA is a desire for healthy and loving relationships.
EP: STEP 4 – Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
MP: TRADITION 4 – Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or CoDA as a whole.
EP: STEP 5 – Admitted to a God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
MP: TRADITION 5 – Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to other codependents who still suffers
EP: STEP 6 – Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
MP: TRADITION 6 – A CoDA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the CoDA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim.
EP: STEP 7 – Humbly and honestly asked a God to remove our shortcomings.
MP: TRADITION 7 – Every CoDA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
EP: STEP 8 – Made a list of all people we may have harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
MP: TRADITION 8 – Co-Dependents Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
EP: STEP 9 – Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
MP: TRADITION 9 – CoDA, as such, ought never to be organized; but may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those we serve
EP: STEP 10 – Continued to take personal inventory and, when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
MP: TRADITION 10 – CoDA has no opinion on outside issues; hence CoDA name ought never to be drawn into public controversy.
EP: STEP 11 – Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
MP: TRADITION 11 – Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of the press, radio and films and television
EP: STEP 12 – Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other codependents and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
MP: TRADITION 12 – Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities
Canticle of Zechariah
Canticle of Mary
Just a word of Introduction…
This prayer book is presented as a guide to those seeking healing through prayer and meditation. Its format is based on the Roman Catholic tradition of the Liturgy of the Hours. The Liturgy of the Hours is the prayer of the Church. The Liturgy of the Hours follows a set pattern of antiphons, psalms and readings. This prayer aid is modeled on that pattern. The selected psalms and readings would correspond with steps and traditions of most 12-step groups. The scripture passages are from the New Living Translation. The steps and traditions contained here are those of CoDA – Co-Dependents Anonymous. Other parts are adapted from various books of Christian prayer in the spirit of the Liturgy of the Hours. This small guide is humbly submitted for those seeking a loving Higher Power and spiritual support in the 12-step journey to healthy and loving relationships.
Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next; Amen.
EVENING PRAYER
Step One
We admitted we were powerless over the abuse, the effects of the abuse and that our lives have become unmanageable
God come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen.
Ant. 1 - O Lord, I have come to you for protection; don’t let me be disgraced. Save me, for you do what is right.
Psalm 31 - An admission of powerlessness
(Ps 31; 5 – 10, 14 – 16, 22 – 24)
I entrust my spirit into your hand. Rescue me, Lord, for you are a faithful God. I hate those who worship worthless idols. I trust in the Lord. I will be glad and rejoice in your unfailing love, for you have seen my troubles, and you care about the anguish of my soul.
You have not handed me over to my enemies but have set me in a safe place. Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am in distress. Tears blur my eyes. My body and soul are withering away. I am dying from grief; my years are shortened by sadness. Sin has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within.
But I am trusting you, O Lord, saying, You are my God!
My future is in your hands. Rescue me