​Today’s Blessing Prayer: Happy Easter Wednesday everyone! I hope you are continuing to navigate through these Easter days with a sense of hope and some joy in your life!  
 
Once again, I ask your continued prayers for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis, may he now be in heaven with all the saints. I also ask your prayers for the Church that in the days, weeks and months ahead we will find Pope Francis’ successor who will continue a lifegiving vision for the Church.
 
I send Easter blessings to all of you today. As I always do at this time of the year, I thought about the movie Ground Hog Day, because for these eight days of the Easter Octave each day we celebrate Easter again each day. So Happy Easter and may God bless us today with the gift of Easter joy wherever we are and in whatever we are doing. May we be found rich today in the grace and presence of God and may we find creative ways to share our Easter joy with others who are part of our lives. May our hearts burn today with the presence and the spirit of the Risen Lord! Peace in Christ's Passion and the Risen Lord...Fr. Paul

Today’s Prayer: Jesus, we come before you at the beginning of this day. Take Lord and receive our hearts; the words of faith that we speak, the works of justice that we do, our joys and sufferings. When we come to the Eucharistic table of life, gather our offerings to your own for the life of the world. At the end of this day, place us with Mary, your mother, and for her sake take our hearts to your heart. Amen! (Adapted from a prayer by the Maryland Province of Jesuits)

​Today’s Blessing Prayer: Tuesday greetings and blessing to all! I hope you are once again navigating through these early Easter days with faith and hope.
 
Friends I am asking for your prayers today as we continue to remember the gift of Pope Francis in our lives. We certainly pray that he is at peace now with the Risen Lord and all the saints. We pray that his spirit will continue to enliven and challenge us to grow and become better people of faith. And may the leadership of the Church find a new shepherd to guide us, protect us, inspire us and enliven us in the near future!
 
My prayer of blessing for all of you is that your day will be filled with Easter joy as you make your own journey through these octave days. That Easter days give you the opportunity to pause and listen for Jesus to speak your name just has he did in our Gospel to Mary Magdalene. May all our lives today be touch by our joy filled God and that we will encounter God’s loving presence in many ways as you make your way through this day! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul

Today’s Prayer: Loving Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our hearts, and reign there as our peaceful God. Enlighten us with the splendor of faith and the love of your tender heart so that we will work for the good of all your people, especially those in need, impart on us your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, serenity and gentleness preserving the flame of enthusiasm always alight in our hearts. May this day be a day when you find a home at the center of our life and are borne on our shoulders as your joyful Easter people. Amen! (Adapted from a prayer by St. John XXIII)

​Today’s Blessing Prayer: Easter Monday greetings and blessings to all. I hope you are navigating well through these April days! Happy Easter once again as we journey through the octave of Easter.
 
My blessing prayer today is simply that your Easter Monday will be filled with joy and grace. That you will encounter the Risen Christ in whatever you do today and that you will live this day not fearful but overjoyed. Many blessings on this Easter Monday to all! Pease know that you are in my prayers. Thank you, Pope Francis, for your life, ministry and faith. Rest in peace and continue to guide us in hope. Peace in Christ’s Passion and Joy in the Risen Lord…Fr. Paul

​Today’s Prayer: Loving Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness, give us the sense of your presence, your mercy, your love and your strength. Help us to have complete trust in your protecting love and strengthening power, so that nothing may frighten or worry us, for, living close to you, we will see your hand, your purpose, your will in all things. Amen. (Adapted from a prayer by St. Ignatius of Loyola)
 
Thank you, Pope Francis, for your life and the hope, mercy and love you shared with us. Continue to guide, protect, and challenge us to be the people of faith God has created us and called us to be!

​Today’s Blessing Prayer: Happy Easter Sunday to all! I hope this finds you enjoying a beautiful Easter Sunday morning.
 
My prayer of blessing today is that all of you will be touch by the joy of Easter and the joy of God’s love.  On this most holy feast of Easter, having journeyed with Jesus through his Passion, Death to this day of Resurrection may our Good and Gracious God bless us and protect us from the struggles and perils of life. May the God who so loves us that he gave us his only Son touch us with that love today and always. And through the joyous grace of Christ may God lead us to the banquet of lasting joy. Amen – Alleluia!
 
Enjoy your day and I hope you will give God a little time today and get to celebrate this wonder feast of Easter in some way! Peace in Christ's Passion - Joy in the Risen Lord...Fr. Paul 

​Today’s Prayer: Loving God, you gift us today with Easter hope. We thank you for the journey that you made from Bethlehem to Calvary. We thank you for all that you have shared with us, taught us and lived for us. Grace us now with an Easter faith that looks into an empty tomb and believes. Enliven our heart to be on fire with the hope that your love is everlasting. May the Easter mystery make us proclaimers of your Word and carriers of your Light. May we truly be joy filled Easter people today and always! Amen!

Today’s Blessing Prayer: Holy Saturday greetings and blessings to all! I hope you had a blessed and holy Good Friday. I hope you got to spend a little time in prayer.
 
Today, Holy Saturday, is a time of waiting. It is a time between the death of Jesus and his resurrection. The women and the disciples waited three days. We wait for Easter Sunday and perhaps we wait for a better, more truthful, more unity, more peaceful time in our country and world. We wait in the hope that we will be able to rise to a new life!
 
My prayer of blessing today is that our Holy Saturday may be rich in the warmth of the sun, that it may be a day when we can hope for all the goodness that Easter is and for an end to the chaotic, and anger-filled way life has become in our country. May we be blessed soon with a new life of joy that will enliven the journey of our life in new and faith-filled ways! Blessings on our Holy Saturday journey and please know that all of you are in my prayers throughout this day and always! Peace in Christ's Passion...Fr. Paul

​Today’s Prayer: Loving God as we wait today make ready our hearts that they may be inflamed with your presence. Enkindle in them the fire of your love. Grace our souls with the song of your hope, a song, and a tune that will never stop. Strengthen us with patience, strengthen us with energy, gift us with wisdom and enliven us with joy. We make this prayer as your faith filled people embraced by your love and dancing to the rhythm of the song of hope! Amen!