Today’s Blessing Prayer: Thursday greetings and blessings to all and Happy Valentine's Day! I hope your Thursday and Valentine’s Day is getting off to a good start. It is raining here in Southern California not making for a good day to walk the beach but perhaps it will make for a less fire filled summer. Into everyone’s life a little rain must fall!
I offer a special prayer of blessing for all of us today and I also remember those who have passed on who were such important teachers of love in our lives. I truly hope and pray that all of us will have a wonderful day gifted and blessed with many moments of love and many people we love! I also pray that God will bless us all in our endeavors today and that life today and every day will be rich with the gift of God’s love, a gift we will find in the world around us, in the people we meet and in ourselves. Have a great Thursday everyone! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul
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Today’s Prayer:
Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.” (Henri J.M. Nouwen) Today’s Blessing Prayer: Wednesday greetings and blessings to all! I hope this finds you well and not struggling too much with weather or the stresses of life. We are expecting rain here in Southern California today. I know the northeastern part of the US, including the New York area, was hit hard with crazy weather yesterday I you’re your day is better.
My prayer of blessing is once again a simple I pray today for God’s blessing upon all of us and I pray in the hope everyone will have a great Wednesday. However, if our day has started slow, or disorganized, or in a panic, may we not worry, and may it all come together by day's end! If our day started with peace and purpose may these two graces, see us through to the end of the day! If our day started with struggle and tension may we find moments of peace and calm that sustain us through the day. If our day has started without God, may we let God find us so that we will not walk and work alone! And may Mary’s healing and loving presence be a blessing for us today too. Blessings to all! Peace in Christ's Passion...Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: O God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard us with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen. (Adapted from a prayer by St. Augustine)
Today’s Blessing Prayer: Tuesday greetings and blessings to all! I hope your day is going well. Today I am enjoying a little bit warmer weather, some sun and I am walking the beach for the next couple of days. I am trying to let my batteries recharge before I hit the road in two weeks for a pre-Lenten Mission and then for the whole Season of Lent. These were supposed to be quiet calm days but I have a few other irons in the fire so they will be part-time working days too. But at least I get to watch the sun set and smell the salt air!
I would ask you to pray for a friend of mind Elisa. She is the mother of three wonderful children, the wife of a great husband and a very faith filled woman. She may be facing a battle with lymphoma. I would ask you to include Elisa and her family in your prayers. She will greatly appreciate it and so will I! My prayer of blessing today is that wherever you are, whatever this day has brought your way and will bring your way I pray in the hope you have found and will continue to find many blessings as you live this day! Enjoy your afternoon, the people you meet, the things you do and the time you spend being the gift you are! Blessings to all! Have a great day with many blessings! Peace in Christ's Passion...Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: Loving God, we give you thanks this day because we are fearfully and wonderfully made in your image and likeness. Help us realize and recognize this awesome gift. Strengthen us to live our life so that your image and likeness may be encounter by all we meet. Guide us so that our traditions, rules, regulations and rituals do not hide your image within us but serve as tools that help to enhancement of our faith and not become our faith. May the living of our faith always put people first and help us to live in the hope that one day we will hear you proclaim our life as very good! Amen!
Today’s Blessing Prayer: Monday greetings and blessings to all. It is an early Monday for me as I am hitting the road today. I am heading west for the week as I will be giving a married couple’s retreat beginning Friday at our Passionist Retreat Center in Sierra Madre, CA. I am looking forward to a little time away and a little R and R along with the retreat. It will be a long journey today with a stop in Dallas, Texas but I am in no hurry. I hope you will have a good Monday also!
My prayer of blessing is a simple one today – I pray for God’s blessing upon all and I pray in the hope everyone will have a great Monday. However, if our day is starting slow, because we are tired from the busyness of the weekend or if it is starting disorganized, or in a panic, may we not worry, and may it all come together by day's end! If our day is starting with a peaceful purpose may these two graces, see us through to the end of the day! If our day is starting with struggles and tension may we find moments of peace and calm that sustain us through the day. If our day is starting without God, may we let God find us so that we will not walk and work alone! Have a safe and productive day and if that cannot happen know that you are prayed for and loved! If you get a chance could you offer a prayer for safe travels, it would be greatly appreciated! Peace in Christ's Passion...Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: O God, be in our moments of rest today and give us what we need so that as this day takes its course and we encounter moments of stress, strain, struggle and effort we might also find your peace. And when evening comes and we look back over this day and we see how fragmentary everything seems to be, and how our plans have not fully been accomplished. Help us to take everything exactly as it is, putting everything in your hands and leaving our life with you. Then in your peace may we find rest, real rest in you and rise refreshed to begin our next day of new life in you. Amen!
Today’s Blessing Prayer: Sunday greetings and blessings to all. I hope this finds you well and having a good Sunday. It is to be another cold but mostly sunny day here in the New York area. I hope your Sunday will be life-giving weather wise and in every other way.
My prayer for all today is – this is the Lord’s Day let us rejoice and be glad. May there always be work for us to do. May our pockets and purses always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on our windowpanes. May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of family, a loved one and a friend always be near and may God fill our hearts with gladness and love that we in turn can share! May God’s blessing be upon us all today and always. May you enjoy this day, and may you find the gift of life and peace in all you do today! Peace in Christ's Passion...Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: O God, be in our moments of rest today and give us what we need so that as this day takes its course and we encounter moments of stress, strain. struggle and effort, we might also find your peace. And when evening comes and we look back over this day and we see how fragmentary everything seems to be, and how our plans have not fully been accomplished and like Peter, we feel embarrassed and ashamed. Help us to take everything exactly as it is, putting everything in your hands and leaving our life with you. Then in your peace may we find rest, real rest in you and rise refreshed to begin our next day of new life in you. Ready for the deep water and whatever abundant catches you send our way! Amen!
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