Today’s Blessing Prayer: Tuesday greetings and blessings to everyone! I hope your day has started off well and if not know that I am praying that it gets better! My prayer of blessing this morning is that your day will be blessed with the presence of God. May your travels, your encounters, your work, your interactions with others be touched with the grace of God and may your living of life today bring you a little closer to the peace Jesus has left for us. Peace in Christ’s Passion and Joy in the Risen Lord…Fr. Paul
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Today’s Prayer: Lord, make us instruments of your peace, where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen. (Adapted from the Prayer known as the Prayer of St. Francis) Today’s Blessing: Monday blessings to all! My prayer of blessing today is that God’s blessing will be upon all of you today. May your day be truly about God and not you. May your day and all that you do be blessed with the richness of God’s presence, hope, joy and love. May you find the energy to make a joyful noise for God with your life today! Peace in Christ’s Passion and Joy in the Risen Lord…Fr. Paul
Today’s Prayer: Grant us today, Lord, the wisdom to know what is worth knowing, to love what is worth loving, to praise what delights you most, to value what is precious in your sight, to walk away from what is not of you. Do not let us judge by what we see, nor pass judgment by what we hear, but help us to choose rightly between things that differ and above all to search out and do what pleases you. Help us to make this day and our life about praising you. Amen!
Today’s Blessing Prayer: Sunday greetings and Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers! I hope your day is starting off well. The sun is out here in Lake Placid, New York but I don’t know for how long.
First, I would like to wish a very Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers and remember in a special way all mothers who have passed way, especially my own mother. Mothers touch our lives throughout the years whether they are with us or with us in spirit. I would also like to remember expectant mothers as they prepare and wait for new life. I hope all of you will have a great day and that you will get the chance to honor your mother and all the mothers who have touched your life in some way. I always find it a special honor to remember my own mother as I celebrate mass and I will most happy to do that today. My prayer of blessing today is that you will have a great Mother’s Day touched by the presence of God and if you are traveling today you will do so safely. May all your encounters with others and your time alone today be rich in the joy of God grace and love. May God’s blessing be upon all mothers especially those who are expecting and may we celebrate the gifts that all mothers offer us and touch our lives with today in a very special way. May God bless this day and may it be a day of blessings that will help us to encounter the joy of life, especially the joy mothers bring into our lives! Peace in Christ’s Passion and Joy in the Risen Lord…Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: Eternal God, beginning and end, you who sustain all things, who understand all things, who existed before all things, and who are without end, be with us today and always, remain among us, strengthen our will and intentions, sanctify our hearts and souls and remove from us all that is not of you. Amen (Adapted from a prayer from the Ethiopian Liturgy)
Mother’s Day Prayer: We thank you, God, Creator of us all, for our mothers. We thank you that they gave us life and nurtured us all those years. They gave us our faith, helping us to know you and to know Jesus and his ways. They taught us how to love and how to sacrifice for others. They taught us that it was okay to cry and that we should always tell the truth. Bless our mothers, with the graces they need and which you want to give them today. Help our mothers to feel precious in your eyes today and to know that we love them. Give our mothers strength and courage, compassion, peace and those who have passed eternal life. Bless our mothers this day and always with your love. Amen (Adapted from a Mother’s Day Prayer found on Creighton University Ministries web site) Today’s Blessing Prayer: Saturday greeting and blessings to all! My prayer of blessing this Saturday is that as you enter into your day your life and your day will be blessed with the Spirit of God’s presence in the people you meet, the places you go and in the things you do. May you come to know God today through the living of life and may your living of life today be filled with joy. Peace in Christ’s Passion and Joy in the Risen Lord…Fr. Paul
Today’s Prayer: God of all blessings, source of all life, giver of all good gifts, we thank you for the gift of life - for the breath that sustains us, for the food that nurtures us and for the love of family and friends without which there would be no life.
We thank you for the mystery of creation - for the beauty that the eye can see, for the joy that the ear may hear, for the unknown that we cannot behold because it fills the universe with wonder, for the expanse of space that draws us beyond the definitions of our selves. We thank you for setting us in communities - for families who nurture our becoming, for friends who love us by choice, for companions at work, who share our burdens and daily tasks, for strangers who welcome us into their midst, for people from other lands who call us to grow in understanding, for children who lighten our moments with delight, for the unborn, who offer us hope for the future. We thank you for this day - for life, for one more day to love, for the opportunity to work one more day for justice and peace, for neighbors, for one more person to love and by whom be loved, for your grace and one more experience of your presence, for your promise to be with us, to be our God, and to give salvation. For these and all blessings, we give you thanks, loving God. Amen. (Adapted from Prayer of Thanksgiving on beliefnet.com) Today’s Blessing Prayer: Friday greetings and blessings this morning. I hope your day is starting off well. My prayer of blessing is that God will bless you this day with the Spirit of knowing the way and throughout your work, your travels and your interaction with others that your hearts will not be troubled because you have faith in God and in Jesus always. May God’s blessings be upon your Friday, and upon your weekend. May you have a productive, peaceful, and Spirit filled day. Peace in Christ’s Passion and Joy in the Risen Lord…Fr. Paul
Today’s Prayer: Gracious God, who made the covenant promise with our ancestors, we begin this day a rebellious people. We want to act out your intentions for us, but we keep getting mixed up by all the glitter of the world around us. You tell us to honor creation, and we use other people, animals and plant life only to meet our wants. You offer daily bread to every living creature, and we steal that bread from our sisters and brothers in the name of greed. You promise us new life, and we shrink back from it is fear. Heal us, God, lest we destroy ourselves. We need your presence among us. Amen. (Adapted from the United Nations Environmental Sabbath Prayer)
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