​Today’s Blessing Prayer: Monday greetings and blessings to everyone! I hope this find you well and enjoying your morning and looking forward to the rest of your day!
 
Today is the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola the founder of the Jesuits so I send a shout out to Pope Francis and all Jesuits today – Happy Feast Day – many blessings and much peace to all!
 
I would especially like to remember Fr. Ron Windmueller, S.J. and Fr. Chet Gator, S.J. both of whom have passed on but through their friendship during my St. Louis years helped to make my vocation possible because they shared the treasure of God’s Kingdom with me. And Fr. Louis Padovano, S.J. who also has passed but who often showed me the light of God’s grace when I founded myself in darkness. Rest in peace with God my good Jesuit friends!
 
Finally I sent a shout out, on this last day of July, to all of you who follow me and who are part of my life. May God, who formed you in your mother’s womb, who breathed life into you, who gifted the world with your present, hold you once again in his loving hands as you journey through this day. May God bless you with the gift of a joy filled day. May God bless you with the gift of his presence that you will share with everyone you meet and may God keep you safe and return you home to those you love for a peaceful night! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul
 
PS I am posting rather early this morning because I am on the road headed back to Pelham. It will be a long ride so I ask for your prayers so it will be a safe one!

Today’s Prayer:
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace that is enough for me. (St. Ignatius of Loyola)

​Today’s Blessing Prayer: Sunday greetings and blessings to everyone. I hope your Sunday is getting off to a good start and that you will be able to find a little time for God today – that you will find the pearl of great price or the hidden treasure of life! My blessing prayer today is that God will bless your Sunday with much peace. May God’s blessings be upon your Sunday and may it be filled with family, friends, laughter, fun, rest and relaxation! If you need a little quiet time may that be there too! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul

Today’s Prayer: Open our hearts, O God, and enlighten our minds by the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may seek what is well-pleasing to your will; and so order our doings after your commandments, that we may be found fit to enter into your everlasting joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen (Adapted from a Prayer by St. Bed the Venerable)

​Today’s Blessing Prayer: Saturday greetings and blessings to everyone! I hope this find you well and enjoying your morning and looking forward to the rest of your day!
 
Enjoy your Saturday everyone and my blessing prayer today is that God will bless your day with many good experiences and people! I hope all of you will have a great Saturday no matter where you are or what today will bring! I pray for God’s blessings upon all of you as you go through your day. May God bless all your endeavors, may God be with you in all of your challenges and in all of your struggles. Please trust in the presence of God that you carry within you and don’t be afraid to share your gift. Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul

Daily Prayer:
Loving Jesus
 We give you our hands to do your work
 We give you our feet to go your way
 We give you our eyes to see as you do
 We give you our tongue to speak your words
 We give you our mind that you may think in us
 We give you our spirit that you may pray in us
 Above all, we give you our heart
 that you may love in us
 your Father and all humankind
 we give you our whole self that you may grow in us
 so that it is you Loving Jesus
 who lives and works and prays in us.
Amen! (Adapted from the Grail Prayer)

​Today’s Blessing Prayer: Friday blessings and greetings to all. I hope your day has started off well and that it will be blessed in a special way as you journey through it. If you are finding life a struggle today please know as always you are in my prayers and I will say a special prayer that it gets at least a little better as the day goes on.
 
My prayer of blessing today is that you will have a great day and that once again God will bless you with a strong and joyful faith so that the work you do and the life you live will yield 30, 60 or 100-fold all of which is blessed, excepted, and planted within you by our loving God! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul

Today’s Prayer: Loving God, we dedicate this new day to you as we go about our work and life. Give us steadfast hearts which no unworthy affection may drag downward. Give us unconquered hearts which no tribulations can wear out. Give us upright hearts, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord, our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you. Amen. (Adapted from a prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas)

​Today’s Blessing Prayer: Thursday blessings and greetings to all. I hope your day has started off well and that it will be blessed in a special way as you journey through it. If you are finding life a struggle today, please know as always you are in my prayers and I will say a special prayer that it gets at least a little better as the day goes on.
 
Today is a travel day for me. I leave South Bend and Notre Dame and head a few hours south to Carmel, Indiana and a little family visiting.
 
My prayer of blessing today is that first you will have a great day blessed with the presence of God and that God will bless you in a special way with a strong faith to believe in the treasure that you carry within you and that you are! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul

Today’s Prayer:
Loving God, we pray:
We hold a treasure - Not made of gold - In earthen vessels, wealth untold
One treasure only, the Lord, the Christ - In earthen vessels.
Light has shown in our darkness - God has shown in our hearts
With the light of the glory - Of Jesus the Lord.
We hold a treasure - Not made of gold - In earthen vessels, wealth untold
One treasure only, the Lord, the Christ - In earthen vessels.
He has chosen the lowly - Who are small in this world
In his weakness His Glory -In Jesus the Lord
We hold a treasure - Not made of gold - In earthen vessels, wealth untold
One treasure only, the Lord, the Christ - In earthen vessels.
Loving God help us to believe and live these words today and always! Amen! (Words from Earthen Vessels by John Foley, S.J.)