Today’s Blessing Prayer: Tuesday greetings and blessings to all! I hope your Tuesday is starting off well? Here in the New York area we have a rainy morning and what will probably turn into a rainy day. The rain started during the night and at this moment there is no end in sight. I hope your Tuesday is a little less wet than mind!
My retreat at the Wartburg Home continues today. We had a nice start yesterday with about 30 people entering into the retreat. I would ask you to keep all who are making retreat in your prayer and if you could say and little prayer for the preacher it would be appreciated! My prayer of blessing today is that God’s blessings will be upon all of you today. May today be rich in the gift of family, friendship and peace. May you find the road today flat, smooth and easy to travel. May you find the gift and grace of God in everyone you meet and in everything you do. Most importantly may you find the gift of God within you as you live your life today! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul
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Today’s Prayer:
Loving God, we pause for a moment and ask you hear and accept our prayers of praise for you today… Be praised, loving God, through all your creatures, especially through my Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. And Brother Sun is beautiful and radiant in all his splendor! Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness. Be praised, loving God, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens you have made them, precious and beautiful. Be praised, loving God, through Brothers Wind and Air, and clouds and storms, and all the weather, through which you give your creatures sustenance. Be praised, loving God, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. Be praised, loving God, through Brother Fire, through whom you brighten the night. He is beautiful and cheerful, and powerful and strong. Be praised, loving God, through our sister Mother Earth, who feeds us and rules us, and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs. Be praised, loving God, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial. Happy those who endure in peace, for they will be crowned; happy are we today for in hearing your word you call us all to be sisters and brothers in you. Amen! (Adapted from a prayer by St. Francis of Assisi) Today’s Blessing Prayer: Monday greetings and blessings to all! I hope your new work week is starting off well. Happy Autumn everyone! I forgot to mention it yesterday. It seems just like Autumn this morning weather wise. We are in the 50’s and are to only get into the 60’s today with a mostly cloudy day but someone forgot to tell The Morning because the sun is currently out and about. I hope your day is starting well.
I will begin a retreat at the Wartburg Home today. About 25 to 30 residents will be making the retreat mostly religious sisters. It is the first retreat that they have had at the home. I will be giving two talks one in the morning followed by mass and one in the afternoon. I would ask you to keep all making the retreat in your prayers and if you could say a little extra prayer for their preacher it would be appreciated! My prayer of blessing for all of us today is that as we journey through our day may it be a good journey. May we live by faith and trust in the gift that we are. May we place our gift, our light, on a stand in the middle of the room so that it will give light to the whole house, to everywhere we go and to everyone we meet. Blessings today upon all we do, upon everyone we meet and most importantly upon each one of us! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire you with a whole heart, so that desiring you we may seek you with a whole heart and find you; and so finding you, may love you, and loving you may hate those sins which separate us from you, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen (St. Anselm of Canterbury)
Today’s Blessing Prayer: Sunday greetings and blessings to all. It is an early morning for me as I put some finishing touches on my homily for today and in a couple of hours I will be heading to St. John and St. Mary Parish in Chappaqua, New York to celebrate the 10:00 am and noon masses. I hope your Sunday is starting off well and that you will be able to give a little time to God at some point today!
I would like to send a special shout-out to my great niece Emilia who celebrates her birthday today. Have a Happy Birthday Emilia with many blessings today and always. Have a great day and I hope you get to celebrate a little! You are in my thoughts and prayers. My prayer of blessing today is that your journey through Sunday may it be a good one. May you live by faith today and trust in the gift that you are. May God recognize your faith and bless you with the trust and willingness to let go and let God. If you are struggling with your faith may you find the strength to trust in the presence of God in your life. Blessings today upon all you do, upon everyone you meet and most importantly upon all of you. Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: O God, help us to bring our worldly concerns under control, so that they never turn our minds from the higher things. Help us have earthly things for our use but not as objects of our desires. May there be nothing to hold back the desire of our minds; and do not let the delights of this world ensnare us. Amen (Prayer by St. Gregory the Great)
Today’s Blessing Prayer: Saturday greetings and blessings of rest and peace to all today! I hope your day has started off well.
The sun seems to be trying to break through this morning but there are still clouds to impede it progress. Luckily, there is no rain in the forecast. I hope you will have a great Saturday and that you will look forward to the gifts that this day will bring. I invite you to join me in a simple little prayer that I pray at the beginning of each day - Dear God, Today I woke up. I am healthy. I am alive. Thank You, I apologize for all my complaining. I'm truly grateful for all You've done. My prayer of blessing for all of you today is that God will bless all your endeavors, your encounters, your times of solitude, your moments of busyness and your times of rest today. May this day be what you need it to be. May it be a gift from God that enables you to find the presence of God in your life, especially within yourself! Have a great Saturday and don’t forget to give a little time to God this weekend. Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer:
O God, seek us, O God, find us In your patient care; Be your love before, behind us, Be around us, everywhere: Lest the gods of this world blind us, Lest they speak us fair, Lest they forge a chain to bind us, Lest they bait a snare, Turn not from us, call to mind us, Find, embrace us, bear; Be your love before, behind us, Be around us, everywhere. Amen! (Adapted from a prayer by Christina Rossetti) Today’s Blessing Prayer: Friday greetings and blessings and happy feast of St. Matthew to everyone! I hope your day has started off well. The day here in the New York area begins on the cloudy side and I believe it will remain on the cloudy side for most of the day, but I don’t think it will include rain. I hope your Friday will be one blessed with good weather and many good experiences!
In a little while I will be off for my spiritual direction session, then on to the Wartburg Home for mass at 11:00 am, after which I will head to the office for the rest of my Friday work day. Again I invite you to join me in my daily morning prayer - Dear God, Today I woke up. I am healthy. I am alive. Thank You, I apologize for all my complaining. I'm truly grateful for all You've done. As I said above, I hope your day has started off well. My prayer of blessing today is that your Friday will be blessed with the richness of God's presence. May God touch you with his grace of faith, hope, love and joy today. May your day be blessed with the gift of faith filled people, wonderful experiences, safe travel and a productive day! Peace in Christ's Passion...Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: Grant us, O God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.” (Adapted from a prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas)
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