Today’s Blessing Prayer: Saturday greetings and blessings to all! I hope you are navigating through these mid-June days with faith and hope for the future.
Once again, I offer you Pope Francis’ Prayer… O Mary, you shine continuously on our journey as a sign of salvation and hope. We entrust ourselves to you, and the Health of the Sick. At the foot of the Cross you participated in Jesus’ pain, with steadfast faith. You, Salvation of All People, know what we need. We are certain that you will provide, so that, as you did at Cana of Galilee, joy and feasting might return after this moment of trial. Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform ourselves to the Father’s will and to do what Jesus tells us: He who took our sufferings upon Himself, and bore our sorrows to bring us, through the Cross, to the joy of the Resurrection. Amen. We seek refuge under your protection, O Holy Mother of God. Do not despise our pleas – we who are put to the test – and deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin. (Prayer Composed by Pope Francis) I have a few things to be thankful for today… First, I am thankful for my brother, Jim, who celebrates his Birthday today! So, I send a shout out to my brother, Jim, on his birthday today! Happy Birthday Jim! Many blessings today and always. I hope you will have a great day! Thank you for being my brother and putting up with me all these years! Secondly, I am thankful for Dr. Anthony Reino, Today Doc, will be ordained a permanent deacon. I have had the privilege of walking with him as a spiritual director the last couple of years. Congrats, Doc, as you begin a new journey of service. I look forward to celebrating with you this morning! Finally, my I am grateful for my own journey as a Passionist and a priest. On June 18th, 1986, I was ordained a priest, and so my thoughts this morning center around two quotes from Thomas Merton. The first is from his book, New Seeds of Contemplation and the second is from the book, Thoughts in Solitude. “Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny...To work out our identity in God.” (New Seeds of Contemplation) “Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat . . . Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that.” (Thoughts in Solitude) I picked these two quotes today because on this 36th anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood and I am hoping that over my life time especially these last 36 years I have worked with God to find my identity and that I am truly living for Jesus even though at times my humanness, my struggles, my faults and failing get in the way of my friendship with God and in my service to others. As I celebrate this day, I turn to my good friend, St. Paul, for guidance and strength in the hope that I will always live every aspect of my life in faith, discourse, knowledge, all earnestness, and in the love of God as it is found in our Lord Jesus Christ. And that I will always excel in the gracious act of love that God has given to me by making sure my love for God and others is always genuine. As I celebrate today, I pray for all who have touched my life especially during the last 36 years! Thank you all for helping me be the man of faith, the Passionist and priest I am today even amid my faults and failings. May I always serve you out of God’s love. My prayer of blessing today is that God will bless our day and our journey through it. May we be gifted and blessed with smiles, laughter, family, friends, fun and peace today! And if we are traveling today that we will be blessed with safe travel. May we all have a great day, and may we be blessed with God’s joy in whatever we do and wherever we go. May God’s joy be found in the people we meet today and within us! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul
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