Today’s Blessing Prayer: Thursday greetings and blessings to everyone! I hope you are continuing to navigate through these unusual and at times difficult days with faith and a hopefulness in the future.
My thoughts today 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 it is the 34th anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood and I am hoping that over my life time especially these last 34 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 34 years! Thank you all for helping me be the man of faith, the Passionist and priest I am today even in the midst of my faults and failings. May I always serve you out of God’s love. I would also like to send a shout out to my brother, Jim, on his birthday today! Happy Birthday Jim! Many blessings today and always. I hope you are able to have a great day! I would ask your prayers today for The Sunday Mass ministry team and production team as we have a taping day today. Prayers for a good and faith filled day would be appreciated! Once again as we journey through this uncertain time, 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) My prayer of blessing for us today is that we will have the best day possible. May God’s blessings be upon our work, our endeavors, our encounters with others, our struggling moments, our smiling moments and upon all that we do and all whom you meet. Please know that you are always in my prayers…Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul
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Sr. Rosita
6/18/2020 06:30:54 am
Happy Anniversary of your ordination. Thanks for the prayers and you are in prayer as well.
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