Today’s Blessing Prayer: Friday greetings and blessings to all. I pray that you are continuing to navigate through these difficult times. We find ourselves 13 days from the end of Lent and the beginning of the Easter Triduum. It has been a very weird Lent and a long one. I have a feeling it is going to be a weird Holy Week and Easter. Yet, here we are and all we can do is wait, follow the directive and live in the hope that one day we will beyond all of this.
I would ask that you keep in your prayers Dorothy Fitzsimmons and the Fitzsimmons family. Dorothy who was mother and grandmother died yesterday morning of complications of the CoronaVirus. I had visited her in her nursing home a few months back. With this difficult time the family could not be with her at her death and will have to wait to morn her loss in a formal way. I am sure Dorothy was welcomed warmly into heaven by God yesterday but please say a prayer for her and her family today! 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 today is a simple one that all of us will have a graced filled, safe and healthy Friday, one that helps us to trust and hope in God’s presence and action in the world. May we all be blessed with richness of what matters to God and touched with the presence of God in all we do today. Remember Pope Francis will give a special “Urbi et Orbi” blessing today at 1 pm EDT New York. Have a peaceful, safe and healthy Friday everyone. Peace in Christ's Passion...Fr. Paul
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