Morning Offering: 10. 12. 26

Today’s Reflection: A Thanksgiving Prayer

Oh God, on Thanksgiving Day we bow our hearts to You and pray.

We thank you for the many gifts and graces you have provided for us.

We pray for those who do not recognize or appreciate all that you have provided.

We pray for those who have less than we do.

We pray for continued health and happiness in our lives.

We pray for our family and friends, especially those who cannot be with us or are far from home.

We thank you for the food that we are about to receive.

Amen. – Marquette University prayer site

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Morning Offering: 10. 11. 26

Today’s Reflection: Lord, I often feel Your presence when I walk alone on a trail through the woods. In the quiet, pre-dawn hours, I know You are with me still when the noise of traffic and bustle of crowds seems to drown out thought. Accompany me, Lord  at all times. – St. Vincent de Paul Society USA.

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Morning Offering:10. 10. 26

Today’s Reflection: I said to God, I will not die before I know you. God replied he who knows me never dies. – Rumi.

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Morning Offering: 10. 09. 26

Today’s Reflection:

Talk to God about everything.

The little things;

The important things;

The things you’re afraid to say out loud.

One day you’ll realize those brief conversations with God were the most important conversations of your life.

He listens. – Author unknown

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Morning Offering: 10. 08. 26

Today’s Reflection: I should be accounted a thief by the great Almsgiver were I to withhold that which I wear from him who has greater need of it than I. – St. Francis of Assisi

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Editor’s note: Last in a short series of reflections marking the 800th anniversary since the death (Transitus) of St. Francis of Assisi on October 3, 1226.

Morning Offering: 10. 07. 26

Today’s Reflection: I have done what was mine to do; may Christ teach you what is yours. – St. Francis of Assisi

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Morning Offering: 10. 06. 26

Today’s Reflection: We have been called  to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way. – St. Francis of Assisi

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada, Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Morning Offering: 10. 05. 26

Today’s Reflection:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

and where there is sadness, joy.

Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console;

to be understood as to understand;

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen. – Prayer of St. Francis   

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Morning Offering: 10. 04. 26

Today’s Reflection: HERMITAGE RULE 30

Let go and let God help you to see with His eyes. – Bodmin Hermit, Franciscan hermit. retired hospice chaplain, Church  of England but multifaith contemplative stance.

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Morning Offering: 10. 03. 26

Today’s Reflection: Lord, grant me peace in my heart beyond today’s troubles or tomorrow’s worries. Grant me silence in my soul, enough to hear Your voice and feel Your presence. Be with me, O God, in all things. Amen. – St. Vincent de Paul Society USA

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.