Today’s Reflection: Spring is here to remind us that life is a continuous process of rejuvenation, renewal and recovery. — Sangeeta Rand
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario.
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Today’s Reflection: Lord,
I crave certainty. I need proof. I want evidence.
Yet, you are already here, moving in ways I cannot always see.
Help me to trust in your presence, even without evidence.
Open my heart to faith that does not need to be measured or recorded – only lived.
Amen. — Jackie Schulte
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.
Today’s Reflection: Prayer for Peace and Calm
Dear Lord and Father of humankind,
Forgive our foolish ways;
Reclothe us in our rightful mind,
In purer lives Thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.
Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.
Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.
Today’s Reflection: Keep the peace of the gospel with one another and indeed the entire world.— St. Hilda
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.
Today’s Reflection: Morning Prayer
Lord, as I open my eyes this morning, I ask that you open my heart and mind to see the world as you do. Help me to see the beauty in the ordinary, the potential in every person, and the opportunity for your love in every situation. Grant me wisdom. Amen. — Bodmin Hermit
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.
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;
where there is sadness, joy.
O 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. —Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.
Today’s Reflection: Prayer
Lord, in this season of Lent,
I come to you with a heart that longs for order but too often clings to control.
Create in me a well-ordered heart, one that reflects your presence, not just my plans.
May this Lent be a time of clearing away the clutter,
so that I may walk more freely with you.
Amen. —Jackie Schulte
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.
Today’s Reflection: Prayer
Lord,
May I see you in the pleading gaze of the poor.
May I hear your voice in the plaintive cry of your children in need.
Give me the courage to smile, to say a word of greeting, a word of encouragement.
Give me the generosity to share food with the hungry and clothes with the naked.
Far be it from me to speak badly of my sisters and brothers who are suffering.
Far be it from me to trample on their rights or to turn them away.
For the poor are your favorite disguise.
Amen. — Fr. Paul Kalenzi, SJ
Artist’s image: Christ in the breadline
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.
Today’s Reflection: If you begin and finish your day with thoughts of gratitude, you’ll find yourself living from a place of abundance rather than lack. Those first and final moments set the tone for the many minutes that fall in between. — Erica Layne
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.
Today’s Reflection: Lord, open my eyes and widen my perspective so that I can see you more fully each day. Amen. —Jesuit Prayer team
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.
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