Today’s Reflection: God, thank You for the gift of a new day. Fill our hearts with Your peace and guide our steps. Help us to see Your peace in everything we do today and to walk in Your love and grace.— Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
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Today’s Reflection: Mercy, far from being weakness, requires great strength. Any weakling can be harsh, corrective, demanding. It is only a strong heart that can be merciful, succoring, shielding, excusing.— Mother Mary Francis, from her book, Cause of Our Joy: Walking Day by Day with Our Lady
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: Dear Lord, help me to understand that the most precious thing in my life is not “my stuff”. Help me to see and feel your presence in every moment of my life and appreciate every moment of my life knowing you are in it.—Joan Colleran Hoxsey
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, bless the work of peacemakers who strive to heal divisions and bring harmony to our world. Grant them courage, wisdom and diplomacy as they sow seeds of understanding and love. May their efforts bear fruit in everlasting peace. — Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
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: Help Me
Lord, help me see; make me an instrument of your radical inclusion.
Help me to put aside any prerequisites to respect a person.
Help me to initiate communication and act with kindness.
Help me to find ways to engage and include others.
Help me to find spaces and moments to let others participate.
Help me to avoid “tuning out” the people around me and to notice the little things.
Help me understand the power of my presence, gaze, posture, smile, and attention, as healing tools I already have.
Help me not to blame the one who suffers for their suffering; the one who is excluded for their exclusion.
Help me be aware of my judgmental and prejudicial thoughts, that I may not hamper the opportunity to really meet and know the other.
Because, it’s you O Lord, who calls me to encounter, and your Spirit who guides me to walk with the other and to really see them as you do; to include and love them as you do.
For all this and more, help me be an instrument of your radical inclusion. Amen. — Sindy Collazo
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: This very moment I may, if I desire, become a friend of God. — St. Augustine
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:
Silent Call, Whispered Return
Fill me with all that draws me closer to You
Stillness, prayer, time to reflect
Connection with my companions on the journey.
Speak to me in the hushed quiet of prayer.
That I may let go of all that holds me back
From the life you are calling me to. — Bodmin Hermit
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: A New Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the people I cannot change,
which is pretty much everyone,
since I’m clearly not you, God.
At least not the last time I checked.
And while you’re at it, God,
please give me the courage
to change what I need to change about myself,
which is frankly a lot, since, once again,
I’m not you, which means I’m not perfect.
It’s better for me to focus on changing myself
than to worry about changing other people,
who, as you’ll no doubt remember me saying,
I can’t change anyway.
Finally, give me the wisdom to just shut up
whenever I think that I’m clearly smarter
than everyone else in the room,
that no one knows what they’re talking about except me,
or that I alone have all the answers.
Basically, God,
grant me the wisdom
to remember that I’m
not you.
Amen. — Fr. James Martin SJ
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, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference. Amen. — Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr
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
O God, give us the humility which realizes its ignorance,
admits its mistakes, recognizes its need, welcomes advice,
accepts rebuke. Help us always to praise rather than to criticize,
to sympathize rather than to discourage, to build rather than to destroy, and to think of people at their best rather than at their worst.
Amen. — William Barclay
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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