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About fromareportersnotebook

Former reporter and city editor at The Tribune, Welland, On. Active in various community groups and initiatives, married with two grown children, interested in roses specifically and gardening in general. A collection of previously-written columns was published in book form in the fall of 2013 and is available by contacting the writer at: fromareportersnotebook@gmail.com. It sells for $20.

Morning Offering: 10. 12. 23

Today’s Reflection: Retreat from this world and follow the Lord. Don’t let your past disturb you. Don’t fret about tomorrow. You are simply here and now with the Lord. He it is who calls you and you need know nothing else. Do not be dazzled by the illusions of a material world. — 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.

Morning Offering: 10. 11. 23

Today’s Reflection: We must live the Gospel and preach it by living it. It is the only language that people will understand today. — Catherine Doherty, Madonna House Apostolate

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.

Note: The photo is from the opening prayer service for Notre Dame College School’s 40th anniversary Pilgrimage for the Developing World, October, 2015.

Morning Offering: 10. 10. 23

Today’s Reflection: MORNING PRAYER – Today is a new day. Yesterday is gone, forgiven, if not forgotten, and with it all my mistakes and failures. It’s a good day to be glad and give thanks, and I do Lord. Thank you for today, a new opportunity to love, give, and be all that you want me to be. Amen. — 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.

Morning Offering: 10. 07. 23

Today’s Reflection: Thanks giving 

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything thy goodness sends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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.

Note: Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to family, friends and followers!

Morning Offering: 10. 06. 23

Today’s Reflection: Lord, I keep stumbling. Please help me find my balance with your strength and your love. — 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.

Morning Offering: 10. 05. 23

Today’s Reflection: Most High, Glorious God,
enlighten the darkness of our minds.
Give us a right faith, a firm hope, and a perfect charity,
so that we may always and in all things act according to Your Holy Will. Amen —St. Francis of Assisi

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.

Morning Offering: 10. 04. 23

Today’s Reflection: Restore in us a deepened sense of wonder and gratitude so we realize your handprint in our day. — Jesuits.

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.

Morning Offering: 10. 03. 23

Today’s Reflection: Prayer

I pray just for today, for these twenty-four hours,
for the ability to cooperate with others according to the way Jesus taught us to live.
“Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
May these words that he taught us become more than words.

Please free my thinking and feelings and the thinking and feelings of others,
from all forms of self-will, self-centeredness, dishonesty, and deception.
Along with my brothers and sisters,
I need this freedom to make my choices today according to your desires.
Send your Spirit to inspire me in time of doubt and indecision so that, together, we can walk along your path. Amen. — John Veltri, 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.

Morning Offering: 10. 02. 23

Today’s Reflection: Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.  — Fred Rogers

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.

Morning Offering: 10. 01. 23

Today’s Reflection: Let us know peace.
For as long as the moon shall rise,
For as long as the rivers shall flow,
For as long as the sun will shine,
For as long as the grass shall grow,
Let us know peace.  —A Native American Prayer for Peace

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.