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Morning Offering: 04. 24. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Serenity Prayer (full version)

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change,
Courage to change the
things I can, and the
wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as the
pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this
sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make
all things right if I
surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy
in this life, and supremely
happy with Him forever in
the next.
Amen.— Reinhold Niebuhr (1926)

 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: 04. 21. 24

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Today’s Reflection: God of all people,

you have given us a reliable

and caring guide,

in Jesus, our good shepherd.

May the message of his good news

help us to hear his voice

speaking to us today.

May we recognise his voice

in the cry of all those in need.

Amen. — CAFOD/Catholic prayer resource

 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 Fourth Sunday of Easter (today) is observed as Good Shepherd Sunday

Morning Offering: 04. 20. 24

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Today’s Reflection: God uses broken things.

It takes broken soil to produce a crop,

broken clouds to give rain,

broken grain to give bread,

broken bread to give strength. — Vance Havner

 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: 04. 19. 24

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Today’s Reflection: I’ll let you in on something I just recently  learned: set aside a few minutes each day to just be silent, and you will find that you instantly become a more peaceful person. Imagine Jesus saying to you (as He said to His disciples), ‘Come with me by yourself to a quiet place’ (cf. Mk 6:31). — J. Augustine Wetta from his book, Humility Rules, Saint Benedict’s 12-Step Guide to Self Esteem

 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: 04. 18. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Why should we not speak of Jesus? Why should we not tell others that he gives us strength in life, that we enjoy talking with him, and that we benefit from meditating on his words —   Pope Francis   

 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.-

Photo: Heritage stained glass window from old Église du Sacré-Cœur/Sacred Heart Church, Welland

Morning Offering: 04. 17. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. — J. M.Barrie

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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Morning Offering: 04. 16. 24

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Today’s Reflection: The civilisation that God wants to exist among us is the civilisation of love which also includes justice, truth, and freedom. — St. Oscar Romero, Mass of the Lord’s Supper homily, 1979.

 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: 04. 15. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Broken bread

God, whom we meet in bread and wine,
in body broken and blood outpoured,
fill us with your compassion,
that we may hear the cries of the hungry
and reach out to those in need.
Engender in us a thirst for justice,
that the hungry will be satisfied
and the rich sent empty away.
Roll away our apathy
that, with arms outstretched,
we may offer life in place of death
and hope in the face of despair. Amen. — Annabel Shilson-Thomas/CAFOD

 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.