Today’s Reflection: Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls… Jesus is always waiting for us in silence. — St. Teresa of Calcutta, from the book Love, a Fruit Always in Season.
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Today’s Reflection: There are two rules on the spiritual path: begin, and continue. – Sufi saying.
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Today’s Reflection: It is not man who is on the quest for God. It is God who is on the quest for man. He leaves us restless. — Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, from the book Through the Year with Fulton Sheen.
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: On This Day….
Mend a quarrel
Search out a forgotten friend
Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust
Write a love letter
Share some treasures
Give a soft answer
Encourage youth — Author Unknown.
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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: Loving God, bring us light in the darkness, peace in the turbulence. And may we be the bearers of your light to others. Amen. — Therese Fink Meyerhoff.
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Today’s Reflection: God of all time,
help us enter the New Year quietly,
thoughtful of who we are to ourselves and to others,
mindful that our steps make an impact
and our words carry power.
May we walk gently.
May we speak only after we have listened well.
Creator of all life,
help us enter the New Year reverently,
aware that you have endowed
every creature and plant, every person and habitat
with beauty and purpose.
May we regard the world with tenderness.
May we honor rather than destroy.
Lover of all souls,
help us enter the New Year joyfully,
willing to laugh and dance and dream,
remembering our many gifts with thanks
and looking forward to blessings yet to come.
May we welcome your lavish love.
May we cast off the small, vindictive god our fears have made.
May the grace and peace of Christ bless you now and in the days ahead. — Vinita Hampton Wright.
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,
In your mercy, bless me.
Bless my friends and family.
Bless those I find it hard to bless myself.
Let your face shine on me this New Year!
May your plans for mending and peace
Continue to unfold in our troubled world.
Give me the graces I need to be a
Better blesser myself, and a
More committed peacemaker.
Bring peace to the nations.
Bring peace to our homes.
Bring peace to my own heart.
I thank you, Lord, for all you have
Done for me throughout my life.
I thank you for your blessings I’ve seen
And the blessings I know I’ve missed.
Thank you for everything you do for me still.
I adore you, Creator of All!
I praise you today and every day
Until I may praise you face to face.
Thank you for your mercy and kindness.
Thank you for your abundant blessings.
Thank you for loving me. — An adaptation of Psalm 67 by Fr. Joe Kraemer, SJ.
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: A personal favourite to start off the new year – My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. — Thomas Merton.
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: Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty. – St. Oscar Romero.
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.
Best wishes for a blessed, happy and healthy New Year to our Morning Offering community!
Today’s Reflection: Those who have God,
Know they lack nothing.
God alone suffices. — St. Teresa of Avila.
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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