Today’s Reflection: God, if we could only know how patient you’ve been with us, we’d be a little more understanding with others. Give us a sense of your serenity so we might share it with someone else today. Amen. — Joe Ertle, SJ
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Today’s Reflection: Heavenly Father, grant us the grace to walk through life’s winding paths with hearts anchored in you. Kindle in us a spirit of trust, that we may surrender our fears to your providence and see your hand at work even in our darkest moments. In everything we do, may we glorify you and draw closer to the fullness of your eternal embrace. Amen. — Ryan Serfas, 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: Service is what prayer looks like when it gets up off its knees and walks around in the world. —Michael J. Graham, SJ
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Today’s Reflection: Do not face the day until you have faced God. — Unknown
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Today’s Reflection: God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me. — Variation of an excerpt from the 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.
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Note: This reflection is repeated here in response to a request.
Today’s Reflection: May we be grateful, not hateful.— Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
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Today’s Reflection: There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. — G.K. Chesterton
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Today’s Reflection: If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.— St. Francis of Assisi
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Today’s Reflection: Your ‘yes’ to God requires your ‘no’ to all injustices, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and poor. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Today’s Reflection: Our Lady of the Way (Madonna della Strada)
Our Lady of the Way,
stay with us when we grow weary of the journey;
for the road is long
and our hearts are weak.
Strengthen us with the patience and fortitude
to continue on
in pursuit of a whole and just world;
in pursuit of a whole and just self.
Come, be our guide.
Our Lady of the Way,
lead us when we cannot see the path.
Take us by the hand as a Mother;
whispering comfort in our ears,
steering us through the dark,
guarding us from the terrors of the night.
Infuse us with your courage,
with your refusal to bow to fear and the unknown.
For in you we find the Light that moves us forward.
Our Lady of the Way,
show us the mystery you revealed to Ignatius
so many years past:
the mystery of letting go.
That we would not cling to our packs nor our sandals nor our cloaks
but release to the path what the path requires.
Because for all that we lay down,
we pick up something greater;
we pick up freedom.
Our Lady of the Way
show us the way.
Amen.
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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Note: The feast of Our Lady of the Way is celebrated May 24. The reference to ‘Ignatius’ in the text is St. Ignatius of Loyola SJ.
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