Today’s Reflection: Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your heart for love — William John Bennett
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Today’s Reflection: Be simple, humble, and righteous. Be pure in heart. Be peacemakers. Feed the hungry. Stand with the oppressed. Wipe away the tears of those who mourn. Be kind and merciful. Love and forgive your neighbor. We are called to bring the Beatitudes to life. — The Assisi Project
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Today’s Reflection: It is not you who shapes God; it is God who shapes you. If then you are the handiwork of God await the hand of the Artist who does all things in due season.
Offer the pottery of your heart, soft and tractable, and keep well the form in which the Artist has fashioned you. Let your clay be moist, lest you grow hard and lose the imprint of the Potter’s fingers. —St. Irenaeus, in For You, O God: Prayers and Reflections
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
When the wind blows strong, Cloudy days can clear, But clear days can cloud. So why am I surprised when, Without warning, My heart is gripped by fear Or stunned by a sadness I cannot explain?
Whatever the weather, Lord, teach me – To be faithful, as you are faithful, To trust you in every season of my soul, To shout “Hosanna,” even in the lion’s den. —J. Michael Sparough, SJ
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Today’s Reflection: Jesus, who tells stories of hope that invite and challenge us. Give us the grace to bid farewell to fear. Forgive us for expecting what we think we deserve while failing to receive the abundance you give. Seed falls in unexpected places so teach us to find you in places we think you are not supposed to go. Help us, dear friend, to love To love To love As we have been loved. Amen. — Carol Ackel
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Today’s Reflection: Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things Whoever has God lacks 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.