Morning Offering: 03. 13. 24

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Today’s Reflection:  Litany of Peace

One:     God, so many people are in pain.

All:       Teach us the way to peace.

One:     When people around us don’t agree and think differently,

All:       Teach us to listen and try to understand.

One:     When we see people getting hurt,

All:       Teach us to speak up.

One:     When we see people treated poorly because of their skin color, or language, or religious belief,

All:       Teach us to be an example of love and acceptance.

One:     When we see war and conflict,

All:       Teach us how to make a difference and seek peace.

One:     When we see pain,

All:       Teach us to bring healing,

One:     When we feel confused and afraid,

All:       Remind us to talk to our friends, our family and to you.

One:     In our lives, our neighborhoods and the world,

All:       Teach us to pray and teach us the way of peace.

— Evangelical Lutheran Church in America  

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: 03. 12. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Lord, you are my Master Gardener.
Water my being with your love and your grace
And cultivate patience within me when I expect rapid growth.
Send me rays of Son-light so that I may flourish
And produce much good fruit.
Prune away my desire for perfection
And shape me into the kind of good tree you want me to be.
May I be grateful for the unique gifts you have given me
and share them with those I meet today.  —Diane Amento Owens 

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: 03. 11. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Lord, open my eyes and widen my perspective so that I can see you more fully each day. Amen. —Jesuit prayer team

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: 03. 10. 24

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Today’s Reflection: God of all goodness, 

be merciful to us. 

Focus our attention on correcting our own faults, 

rather than criticizing those of others. 

Lead us to live a life of love, 

transformed by you and one another. 

Amen.— 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.

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Morning Offering: 03. 09. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Most Gracious and all wise God
Before whose face the generations rise and fall
Thou in whom we live, and move, and have our being
We thank thee for all of thy good and gracious gifts
For life and for health
For food and for raiment
For the beauties of nature and the love of human nature.

We come before thee painfully aware of our inadequacies and shortcomings
We realize that we stand surrounded with the mountains of love
And we deliberately dwell in the valley of hate
We stand amid the forces of truth and deliberately lie
We are forever offered the high road
And yet we choose to travel the low road
For these sins O God forgive.

Break the spell of that which blinds our minds
Purify our hearts that we may see thee.

O God
In these turbulent days when fear and doubt are mounting high
Give us broad visions, penetrating eyes, and power of endurance
Help us to work with renewed vigor for a warless world
For a better distribution of wealth
And for a brotherhood that transcends race or color.

In the name and spirit of Jesus we pray. Amen.

—Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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: 03. 08. 24

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Today’s Reflection: MORNING PRAYER: For every hardship I face, let me place it in your hands. Every emotion I feel, let it be your Spirit moving in me. Everything I seek, let me find it in your love. For every question that arises within me, let me listen for your answer.—  Bodmin Hermit

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: 03. 07. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Eternity is not what happens at the end of time, after we are dead. Every time we love and forgive then we have put a foot into eternity, which is God’s life. And that is why we can be joyful even on Good Friday, even in the face of suffering and death. — Timothy Radcliffe OP, in his book, Seven Last Words 

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Morning Offering: 03. 06. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Lord,
May I see you in the pleading gaze of the poor.
May I hear your voice in the plaintive cry of your children in need.
Give me the courage to smile, to say a word of greeting, a word of encouragement.
Give me the generosity to share food with the hungry and clothes with the naked.
Far be it from me to speak badly of my sisters and brothers who are suffering.
Far be it from me to trample on their rights or to turn them away.
For the poor are your favorite disguise.
Amen. —Fr. Paul Kalenzi, SJ

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Morning Offering: 03. 05. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Lord,
I want to ask you “Please let me see,”
but for some reason the words stick a little in my throat.
I think a part of me fears what you want to show me.
Will it be more than my mind and heart are prepared to take in?
Will you throw me a curveball I didn’t expect?
Help me Lord, to trust the voice deep inside of me
that knows you only wish to show me the magnificent things
possible with love and trust and hope in You.
Amen.  —Gretchen Crowder

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: 03. 04. 24

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Today’s Reflection: Be inspired to do something kind today.

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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(Image: Stations of the Cross, St. Kevin Church, Welland, ON.)