Today’s Reflection: Lord, I often feel Your presence when I walk alone on a trail through the woods. In the quiet, pre-dawn hours, I know You are with me still when the noise of traffic and bustle of crowds seems to drown out thought. Accompany me, Lord at all times. – St. Vincent de Paul Society USA.
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Today’s Reflection: Our true worth does not consist of what human beings think of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be. – St. John Berchmans SJ.
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
If you cannot pluck up bad ideas by the root, if you cannot cure long-standing evils as completely as you would like, you must not therefore abandon the commonwealth.
Do not give up the ship in a storm because you cannot direct the winds. And do not arrogantly force strange ideas on people who you know have set their minds on a different course from yours. You must strive to influence policy indirectly, handle the situation tactfully, and thus what you cannot turn to good, you may at least make less bad.
For it is impossible to make all institutions good unless you make all people good, and that I don’t expect to see for a long time to come.
– St. Thomas More, Renaissance English Chancellor and Martyr (1478–1535)
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.