Daily Thoughts: God's Word in
our life is like nothing else. As our first reading from Isaiah remains us it
cannot return to God without nurturing, correcting, healing and inspiring us.
God's Word is just like the rain, it refreshes us, it softens us up and helps
life to go within us and around us. God's Word is always going to grow our
challenge is to allow it to grow within us.
The Our Father has always been one of my
favorite prayers, perhaps because it probably was one of the first prayers I
learned. It keeps me connected with the beginning of my life. It is also
important to me because it is the last prayer I prayed with my father. It
happened one night in the hospital not long before he died. I asked him if he
wanted to pray and he said yes. We said the Our Father together and when we
were finished a great feeling of loss came over me and I began to cry. My dad
reached out and comforted me. I think the feeling of loss came from the fact
that all that the Our Father speaks about my own father did for me in life and
in praying it that night I recognized the loss that was about to take place in
my life.
The hopefulness of the Our Father is
that God will never leave us. That each and every day we pray that simple pray,
its promises, its challenges will always be taken care of by Our Father, God.
Our daily bread will always be there. Forgiveness will always be there. The
care, compassion and presence of God will always be there. We just have to
trust and give life to the Word of God planted within us!
As St. Augustine puts it, "If you
run through the petitions of all holy prayers, I believe you will find nothing
that is not contained in the Lord's Prayer."
Have a blessed Tuesday everyone and stay
warm!
Daily Prayer: Our Father who
art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen! (Say it slowly, listen to the
words!)
A Runner's Thoughts: Running is an
intensely physical activity, so the body is brought directly into play and
cannot be ignored. Thus, if our run becomes a prayer, our bodies with their
direct connection to the earth, the wind, the heat, the cold, the scents and
the noises around us become the stimulus that brings us closer to God, reminds
us of God's presence in our life and gives spirit and energy to our prayer!
Daily Blessing: Tuesday
greetings and blessings to everyone! I hope this find you well and off to a
good start today. If not hang in there my prayer for you is that your day will
be productive and grace filled!
Well our mission here at Our Lady of
Loreto Parish in Waterbury has gotten off to a great start. Despite the very
cold temps last night we had to great session and I look for more of the same
today. There is a lot of enthusiasm here which make my job, my ministry rather
easy. I just wish it would get a little warmer they say today will be colder
than yesterday and for some of the people it is not good for them to be out is
this weather. Please continue to keep the faith community here and the preacher
in your prayers!
If you are looking to say a few extra
prayers I would ask you to keep a little lady, Abigail, not yet a year old in
your prayers. She is struggling with some unknown issues and getting some tests
done. It is a extremely hard for a little one to be struggling so she needs
your prayers please. Also keep her mother, father and her two
sisters in your prayers too!
My prayer of blessing for all of us
today comes from our readings at mass that God’s blessing will be upon us all
this day, so that the Word of God may be planted and nourished within us
throughout this day and that we may bring this joyful word wherever we go and
to whom ever you meet! May God’s bless us with a good day, with at least a
little sun and a little warmth. Peace in Christ's Passion...Fr. Paul
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