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 grow 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.
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 St. Raphael/Holy Angels Parish in Hamilton, NJ has gotten off
to a great start. Despite the snow, sleet and rain 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 the weather was a
little nicer. They say today will be warmer today but rainy. Please continue to
keep the faith community here at St. Raphael/Holy Angels and the preacher in
your prayers!
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, and may we know that in the midst of a rainy day God is watering our life,
making it fertile and fruitful. Peace in Christ's Passion...Fr. Paul
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