COVID 19 Pandemic Prayer

 

 

St. Brendan wrote, "Help me to journey beyond the familiar and into the unknown. Give me the faith to leave old ways and break fresh ground with You."  A powerful insight for our COVID 19 Pandemic Times.

Reflect on this story about the man in the desert, he hears a voice say – pick-up stones and pebbles and put them in your pocket; tomorrow you will be both happy and sad.  The next morning he looked in his pocket and found diamonds, gold and rubbies, he was happy he put some in his pockets, but very sad that he didn’t put a whole lot more in his pockets!

    

This time of COVID 19 Stay at Home is our time in the desert, we can pick up the stones of prayer and pebbles of quiet reflection, and when the Pandemic eases we can continue with them and be happy, or we could return to Pre-Covid 19 habits and be sad we didn’t use our stay at home time to grow closer to our Lord and Savior.

Don’t lose confidence and faith in the Lord, ponder this message from scripture, “I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.”  (Jeremiah [31:13])

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque said, “No other grace can be compared with that of carrying the cross out of love for our Lord.” 

[Thoughts and Sayings of St. Margaret Mary, p.79] 

During this COVID 19 Pandemic maybe we are called to be Simon helping Jesus carry the COVID cross while helping each of through this crisis.

May God Be Praised!