Tomorrow I depart for vacation with my family, while on vacation I will be praying for you and I ask that you pray for us.  My blog, "A Daily Dose of God” will return on Monday, July 27, 2020.

 

St. Ignatius of Loyola said, "All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.”

Bishop Barron reflected in a recent homily, “The secularist ideology teaches that sufficient amounts of wealth, pleasure, power, or honor will make us happy.

Who will counter this?  Who will speak to this culture of the beauty of God?  Who will remind us that our lives are not about us?  Who will break open the words of the Gospel and spread out the banquet table of Christ’s Body and Blood?”

 

As Secular humanism continues to permeate our culture, our witness as Christians becomes more difficult.  Recommit to living your faith and allowing the light of Christ to shine through you, to our nation and to our world.  The Eucharist is the spiritual nourish needed to sustain us and guide us and the Church.

May God Be Praised and may God’s blessing be upon you and your family today and every day.

I ask you to join me and cry out from the depths of your heart to the Lord who hears us.

“Lord, listen to my prayer: turn your ear to my appeal.” [Psalm 143] God, You are our refuge and our hope, we turn to you during this COVID 19 pandemic and plead for Your intercession.  In Your mercy and Your compassion “… grant eternal rest to the dead, comfort to mourners, healing to the sick ….” [Collect from Mass Time in Pandemic].

Provide strength to the first responders and medical personnel.  End this coronavirus scourge.  Bring Your light to all who wander in the darkness of this pandemic and give each of us hope in Your eternal love today and every day.  Amen.  [Dcn. George Kelly]