Spend a
few minutes listening to “Where Is God in All of this?”
St.
Francis de Sales offers us some insights into suffering that may help us in our
ongoing need for healing, reconciliation, loving and living through the COVID
19 Pandemic.
"God never
permits anything to come upon us as a trial or test of our virtue without desiring that
we should profit by it."
"If it be God's
will that the remedies overcome the sickness, return to God thanks with
humility; if it be God's will that the sickness overcome the remedies, bless
God with patience.”
"The truly
loving heart loves God's good pleasure not in consolations only
but also in
afflictions."
Today
pray, “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, and wisdom to government leaders. 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]
TRUST
God with your cares, your worries, with your entire life, then listen to Come
to the Water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhq7djsjDzc
May God Be Praised!
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