A Daily Dose of God

 

For all of your thoughts and prayers on our 50^th Wedding Anniversary Joanne and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts, know you are always in our prayers 🙏.

With grateful hearts, again thank you.

 

 

St. Francis de Sales said, "Obedience is the salt that gives taste and flavor to all our actions and renders them meritorious for eternal life." 

 

To follow God's will for us, to love God's will for us and to be grateful for God's will for us is the secret of the spiritual life.

 

Take a few minutes to listen to this rendition of ‘Be Thou My Vision” – sung by Audrey Assad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Optrm7lF16s

 

Here are the words of St. Dallan Forgail’s “Be Thou My Vision” to ponder:

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart

Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art

 

Thou my best Thought, by day or by night

Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word

 

I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord

Thou my great Father, I Thy true son

Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one

 

Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise

Thou mine Inheritance, now and always

Thou and Thou only, first in my heart

 

High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art

High King of Heaven, my victory won

May I reach Heaven's joys, O bright Heav'n's Sun

Heart of my own heart, whate'er befall

Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all

 

May God Be Praised!

 

            A Prayer for Our Nation

Loving God help us to serve those who are shunned or eschewed; guide our civic leaders; bless our nation; and bestow Your grace upon our elected officials and anoint them with the desire to foster the common good.  Amen.     Dcn. George Kelly]

 

COVID 19 Pandemic Prayer

Hear my cry!  “Lord, listen to my prayer: turn your ear to my appeal.”  You are my refuge and my hope, I 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 ….”

[Psalm 143 and Collect from Mass Time in Pandemic]

 

Provide strength to the first responders, compassion to the medical personnel, and wisdom to government leaders.  End this coronavirus scourge.  Send Your light to me as I wander in the darkness of this pandemic and give me hope in Your eternal love today and every day.  Amen.  [Dcn. George Kelly]