One Minute Reflection – 6 November – I will have no Lord but You

One Minute Reflection – 6 November – Wednesday of the Thirty-first week in Ordinary Time, Year C, Gospel: Luke 14:25-33

“If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple…” … Luke 14:26

REFLECTION – “O my God, though I am not fit to see or touch You yet, still I will ever come within Your reach and desire that which is not yet given me in its fullness.   O my Saviour, You shall be my sole God! – I will have no Lord but You.  I will break to pieces all idols in my heart which rival You.   I will have nothing but Jesus and Him Crucified.   It shall be my life to pray to You, to offer myself to You, to keep You before me, to worship You in Your holy Sacrifice and to surrender myself to You in Holy Communion.  Amen.” —– St John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

PRAYER – Holy God and Father, You sent Your Son to show us the way to our eternal home.   Teach us always to understand that by relinquishing the things of this world and focusing our efforts only on following the Light He shines on our path, we may attain the eternal victory.   May the prayers of Your our Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary, assist us in carrying our cross after Hi  m. Through Christ our Lord, with the Holy Spirit, God forever, amen.