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Thought for the Day – 3 January

Posted on by AnaStpaul

Saints like St Genevieve believed in the power of prayer and in a kind and loving Providence watching over human affairs.  By their own faith, they inspired others to this same kind of trust in God – that they were not alone in the human struggle and that God does marvelous things in answer to prayer.  Prayer is and always will be a powerful means of accomplishing wonders.

St Genevieve and all you Jesuit Sains, Pray for us!

“So You haven’t really sent me away from You, after all. When You assigned me the task of going out among men, You were only repeating to me Your one and only commandment: to find my way home to You in love. All care of souls is ultimately possible only in union with You, only in the love that binds me to You and thus makes me Your companion in finding a path to the hearts of men.”   (Encounters with Silence, Karl Rahner, translated and foreword by James M. Demske, SJ, South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press 1999, p. 67.)

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Posted in JESUIT SJ, MORNING Prayers

Our Morning Offering – 3 January

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Our Morning Offering – 3 January

I Choose to Breathe the Breath of Christ

I choose to breathe the breath of Christ
that makes all life holy.

I choose to live the flesh of Christ
that outlasts sin’s corrosion and decay.

I choose the blood of Christ
along my veins and in my heart
that dizzies me with joy.

I choose the living waters flowing from His side
to wash and clean my own self and the world itself.

I choose the awful agony of Christ
to charge my senseless sorrows with meaning
and to make my pain pregnant with power.

I choose You, good Jesus, You know.

I choose You, good Lord;
count me among the victories
that You have won in bitter woundedness.

Never number me among those alien to You.

Make me safe from all that seeks to destroy me.

Summon me to come to You.

Stand me solid among angels and saints
chanting yes to all You have done,
exulting in all You mean to do forever and ever.

Then for this time, Father of all,
keep me, from the core of my self,
choosing Christ in the world. Amen

by Fr Joseph Tetlow SJ

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