I’ll keep Fr Greg in my prayers and Masses. Merciful God please comfort and heal him. Please relieve his sufferings, and bless him in every good way
For Fr Greg
“This…is what I pray before the Father from whom every family, whether spiritual or natural, takes its name: Out of His infinite glory, may He give you the power through His Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth; until, knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond all knowledge, you are filled with the utter fullness of God.
Glory be to Him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine; glory be to Him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen.” [Ephesians 3: 14-21]
Mother Mary, so mould your Son’s priest in the womb of your tender powerful love, that his use and involvement in the gifts and fruits of creation and salvation is consecrated to adoration and service of God in other souls. So draw each priest into your pure maternal love, that his every atom sings praise to God! Let him live in the sunshine of your approval. Let all that enters and passes from his consciousness be filtered through your thought! So love and guide him that even in his weakness he becomes an everlasting source of delight to your Son. Then, in death, he will find surprised depth of recognition and familiarity with God and heaven, even in his profound awe.
May each moment of his life—even those of drudgery, routine, loneliness, or weary discomfort—be filled with the loveliness of your smile! May his labour and his leisure be pleasing in God’s sight, equally drawing souls to our Redeemer. May time that appears to be wasted, be filled with the beauty of moments spent asleep in the arms of the loving Mother, so please the eternal Father!
In illness, sadness, loneliness, stress, weariness, temptation and disappointment—as in his joys and satisfactions—let him always rejoice, for in all these things he cooperates in the life and ministry of your Son! Then shall he give glory to God, joy to the angels and saints, and inspiration everyone he encounters on earth! Thus shall he live as instrument of divine love and grace, exemplifying the joyous sanctity of one who is whole in his creative humanity, bearing a great harvest (whether or not visible) for the Kingdom of God.