With Gratitude

[LJL5]

I had time today to think that I need to pray with Gratitude! In the last week I’ve been in the middle of a blizzard and on the tail of a tornado and lost in the dark on Texas highways. I am grateful! Grateful for the safe landing after all that turbulence. Grateful for the warmth and safety of my home in the middle of the storm. Grateful for the goodness of strangers who’ve helped me when I get lost - and I always get lost.

But of course, most of all, grateful that my Lord and Saviour gave me His Word and His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity today at mass, through a holy priest who loves his Lord and models it for me and all his congregation.

I am grateful that I live in a land where I can still freely worship in my own parish and thankfully a diocese that keeps my parish open. I have my family still and some of them worship in the pew with me, and some of them don’t - but they all believe and I say Thank You Lord! I have been greatly blessed and I know it. Thanks be to God for all the good He has given to me !

What are you thankful for?

 

[MS_SURVEYOR]

Hail Mary,
full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

 

[Love_St_Auggie]

I had time today to think that I need to pray with Gratitude! In the last week I’ve been in the middle of a blizzard and on the tail of a tornado and lost in the dark on Texas highways. I am grateful! Grateful for the safe landing after all that turbulence. Grateful for the warmth and safety of my home in the middle of the storm. Grateful for the goodness of strangers who’ve helped me when I get lost - and I always get lost.

But of course, most of all, grateful that my Lord and Saviour gave me His Word and His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity today at mass, through a holy priest who loves his Lord and models it for me and all his congregation.

I am grateful that I live in a land where I can still freely worship in my own parish and thankfully a diocese that keeps my parish open. I have my family still and some of them worship in the pew with me, and some of them don’t - but they all believe and I say Thank You Lord! I have been greatly blessed and I know it. Thanks be to God for all the good He has given to me !

Praise God!

 

[ready]

I pray that you persevere in the spirit of prayer, penance and gratitude.

Hail Mary…

Amen.

 

[LJL5]

Thank you for your prayers! I do so appreciate it!

I am in week two of my travel - this time all on the road. Only got lost once in the dark and rain- one big circle - Thank God it was no more trouble than that!

However, the most wonderful thing I am grateful for this week is the beautiful church down the road from here that was open tonight for Lenten activities, not the least of which was confessions. So I took advantage of it and I am very grateful! That any parish in any place would be open after dark and that any priest would offer to hear confession after 5pm seems like such a wonderful thing.

Do any of you have special Lenten events in your parish in the evenings this year?

Praise be to Jesus!