Deacon Ward's Message of the Day 7/17/2020

Deacon Ward's Almost Daily Message
Friday July 17, 2020

🙏

Today, we pray for Frs. Thomas Mosher and Thomas Nadeau of our diocese …and also for 
Deacons John Guarino and Pete Gummere

Pray for vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and the religious life....🙏

“Eternal Father, we lift up to you these and all the priests and deacons of the world.

Sanctify them, heal and guide them.

Mold them into the likeness and holiness

of your Son, Jesus, the Eternal High Priest.

May their lives be pleasing to you. In Jesus' name, we pray."  Amen.🙏

🌹

****TONIGHT!****

"It is easier for the world to exist without a sun than to exist without the Eucharist."

(St. Padre Pio)

...Starting at 7:00 PM!

 Come and join us (or online) for 

Holy Adoration and Holy Rosary (Led by Fr. Rijo)

 from St. Mary Star of the Sea Church

🌹

Prayer for the Moment...

Prayer of Thanksgiving for 

God's Graces.

How I thank you, Lord, that I am allowed

to flow and do not have to grasp, am allowed

to expand out into your blessed incomprehensibility

and do not have to puzzle anxiously  over

signs and written formulas.

For everything is a hieroglyphic but it tells of you,

and everything is a sign and points to you.

And over the universal riddle your mystery

dawns like a sun, and in the decline of all

worldly light, your greater light glimmers

in silence. Every road pushes me violently out

of myself and into the wilderness, and no longer

finding any road I can sense your wing and

your breath.

How I thank you, Lord, that you transcend

our heart, for at last everything we can 

comprehend lies pitifully beneath us. And our

spirit does not desire to contain, but to

be contained in you, and even in knowing,

rather to be known by your heart. When all 

wisdom collapses, it is not unknowing that we

experience, but rather the truth that all wisdom

is secured in you.

The wave of the world boils up boldly, but then

it's impetus overshoots itself and turns to spray, 

and casts itself, widely dispersed, upon your

shore in spent adoration.

How I thank you, Lord, that you resolve 
the painful wilderness of the world  only by 
dissolving it into the blessed wilderness of your love, 
and that everything conflicting and raging 
within us is melted together in the crucible of 
your Creator's might.

I thank you that everything in us which is 

ambiguous and which, therefore, gleams 
seductively,  is reconciled in you and beams 
with the redemption that makes two into one.

You transfigure enigma and replace it 
with mystery. 

Everything, sin included, is to 
you raw material and building stones.

Through your atonement you take each 
being to yourself and, without destroying 
its reality, you confer upon it a new being.

(Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar)

🌹🌹🌹

I hope this blog is found beneficial

to those who have visited.

If there is something you would like to see

or would like me address, please feel 

encouraged to let me know.

Have wonderful, blessed weekend. God Bless.

In His peace.🌹🌹🌹Deacon Ward