18 January 2018

Pilgrims for Life...

SJS Seminarians left for Washington D.C. at 5:00am this morning for the annual March for Life.  Here's the Blessing I gave as the community headed for the train.





God, our Father,
Creator and Author of Life,
hear our early-morning prayer
for the rising sun with its warming rays,
for the beauty of a winter’s morning,
and for the air your give us to breathe,
that we might sing your praises
and give voice to your love.

Be with these good men,
our brothers and sons,
as they go forth
to speak for those who have no voice.
Keep them safe,
give them joy
and draw them through prayer and action
into the wonders of your love.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.

We are all deeply grateful to the Flatley Foundation for their typical generosity in covering our expenses for traveling to the March for Life.  Please join us in keeping the Flatleys in grateful prayer!

“The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.”   ( Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God ) Is there anything sadder than a miser...