Daily Reflections

Inspiring prayers, quotes, and spiritual reflections.

TRUE HAPPINESS

” Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.  It is not attained through self-gratification  but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

-Helen Keller

MAKE ME AN INSTRUMENT OF YOUR PEACE

LORD JESUS,  make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred, Let me sow love   Where there  is injury, pardon   Where there is doubt, faith   Where there is despair, hope   Where there is darkness, light.  And where there is sadness, joy.

O DIVINE MASTER,   Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console,  to be understood as to understand,  to be loved as to love;  for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal love.

-Saint Francis of Assisi

A VOCATION PRAYER

Our Good God, all is gift from you! May I trust you with all my heart,
You love and accept me unconditionally and desire only what is best for me.
Guide me to know that desire and help me to fulfill my vocation in life. Help me to know with conviction that path in life you call me to so that I may say YES freely and joyfully and follow you wherever you lead me.   AMEN

Our Lady of Bon Secours pray for me!

GRACE

You are a child of grace.  If God gave you grace, because he gave it freely, then you should love freely. Do not love God for the sake of a reward; let God be your reward!

-Saint Augustine

DISCOVERING OUR TALENTS

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities –simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

– Doris Lessing, Writer

RESPOND WITH HOPE

Living God, give us daily the grace to respond with hope to the ups and downs of our lives.  And to know that it is you who lifts us over, through and beyond what we might have planned.

-Sisters of Bon Secours Prayer Book, Volume III

 

ENCOURAGE OUR HEARTS

May our Lord, Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word.

-Thessalonians, Chapter 2: 16-17

CREATION

I am created to do or to be something for which no one else is created:  I have a place in God’s counsels, in God’s world, which no one else has. Whether I be rich or poor, despised or esteemed by man, God knows me and calls me by my name.

– Blessed John Henry Newman

HEAVEN

Apart from the Cross there is no other ladder by which we can get to heaven.

-Saint Rose of Lima

NECESSARY WORK

The most important hour is always the present;

the most significant person is precisely the one who is sitting across from you right now;

the most necessary work is always love.

– Meister Eckhart

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