Our Daily Reflection comes from Sisters of Bon Secours Sr. Rita Thomas who is celebrating 75 years of being a sister. She says, “Religious life is not a higher calling than other states of life, but persons called to this lifestyle minister together with others in a common cause and give witness to God’s presence in the world. It is one way to live out your baptismal commitment. I would recommend it to anyone. Listen! If you hear the call and respond, it will change your life.” 

From “Silhouettes – Personal Reflections of Sisters of Bon Secours USA”

Lord we pray that each one of us will be gifted with a respect for all of God’s creation and an awareness of the richness bestowed upon each of us.

Bless us with an open mind, a listening ear and a helping hand in all our encounters.

Sisters of Bon Secours Prayer book, “Wake Up the World”

Pope Francis requests praying the rosary for world peace during May

We join in  solidarity with Pope Francis, on May 1, 2018 who asks all to join him in praying the rosary during May for world peace, especially in Syria.  He made a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love to initiate the rosary for May. Pope Francis consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Sunday, October 13, 2013.

To join Pope Francis in prayer during May using the Rosary of Joyous Mysteries for World Peace please click here:    

Message on Rosary for World Peace given by Pope John Paul II on Sept. 29, 2002

Joyful Mysteries – Mary Queen of Peace
Dear Brothers and Sisters!
1.  The rosary is a contemplative view of the face of Christ carried out, so to speak, through Mary’s eyes. Therefore, it is a prayer that is at the very heart of the Gospel, and is in full harmony with the inspiration of the Second Vatican Council …. It is necessary that the Church “go into the deep” of the new millennium beginning with the contemplation of the face of Christ.

2. I wish to entrust once again the great cause of peace to the prayer of the rosary. We are faced with an international situation full of tensions, of incandescent dimensions. In some parts of the world, where the confrontation is stronger — I am thinking in particular of the martyred land of Christ — we can see that, although always necessary, the political attempts are worth little if spirits remain exacerbated and there is no ability to demonstrate a heartfelt disposition to renew the line of dialogue.

But, who can infuse such sentiments, save God alone? It is more necessary than ever that prayers for peace be raised to [God] throughout the world. Precisely in this perspective, the rosary reveal

“However dark things are, goodness always re-emerges and spreads. Each day in our world beauty is born anew.”  Pope Francis

April 20, 2018

Message from Pope Francis ahead of Sunday’s World Day of Prayer for Vocations: “We are not victims of chance or swept up in a series of unconnected events; on the contrary, our life and our presence in this world are the fruit of a divine vocation!”

April 19, 2018

A peaceful sight this morning. A pair of geese standing guard over the Sisters of Bon Secours in Marriottsville. It brought to mind  1 Corinthians 16:13:  Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong.

April 10, 2018

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

April 6, 2018

The secret to happiness is to live moment by moment.

-St. Gianna Molla

April 2, 2018

“True spirituality makes you loving and grateful, and forgiving, and patient, and gentle, and long-suffering. True spirituality breathes reverence into every act and deed.”

Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Small and Simple Things

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Blessed Mother Teresa