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Reflection From Our Co-Pastors
Thursday, October 6, 2022
JOY this week!
This week is a holy week: the feast of Therese of Lisieux was Oct. 1; the feast of St. Francis of Assisi and the close of the Season of Creation was Oct. 4; and tomorrow, Oct. 7, is the feast of the Most Holy Rosary.
We have so much to be thankful for: we have a rich spirituality and rich traditions that give us many opportunities to feel sadness in our hearts when it is Dark and joy when it is Light. A friend once told me, “I envy you; you have a personal God.” Yes, we have a personal God who is at the same time a Cosmic God, self-emptying, compassionate, and deeply stirring all of creation.
Let’s look around today together and see all the joy that we can absorb. If “scales” (Book of Tobit) are building on your eyes and dimming your vision, begin slowly to find that little Light, then find that large-light-filled Creator, and ponder Mary’s message “…it is impossible for any person to be lost.” No one can be forever lost. We are God’s.
Some thoughts to interrupt our day with joy:
St. Therese reminds us, “Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.”
St. Francis is said to have written the Prayer of Peace:
[Creator God], 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; 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 life.
The Rosary is said to have been given to St. Dominic in 1208 and still we pray it. One Hail Mary can do it. “Hello, Mary!
To you, my siblings in Christ: Blessings on your day.
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