Prayer Prompt before reading LK 11:47-54 Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father is and God the Son so that I may know who I am.
“THE HARVEST IS ABUNDANT BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW; SO ASK THE MASTER OF THE HARVEST TO SEND OUT LABORERS FOR HIS HARVEST.” LK 10:1-9
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Today, I would like to take time to recognize all of those wonderful people God called to be priests or religious and answered the call. I also would like to take time to recognize our seminarians and those who are discerning to be religious (especially Mary Jo Peter, my first student to be discerning religious life; Marian Sisters of the Diocese of Lincoln).
I am thankful that I have someone who has given their life up totally and completely for Christ and the salvation of souls. It must be an amazing vocation with many difficulties and joys. I am thankful that I get to receive the Eucharist through the miracle on the altar that Jesus performs through a priest.
I am thankful that I have priests I can go to talk to Jesus heart to heart and be reconciled with God when I fall. I am thankful that a priest baptized me and I have the power to fight Satan and grow in holiness to become a saint.
I am thankful that I was confirmed by the bishop and sealed in the Spirit so that I may be a soldier for Christ and set on my mission in this short earthly life. I am thankful for the priests that laid my family members down to rest and gave them a proper burial.
I am thankful that there are IHM sisters who are always praying for the conversion of sinners and the sanctification of priests, praying for me and our diocese, teaching Jesus Christ in a profound way to our children. I am thankful for the sisters of St. Joseph and all other religious in Wichita who are teaching and helping in our community.
“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” Thank you God for sending us such great laborers for the harvest. We are grateful.
Today’s challenge: Thank a priest or religious for all that they do. No priests, no sacraments. That is more detrimental to our life than not having any doctors, nurses, or hospitals when we get gravely sick.
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
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