Deadly Attack in France, Today.

“Eternal rest grand onto them, O Lord, and may perpetual Light shine upon them and may they rest in peace, Amen.”

Remember in your prayers, today, the twelve people who died in a terrorist attack in France today as well as their grieving families. Also, pray for the complete recovery of the twenty people injured in the same attack. Pray for a resolution to the turmoil in the world and peace.

“Belligerents are not reluctant to have peace, but they want a peace to their own liking.” St. Augustine: The City of God, 15th Century

“Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that the course of this world may be so peaceably governed by Thee, that Thy Church may joyfully serve Thee in quiet devotion.” Roman Missal, Collect for Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 5th Century.

Prayer for Peace in the World

Immaculate Heart of Mary, help us to conquer the menace of evil, which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today, and whose immeasurable effects already weigh down upon our modern world and seem to block the paths toward the future.

From famine and war, deliver us. From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every kind of war, deliver us. From sins against human life from its very beginning, deliver us. From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us. From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, deliver us. From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, deliver us. From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, deliver us. From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us. From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us.

Accept, O Mother of Christ, this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human beings,laden with the sufferings of whole societies. Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit conquer all sin: individual sin and the “sin of the world,”sin in all its manifestations.

Let there be revealed once more in the history of the world the infinite saving power of the redemption: the power of merciful love. May it put a stop to evil. May it transform consciences. May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of hope. Amen.

by Pope John Paul II

Morning Sunrise!

I was letting our wayward cat out for her morning stroll and had to get my camera and try to capture the pretty sunrise. In spite of all that goes on in the world, God still has the basic timetable going for us. There’s a lot of peace to be found in the few minutes that the sun peeks softly through the trees.

“The sun is very beautiful, but it is too imbecile and weak to be a god.” St. John Chrysostom (Homilies 14th century.