Allow yourself to cherish the Sabbath and attending Mass on the Sabbath. Allow this to be a day of charity, humility, and obedience.
Remember the half forgotten prayers of childhood, create some prayers with echoes from yesterday.
Within each prayer rests a portion of your youth, a dollop of all that which is good, kind, and holy within you
And so remember the comfort that prayer does offer
Each time you do acknowledge what you have done
Each momentary strength, momentary weakness
Each prayer does unlock childish memories of faith,
And of Easter, and of the greatest sacrifice you ever heard,
And of a candle-lighted Lent of abstinence and silence
Now, vivid, cinematic, asking me to discern.
Presenting faces of hope, faces of faith, faces of love; faces serving, faces following
Tragedy is the handmaid to all human beings
And yet, those who believe with their entire being
Will surely find salvation and eternal life with God.
I am thinking of a child's prayer now
Said proudly, happily before their father at mealtime.
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