As we begin this week which sees a brutal February end, the beginning of March with predicted blustery winds as it comes in like a lion, and "Spirit Week" at Central Catholic, it might be good on this snowy morning as part of our Sabbath Reflection before or after Mass, to remember that each one of us is here for a unique purpose, a "mission impossible" , as it might seem at times, but definitely a mission. St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, must have written the following prayer at such a time, and on such a day as this. It seems to fit perfectly, so I thought I would offer it to all of you today:
"God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission--I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.
"I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good. I shall do his work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place while not intending it--if I but keep the commandments.
"Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve him; in perplexity, may perplexity may serve him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what he is about. He may take away my friends, he may throw me among strangers, he may make me feel desolate, make my spirit sink, hide my future from me--still he knows what he is about. Therefore I will trust him."
May his prayer be our prayer.
Bro. Rene
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