Prayer of St. Anselm of Canterbury
O God, teach my heart where and how to seek you, where and how to find you…..
You are my God and I have never seen you.
You have made me and remade me, and you have bestowed on me all the good things I possess, and still I do not know you….
Teach me to seek you…
For I cannot seek you unless you teach me or find you unless you show yourself to me.
Saturday Mid-Morning Reflection Time
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- What speaks to you about the Redemptorist Charism and Mission?
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- How does the Redemptorist understanding of Evangelization speak to you?
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- How might your gifts be used in the service of the Church as a Redemptorist priest or brother.
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We Are Workers
Attributed to St. Archbishop Oscar Romero
It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results.
But that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Amen