Worth Revisiting - Great Way to Begin and End Each Day

Thank you Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Riordan for another opportunity to re-publish our favorite posts on Worth Revisiting.

Go there now and be nourished spiritually. Be sure to visit Allison at Reconciled to You and Elizabeth at Theology Is A Verb during the rest of the week. You will be glad you stopped by.

Here is my plug for a great vocation:

Great Way To Begin and End Each Day

(Originally posted September 22, 2011)

Lay Dominicans have a great love for the Eucharist and the Rosary. We begin our days with Morning Prayer and as often as we can on our knees at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Somewhere during the course of our daily journey, we offer a Rosary or two to our Blessed Mother and spend some time studying, reading and meditating Scripture.

Our days end with Evening Prayer and/or Night Prayer and with this moving tribute to our Heavenly Queen.

This prayerful rhythm brings a sense of stability to our otherwise challenging and hectic lives.

Why not try these practices on for size?

Want to learn more about the Lay Dominicans? Take a look here.

It's Worth Revisiting Wednesday - Good Night Lord - Thank You For My Life and My Dominican Vocation

Thanks to the generosity and encouragement of Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Riordan, an ever-expanding group of Catholic bloggers take the time each week to re-post their favorite articles on “It’s Worth Revisiting” Wednesdays.

Do yourself a favor: go there now (and every Wednesday) and let these authors bless and challenge you in your Faith journey.

During the rest of each week. visit Allison at  Reconciled To You and Elizabeth at Theology Is A Verb.  You will be pleased with what they share.

I hope you find something of value in what follows:

Good Night Lord: Thank You For My Life and My Dominican Vocation

(Originally posted:  April 25, 2011)

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

There are two reasons why I may have some difficulty falling asleep tonight.

On my way to Mass this morning at a Church near where my son and his wife live, I was awestruck by a life size portrait of Our Risen Lord that was on display immediately in front of the Church's main entrance.  It was the most astonishing portrait that I had ever seen. I could not keep my eyes off of it. While gazing at it, I began to make a left hand turn down a side street and to a nearby parking area.  So distracted were my mind and eyes that I turned directly into the path of an on-coming vehicle.