Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
Want to hear a secret? You likely know a prayer that can reorient you to everything in your life. And it goes like this:
“Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen.”
(Or as you might have learned it growing up: “BlessusOLordandthesethygifts,” spoken in one breathless prayer, racing at break-neck speed to get to dinner, stomach rumbling.)
At the 5 p.m. Mass on Saturday, July 13, I spoke in my homily about the Gospel – how all of us, in some way, are called like the apostles to go into the world to preach the good news of repentance, healing and hope. After I got home, the events in Butler, Pennsylvania, changed everything.