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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 23 – Tuesday April 7, 2020

“World Day of Health 2020”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

This is the World Day of Health, and so it is timely to stop, to think and
pray for all those who are in the hospitals, literally on the front, on the front
lines of the battle against the pandemic of COVID-19.

We can think of those who are at the front. For those of us who are not
at the front it does not mean that we have nothing to do! No! There is much to
do because all those who are at the front pull at our heartstrings. Because they
touch our hearts, we can support them, even if all we can do is pray. So every
morning when you wake up, I invite you to say the ‘Our Father’ for their inten-
tion, for the intention of all the health workers who devote themselves to help
the sick while risking falling ill themselves.

This is a time for solidarity, an active solidarity where with our heart,
where with our intention, we think of all those on the front lines and we pray
for them. We want to support them. To have faith in prayer is to believe that by
praying we are supporting them. Even if we are far away, God, who is close to
each one of us, makes use of our prayer, wants our prayer in order to support
all those who are at the front.

Therefore let’s take time to pray, let’s take time to support all those
who are fighting at the front against the disease. Let’s pray every day for health
workers.

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 34