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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 47 - Friday, May 1, 2020

“Our Limits”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We are in the midst of experiencing our limitations; personal, family,
church, state, and societal limitations. Where these become evident particu-
larly and more painfully, is in our struggle to make ourselves present to the
poorest, the most deprived, and the sick, even when they are from our own
families.

Yet the question remains: how can we bring ourselves closer to the sick
and to the poor? This is a painful and agonising question which would appear
to have no solution during a pandemic that has made closeness almost impos-
sible.
Perhaps this brings us back to the question of foundation, to the question
of God. God has the power and capability, because He is God, to be close to
every human being.

And so we are invited to entrust God with our helplessness and our fragility,
and to resort to Mary’s prayer so that she may take care of humanity and the
Church. This is why we are also invited to entrust our fragility to Saint Joseph,
who protects humanity and the Church, the families of all places, of all
regions, of all countries, and of all continents.
Let us call upon heaven to take care of the most fragile, and to protect the
most fragile. Let us call upon heaven to be guided on our way, because, we will
have to invent new paths of solidarity.

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 58