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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 60 - Thursday, May 14, 2020

“While Waiting”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Since March, the life of faith, the life of prayer, the sacramental life of the
faithful, has been turned upside down. Right away, I think of a funeral, with its
hardship of grieving. I am also thinking of weddings, wedding plans that are
postponed. I also think of all those, young people, children or adults who were
preparing for their First Communion, those who were preparing for Confirm-
ation. I also think of all these people who were preparing for Baptism, from
adult Baptisms to the sacraments of Christian Initiation. From Baptisms, to
the Eucharist, to Confirmations, all these were postponed!

So many things are being carried over into the life of God’s people, in the
life of faith, in the life of families, in the life of individuals!

As Archbishop and as people of God, I want to tell you that we carry you
all in our prayers. We call on the Lord to take care of you, to be close to your
hearts, to bring you His peace.

As long as the disease is a threat then we must wait for the next step, where
we can reopen the doors of churches, gradually increase access through
phases that are necessary to ensure safety and physical distancing.

We carry all of you in our prayers and we hope that we can meet again soon.
Until then, I invite you to ask the Lord to keep you in His peace so as not to
worry. We pray for the doors to open again so that God may calm our troubled
hearts while we are in this trial, which keeps us both far from each other and
far from sacramental and liturgical life.

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 71