May 2025: Thought for the Day

                                                                                                   Thought for the Day

Third Sunday of Easter 

5 May 2025 

 

All things rising, all things sizing  

Mary sees, sympathising  

With that world of good,  

Nature’s motherhood.  

 

Their magnifying of each its kind  

With delight calls to mind  

How she did in her stored  

Magnify the Lord.  

… 

 

This ecstasy all through mothering earth  

Tells Mary her mirth till Christ’s birth  

To remember and exultation  

In God who was her salvation. 

‘May Magnificat’ Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) 

 

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Fourth Sunday of Easter 

11 May 2025 • Day of Prayer for Vocations 

 

God our Father, 

You made each of us to use our gifts in the Body of Christ. 

We ask that you inspire young people whom you call to Priesthood 

and consecrated life to courageously follow your will. 

Send workers into Your great harvest so that the Gospel is preached, 

the poor are served with love, the suffering comforted, 

and Your people are strengthened by the sacraments. 

We ask this through Christ our Lord. 

Amen. 

Pope Francis 

 

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Fifth Sunday of Easter 

18 May 2025 

 

It is easy to love those who love you. it is easy to love your family and friends. It is easy to show goodness to those good to you. However, God wants more from us. He wants us to decide to love others, especially those who are unlovable. He wants us to be good to those annoying people in our lives. He wants us to treat right those who we feel do not deserve it. He wants us to love like Jesus did.