December 14, 2015

Reflection: We are Sandy Hook. We choose love.

The Lord is near the brokenhearted. Psalm 34:18

Today, on the third anniversary, we remember the victims of the Newtown Connecticut school tragedy, twenty children and six educators and their families, friends and loved ones.  We pray for the community, for the priests of Saint Rose of Lima Parish and for ministers and rabbis who guide and console all the brokenhearted. Jesus is the Divine Healer of hearts. May Mother Mary wrap her mantle around all those who are grieving and comfort their broken hearts and draw them into the Sacred Heart of Jesus where they will find healing, hope, comfort and rest.

There is a simple sign in Newtown:

We are Sandy Hook. We choose love.

In our prayers, let us choose Love and Mercy itself and pray for peace in our world, in our families and in our hearts. 

Love and truth will meet. justice and peace will kiss.  Psalm 85:11

Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your Holy Will, which is Love and Mercy itself.  Prayer at the end of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy

Through the intercession of Our Lady of the Rosary, we pray for healing and hope for the community in Newtown Connecticut. We implore the intercession of Father Patrick Peyton CSC, the Rosary Priest.  His powerful messages: 

A world at prayer is a world at peace.

A family that prays together stays together.

May the love of Jesus and Mary be poured into the hearts of those who mourn.  Jesus we trust in You.

Today bring to Me the meek and humble souls and the souls of little children and immerse them in My  Mercy. Sixth day of the Novena of Divine Mercy

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