Episode Transcript
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All of us in our high tech instant world are
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just an email away from having a dreadful day.
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Your priests are no exception,
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and I wonder what we as priests should pray today.
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Perhaps it goes like this.
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Loving Creator,
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we asked for strength,
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and You gave us difficulties to make us strong.
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We asked for wisdom,
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and You gave us problems to solve.
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We asked for prosperity for our parishes,
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and You gave us purpose and brains to use.
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We asked for courage
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and You gave us fears to overcome.
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We asked for patience,
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and You gave us situations where we were forced to wait.
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We asked for love,
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and You gave us sometimes troubled people to help.
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We asked for justice,
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and You called us to be just
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and lead parish communities with integrity.
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Lord, we have received nothing that we've asked for
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or wanted,
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and yet we received everything that we needed.
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For this as priests,
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we give You thanks.
