Prayers & Reflections for January 2

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

Chapter IV
Reflections on Prayer

Doctors graft skin from the body to the face when it is burned, and they transfuse blood from one member of society to another.

Now if it is possible to graft skin, why is it not possible to graft prayer; if it is possible to transfuse blood, why is it not possible to transfuse sacrifice?

The sacrifices I make can therefore be applied to others: to a friend in battle; to a wife back home; to a brother who has been away from the Sacraments for years; to a sister who has a bad marriage; to little children that they may grow up as worthy children of God; and above all for the peace of the world.

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons