Mark 6: 30 - 34

As Jesus invites His disciples to go to a lonely place to rest, He takes care of us when we are working hard - helps us to decompress and fills us with new life and energy.

Fr. Ted was one of the first four priests to join “10 Minutes with Jesus”. He was keen to record short meditations and continued doing so until his illness no longer allowed it. “10 Minutes with Jesus” dedicated this episode to Father Ted.

A year before he died he was explaining: “I don’t know how long this will last. I go through the treatment but I don’t see any improvement. I just leave everything to God. When I feel tired, I just go and rest and when I wake up I feel well again.”

When he was already very sick, he insisted: “I can still go to Stella Orientis to hear confessions. I say Mass and I am translating a book written by a batchmate in the Roman College.”

He used this prayer on his final days:

“O my God,
I thank You for this cross You’ve allowed me to carry.
Please give me the strength and faith to persevere so that I may bring glory to Your Name,
all while withstanding the burden of its weight.
Thank You for offering me a share in Your suffering.
I know You have always been, are now, and ever will be, at my side every step of the way.

Thank You also for every “Simon” You have sent to help me bear this cross.
I’ve prayed so often that this thorn in my flesh would be removed,
but I trust that Your grace is sufficient.

Change my heart’s troubled cry of:
“How long Lord?” into words of trust: “However long, O Lord.”
May I seek only to do Your will,
and to unite my sufferings with Your passion.

Help me to not get lost in my own self-concerns,
but that I may find in these trials
a way to greater virtue, a call to prayer,
and a path to trust in You alone.

Permit me not to waste my pain,
but to make of all these struggles
a sacrificial offering for others, Lord; when I am weary and I fall,
exhausted under the weight of this cross, please give me the courage to press on as You did.

Lord Jesus, I embrace with love my cross, as a share in Your own.
By Your grace, may I carry it all the way to the vision of Your glory.
I abandon myself totally to Your will. Christ Jesus, I trust in You.
Amen.”

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