Thanks for Suffering

Thanks now and in Eternity.

Thank You for Your sweet Virgin Mother.

Thanks for becoming my loving Brother.

Thank You for Your Body and Blood divine.

Thanks for Your Sacred Heart benign.

Thank You for my angel guardian bright,

Thanks for morning, noon, and night

Thank You for each joy and every sorrow.

Thanks for today and for tomorrow.

Thank You for illness and for health.

Thanks for poverty and for wealth.  

Thank You in my work and in my prayers,

Thanks in my troubles and in cares.

Thank You for my every living breath,

Thanks in life and at my death.

Thank You, most of all, dear Lord, for one thing:

Thanks, dear Lord for suffering!

Fr. Lawrence Lovasik