ELEGANT RECOVERY

FOR YEARS I have tried to teach Acolytes and Altar Servers an important lesson:  We don't try to be perfect. Rather we strive to make an elegant recovery. The most wonderful example, of course, is Jesus' resurrection on the third day. I am convinced that for all human beings, life is lived in the recovery.

I PRAY for all young persons who serve the altar. May they receive this healing truth and grasp the elegant recovery--soundness in mind, heart, soul and body. I pray that they will reverence their own personhood and see themselves as God sees them--worthy of love and redemption. I ask God to lead and guide them into a life well-lived.