Lenten Prayers and Reflections - Week 5

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Week 5 Reflection

Children are… 

Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.  

Mark 9:36-37 

This week, our prayers turn to the children who receive Mary’s Meals at school. Each one has their own unique story to tell.  

Around the world, poverty and hunger prevent 59 million children from gaining an education. Sometimes, when we see a number this vast, the individual child can get lost in the enormity of the problem.   

Making the shift from numbers to people allows us to move from what we know in our heads to what we feel in our hearts.  

This change starts with resting on the realization that our heavenly Father knows each one of us by name. No one is too small, too far away, too isolated, or too hidden for His love to reach.  

Together, let’s pray for some of the individual children that receive Mary’s Meals – each one with their own names, families, friends, and dreams.