Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Your Place, Your People, Your Word, Your Way Lord

Father Mychal Judge, a Franciscan Friar, Chaplain of the FDNY, and a sober alcoholic, was known and loved by the NYC Firefighter as well as members of New York City Alcoholics Anonymous. He was killed on 9.11.01 while administering Last Rites to a dying firefighter at the foot of the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
He created the prayer shared here:

Lord,
Take me where You want me to go;
Let me meet who You want me to meet;
Tell me now what you want me to say,and keep me out of Your way.

1 comment:

Mychals Prayer said...

Most of us first heard of Father Mychal Judge, the late New York fire chaplain and "the saint of 9/11", from that iconic photo of his body being carried from Ground Zero.

Yet even prior to his heroic death on 9/11, Father Mychal was widely seen by many New Yorkers as a living saint for his deep spirituality and his extraordinary work not only with firefighters -- but with the homeless, recovering alcoholics, people with AIDS, immigrants, gays and lesbians, and others rejected by society.

This often annoyed the church hierarchy. But like his spiritual father St. Francis of Assisi, Mychal reported directly to a Higher Authority, as evidenced by several miraculous healings through him.

For more information about Father Mychal, I invite you to visit:
http://SaintMychalJudge.blogspot.com