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Lord, teach me to be patient ~ with life, with people and with myself. I sometimes try to hurry things along too much, and I push for answers before the time is right. Teach me to trust Your sense of timing rather than my own and to surrender my will to Your greater and wiser plan. Help me to let life unfold slowly, like the small rosebud whose petals unravel bit by bit, and remind me that in hurrying the bloom along, I destroy the bud and much of the beauty therein. Instead, let me wait for all to unfold in its own time. Each moment and state of growth contains a lovliness. Teach me to slow down enough to appreciate life and all it holds.

© 1992 Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

ST. ALAN (Celtic: Harmony)
Other forms: Alain, Allan, Allen

Blessed Alan de la Roche was born in the Brittany area of France and from his earliest years had a great love and devotion to the Virgin Mary. He entered the Dominican Order and soon won a reputation as a brilliant student. After being ordained a priest, he was assigned to promote devotion to both the Virgin Mary and the Rosary. He preached in France, Belgium, Denmark and Holland.
While working in Holland, he was taken ill on the Feast of the Assumption and died there on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, September 8, 1475. We celebrate the Feast of St. Alan on October 26.








 

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