Prayer N lunch

The Lord has visited his people

December 22 Advent Reading: : 2 Corinthians 1:12 Advent Prayer: O God, help us to become increasingly men and women of conscience, free in our conscience, because it is in the conscience that dialogue with you take place. Help us become men and women who

The Spiritual canticle of Mary Reading Lk 1: 46-55

God’s Mercy in the Bible-The Holy Hour

December 21 St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597) Advent Reading: James 4: 8\ Advent Prayer: O God,teach us your own special love for the little and the poor, for the excluded and the suffering, for sinners and the wounded of heart. Gather all people under you

Blessed is she who believed

Mary said Yes, how about you?  Reading Lk 1:34-38

December 20 St. Dominic of Silos (c. 1000-1073) Advent Reading: Luke 21:36 Advent Prayer: O Holy Spirit,  guard our life with your embrace. Bless and strengthen every desire for good. Give new life and nourishment to our faith, sustain and enlighten our

December 19 Blessed Pope Urban V (1310-1370) Advent Reading: 1 Peter 4:11 Advent Prayer: Bless me, heavenly helper,and through your powerful intercession, give me strength in my weakness, so that be serving you faithfully in this life, I may prasise you

The Virgin, full of graces, is called to divine maternity December 18 Blessed Anthony Grassi (1592-1671)

Advent Reading: Colossians 3:15 Advent Prayer: Prince od Peace, help us! May you grant us peacr, teach us peace, guide us toward peace. Open our eyes and our hearts and grant us the courage to say: “no more war! Make us willing to listen to the cry of our

Happy Birthday Pope Francis

John has been chosen to prepare the way of the Lord. Reading: Lk 1: 8-17

Season Of Mercy-Reflections by Pope Francis For Living The Holy Year Of Mercy Season By Season

December 17 St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179 Advent Bible Reading 1 Corinthians 1:10 Advent Prayer: Lord, grant that we be more and more united, never to be instruments of division. Enable us to commit ourselves, as the beautiful Franciscan prayer says

“Come to me, all of you who labor and are overburdened, and I will give you rest” Mt 11:28

What is generated in her comes from the Holy Spirit. Reading: Matthew 1;18-21 Prayer: O Lord God, grant that we may await with great fervour the divine event, in which the Blessed Virgin, by the work of the Holy Spirit, gives birth to a God and christ wh

O God, illuminate our minds and our hearts, so that we may obey, unhesitatingly, the word of your son Jesus. Give us the courage to decide not to let ourselves be dragged along, letting others direct our life. Move our hands and feet toward others direct

December 15 Blessed Mary Frances Schervier (1819-1876) This woman who once wanted to become a Trappistine nun was instead led by God to establish a community of sisters who care for the sick and aged in the United States and throughout the world. Born int

December 15 Blessed Mary Frances Schervier (1819-1876) Reading: 4:12 Prayer: O Jesus, make my heart open to the word of God, make my heart open to goodness, make my heart open to the beauty of God every day, make my heart open to the beauty of God every

Jubilee of Mercy  December 8, 2015-November 20, 2016

December 14 St. John of the Cross (1541-1591) Reading: Isaiah 30:18 Prayer: O God, you are love, you are waiting for us us, you are our Father, who is good and loves us as a true father loves, who love us truly and forgives is as the Holy Spirit tells us

Reading: Philippians 4:4 December 13 St. Lucy  (d. 304) Every little girl named Lucy must bite her tongue in disappointment when she first tries to find out what there is to know about her patron saint. The older books will have a lengthy paragraph detai

Reading: Psalm 96:8 Prayer: Mary, to you I consecrate my intention, that they may ever dwell on love that you merit. To you I consecrate my tongue that it may ever praise you and spread your devotion. To you I consecrate my heart, that, after God, I may l

December 12 Our Lady of Guadalupe The feast in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe goes back to the 16th century. Chronicles of that period tell us the story. A poor Indian named Cuauhtlatohuac was baptized and given the name Juan Diego. He was a 57-year-old w