FOURTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

SAINTS OF THE DAY ~ FEAST DAY: JULY 9, 2024

Greetings, beloved family and Happy Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time!

On this special feast day, with special intention through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary, and the Saints, we humbly pray for justice, peace and unity in our families and our divided and conflicted world. We continue to pray for the sick and dying. We especially pray for our loved ones who have recently died and we continue to pray for the repose of their gentle souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, may the Lord receive them into the light of Eternal Kingdom. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. May their gentle souls through the mercy of God rest in perfect peace with our Lord Jesus Christ… Amen 🙏 ✝️🕯✝️🕯✝️🕯

PRAYER FOR THE DEAD: In your hands, O Lord, we humbly entrust our brothers and sisters. In this life you embraced them with your tender love; deliver them now from every evil and bid them eternal rest. The old order has passed away: welcome them into paradise, where there will be no sorrow, no weeping or pain, but fullness of peace and joy with your Son & the Holy Spirit forever & ever. Amen🙏

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Today’s Bible Readings: Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Reading 1, Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 115:3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10
Gospel, Matthew 9:32-38

SAINTS OF THE DAY: MEMORIAL OF SAINT AUGUSTINE ZHAO RONG, PRIEST AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS; SAINT MARIE AMANDINE, RELIGIOUS AND MARTYR; SAINT VERONICA GUILIANI, VIRGIN AND BLESSED ADRIAN FORTESCUE, MARTYR ~ FEAST DAY: JULY 9TH Today, we celebrate the Memorial of Saint Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest and Companions, Martyrs; Saint Marie Amandine, Religious and Martyr; Saint Veronica Giuliani, Virgin and Blessed Adrian Fortescue, Martyr. Through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and the Saints on this feast day, we humbly pray for the protection and safety of Christians all over the world and we continue to pray for the Church, the Clergy, for persecuted christians and for the conversion of sinners. We also pray for the sick and dying, especially those suffering from cancers and other terminal diseases. We pray for the poor, the needy and most marginalized, for justice, peace and unity in our families and our world.🙏

SAINT AUGUSTINE ZHAO RONG, PRIEST AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS: St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest and Martyr (Died + 1815) and his 119 companions or Martyrs of China (Died 1648–1930, Qing dynasty and Republic of China). St. Augustine Zhao Rong, is one of a group of 120 Catholics, among many more who were martyred between the years 1648 and 1930 in China. Some were killed while taking sanctuary inside of a church. A large number died during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when fanatical Chinese peasants slaughtered thousands of Christian converts and foreign missionaries for no reason other than their faith and their foreignness. Some lives were ended by beheading, quickly; others by neglect in prison, slowly; and many by strangulation, painfully. Of the 120 martyrs mentioned above, eighty-seven (87) were Chinese, ranging in age from nine to seventy-two, and four of them were priests. Thirty-three (33) were foreign-born, mostly priests or women religious. Though the missionaries and religious tried to distance themselves from foreign policies, the Chinese government did not differentiate and saw them all as westerners. The martyrdoms of China are most moving, each person having died heroically though many of them suffered torture and cruel deaths. Fr. Francis Li, grandson of a Chinese martyr, describes his grandfather going to his death joyfully saying to his brother and son, “Let’s go, we are going to heaven today!” Christianity arrived in China by way of Syria in the 600s, the seventh century. Depending on China’s relations with the outside world, Christianity over the centuries was free to grow or was forced to operate secretly. A period of persecution in regard to the Christian religion occurred in the nineteenth century. While Catholicism had been authorised by some Emperors in the preceding centuries, Emperor Kia-Kin (1796-1821) published, instead, numerous and severe decrees against it. The first was issued in 1805.  Two edicts of 1811 were directed against those among the Chinese who were studying to receive sacred orders and against priests who were propagating the Christian religion. A decree of 1813 exonerated voluntary apostates from every chastisement, that is, Christians who spontaneously declared that they would abandon their faith but all others were to be dealt with harshly. In 1815 there came two other decrees, with which approval was given to the conduct of the Viceroy of Sichuan who had beheaded Monsignor Dufresse, of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP) and some Chinese Christians. As a result, there was a worsening of the persecution. St John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse, MEP, Bishop, was arrested on the 18th of May 1815, taken to Chengdu, condemned and executed on September 14, 1815.

St. Augustine Zhao Rong (d. 1815) was a Chinese soldier, a bailiff of a county jail, who was assigned to escort the captive Catholic Bishop, John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse, to Beijing where he was to be executed by beheading. The Bishop’s faith made a strong impact on St. Augustine Zhao, he was moved by his patience and then asked to be numbered among the neophytes, he then requested baptism. He took the Christian name Augustine, and later entered the seminary and not long after was ordained as a diocesan priest. During the continuing persecution of Christians in China, St. Augustine was one of thousands of Chinese Catholics who suffered martyrdom for the faith. He was arrested, tortured, and killed in 1815. Young Anna Wang, a 14-year-old, withstood the threats of the torturers who invited her to apostatize. Instead, ready for her beheading, she declared with a radiant face: “The door of heaven is open to all,” three times murmuring: “Jesus.” She was killed on July 22, 1900. And another martyr, 18-year-old Chi Zhuzi cried out fearlessly to those who had just cut off his right arm and were preparing to flay him alive: “Every piece of my flesh, every drop of my blood will tell you that I am Christian.” Chi was also killed in the year 1900. The other 85 Chinese men and women of every age and state—priest, religious, and lay people—showed the same conviction and joy, sealing their unfailing fidelity to Christ and the Church with the gift of their lives. The Chinese diocesan priest Augustine Zhao Rong was Beatified on May 27, 1900 by Pope Leo XIII and November 24, 1946 by Pope Pius XII. St. Augustine Zhao Rong and 119 compatriots, all Martyrs of China killed for their Catholic faith between 1648 and 1930 were Beatified in groups at various times but these 120 Martyrs were Canonized together in Rome on October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II. The Pope said: “The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. These words of the Responsorial Psalm clearly reflect the experience of Augustine Zhao Rong and his 119 companions. The testimonies that have come down to us allow us to glimpse in then a state of mind marked by deep serenity and joy.” The feast day of St. Augustine Zhao Rong and the Chinese Martyrs is July 9th.

PRAYER: God, through the profession of the holy Martyrs Augustine and his Companions, You strengthened Your Church in a wonderful way. Grant that Your people may be faithful to the mission entrusted to them and both receive an increase of freedom and bear witness to the truth before the world. Amen 🙏

SAINT MARIE AMANDINE, RELIGIOUS AND MARTYR: St. Marie Amandine (1872-1900), also known as Saint Amandina of Schakkebroek, was born Pauline Jeuris on December 28, 1872, Herk-de-Stad, Belgium, one of seven children to a devout family; three of her kin went into religious life. Her mom died when Pauline was seven, her dad was compelled to move to look for some kind of employment, and she was received by another devout town family. She became a Franciscan tertiary at age fifteen. Joined the Institute of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, taking the name Marie Amandine. She was a Franciscan sister of Belgian origin who served in China. Functioned as a medical attendant in Marseilles, France then in the mission emergency clinic and shelter in Taiyuanfu, China. Her profession finished during a crackdown on outside preachers during the Boxer Rebellion. St. Marie’s first assignment was to go to Marseilles to nurse the sick, also completing a sacrament. Her second was in Taiyuan to work in the mission hospital. Her humor, friendliness, and healing with laughter gained her the esteem of the Chinese, who called her “the laughing foreigner”.

In the course of the Boxer Rebellion, an edict was issued on July 1, 1900 which, in substance, said that the time of good relations with European missionaries and their Christians was now past: that the former must be repatriated at once and the faithful forced to apostatize, on penalty of death. When she heard the news that a persecution was approaching St. Amandine said: “I pray God, not to save the martyrs, but to fortify them.” With true Franciscan joy she and her companions met their deaths singing the Te Deum, the hymn of thanksgiving. Seven sisters, including St. Marie Amandine, were martyred on July 9, 1900, Taiyuan, China. She was one of the Martyrs of Shanxi and the Martyrs of China. Beatified on November 24, 1946 by Pope Pius XII and Canonized on October 1, 2000 by Pope John Paul II. She was beatified and canonized together with other martyrs of China of the Boxer Rebellion.

Saint Marie Amandine, Religious and Martyr ~ Pray for us 🙏

SAINT VERONICA GUILIANI, VIRGIN: St. Veronica  (1660 – 1727) whose baptismal name was Ursula, was an Italian Capuchin Poor Clares nun and mystic. St. Veronica’s desire to be like Christ crucified was answered with the stigmata. She is one of the greatest mystics in the Church. Her life was one of the cross and pain, uniting her sufferings with Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection, eventually receiving the stigmata. St. Veronica was born at Mercatello in Urbino, Italy, on December 27, 1660, of a well-to-do family. Though she was a very religious person by nature, her father insisted that she marry when she came of age and paraded suitors before her. This so worried the girl that she became ill. Only then did her father realize the genuine character of her vocation and allow her to enter the Chapucin convent of Poor Clares at Citta di Castello in Umbria, at the age of seventeen. She was to remain there for the rest of her life. After her profession, St. Veronica had a vision of Jesus bearing His Cross, and she began to feel acute pain over her heart. In 1693, she had another vision, in which she was offered the chalice of Christ’s suffering. When she accepted it, after a fierce struggle, her body and soul ever afterward carried the marks of our Lord’s sufferings. The next year, the imprint of the crown of thorns appeared on her head, and on Good Friday, 1697, the impress of the five sacred wounds (i.e., the Stigmata). As a result of these mystical experiences, the Saint became the object of close vigilance on the part of her superiors and the competent religious authorities. Thus, though this caused her much distress and suffering, it also ensured that her mystical experiences were well attested, making her an outstanding case in the history of mystical phenomena. Her humble obedience convinced all of the truth of these mystical experiences.

St. Veronica also possessed a large dosage of common sense and an admirable degree of efficiency. She was novice-mistress of her convent for thirty-four years and diligently laid the foundation for her Sisters under her charge to progress in humility, obedience, and charity. She impressed her fellow nuns by remaining remarkably practical despite her numerous ecstatic experiences. St. Veronica was named abbess of the convent in 1716, eleven years before her death and labored for the convent even in its physical entity. She died on July 9, 1727, leaving behind a catalogue of her religious experiences entitled “Diary of the Passion”, written at the request of her confessor. In her Diary of 22,000 pages, we learn of her ecstatic visions of Jesus, saints, souls in purgatory and of the devil. St. Veronica was devoted to the Eucharist and Sacred Heart, trusting God totally, abandoning herself completely to His will. Her heart is incorrupt to this day. She is called one of the most extraordinary mystics of her era. She was canonized by Pope Gregory XVI in 1839.

PRAYER: Almighty God, You made St. Veronica glorious by the wounds of the Passion of Your Son. Through her example and prayers enable us to become like Christ, humbly embracing the Cross, so that we may rejoice in the revelation of His glory. Amen🙏

BLESSED ADRIAN FORTESCUE, MARTYR: Bl. Sir Adrian Fortescue (c. 1476 – 1539) was a husband and father, a Justice of the Peace, a Knight of the Realm, a Knight of Malta, a courtier at the court of King Henry VIII of England  and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic  (Dominican Tertiary – Lay Dominican); he was at once a loyal servant of the Crown so far as he could be, but still more, he was a man of unshakeable faith, who was convicted of high treason and executed in 1539 and later beatified as a Roman Catholic martyr. Bl. Adrian Fortescue was born in 1476, the son of Sir John Fortescue of Ponsbourne Park at Newgate Street Village in Hertfordshire. He descended from Richard Fortescue, younger brother of Sir Henry Fortescue (fl. 1426), Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, and of Sir John Fortescue (ca. 1394 – ca. 1480), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, all sons of Sir John Fortescue (fl.1422) of Whympston in the parish of Modbury, Devon, appointed in 1422 Captain of the captured Castle of Meaux, 25 miles NE of Paris. His mother Alice was the daughter of Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London, and great aunt to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn.

He was made a Knight of the Bath in 1503. He spent most of his time in the country, busy with his lands and with county affairs. He lived at his wife’s family seat at Stonor Park in iOxfordshire, where he served as a Justice of the Peace. Fortescue participated in England’s wars against France in 1513 and 1523 and was present at the meeting in 1520 between Henry VIII and Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He was made a Knight of the Order of St. John in 1532 and the following year became a Dominican Tertiary of the Blackfriars of Oxford. He attended the coronation of Anne Boleyn in June of that year. On 29 August 1534, he was arrested without any stated reason and taken to Woodstock, where he was questioned. He was freed after a period of months. In February 1539 he was again arrested, and in April he was among those condemned, convicted of High treason without a trial by an Act of Parliament which condemned fifty persons for unspecified acts  presumably relating to hostility and opposed to Henry VIII’s ecclesiastical church policies. Bl. Adrian Fortescue was beheaded at the Tower Hill of London on Wednesday, July 9, 1539. His servants were also killed for treason on the same day but were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.

Bl. Fortescue was twice married: First marriage to Anne, daughter of Sir William Stonor; she died in 1518. By his first wife Fortescue had two daughters: Margaret, married to Thomas Wentworth, 1st baron Wentworth and Frances, married to Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th earl of Kildare. Second marriage to Anne, daughter of Sir William Rede of Boarstall,  Buckinghamshire and widow of Sir Giles Greville. By his second wife he had three sons and two daughters: Sir John Fortescue of Salden, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Thomas Fortescue, MP Wallingford; Sir Anthony Fortescue; Elizabeth, married to Sir Thomas Bromley, lord chancellor of England; Mary, whose son was Thomas Cavendish the circumnavigator. Anne survived her husband, and afterwards married Sir Thomas Parry, comptroller of Queen Elizabeth’s household. She was granted the manor of Great Washbourne in 1557. The Order of St. John of Jerusalem has advocated devotion to Blessed Adrian as a martyr since the 17th century and Pope Leo XIII beatified him on May 13, 1895, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. And as a layman, he ranks among the great Dominicans as an outstanding example to all Christians. 

PRAYER: O God, since all things are within your power, grant through the prayers of blessed Adrian, your martyr, that we who keep his feast today may become stronger in the love of your name and hold to your holy Church even at the cost of our lives. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever… Amen🙏

SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS

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Gospel Reading ~ Matthew 9:32-38

“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few”

“A demoniac who could not speak was brought to Jesus, and when the demon was driven out the mute man spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.” But the Pharisees said, “He drives out demons by the prince of demons.” Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom, and curing every disease and illness. At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”

Today’s Gospel reading from the Gospel of St. Matthew highlighted the works of our Lord, how He miraculously healed the man possessed by a demon, which made him dumb and mute. The Lord showed His power and compassion towards the man, and drove out the demon from within him, which led to an almost immediate ridicule and criticism from the Pharisees who were there, accusing Him of colluding with the prince of demons in doing so. They hardened their hearts and minds because they refused to accept the fact that their ways and actions, their understanding and knowledge of the Law of God could have been wrong or mistaken, and they accused the Lord of wrongdoing because they did not want to admit their weakness and imperfections. Yet, despite all of that, the Lord still continued on with His ministry, caring for the people, performing His miracles, signs and wonders regardless, reaching out to those who are poor and needy, those who have no one else to turn to, those who have been neglected and were facing challenges and difficulties in life. He showed pity on them, they were described as sheep of the flock without a shepherd. And this highlights what the Lord has done for His people, that He embraced each and every one of us as a loving Shepherd and Guide, as the One Who will lead us all into the path of righteousness and virtue, out from the darkness and wickedness in this world. He wants us all to be reconciled to Him and to find our path out of the destruction and damnation awaiting us if we continue to remain in sin.

In today’s Gospel reading, there is a very striking contrast between the way the people responded to the healing ministry of Jesus and the way the religious leaders responded. The people were amazed and said, ‘Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel’. The religious leaders said, ‘It is through the prince of devils that He casts out devils’. Both saw Jesus perform the same deeds, and, yet, both interpreted what they saw in very different ways. One group saw the presence of God and the other group saw the presence of evil. One group was open to the truth of who Jesus really was; the other group were blinded by their prejudice. These were two very different ways of seeing. The people’s way of seeing Jesus was like Jesus’ way of seeing people. He saw the goodness in people just as the people saw the presence of God in Jesus. Today’s Gospel reading calls on us to be alert to the signs of goodness in others, to the signs of God’s presence all around us, especially in those who cross our path in life. We need the generous vision of the people, and especially of Jesus, rather than the jaundiced vision of the religious leaders, if we are to see the many ways that the Lord is present and active among us.

In our first reading today from the Book of the prophet Hosea, the Lord spoke to His people, the Israelites living in the northern kingdom known also as Israel, and listed down all the complaints and the grievances against all the wickedness and all the sins which they had committed against Him, in their refusal to obey the Law and the commandments which He had given and taught them to follow. The Lord told them all that His anger was blazing against them, against all those who had defiled His Name and the sanctity of His sanctuaries and dwelling places, all the wicked deeds they had committed in worshipping pagan idols and false gods instead of embracing and loving their one and only true God, the One Who had always provided for them in times both good and bad. The prophet Hosea was sent to the people of Israel towards the end of their existence as an independent kingdom and entity, approximately two and a half centuries after the once united Kingdom of Israel had been divided between the descendants of David in Judah and the rebel regime in the northern regions. At that time, the rising power of Assyria was ascendant, and it would come to pass that everything which the Lord had predicted and warned against His people in Israel, would indeed happen, as soon after, the Assyrians with their mighty armies and forces came to defeat the Israelites and conquered their cities and kingdom, destroying Samaria and bringing the people into exile in distant lands. Their disobedience and their wickedness, their refusal to follow and obey God’s Law led them to ‘return back to Egypt’, which was in fact an allusion of their renewed enslavement by the forces of the Assyrians just as once they had been under the yoke of the Egyptians.

As we reflect on the words of the Sacred Scriptures today, we are all reminded that we have all sinned against God through our disobedience against Him, and we have disappointed God many times in our respective areas in life. Yet, the same Lord our God still continues to love us, and He still shows His patience and kindness, His ever generous love and commitment to the Covenant which He had made with each and every one of us. We must not take all the love which He has shown us all for granted, and we have to be thankful and appreciative of the many opportunities which He has constantly given to us because He wants us all to be reconciled to Him. Let us all therefore strive to do our best to follow in the great footsteps of the Saints and the Holy men and women, particularly the Holy Martyrs who we celebrate today, St. Augustine Zhao Rong and his companions in martyrdom, the Holy Martyrs of China. All of us should realise how much we have been blessed and loved by God, and by calling on us, and by us following Him and embracing His love, His compassion and kindness, we should always do our best to glorify Him and His Name in all things, and we should continue to live in the path of righteousness and justice, no longer distracted and misguided by sin and evil. Let us all be the great examples and inspirations for one another just as the holy martyrs had inspired us all in our own lives. May God in His infinite grace and mercy, grant us His grace and be with us always and may He bless us in all of our good endeavours and works, all for His greater glory. Amen 🙏🏾

DEVOTION OF THE MONTH OF JULY:

THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS: The month of July is dedicated to the Precious Blood. The feast of the Precious Blood of our Lord was instituted in 1849 by Pius IX, but the devotion is as old as Christianity. The early Fathers say that the Church was born from the pierced side of Christ, and that the sacraments were brought forth through His Blood.

“The Precious Blood which we worship is the Blood which the Savior shed for us on Calvary and reassumed at His glorious Resurrection; it is the Blood which courses through the veins of His risen, glorified, living body at the right hand of God the Father in heaven; it is the Blood made present on our altars by the words of Consecration; it is the Blood which merited sanctifying grace for us and through it washes and beautifies our soul and inaugurates the beginning of eternal life in it.”

PRECIOUS BLOOD PRAYER: Almighty, and everlasting God, who hast appointed Thine only-begotten Son to be the Redeemer of the world, and hast been pleased to be reconciled unto us by His Blood, grant us, we beseech Thee, so to venerate with solemn worship the price of our salvation, that the power thereof may here on earth keep us from all things hurtful, and the fruit of the same may gladden us for ever hereafter in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord.
Amen 🙏🏾

THE POPE’S MONTHLY INTENTIONS FOR 2024: FOR THE MONTH OF JULY – FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE SICK: We pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick confer to those who receive it and their loved ones the power of the Lord and become ever more a visible sign of compassion and hope for all.

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PRAYER FOR PEACE ~ POPE FRANCIS:

Lord God of peace, hear our prayer!

We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the force of our arms. How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced; how much blood has been shed; how many lives have been shattered; how many hopes have been buried… But our efforts have beķķen in vain. Now, Lord, come to our ajnid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: “Never again war!”; “With war everything is lost”. Instill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace. Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters. Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace; enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister. Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness. Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way may peace triumph at last, and may the words “division”, “hatred” and “war” be banished from the heart of every man and woman. Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands. Renew our hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be “brother”, and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam! Amen🙏

During this Ordinary Time, please let us all continue to pray for peace all over the world, particularly in Africa, the Middle East, for an end to the current war in Israel-Palestine, and the Ukraine-Russia conflicts and for peace in our families and throughout our divided and conflicted World. Amen 🙏

Prayers for Peace | https://mycatholic.life/catholic-prayers/prayers-for-peace/

PRAYER INTENTIONS: During this season of the Ordinary Time, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and all the Saints on this feast day, we humbly pray for our children and children all over the world, we pray for their health, safety and well-being, we particularly pray for those who have no one to care for them and those who are terminally ill, we pray for God’s Divine healing upon them. Every life is a gift. We pray for God’s deliverance from impossible causes or situations. We pray for the souls in Purgatory and the repose of the gentle soul of our beloved family members who recently passed away and the souls of all the faithful departed, may the Lord receive them into the light of Eternal Kingdom. For all widows and widowers. And we continue to pray for our Holy Father, Pope Francis, the Bishops, the Clergy and all those who preach the Gospel. We pray for Vocation to the Priesthood and Religious life. We particularly pray for all Youths and all Seminarians, with special intention for those Seminarians who will be ordained into Priesthood. For the Church, for persecuted Christians, for all the innocent who suffer violence due to political or religious unrest, for the conversion of sinners and Christians all over the world. Amen🙏

Let us pray:

My divine Shepherd, You seek out all people with the greatest of zeal and compassion. You see every hurting and broken heart, and You desire to heal each one. Thank You for coming to me, dear Lord, for being my Shepherd and Guide. Help me to see You as You gaze at me in my weakness and pain. And help me to open my heart to You now and throughout my life. I love You, my Lord. Jesus, I trust in You ~ Amen🙏

Save Us, Savior of the World. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Most Precious Blood of Jesus, have mercy on us. Our Most Blessed Mother Mary, Saint Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest and Companions; Saint Marie Amandine; Saint Veronica Giuliani and Blessed Adrian Fortescue ~ Pray for us🙏

Thanking God for the gift of this day and praying for justice, peace, love and unity in our families and our world and for God’s Divine Mercy and Grace upon us all. Have a blessed, safe, grace-filled and fruitful week 🙏

Blessings and Love always, Philomena💖