TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
SAINTS OF THE DAY: FEAST DAY ~ OCTOBER 12, 2024
MEMORIAL OF SAINT FELIX IV, POPE; SAINT WILFRID, BISHOP; BLESSED JEANNE LE BER, RECLUSE AND BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS
Greetings, and blessings beloved family. Happy Saturday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time!
Today, on this special Feast day, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary with all the Angels and Saints of God in Heaven, may we be comforted as we continue to pray for the gentle repose of the souls of our loved ones who recently passed away. We pray for the repose of the souls of all those who will die today, asking God to have mercy on their souls and to lead them into Eternal Life. And we continue to pray for the repose of 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 and souls of all the faithful departed 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 and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen🙏
On this feast day, we continue to pray for the sick and dying, especially those who are mentally, physically and critically ill and those suffering from cancers and other terminal diseases. We pray for our children and children all over the world, for students, for those seeking for the fruit of the womb, for the poor and needy, we pray for difficult marriages, for peace, love, and unity in our marriages, our families and our world. Amen 🙏
A PRAYER FOR PEACE: Lord Jesus Christ, You are the true King of peace. In You alone is found freedom. Please free our world from conflict. Bring unity to troubled nations. Let Your glorious peace reign in every heart. Dispel all darkness and evil. Protect the dignity of every human life. Replace hatred with Your love. Give wisdom to world leaders. Free them from selfish ambition. Eliminate all violence and war. Glorious Virgin Mary, Saint Michael the Archangel, Every Angel and Saint: Please pray for peace. Pray for unity amongst nations. Pray for unity amongst all people. Pray for the most vulnerable. Pray for those suffering. Pray for the fearful. Pray for those most in need. Pray for us all. Jesus, Son of the Living God, have mercy on us. Jesus, hear our prayers. Jesus, I trust in You! Amen 🙏
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Today’s Bible Reading: Saturday, October 12, 2024
Reading 1, Galatians 3:22-29
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Gospel, Luke 11:27-28
SAINTS OF THE DAY: MEMORIAL OF SAINT FELIX IV, POPE; SAINT WILFRID, BISHOP; BLESSED JEANNE LE BER, RECLUSE AND BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS – FEAST DAY: OCTOBER 12TH: Today, we celebrate the Memorial of Saint Felix IV, Pope; Saint Wilfrid, Bishop; Blessed Jeanne Leber, Recluse and Blessed Carlo Acutis. Through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and the Saints on this feast day, we humbly pray for God’s Divine Grace and Mercy upon us all. We pray for peace, love, and unity in our marriages, our families and our world. We pray for the poor, the needy and the most vulnerable. We pray for the sick and dying, especially those who are mentally and physically ill and those suffering from cancers and other terminal diseases. We pray for the souls in Purgatory and the repose of the souls of the faithful departed. We pray for all widows and widowers. And we continue to pray for our Holy Father, Pope Francis, the Bishops, the Clergy, for vocations to the priesthood and religious life, for the Church, for persecuted christians, for the conversion of sinners, and Christians all over the world…. Amen🙏
SAINT FELIX IV, POPE: Pope Felix IV (died on September 22, 530) came from Samnium, the son of Castorius. He was the bishop of Rome from July 12, 526 to his death in 530. St. Felix was the third legitimate Pope to bear that name, but he is called Felix IV because of the inclusion of the antipope Felix II in many ancient listings of the Popes. He was the 54th Pope, chosen candidate and elected through the backing of Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great, Arian King of the Goths who had imprisoned Felix’s predecessor, John I. He was elected after a gap of nearly two months after the death of John I, who had died in prison in Ravenna, having completed a diplomatic mission to Constantinople on behalf of the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great. The papal electors acceded to the king’s demands and chose St. Felix as pope. St. Felix’s favor in the eyes of the king allowed him to use his status to press for greater benefits and promote the interests of the Church. However, King Theodoric died later that year, allowing Pope Felix to pursue his own policies in peace. Pope Felix IV held the papacy for only four years in the sixth century, but during that time he instituted a number of important changes, earned a reputation as a statesman, and articulated several important theological positions. Opposed semi-Pelagianism, drew up propositions regarding grace (from St. Augustine) that led to the condemnation of Semi-Pelagianism by the Second Council of Orange in 529. Writing to settle Church teachings on grace and free will, and approving the work of Saint Caesarius of Arles on the topics. This heresy taught, among other things, that grace is not needed for the initiation of good works. All of these actions contributed to his reputation and nickname as “Definer of Grace” at a time when the early church was experiencing incredible turmoil. When the Saint was given two ancient buildings in the Roman Forum, he erected the Church of Sts. Cosmas and Damian on their site. His portrait in the apse of that Church is the earliest known likeness of any Pope. He tried to designate his successor, but civil authorities and many cardinals rebelled at the idea. He died on September 22, 530 in Rome, Italy of natural causes and interred in the portico of Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Venerated for his simplicity, humility, and kindness to the poor.
PRAYER: God, Light and Shepherd of souls, You established St. Felix as Pope over Your Church to feed Your flock by his word and form it by his example. Help us through his intercession to keep the faith he taught by his word and follow the way he showed by his example. Amen 🙏
SAINT WILFRID, BISHOP: St. Wilfrid (c.634-709) also called Wilfrith and Wilfred was a Northumbrian of noble birth in 634. He was educated at Lindesfarne and then spent some time in Lyons and Rome. Returning to England, he was elected abbot of Ripon in 658 and introduced the Roman rules and practices in opposition to the celtic ways of northern England. In 664, he was the architect of the definitive victory of the Roman party at the Conference of Whitby. He was appointed Bishop of York and after some difficulty finally took possession of his See in 669. He labored zealously and founded many monasteries of the Benedictine Order, but he was obliged to appeal to Rome in order to prevent the subdivision of his diocese by St. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury. While waiting for the case to be decided, he was forced to go into exile, and worked hard and long to evangelize the heathen south Saxons until his recall in 686. In 691, he had to retire again to the Midlands until Rome once again vindicated him. In 703, he resigned his post and retired to his monastery at Ripon where he spent his remaining time in prayer and penitential practices, until his death in 709. St. Wilfrid was an outstanding personage of his day, extremely capable and possessed of unbounded courage, remaining firm in his convictions despite running afoul of civil and ecclesiastical authorities. He helped bring the discipline of the English Church into line with that of Rome. He was also a dedicated pastor and a zealous and skilled missionary; his brief time spent in Friesland in 678-679 was the starting point for the great English mission to the Germanic peoples of continental Europe. He’s the Patron Saint of Ripon, England.
Saint Wilfrid, Bishop ~ Pray for us 🙏
BLESSED JEANNE LE BER, RECLUSE: Bl. Jeanne Le Ber was born on January 4, 1662 in Ville-Marie (Montreal). She is baptized the same day and Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve is her godfather and Jeanne Mance her godmother. At an early age she feels attracted by the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and enjoys silence and prayer. To complete her formal education she spends three years, 1674 to 1677, as a boarder with the Ursulines in Quebec, where her aunt teaches. The Ursulines are impressed by her many acts of self-denial and are disappointed when, at the age of fifteen, she returns to her family in Montreal. She is a pensive, withdrawn, and introverted young lady, who daily spends much time in prayer and in adoration of the Sacrament. In accordance with her confessor, when she turns eighteen, she decides to live a secluded life. With her parents’ permission she retires to a cell at the rear of the church of the Hôtel-Dieu, which serves as parish church at that time. Jeanne Le Ber remains undecided about entering a regular order and taking permanent vows; nevertheless, her determination to shun the attractive life her family offered becomes evident. On June 24, 1685, Bl. Jeanne Le Ber takes a simple vow of perpetual seclusion, chastity, and poverty. When she hears that the Sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame plan to build a church on their property she gives them generous financial assistance on condition that they reserve for her a three-room apartment directly behind the altar, so that she can view the Blessed Sacrament without leaving her quarters. On August 5, 1695, she takes the solemn vows of a recluse. She spends much time in making church vestments and altar cloths and in fine embroidery. Six or seven hours a day are devoted to prayer and meditation, she receives communion four times a week. She introduces the practice of the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and makes a donation to the Sisters of the Congrégation for its observance. Throughout the colony she enjoys a great fame and continues to receive distinguished visitors from time to time. She dies on October 3 and is buried next to her father. The sainthood cause for Jeanne Le Ber was officially opened in the Archdiocese of Montreal on October 28, 2015.
Blessed Jeanne Leber, Recluse ~ Pray for us
BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS: Bl. Carlo Acutis (1991-2006), a Catholic Italian teenager was an extraordinary youth who went to daily Mass, Eucharistic Adoration and prayed the Holy Rosary from the time he had received his first Holy Communion at seven years old. Saints stare at computer screens, too. Bl. Carlos was a genius at computer technology and used the media to evangelize. Blessed Carlo loved Super Mario, Playstation, and Pokémon but he loved Jesus more. Bl. Carlo Acutis, a gamer and computer programmer who loved soccer and the Eucharist, has been the subject of interest around the world. Pope Francis referred to Bl. Carlo as a model of holiness in a digital age. Carlo’s life should teach today’s young people how to properly use and enjoy technology, including the internet and social media. His motto was “To always be close to Jesus, that’s my life plan.” Blessed Carlo is showing young people how to be holy. Around the world, Millennials (born from 1981–1996) and Generation Z (born from 1996–2015) see a holy child/teenager they can easily identify with, imitate, and learn from. Bl. Carlo cataloged all of the Catholic Church’s Eucharistic miracles into an exhibit, which today travels around the world. Bl. Carlo had a devotion to the poor and children. He was diagnosed with leukemia days before he died in 2006 and offered his sufferings for the Pope and the Church. He was beatified on October 10, 2021 in Assisi.
Bl. Carlo Acutis was born May 3, 1991, in London though his family moved to Milan shortly after. From a young age, Carlo seemed to have a special love for God, even though his parents weren’t especially devout. His mom said she had been to Mass only for her First Communion, her confirmation, and her wedding but young Carlo’s unique and unexplained devotion led to her deep conversion. The priest promoting his cause for sainthood noted that Carlo “managed to drag his relatives, his parents to Mass every day. It was not the other way around; it was not his parents bringing the little boy to Mass, but it was he who managed to get himself to Mass and to convince others to receive Communion daily.” What an inspiration for a child to model faith witness to a family! He had a gift for empathy and was known for defending kids at school who got picked on, especially disabled children mocked by bullies. Like many Millennials, he saw peers battered by divorce, inviting young friends whose parents were divorcing to spend time at his home. Bl. Carlo loved soccer and video games. He tried to stay disciplined and only played games for an hour a week even though he really wanted to play much more. He also bought computer programming books and taught himself computer coding and animation. He had a great devotion to Mary loved to pray the rosary. He went to Mass and confession as often as he could. He loved the Eucharist and was fascinated by Eucharistic miracles. He asked his parents to take him on pilgrimages — to the places of the saints, and to the sites of Eucharistic miracles. Using his research, he began creating what would eventually become a website to catalog and share the information with others. He cataloged all of the Catholic Church’s Eucharistic miracles into an exhibit, which today travels around the world. Bl. Carlo was concerned by people growing distant to the Church and the sacraments and desperately wanted to bring them back. On the site, he told people that “the more often we receive the Eucharist, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on this earth we will have a foretaste of heaven.”
At age 15, Bl. Carlo Acutis was diagnosed with an untreatable leukemia. He offered up his suffering for others coping with illness and said, “I offer all the suffering I will have to suffer for the Lord, for the Pope, and the Church.” Bl. Carlo died from his illness on October 12, 2006. At his request he was buried in Assisi because of his love for St. Francis. Exactly nine days after his death, a Eucharistic Miracle occurred: a sister distributing communion in Mass found her eyes were filled with tears as the communion host began to ooze a red substance. Two scientific studies conducted over two years found the host had the properties of an interior wound of living human heart tissue. The different “certified,’’ fully investigated and approved miracle that made him “Blessed Carlo’’ in 2020 occurred in 2013, seven years after his death. In Brazil, a boy named Mattheus overcame a congenital disability after Mattheus’ parish priest, Father Nicola Gori, had been praying for Carlo’s beatification. The priest held a healing service where they prayed for Carlo’s intercession on the anniversary of his death. Fr. Gori explained the miracle to Italian media: “On October 12, 2013, seven years after Carlo’s death, a child, affected by a congenital malformation (annular pancreas), when it was his turn to touch the picture of the future blessed, expressed a singular wish, like a prayer: ‘I wish I could stop vomiting so much.’ Healing began immediately, to the point that the physiology of the organ in question changed.’’ Fourteen years after Blessed Carlo’s death, his body is on public display in Italy, incorrupt as is the case with many saints. His cause for canonization began in 2013 and he was designated “Venerable” in 2018. A healing miracle has been attributed to his intercession and he was designated “Blessed” October 10, 2020.
His tomb has been opened and his intact body lies in repose in a glass tomb where he can be venerated by pilgrims until Oct. 17. He is displayed in jeans and a pair of Nikes, the casual clothes he preferred in life. The rector for the Sanctuary of Spoliation in Assisi, where Acutis’ tomb is located, called him a witness that holiness is attainable for teenagers. “For the first time in history we will see a saint dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a sweater,” the rector said. “This is a great message for us, we can feel holiness not as a distant thing but as something very much within everyone’s reach because the Lord is the Lord of everyone.” Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi said “Carlo is a boy of our time. A boy of the internet age, and a model of holiness of the digital age, as Pope Francis presented him in his letter to young people around the world. The computer … has become a way of going through the streets of the world, like the first disciples of Jesus, to bring to hearts and homes the announcement of true peace, that which quenches the thirst for the infinite that inhabits the human heart.” We embrace “influencers’’ — Carlo is an “Influencer for God…’’ Blessed Carlo Acutis is remembered for his cheerfulness and compassion for those in need. He is the patron of computer programmers and youth and was beatified on behalf of Pope Francis on October 10, 2020. His exposed relics can be viewed in Assisi. His feast day is October 12th.
QUOTES OF BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS
☆ “What does it matter if you can win a thousand battles if you cannot win against your own corrupt passions? It doesn’t matter. The real battle is with ourselves” ~ Blessed Carlo Acutis.
☆ “All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies” ~ Blessed Carlo Acutis
☆ “Our soul is like a hot air balloon. If by chance there is a mortal sin, the soul falls to the ground. Confession is like the fire underneath the balloon, enabling the soul to rise again… It is important to go to confession often. ~ Blessed Carlo Acutis
☆ “The more Eucharist we receive, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on earth we will have a foretaste of heaven.” ~ Blessed Carlo Acutis
☆ “Our goal must be the infinite and not the finite. The Infinity is our homeland. We are always expected in Heaven. ~ Blessed Carlo Acutis
☆ “I am happy to die because I lived my life without wasting even a minute of it on anything unpleasing to God.” ~ Blessed Carlo Acutis
☆ “Continuously ask your guardian angel for help. Your guardian angel has to become your best friend” ~ Blessed Carlo Acutis
☆ “The only thing we have to ask God for, in prayer, is the desire to be holy.” ~ Blessed Carlo Acutis
Blessed Carlo Acutis ~ Pray for us 🙏
SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS:
Bible Readings for today: Saturday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time | USCCB | https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading
Gospel Reading ~ Luke 11:27-28
“Blessed is the womb that carried you. Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it”
“While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.” He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”
In today’s Gospel reading, a woman in the crowd speaks a beatitude to Jesus, singling out His mother as especially blessed by God because of the wonderful son to whom she gave birth. In response, Jesus speaks a wider beatitude, declaring that it is those who hear the word of God and keep it who are especially blessed by God. If Mary is especially blessed, it is not just because she gave birth to Jesus, the Son of God, but, more fundamentally, because she heard God’s word and kept it in the course of her life. Her response to the message of the Angel Gabriel was to shape her whole life, ‘Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word’. She continued to say, ‘Here I am, Lord’ at the foot of the cross. She was a faithful disciple in that she allowed the Lord’s word, the Lord’s will, to shape her whole life. At the wedding feast of Cana, she also directed others to do as she was doing, to surrender to the Lord’s word and allow it to shape what they do, ‘Do whatever He tells you’. Mary, the faithful disciple calls on us all to be faithful disciples so that we too can be declared blessed just as she was. She not only calls on us to take this path of faithful discipleship but she helps us to take it by her prayers. That is why, in the ‘Hail Mary’, we can confidently call on her to pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. As we try to hear the Lord’s word in our own lives and to live that word, Mary is given to us both as an example and also as a prayerful support.
According to the Gospels, it is usually Jesus who speaks beatitudes, declaring certain people blessed by God. However, in today’s Gospel reading this woman was so taken by what Jesus was saying that she spontaneously uttered a beatitude, directed at Jesus’ mother. One woman declared another woman blessed because she was the mother of Jesus, this very special human being. Jesus undoubtedly had the highest possible regard for His mother. Yet, He deflects the woman’s beatitude onto a much wider group, ‘Still happier/more blessed those who hear the word of God and keep it’. Of course, Jesus’ mother was a prominent member of that much wider group. She, more than anyone else, heard the word of God and kept it. Jesus is saying that if His mother is blessed, it is not so much because she is His mother but because she gave herself over to the hearing and doing of God’s word, ‘Let it be to be according to your word’. Jesus is also saying that if we give ourselves over to the hearing and doing of God’s word, we will be just as blessed as she is.
In our first reading today from the continuation of this week’s discourse and reading from the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Church and the faithful people of God in Galatia in what is now part of modern day Turkey, where the Apostle continued to elaborate about the matter of obeying the old and outdated ways of the Law of Moses, of the manner how those laws, commandments and rules, rituals and regulations were observed and enforced by the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law, those who were considered as the religious and intellectual elites of the community in charge of the maintenance and enforcement of the Law of God. Those people were also rather rigid and inflexible in their understanding and application of the Law of God, enforcing them very strictly and harshly, forcing the faithful people of God to follow all of the numerous rules, regulations and precepts. And in their pride, ego, ambition and greed they had ended up misusing the Law of God to serve their own selfish interests, desires and ambitions. They sought to be praised and acclaimed because of their great piety and supposed obedience and adherence to the fullness of the Law of God, and they judged others who did not follow or obey the Law of God in the manner that they had done it. It is this boundary and limits which man had established which St. Paul was quite adamantly against, and for which he had criticised those who still continued to insist that everyone ought to follow and obey those man-made boundaries and obligations that were not truly in accordance with God’s will and what He desired from His people.
As we reflect on the words of the Sacred Scriptures today, we are all reminded of the constant need for each and every one of us to remember that we are all God’s people, all equally beloved and precious before Him and in His eyes. None of us can claim that we are better or more preferred simply because of our background, our circumstances, or by whatever other parameters that we usually tend to divide or categorise ourselves into. When we are called to follow Him as Christians, to be God’s beloved and holy people, each and every one of us are called to reflect His light and truth, and whatever He had taught us in our lives, so that our every words, actions and deeds truly show that we are His holy and blessed people. And as the Lord mentioned all that before His disciples, lest we may think that He was being disrespectful to His family members and relatives, particularly to His mother, Mary, we must realise that He was in fact praising His own mother’s great examples and her being a great role model and inspiration for each and every one of us to follow in our own lives as Christians. Mary through her life and dedication to God has always lived her life with full of commitment and love for God, and being in a state full of grace, she obeyed the Lord perfectly and completely, following Him and His commandments, doing His will and living the life of the exemplary and model Christian by her complete obedience and trust in God, which we all should follow as well. The Lord has pointed the path to Himself through His mother, and we all should follow this path. Let us all therefore ponder carefully how we are to continue living our lives from now on, doing our best so that we may continue to glorify the Lord by our lives and by doing His will, and to remain humble at all times. And as the examples of the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law ought to have reminded us, we should not allow ourselves to be swayed by the temptations of worldly glory and ambitions, or by our pride and ego so that we will not end up falling ever deeper into the path of sin towards destruction and damnation. Let us all instead follow the Lord’s call and through the help of His loving Mother Mary and His many Saints, Holy men and women, our wonderful Holy predecessors, especially those who we celebrate today, that we may continue to progress well in our journey towards Him. May God in His infinite grace and mercy, grant us the grace to live the Gospel, then, like Jesus, we will bring rest and peace to those who find themselves burdened for whatever reason. May God bless our every efforts and endeavours, our good works and all, now and always. Amen🙏
DEVOTION OF THE MONTH OF OCTOBER:
MONTH OF THE HOLY ROSARY: The Catholic Church designates and dedicate October as the Month of the Holy Rosary. During this month the faithful venerate the Blessed Virgin Mary especially under her title of Our Lady of the Rosary, and make special effort to honor the Holy Rosary with group recitations and rosary processions. The Lady of the Rosary honors a large battle between the Catholic Church and the Muslim caliphate of the Ottoman Empire. This battle, in the Gulf of Patras, near Greece, took place in the 16th century, on October 7, 1571. St. Dominic de Guzman, the founder of the Order of Preachers, is the Saint to whom Our Lady famously appeared and gave the prayers of the Holy Rosary to assist him as a spiritual weapon in combating heresy and leading souls back to the one, true Catholic faith. Our Blessed Mother Mary ~ Pray for us 🙏
THE MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY: Until about the 15th century hundreds of mysteries were part of the Rosary devotion then the 15 mysteries that we know today were definitively fixed as “the Mysteries of the Rosary.” Pope John Paul II, in his encyclical, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, in 2002 added the five Luminous Mysteries.
Through the meditations of the complete Rosary one recalls and has impressed on his mind, the Popes tell us, “the chief mysteries of the Christian religion,” “the mysteries of our Redemption,” “the great mysteries of Jesus and His Mother united in joys, sorrows, and triumphs.” The twenty mysteries are divided into four equal groups, known as “The Joyful,” “The Sorrowful,” “The Glorious,” and “The Luminous Mysteries.”
PRAYER OF ST. LOUISE DE MONTFORT: O Jesus living in Mary, come and live in Your servants, in the spirit of Your holiness, in the fullness of Your might, in the perfection of Your ways, in the truth of Your virtues, in the communion of Your mysteries. Subdue every hostile power, the devil, the world and the flesh, in the strength of Your Spirit, for the glory of Your Father, Amen 🙏🏽
THE POPE’S MONTHLY INTENTIONS FOR 2024: FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER – FOR A SHARED MISSION: We pray that the Church continue to sustain in all ways a Synodal lifestyle, as a sign of co-responsibility, promoting the participation, the communion and the mission shared among priests, religious and lay people.
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 been in vain. Now, Lord, come to our aid! 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 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, Nigeria, 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. We pray for all mothers, wives, those going through challenges in their marriages, Victims of verbal and spousal abuse, and we pray for peace, love and unity in our families and our world. 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 blessed Lord, You are glorious beyond all things, and You invite me and all Your creatures to share in Your very life. Give me the grace I need to turn from the confusion and deceptions of life so that I will hear only You and respond only to Your voice. I commit myself to Your holy will, dear Lord. As I do, please bestow upon me every blessing You desire to give. 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 Blessed Mother Mary; Saint Felix IV, Pope; Saint Wilfrid; Blessed Jeanne Le Ber and Blessed Carlo Acutis ~ 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 month of October and relaxing weekend 🙏🏽
Blessings and Love always, Philomena💖
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