TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
SAINTS OF THE DAY ~ FEAST DAY: SEPTEMBER 28, 2024
NOVENA TO SAINT THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX – THE LITTLE FLOWER: Starts September 22-30 – Traditionally, it is prayed from September 22nd through September 30th. Her Memorial Feast Day is October 1st. | Novena link below
Greetings and blessings, beloved family and Happy Saturday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time!
Today, on this special feast day, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and the Saints, we humbly pray for our children and children all over the world, 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.
We continue to pray for the sick and dying, especially those who are mentally and physically ill, eye diseases and those suffering from cancers and other terminal diseases. We pray for those who mourn, for all widows and widowers. May the good Lord comfort them. We pray for the gentle repose of the souls of our loved ones who recently passed away, we particularly 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. We pray for the souls in Purgatory 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🙏
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Today’s Bible Readings: Saturday, September 28, 2024
Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:8
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14, 17
Gospel, Luke 9:43-45
NOVENA TO SAINT THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX – THE LITTLE FLOWER: Starts today, September 22-30 – Traditionally, it is prayed from September 22nd through September 30th. Her Memorial Feast Day is October 1st. | https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/novena-to-st-theresa-the-little-flower-11867
SAINTS OF THE DAY: MEMORIAL OF SAINTS LAWRENCE RUIZ, AND HIS COMPANIONS, MARTYRS; SAINT WENCESLAUS, MARTYR; SAINT JOHN OF DUKLA AND SAINT SIMON DE ROJAS, PRIEST ~ FEAST DAY ~ SEPTEMBER 28TH: Today, we celebrate the Memorial of Saints Lawrence Ruiz, and His Companions, Martyrs; Saint Wenceslaus, Martyr; Saint John of Dukla, Priest and Saint Simón de Rojas, Priest. Through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and the Saints on this feast day, we humbly 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. We pray for the poor and needy, for peace, love, and unity in our marriages, our families and our world. 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🙏
SAINTS LAWRENCE RUIZ, AND HIS COMPANIONS, MARTYRS: In the 17th century (1633-1637) Saint Lawrence Ruiz, the first canonized Filipino Saint and his companions, 15 of them, shed their blood out of love for Christ in the city of Nagasaki, Japan. These Martyrs included members and associates of the Order of Preachers: They were ten Asians and six Europeans including nine Dominican priests, two religious, two virgin sisters, and three laymen. Among the latter was St. Lawrence Ruiz, a family man from the Philippine Islands. St. Lawrence was born in Manila in the Philippines; his father was Chinese and his mother Filipino. He became associated with the Dominicans, and was a member of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary. These Dominicans taught him Spanish, and from his parents he learned Chinese and Tagalog. He became a professional calligrapher and transcribed documents. St. Lawrence, a Dominican tertiary married and had three children. He was living in Binondo, Philippines, with his wife and three children, when in 1636, he fled an unjust murder charge by joining a missionary expedition to Japan, here Catholics were being persecuted. St. Lawrence was arrested there for being a Christian, which was then illegal. It was soon found out that the members of this group were Catholic, so they were arrested and taken to Nagasaki. They were tortured for several days, first crushed while hanging upside down for three days. After various tortures, 14 of them died by being suspended by the feet in a pit of manure, one was burned at the stake and one died in prison. St. Lawrence was tortured and killed for the faith. He died professing: “I shall die for God, and for Him I would give many thousands of lives if I had them.” He died in the pit in 1637. The bodies of the Martyrs were burned, with the ashes thrown into the Pacific Ocean on September 30, 1637. They were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1981 and canonized on October 18,1987. St. Lawrence (Lorenzo) Ruiz is the first canonized Filipino martyr.
All the Martyrs had, at different times and under varying circumstances, preached the Christian faith in the Philippines, Formosa, and Japan. They manifested the universality of the Christian religion and sowed the seed of future missionaries and converts. They abundantly sowed the missionary seed of Christianity with the example of their life and death. His feast day is September 28th.
“In their sufferings, their love and imitation of Jesus reached its fulfilment, and their sacramental configuration with Jesus, the one Mediator, was brought to perfection. “For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his” (Rom. 6, 5). These holy martyrs, different in origin, language, race and social condition, are united with each other and with the entire People of God in the saving mystery of Christ, the Redeemer.” ~ St. John Paul II, October 18, 1987.
PRAYER: God, in our service to You and to our neighbor grant us the invincible patience of the holy Martyrs Lawrence and his companions. For those who suffer persecution for justice’ sake are blessed in the Kingdom of heaven. Amen 🙏
SAINT WENCESLAUS, MARTYR: St. Wenceslaus (907–935 A.D.) was a Central European ruler who suffered martyrdom at the hands of his brother while after many trials in governing and evangelizing his people and seeking to strengthen the Catholic faith in his native Bohemia. St. Wenceslaus was described as a pious, humble, and intelligent ruler who worked to established Christianity in the land that would become part of the Holy Roman Empire. He was known for his vow of virginity, his many virtues, and his life of prayer and good works. St. Wenceslaus was the son of the Duke of Bohemia. His father, Duke Wratislaw was a Catholic, his grandfather was converted to Christianity by the missionaries Sts. Cyril and Methodius. But his mother Princess Dragomir practiced the native pagan religion. His mother was the daughter of a pagan tribal chief who was baptized at her marriage She would later arrange the murders of both St. Wenceslaus and his grandmother, Ludmilla, who is also a canonized saint. Saint Wenceslaus, like many people, sadly endured unrest in his family. His Christian father died when Wenceslaus was young, and his holy grandmother, St. Ludmilla, raised him and formed him in the Faith. During his youth, St. Wenceslaus received a strong religious education from his grandmother, St. Ludmilla, in addition to the good example of his father. He maintained a virtuous manner of living while attending college near Prague, making significant progress both academically and spiritually. But with the death of his father Wratislaw, the devout young nobleman faced a spiritual and political crisis. After his father’s death, his mother Dragomir, reverted to her pagan ways, she had never accepted the Catholic faith, turned against it entirely and worked to oppose the spread of Christianity in Bohemia. Dragomir reigned as regent and she seized her husband’s death as a chance to destroy the religion his parents had received from Sts. Cyril and Methodius, through methods that included purging Catholics from public office, closing churches, and preventing all teaching of the faith. Dragomir’s Catholic mother-in-law St. Ludmilla urged St. Wenceslaus when he was 18 to seize power from his mother and defend their faith. His attempt to do so resulted in the division of the country into two halves: one ruled by St. Wenceslaus, advised by St. Ludmilla; the other ruled by Wenceslaus’ younger brother Boleslaus, who had absorbed his mother’s hatred of the Church. St. Wenceslaus, who would have preferred to become a monk and not a duke, fortified himself in this struggle through fervent prayer, extreme asceticism, charitable service, and a vow of chastity. Meanwhile, his mother carried out a plot to kill St. Ludmilla, having her strangled in her private chapel. St. Ludmilla’s liturgical feast day is Sept. 16.
The Bohemian duke, St. Wenceslaus also faced the threat of invasion from abroad, when Prince Radislaus of Gurima demanded that Bohemia submit to his rule. When St. Wenceslaus sought to avoid a war by challenging him in single combat, two angels are said to have appeared, deflecting the javelin thrown at St. Wenceslaus and immediately inspiring Radislaus to drop to his knees in surrender. During his period of rule, St. Wenceslaus received the relics of several saints from the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, who also conferred on him the title of “King Wenceslaus.” But some noblemen of his own country resented the saintly king’s strict morals, and allied themselves with Dragomir and Boleslaus. St. Wenceslaus’ brother sought to appear as a peacemaker, inviting the king to his realm for a celebration during the feast of Sts. Cosmas and Damian. When St. Wenceslaus was praying in a chapel during the visit, Boleslaus’ henchmen attacked and wounded him. Boleslaus himself delivered the final blow, killing his brother by running him through with a lance. St. Wenceslaus muttered words of forgiveness as he died, and his body was buried at the murder site. St. Wenceslaus died on September 28, 935. His brother, Boleslaus succeeded him as Duke of Bohemia. Emperor Otto responded to St. Wenceslaus’ death by invading Bohemia and making war against Boleslaus for several years. He succeeded in conquering the region, and forced Boleslaus to reverse the anti-Catholic measures he and his mother had taken. There is no evidence that Dragomir, who died soon after the murder of St. Wenceslaus, ever repented of killing her family members. Boleslaus, however, came to regret his sin when he learned of the miracles that were taking place at his brother’s tomb. Three years later Boleslaus repented of his crime, and had his brother’s remains transferred to the Cathedral Church of St. Vitus in Prague for veneration by the faithful. St. Wenceslaus was considered a saint by the people at the time of his death. King St. Wenceslaus was martyred at the age of twenty-two, he is the national hero and patron of the Czech Republic. He is the first Slav to be canonized. He’s Patron Saint of Bohemia; brewers; Czech Republic; Moravia.
PRAYER: God, You taught St. Wenceslaus to prize the Kingdom of heaven more than his earthly reign. Grant, through his prayers, that we may deny ourselves and cling to You with our whole heart. Amen 🙏
SAINT JOHN OF DUKLA, PRIEST: St. John of Dukla (1414- 1484), a Priest was born in Dukla, Poland in 1414. His name means God is gracious; gift of God (John). He joined the Hermit Friar Minor Conventual in 1440, a religious order who strictly adhered to their rule of poverty and obedience. He was a Preacher in Ukraine, Moldavia and Belarus. Often a local superior, and once led the Franciscan custody headquartered in Lvív, Ukraine. In 1463 he joined part of the Observant Franciscans, who observed their Rule very strictly. Helped repel a Tartar attack on Lvív in 1474. John’s life was characterized by poverty, obedience, asceticism, and devotion to Our Lady. Sought to reconcile schismatics to the Church.
Though he went blind later in life at about the age of 70, he continued his ministry as preacher and confessor. He was able to prepare sermons with the help of an aide. His preaching was credited in bringing people back to the Church in his province. St. John of Dukla died on September 29, 1484 in Lviv, L’vivs’ka oblast’, Ukraine of natural causes. Soon after his death, there was an immediate miracle at his tomb and several miracles were attributed to him. St. John of Dukla was Beatified on January 23, 1733 by His Holiness Pope Clement XII and Canonized on June 10, 1997 at Krosno, Poland by His Holiness Pope Saint John Paul II before approximately one million pilgrims. He is the Patron Saint of Lithuania and Poland
Saint John of Dukla, Priest ~ Pray for us 🙏
SAINT SIMON DE ROJAS, PRIEST: St. Simon De Rojas was a Spanish priest of the Trinitarian Order. He was born at Valladolid, Castilla, Spain, on October 28, 1552. At twelve years of age, he entered the Trinitarian monastery of the city where he was born and there made his religious profession on October 28, 1572; he studied at the University of Salamanca from 1573 to 1579; he was ordained a priest in 1577; he taught philosophy and theology at Toledo from 1581 to 1587; from 1588 until his death he fulfilled with much prudence the office of superior in various monasteries of his province and was sent as apostolic visitor twice to his own province of Castilla, and once to that of Andalusia; on April 14, 1612 he founded the Congregation of the Slaves of the Sweet Name of Mary; in 1619 he was named tutor to the royal princes of Spain; on May 12, 1621 he was elected Provincial of Castilla; on January 1, 1622 he was chosen confessor of Queen Isabel of Borbon. He was known as the “Apostle of the Ave Maria,” for his devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. A person of many abilities, Simon was a theologian and a spiritual writer, as well as a friend and benefactor of the poor. He died on September 29, 1624. He was Beatified on March 19, 1766 by Pope Clement XIII and was canonized by Pope Saint John Paul II on July 3, 1988.
Saint Simon De Rojas, Priest ~ Pray for us 🙏
SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS:
Bible Readings for today, Saturday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time | USCCB | https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading
Gospel Reading ~ Luke 9:43b-45
“The Son of Man is to be handed over to men. They were afraid to ask him about this saying”
“While they were all amazed at his every deed, Jesus said to his disciples, “Pay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be handed over to men.” But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was hidden from them so that they should not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.”
In today’s Gospel reading, when Jesus spoke of Himself as someone who would be handed over into the power of men, the disciples did not understand what He said. They had just witnessed the Transfiguration, followed by His healing of an epileptic boy; everyone was full of admiration for Him. What is all this talk about Him being handed over into the power of men? The disciples would have to live with their confusion for a while longer. Only time would allow them to understand what Jesus meant; only after His death and resurrection did they come to understand such sayings. We all need time to understand one another. What perplexes us now about someone may well become clearer over time. Understanding, especially understanding of others, is never instantaneous. We have to be patient and to be prepared to wait. That is all the more true of our relationship with the Lord. We are constantly growing in our understanding of what He has said and done, and of the extraordinary person that He was and is today.
According to today’s Gospel reading, at the very time when people were full of admiration for Jesus was when He announces that He will be handed over into the power of men. Jesus did not get carried away by people’s admiration for Him; He knew that His mission would make Him powerful enemies who would seek to have Him put to death. Just when all was full of light and promise, Jesus introduces a darker prospect. His disciples’ would have been delighted with the admiration Jesus was receiving, but according to the Gospel reading they could not come to terms with the darker prospect He was putting before them. ‘They did not understand what he said… and they were afraid to ask Him’. We all find the darker side of life more difficult to deal with. When all seems to be going in our favour, we are delighted. When all seems to be going against us we can get despondent. Yet, it is especially in those darker moments that the Lord is with us to sustain us. That was the Lord’s message to His people in the first reading, ‘I will be a wall of fire for her all round her’. The Lord promises to be a protective wall of fire for His people. That same note is struck in today’s responsorial psalm, ‘The Lord will guard us as a shepherd guards His flock’. In the darker moments of life, we can trust the Lord to sustain us. When we sense our own weakness and vulnerability, the Lord is always be there as our refuge and strength. It is very often the darker experiences of life that open us up more fully to the sustaining and life-giving presence of the Lord to us.in the Gospel reading, our Lord wanted to highlight to the disciples and hence to all of us as well that being His followers and disciples would often mean that we may have to face and endure challenges and hardships, all of which could dissuade and tempt us away from following the path towards the Lord and His salvation. But if we continue to hold fast to our faith in God and in the assurance which He has always provided to us, all these while, then we may be preserved and strengthened amidst all those challenges and temptations, that we do not end up falling into those wrong and wicked paths. We have to be strong and faithful always in devoting ourselves, our time and efforts to walk in the path that the Lord has shown us, and not to allow anything to separate us from His love and grace.
Our first reading today is a continuation from the Book of Ecclesiastes, also known as Book of Qoheleth, in which the author had highlighted in the past few days the futility of worldly pursuits and glory, all the ambitions and desires of this world and all the false pleasures and joys around us. All those things can lead us down the slippery slope towards sin and destruction because of those sins, and if we are not careful, we will end up losing sight and direction towards the Lord and fall ever deeper into the path of wickedness and evil. That is why we must always resist the never-ending pursuits for power and worldly ambitions, all of which are likely going to bring us into our doom, as they lead us ever further away from the path towards God. Many of our predecessors and ancestors, those who had come before us had faced this same problem, and many among them had faltered in their faith as they were unable to resist the temptations of worldly ambitions and all the things which had brought them down the path of sin and temptations to sin. Many of them had been swayed by the various temptations of this world, which are also present all around us as well. That many among them failed to resist those temptations spoke volumes about how challenging it may be for us to overcome those things if we do not put the conscious efforts and do whatever we can to keep our lives focused and centred on the Lord and not on our own personal ambitions.
As we reflect on the words of the Sacred Scriptures today, we are reminded again of the futility of seeking and being ambitious for the matters of the world, in seeking pleasures and satisfaction from all the various kinds of worldly desires, achievements, glory, fame and more. All those things are ultimately impermanent and illusory, and as I have mentioned earlier in the week through similar discourses, and we are constantly being reminded that what we truly should seek in this life is not comforts and pleasures of this world, not the glory and fame, the greatness and ambitions of this world. We must instead be humble and realise that our purpose in this life is to live our lives in accordance with God’s will and to serve Him wholeheartedly. As we all have been reminded of the courageous examples of the great saints and martyrs, particularly, St. Wenceslaus of Bohemia, as well as St. Lawrence Ruiz and his companions in martyrdom in Japan, and all the other Saints who we celebrate today, let us all continue to seek the Lord in all things, to do what He has called and entrusted to do, to be truly faithful to Him in all things. Let us all not be swayed by all sorts of worldly temptations and pleasures, by all the things that can easily distract us into the wrong paths in life. May God in His infinite grace and mercy, grant us His grace and may the good Lord continue to strengthen us all in faith and help us in our journey towards Him, now and always. Amen 🙏🏽
DEVOTION OF THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER:
MONTH OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS:
September is the Month of Our Lady of Sorrows, also known as our Mother of Sorrows (Mater Dolorosa)! Since the 16th century, Catholic piety has assigned entire months to special devotions. The Church dedicates the month of September to Our Lady of Sorrows, whose memorial the Church celebrates on September 15th. Devotion to the sorrows of the Virgin Mary dates from the twelfth century, when it made its appearance in monastic circles under the influence of St. Anselm and St. Bernard.
This devotion recalls the Blessed Virgin Mary’s spiritual martyrdom in virtue of her perfect union with the Passion of Christ. This was her role in salvation history and what merited her place as the spiritual Mother of all Christians. This is symbolized by a single sword, or seven swords, piercing Mary’s suffering heart, as foretold in Simeon’s prophecy. Traditionally the Church meditates on the “Seven Sorrows” of our Blessed Mother: the prophecy of Simeon; the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt; the loss of the Child Jesus for three days; the meeting of Mary and Jesus as He carried His cross; Jesus’ crucifixion and death; Jesus’ sacred body taken down from the cross; and Jesus’ burial. All the sorrows of Mary (the prophecy of Simeon, the three days’ loss, etc.) are merged in the supreme suffering at the Passion. In the Passion, Mary suffered a martyrdom of the heart because of Our Lord’s torments and the greatness of her love for Him. “She it was,” says Pope Pius XII, “who immune from all sin, personal or inherited, and ever more closely united with her Son, offered Him on Golgotha to the Eternal Father together with the holocaust of her maternal rights and motherly love. As a new Eve, she made this offering for all the children of Adam contaminated through his unhappy fall. Thus, she, who was the mother of our Head according to the flesh, became by a new title of sorrow and glory the spiritual mother of all His members.” The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (Mater Dolorosa) is September 15th.
INVOCATIONS: Mary most sorrowful, Mother of Christians, pray for us. Virgin most sorrowful, pray for us 🙏🏾
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THE POPE’S MONTHLY INTENTIONS FOR 2024: FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER – FOR THE CRY OF THE EARTH: We pray that each one of us will hear and take to heart the cry of the Earth and of victims of natural disasters and climactic change, and that all will undertake to personally care for the world in which we live.
https://www.usccb.org/prayers/popes-monthly-intentions-2024
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 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, 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 revealing Lord, You opened Your divine heart to Your Apostles and invited them to understand and choose Your suffering and death. And though they hesitated and struggled, You continued to invite them to embrace the Father’s will. Give me the grace I need, dear Lord, to embrace every spiritual truth first and foremost and to allow that Truth to free me from fear and fill me with the gift of understanding. 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; Mother of Mercy, Saints Lawrence Ruiz, and His Companions; Saint Wenceslaus; Saint John of Dukla and Saint Simón de Rojas ~ 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, and grace-filled month of September and relaxing weekend!🙏
Blessings and Love always, Philomena💖
