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Prayer in Time of Sickness or Trial: Prayer of the Day for Friday, March 08, 2024

O good Jesus, I accept willingly this sickness [or trial] which it has pleased you to lay upon me. I confide all my pains to your Sacred Heart, and beg you to unite them with your bitter sufferings, and thus perfect them by making them your own. Since I cannot render you the praise due to you because of the multitude of my sorrows and afflictions, I ask you to praise God the Father for all I suffer, with the same tribute of praise you offered him when your agony on the Cross was at its ...

Daily Readings for Friday, March 08, 2024

Reading 1: Hosea 14:2-10, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 81:14, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 81:17, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 81:6-11, Gospel: Mark 12:28-34

Daily Readings for Thursday, March 07, 2024

Reading 1: Jeremiah 7:23-28, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 95:1-2, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 95:6-9, Gospel: Luke 11:14-23

Act of Contrition: Prayer of the Day for Thursday, March 07, 2024

O, my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you. I detest all my sins because of your just punishment, but most of all because they offend you, my God, who are all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin.

A Parent's Prayer for their Children: Prayer of the Day for Wednesday, March 06, 2024

O Heavenly Father, I commend my children unto Thee. Be Thou their God and Father; and mercifully supply whatever is wanting in me through frailty or negligence. Strengthen them to overcome the corruptions of the world, to resist all solicitations to evil, whether from within or without; and deliver them from the secret snares of the enemy. Pour Thy grace into their hearts, and confirm and multiply in them the gifts of Thy Holy Spirit, that they may daily grow in ...

Daily Readings for Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Reading 1: Deuteronomy 4:1, Reading 1: Deuteronomy 4:5-9, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 147:19-20, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 147:13-16, Gospel: Matthew 5:17-19

Psalm for the Sick: Prayer of the Day for Tuesday, March 05, 2024

O Lord, in your anger punish me not; in your wrath chastise me not. For your arrows have sunk deep in me; your hand has come down upon me. There is no health in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no wholeness in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are like a heavy burden, beyond my strength. Noisome and festering are my sores, because of my folly. I am stooped and bowed down profoundly; all the day I go in mourning. For my loins are filled with ...

Daily Readings for Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Reading 1: Daniel 3:34-43, Reading 1: Daniel 3:25, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 25:4-9, Gospel: Matthew 18:21-35

Morning Offering Prayer #4: Prayer of the Day for Monday, March 04, 2024

Almighty God, I thank you for your past blessings. Today I offer myself - whatever I do, say, or think - to your loving care. Continue to bless me, Lord. I make this morning offering in union with the divine intentions of Jesus Christ who offers himself daily inthe holy sacrifice of the Mass, and in union with Mary, his Virgin Mother and our Mother, who was always the faithful handmaid of the Lord. Amen.

Daily Readings for Monday, March 04, 2024

Reading 1: 2 Kings 5:1-15, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 43:3-4, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 42:2-3, Gospel: Luke 4:24-30