† Quote of the Day ""God writes his name on the soul of every man."" -Archbishop Fulton Sheen Today's Meditation "Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made." —Saint Augustine, p. 136
An excerpt from Augustine Day by Day Daily Verse Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. -1 John 4:7-8 | Blessed Ambrose (1220-1286) was born in Siena, Italy, the son of a book illuminator. He was born so severely deformed that his parents could not bear the sight of him. They put their son in the care of a nurse who took the child with her to daily Mass at the Dominican church. The child, often fussy, would become calm when he was placed near the altar of relics, and would cry when he was removed. While praying at the altar, the nurse would conceal the child's hideous face with a scarf. This practice continued for a year. One day a pilgrim told the nurse to remove the baby's scarf and prophesied that the child would one day become a great man. A few days later, before the same altar, the child Ambrose stretched out his deformed limbs and pronounced the name of Jesus; from that moment he was miraculously healed into a beautiful and perfectly formed child. Blessed Ambrose grew in piety and was determined to become a Dominican friar. His family and friends opposed his plan and attempted to dissuade such a handsome and talented youth from becoming a poor friar. Ambrose overcame these obstacles and joined the Dominicans at the age of 17. He studied under St. Albert the Great along with St. Thomas Aquinas, and went on to become a preacher, teacher, missionary, diplomat, and peace-broker. His skills with diplomacy earned him the respect of kings and popes alike. His feast day is October 8th. | Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Jonah 4:1-11 Jonah was greatly displeased
and became angry that God did not carry out the evil
he threatened against Nineveh.
He prayed, "I beseech you, LORD,
is not this what I said while I was still in my own country?
This is why I fled at first to Tarshish.
I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God,
slow to anger, rich in clemency, loath to punish.
And now, LORD, please take my life from me;
for it is better for me to die than to live."
But the LORD asked, "Have you reason to be angry?" Jonah then left the city for a place to the east of it,
where he built himself a hut and waited under it in the shade,
to see what would happen to the city.
And when the LORD God provided a gourd plant
that grew up over Jonah's head,
giving shade that relieved him of any discomfort,
Jonah was very happy over the plant.
But the next morning at dawn
God sent a worm that attacked the plant,
so that it withered.
And when the sun arose, God sent a burning east wind;
and the sun beat upon Jonah's head till he became faint.
Then Jonah asked for death, saying,
"I would be better off dead than alive." But God said to Jonah,
"Have you reason to be angry over the plant?"
"I have reason to be angry," Jonah answered, "angry enough to die."
Then the LORD said,
"You are concerned over the plant which cost you no labor
and which you did not raise;
it came up in one night and in one night it perished.
And should I not be concerned over Nineveh, the great city,
in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons
who cannot distinguish their right hand from their left,
not to mention the many cattle?" Responsorial Psalm Psalm 86:3-4, 5-6, 9-10 R. (15) Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
Have mercy on me, O Lord,
for to you I call all the day.
Gladden the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. R. Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in kindness to all who call upon you.
Hearken, O LORD, to my prayer
and attend to the sound of my pleading. R. Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
All the nations you have made shall come
and worship you, O Lord,
and glorify your name.
For you are great, and you do wondrous deeds;
you alone are God. R. Lord, you are merciful and gracious. Alleluia Romans 8:15bc R. Alleluia, alleluia.
You have received a spirit of adoption as sons
through which we cry: Abba! Father!
R. Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel Luke 11:1-4 Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished,
one of his disciples said to him,
"Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples."
He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name,
your Kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread
and forgive us our sins
for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,
and do not subject us to the final test." | Praise to You Oh Lord Jesus Christ! | Daily Meditation: Luke 11:1-4 Lord, teach us to pray. (Luke 11:1) If you do a Google search for "how to pray," you'll get hundreds of millions of results. And the number keeps rising. If you ask publishers of religious material what readers want, they'll say, "Something that teaches the basics of prayer." And so the volume of books, articles, apps, and e-books on prayer swells every year. So many choices! So many teachers and approaches! It can give the impression that prayer is a very difficult and complex practice. But Jesus, in today's Gospel reading, says otherwise. He teaches us that although prayer is a very deep subject indeed, we don't need an advanced degree or a cohort of experts to help us grow in our relationship with God. The disciples came to Jesus with the very request that people are making today: "Teach us to pray" (Luke 11:1). In response, Jesus gave them the Our Father—a simple model of what the content and spirit of their prayer should be. In fact, Luke's version, which is short and spare compared to Matthew's, accents simplicity. It consists of five requests that range from the cosmic to the personal. In the first two, Jesus invites us to share in God's desire that his universal plan of salvation be fulfilled (11:2). Then the last three petitions are for the material and spiritual help we need for our earthly journey (11:3-4). And the spirit of this prayer that Jesus teaches? It's simple, too; it's summed up in one word: "Father" (Luke 11:2). By inviting us to speak so boldly, Jesus assures us that we are beloved children of God. He tells us that our heavenly Father cares for us and always hears us. In a homily not long after his election, Pope Francis proclaimed, "Father—this is the key of prayer." He went on to say that prayer is nothing but "entrusting ourselves to the Father's embrace" (June 21, 2013). So today, listen to Jesus, the great Teacher of prayer, and let your Father embrace you. Reflect on the simple phrases the Lord gave us as you go about your day. Let them sink into your heart, shape the words you speak in prayer, and guide the way you live your life. It's all so simple. So profoundly simple. "Jesus, teach me to pray. Help me to follow you in a spirit of simplicity and trust." Jonah 4:1-11
Psalm 86:3-6, 9-10 | Reflections with Brother Adrian: |  Ai Audio 2cents | From today's Holy Gospel: ".."Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples."
He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name,
your Kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread
and forgive us our sins
for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,
and do not subject us to the final test."
...." Word of the Lord. | From Bishop Barron:
"A desire to pray is planted deep within us. This just means the desire to speak to God and to listen to him. Keep in mind that prayer is not designed to change God's mind or to tell God something he doesn't know. God isn't like a big city boss or a reluctant pasha whom we have to persuade. He is rather the one who wants nothing other than to give us good things—though they might not always be what we want. Can you see how this prayer rightly orders us? We must put God's holy name first; we must strive to do his will in all things and at all times; we must be strengthened by spiritual food or we will fall; we must be agents of forgiveness; we must be able to withstand the dark powers. "...end quote.
Father HOLY NAME.
All Hallow Be His Name. Hallow means Holy.
We are saying what He is, and what He ought to be to us...All Hallow, All Holy, and are we making Him and His name Holy? Or do we spend every day saying "Oh my God" to everything and I hear people scream "JESUS" for the dumbest things, once I heard a guy exclaim that while using the restroom, so, how do we stoop so low and fail at "Hallowed be Thy NAME!"? It is the poor teachings, by the way we live, and teach every soul we meet...from now on, we shall Make His Name Holy, by how we treat Him, and his name, teaching others the right way, to make Him Holy. Such is the atrocity, the depravity, that poor catechism, that poor evangelization where we make ourselves the center of life. Kingdom
And what of God's Kingdom? Thy Kingdom come? The next line says it: "Thy WILL BE DONE". And just like the first line, we are to make it happen. We shall make HIS Kingdom, of His will be accomplished through us. It is what He wants. His holiness. His desires. Bread
And we ask for daily bread. Protestants' poor interpretation is "the Word" or "the bible" as their bread. And, it is partially true, but not all. We have the fullness of faith in Catholicism. We truly partake of the "daily bread" that the first Apostles broke in communion, in group, in community, it is all in one, and He is there, appearing in the Bread of the Presence, with His Holy Presence made present in the Holy Sacrifice and Thanksgiving where blood, body, and soul are making an exchange offering, gifting of self to the Father in Jesus and Jesus our Lord to all of us to be one in the Body. Forgive
Forgive us, we pray. But do we really repent? Do we really desire forgiveness? I hear people say "sorry" for the same things, and I ask "are they really sorry?". And on the opposite end, there are some that refuse to say sorry, to anyone or to anything. Where is God's mercy then? And who desires it? Who lives it out? Because here too, we are to make this happen! Deliver Us...
We pray to be delivered. What is that? Deliverance. This means to be spared from evil, this means salvation, this means so many things, that we may not have to go through such torment! That we might be spared of hell or purgatory! That we might be Holy, as our Father is Holy, and the cycle begins again in this most holiest of prayers, words from our Lord, our Father, and Holy Spirit. What an honor to pray the same words as our Lord, and the saints and souls that have gone before us!
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1 Corinthians 3:19–20 "For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness," 20 and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."
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