†Love Our Lady and make her loved; always recite the Rosary and recite it as often as possible. Padre Pio
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Daily Verse †With all prayer and supplication, pray at every opportunity in the Spirit. To that end, be watchful with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones.
- Ephesians 6:18
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St. Justina of PaduaPatron Saint of: Padua, students, and against infertility
Feast Day: October 7 St. Justina of Padua (d. 304 A.D.) was a young and pious Christian woman who dedicated her virginity to Christ. She received baptism at the hands of St. Prosdocimus, the first Bishop of Padua in Italy. At the age of sixteen she was arrested for being a Christian under the persecutions of Roman Emperor Maximinian, and was ordered to make sacrifice to the pagan gods. When she refused, she was stabbed with a sword and left to die. Overlooking the field where she was martyred is a basilica named in her honor which holds her relics, as well as those of St. Luke the Evangelist, St. Matthias the Apostle, St. Prosdocimus, and other patron saints of Padua. Her feast was the day the Catholic naval forces won victory over the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, which increased her popularity among the faithful. St. Justina of Padua’s feast day is October 7th.
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Memorial of Our Lady of the RosaryLectionary: 463 Reading 1Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 Brothers and sisters:
After fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas,
taking Titus along also.
I went up in accord with a revelation,
and I presented to them the Gospel that I preach to the Gentiles–
but privately to those of repute–
so that I might not be running, or have run, in vain.
On the contrary,
when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Gospel to the uncircumcised,
just as Peter to the circumcised,
for the one who worked in Peter for an apostolate to the circumcised
worked also in me for the Gentiles,
and when they recognized the grace bestowed upon me,
James and Cephas and John,
who were reputed to be pillars,
gave me and Barnabas their right hands in partnership,
that we should go to the Gentiles
and they to the circumcised.
Only, we were to be mindful of the poor,
which is the very thing I was eager to do. And when Cephas came to Antioch,
I opposed him to his face because he clearly was wrong.
For, until some people came from James,
he used to eat with the Gentiles;
but when they came, he began to draw back and separated himself,
because he was afraid of the circumcised.
And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him,
with the result that even Barnabas
was carried away by their hypocrisy.
But when I saw that they were not on the right road
in line with the truth of the Gospel,
I said to Cephas in front of all,
"If you, though a Jew,
are living like a Gentile and not like a Jew,
how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?" Responsorial PsalmPsalm 117:1bc, 2 R. Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.
Praise the LORD, all you nations,
glorify him, all you peoples!
R. Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.
For steadfast is his kindness toward us,
and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever.
R. Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News. AlleluiaRomans 8:15bc R. Alleluia, alleluia.
You have received a spirit of adoption as sons
through which we cry: Abba! Father!
R. Alleluia, alleluia. GospelLuke 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."
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Praise to You Oh Lord Jesus Christ!
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Daily Meditation: Psalm 117:1-2 Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News. (Psalm Response) Today’s responsorial psalm invites all “nations” and “peoples” to praise and glorify the Lord because “his kindness” is “steadfast . . . and the fidelity of the Lord endures forever” (Psalm 117:2). But for people to be able to worship the God who created them, loves them, and provides for them, they first need to hear the good news. That proclamation will move them to have faith in him and praise him. In today’s first reading, we see how the apostles were preaching this good news. Sts. Paul and Barnabas had received a calling from the Holy Spirit to preach to the Gentiles. For their part, Peter, James, and John and the rest of the Twelve had received the grace to be Jesus’ first witnesses, beginning in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, then ultimately “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). Together, all of them were fulfilling Jesus’ command to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). This call to proclaim the gospel is for you, too. Listen to Jesus saying, “Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.” Maybe you can’t travel as far as Rome, Greece, or Cyprus—or to Jerusalem or Samaria, for that matter. But you can certainly preach the gospel in your home, at school, in your neighborhood, or at work. How can you do this? Actually, it is not too complicated! When you read the Bible with your children and tell them how God loves them and wants to provide for them, you are announcing good news. When you offer to accompany a college classmate to Sunday Mass and spend time afterward talking about the homily with him, you are proclaiming Christ. When you tell your neighbor how God has been faithful to you and how he has provided for you in a time of need, you are being a witness to the Lord. Or when you offer to pray with a coworker before she makes a big presentation at work, you are bringing Jesus to her. In all these ways, you are preaching the gospel. You are testifying to Christ’s kindness and fidelity for his beloved people. And as the people around you start to welcome this good news, they will join you in glorifying the Lord! “Lord, help me to share your good news!” Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14
Luke 11:1-4
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“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.”
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From Roberto Juarez: "….Perhaps the great question of this Gospel is: do we pray the Lord's Prayer or do we live the Lord's Prayer? Because Jesus does not just give us a prayer to repeat. If we say "Father", we must live as children, if we say "ours", we must live as brothers and sisters, if we ask for "Thy Kingdom come", we must collaborate so that that Kingdom may come, if we ask for "our bread", we must share what we have, if we ask for forgiveness, we must learn to forgive, if we ask for help in the face of temptation, we must remain close to God. The Lord's Prayer is not a prayer to be said quickly. It is a prayer to be lived.
Let us ask him that we too may learn to pray truly. May we know how to pause every day to be with God. May our words not only be formulas, but the expression of a living relationship. And when we pray the Lord's Prayer, may we remember that we are pronouncing the words that Jesus himself wanted to put on our lips. Lord, teach us to pray. Teach us to call you Father, to seek your Kingdom, to trust in your providence, to ask for forgiveness and to forgive, to remain with you in trials. And above all, teach us to live as your true children and as brothers and sisters of all." end quote.
- - - From Bishop Barron:
“Father, hallowed be your name.” We’re not implying that God should make his name holy (as though it isn’t); we’re praying that we might make it holy for us, that God might be honored above all. Everything else in the spiritual life flows from this prioritization. “Your Kingdom come.” God’s kingdom refers to God’s way of ordering things. Jesus’s teaching and his manner of life give us a very good idea of what this kingdom would look like: peace, nonviolence, forgiveness, healing, walking the path of compassion. “Forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us.” How central to the teaching of Jesus is forgiveness. And how central to the suffering of the world is the incapacity to forgive, both on the smallest, most intimate level and on the grandest geopolitical scale. How wonderful and how deeply challenging that at the very heart of the prayer that the Son of God taught us is a petition to be given the grace to forgive." end quote.
From bro. Adrian: The one prayer, our Lord left us with, the Lord's prayer, and how often do we pray it?
I get a little anxiety when someone says they "said a rosary". I like to think of it better said as "Prayed a rosary".
Because we can say things…from the teeth out, or we can pray things from the heart, amen?
But how many times do we just say things, with no real meaning? Amen?
Empty prayers…really.
As we ponder the Lord's prayer, and we pray it at least 5 times in a rosary, really it should be 7 times, with the intro and the end with a trifecta of the Lord's prayer, a Hail Mary, and a Glory be for the Pope and the Catholic Church.
But every time we say it…do we mean every word?
I have heard that there is some degree of merit when you say a prayer…but I have heard that there is a tremendous amount of efficacy, a real effect, if we pour our hearts into the prayer, and if it is a struggle, even that has merit.
People often discuss how we are to pray the rosary. I say, that the only wrong way to pray is not pray at all. As you become familiar with the prayers, you begin to pray them more and more correctly, and start filling them more and more with meaning.
I say this from experience. Start with an Our Father. Dive deep into it. Then add a Hail Mary, praising God and praying for all souls. And then the Glory Be, giving God Glory. And then do it in the Rosary. And then add the mysteries of each decade, each mystery explaining the life of God in humanity and Christ.
Then we have the revelation of Chris into the world. Souls being saved, and the rosary helping defend your temple, your home, your community….and beyond! It is THAT important.
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James 1:12 "Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
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