Friday October 4, 2024
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI, Rel (MEMORIAL)
Office: Memorial, Psalter Week2
Mass and Preface of the Memorial;
Vestment: White
Today’s Rosary: The Sorrowful Mystery
FIRST READING
Have you ever commanded the morning, and entered into the springs of the sea?
A reading from the Book of Job (Job 38:1.12-21; 40:3-5)
The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment. From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken. Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this. “Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness, that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home? You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!” Then Job answered the Lord: “Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”
The word of the Lord.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psalm 139:1-3.7-8.9-10.13-14ab (R. 24b)
R/. Lead me, Lord, in the way everlasting.
O Lord, you search me and you know me,
You yourself know my resting and my rising;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You mark when I walk or lie down;
you know all my ways through and through. R/.
O where can I go from your spirit,
or where can I flee from your face?
If I climb the heavens, you are there.
If I lie in the grave, you are there. R/.
R/. Lead me, Lord, in the way everlasting.
If I take the wings of the dawn or dwell
at the sea’s furthest end,
even there your hand would lead me;
your right hand would hold me fast. R/.
For it was you who formed my inmost being,
knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I thank you who wonderfully made me;
how wonderful are your works. R/.
ALLELUIA Psalm 95:7d and 8a
Alleluia. Today, harden not your hearts, but listen to the voice of the Lord. Alleluia.
GOSPEL
“He who rejects me, rejects him who sent me.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 10:13-16)
At that time: Jesus said, “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable in the judgement for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
TODAY’S REFLECTION
Angels are messengers of God, counted among heavenly beings saddled with different responsibilities like healing, announcing and defending. Archangels, and guardian angels are within the common rank of angels. It is our belief that every individual on earth has a guardian angel. As Jesus rightly noted in the gospel, when we live righteously, i.e. with a pure heart, our guardian angel who is before God intercedes for us before God. However, when we live sinfully we reduce the effect of that angel because there is no light shining enough to fan into a flame. To be like a child, as Jesus teaches, is to be pure at heart, sincere and to be at peace with one another. The intercession of the guardian angels sees us through life’s hard and dangerous moments. Live righteously to continually kindle the potency of your guardian angel.
PERSONAL DEVOTIONAL
REFLECTION AND PRAYERS OF ST JOSEPH
St. Bernardine of Siena says that we should be persuaded that our Lord, who respected St. Joseph on earth as his father, will refuse him nothing in heaven; but on the contrary, will most abundantly grant his petitions. Jesus himself advised St. Margaret of Cortona to cherish a special devotion to St. Joseph, and never to allow a day to pass without rendering some homage to him as his foster father.
Let us not, then, fail to recommend ourselves each day to St. Joseph and to ask him for graces.
Let Us Pray
St. Joseph, make me faithful in invoking you daily.
TODAY’S SAINT AND QUOTE: St Francis of Assisi – October 4th
– True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
– It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
– Start by doing what is necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
– It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
– I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
THE MIRACULOUS 54-DAY ROSARY NOVENA, 8TH SEPT. TO 31ST OCT. 2024
FIRST 27 DAYS IN PETITION
Day 27: THE GLORIOUS MYSTERIES
Petition: Let us pray for all those participating in this Miraculous 54-Day Rosary Novena, that through the intercession of Our Mother Mary, God will hear and answer our prayers and grant us our heart desires we pray O Lord.
1. + In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Sign of the cross.
2. Hail Mary.
3. Prayer before the recitation of the rosary
Hail, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, my Mother Mary, hail! At thy feet I humbly kneel to offer thee a Crown of Roses, full-blown white roses, tinged with the red of the passion, to remind thee of thy glories, fruits of the sufferings of thy Son and thee, each rose recalling to thee a holy mystery, each 10 bound together with my petition for a particular grace. O Holy Queen, dispenser of God’s graces, and Mother of all who invoke thee! Thou canst not look upon my gift and fail to see its binding. As thou receivest my gift, so wilt thou receive my petition; from thy bounty thou wilt give me the favor I so earnestly and trustingly seek. I despair of nothing that I ask of thee. Show thyself my Mother!
4. Say: The Apostles’ Creed, Our Father, 3 Hail Marys, Glory Be.
5. For each of the following Mysteries, say: Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be.
The Resurrection – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these full-blown roses with a petition for the virtue of faith and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Ascension – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these full-blown roses with a petition for the virtue of hope and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Descent of the Holy Spirit – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these full-blown roses with a petition for the virtue of charity and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Assumption of Mary – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these full-blown roses with a petition for the virtue of union with Christ and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Coronation of the Blessed Mother – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these full-blown roses with a petition for the virtue of union with thee and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
6. Say: The Hail Holy Queen
7. Let us pray: O God whose only begotten son by his life death………..
8. Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9. Sweet Mother Mary, I offer thee this spiritual communion to bind my bouquets in a wreath to place upon thy brow. O my Mother! Look with favor upon my gift, and in thy love obtain for me (specify request). Hail Mary …
10+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit amen.
