Thursday October 10, 2024
Weekday (27)
Office: Psalter Week 3
Mass and Preface of the day
Vestment: Green
Today’s Rosary: The Luminous Mystery
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FIRST READING
“Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?”
A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Galatians (Galatians 3:1-5)
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? Did you experience so many things in vain? — if it really is in vain. Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
The word of the Lord.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Luke 1:69-70.71-72.73-75 (R. b8)
R/. Blessed be the Lord GOD of Israel, for he has visited his people.
He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets
from of old. R/.
That we should be saved from our enemies,
and from the hand of all who hate us;
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers,
and to remember his holy covenant. R/.
R/. Blessed be the Lord GOD of Israel, for he has visited his people.
The oath which he swore to our father Abraham,
to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness before him
all the days of our life. R/.
ALLELUIA Acts 16:14b
Alleluia. Open our hearts, O Lord, that we may give heed to the words of your Son. Alleluia.
GOSPEL
“Ask, and it will be given you.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 11:5-13)
At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything’? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
The Gospel of the Lord.
TODAY’S REFLECTION
The basic mark that distinguishes religion is faith. As Christians, we are called to a life of faith which enables us to believe without doubting whatever God has revealed. One such great revelation that we have come to know as Christians is that God has great concern and love for us all. Why then should we lack the courage to ask for what we need, to knock at his door of mercy and abundance and to seek at his garden of fruits and gifts? The challenge often is with us and not God because we go searching and believing where God has not called us to. The question therefore for us all today is: do I express my faith wrongly by not knocking, seeking, and asking at the right place?
PERSONAL DEVOTIONAL
REFLECTION AND PRAYERS TO ST JOSEPH
St. Paul writes that in the next life Jesus Christ “will render to every man according to his works” (Rom. 2:6). What great glory must we not suppose that he has bestowed upon St. Joseph, who served and loved him so much while he lived on earth! Our Lord has promised a reward to him who gives a cup of cold water to the poor in his name. What, then, must be the reward of St. Joseph, who can say to Jesus Christ: “I not only provided thee with food, with a dwelling, and with clothes, but I saved thee from death, delivering thee from the hands of Herod”.
Let Us Pray
St. Joseph, increase our zeal for growing in holiness by the hope of eternal reward.
THE MIRACULOUS 54-DAY ROSARY NOVENA, 8TH SEPT. TO 31ST OCT. 2024
FIRST 27 DAYS IN PETITION
THE GLORIOUS MYSTERIES
DAY 6 THANKSGIVING: Heavenly Father on this Miraculous 54-Day Rosary Novena, we bow our hearts to you and pray, we give you thanks for all you’ve done especially for the gift of Your son Jesus and his Mother Mary. With thankful hearts, we praise You our God who like a loving parent never denies his children good things. Thank you for hearing all our petitions and granting them. May your name be praised for evermore. Amen.
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 gratefully 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 ten 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 thanksgiving; from thy bounty thou hast given me the favor I so earnestly and trustingly sought. I despaired not of what I asked of thee, and thou hast truly shown thyself my Mother.
4. Say: The Apostles’ Creed, Our Father, 3 Hail Mary, Glory Be.
The Resurrection – Our Father, 10 Hail Mary, 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 Mary, 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 Mary, 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 Mary, 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 Mary, 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 in thanksgiving for (specify request) which thou in thy love hast obtained for me. Hail, Mary, etc.
10. + In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit amen.
