Intentions: (Theme= People We've Never Met)
Sunday: Todd's Grandpop, Orphans
Monday: Mike's Mom-Moms
Tuesday: Soldiers & their Families
Wednesday: Courtney's Grandpop, Rob Lowe
Thursday: Christina's Two Grandpops & Grandmom
Friday: All people on earth who are starving
Saturday: All people on earth who are sick
Here are this weeks Prayers:
SUNDAY
God, our Father, you redeemed us and made us Your children in Christ.
Through Him, You have saved us from death and given us Your Divine life of grace.
By becoming more like Jesus on Earth, may I come to share His glory in Heaven.
Give me the peace of Your kingdom which this world does not give.
By Your loving care, protect the good You have given me.
Open my eyes to the wonders of Your love that I may serve you with a willing heart.
MONDAY
Father in Heaven,
When the Spirit came down upon Jesus at His Baptism in the
You revealed Him as Your own Beloved Son.
Keep me, Your child, born of water and the Spirit, faithful to my calling.
May I, who share in Your Life, as Your child through Baptism, follow in Christ’s path of service to people. Let me become one in His Sacrifice, and hear His Word with faith.
May I live as Your child, following the example of Jesus.
TUESDAY
(Note: use a Crucifix to pray this prayer)
Behold, O Kind and most sweet Jesus, before Thy face I humbly kneel, and with the most fervent desire of soul, I pray and beseech Thee to impress upon my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity, true contrition for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment. With deep affection and grief of soul, I ponder within myself, mentally contemplating Thy five wounds, having before my eyes the words which David the Prophet spoke concerning Thee: “They have pierced my hands and my feet, they have numbered all my bones.”
WEDNESDAY
God, heavenly Father, look upon me and hear my prayer during this holy Season of Lent.
By the good works You inspire, help me to discipline my body and to be renewed in spirit.
Without You I can do nothing. By your spirit help me to know what is right and to be eager in doing Your will. Teach me to find new life through penance. Keep me from sin, and help me live by Your commandment of love. God of love, bring me back to Your. Send Your Spirit to make me strong in faith and active in good works. May my acts of penance bring me Your forgiveness, open my heart to Your love, and prepare me for the coming feast of the Resurrection of Jesus.
Lord during this Lenten Season, nourish me with Your Word of life and make me one with You in love and prayer.
Fill my heart with Your love and keep me faithful to the Gospel of Christ. Give me the grace to rise above my human weakness. Give me new life by Your Sacraments, especially the
Father, our source of life, I reach out with joy to grasp Your hand; let me walk more readily in Your ways. Guide me in Your gentle mercy, for left to myself I cannot do your Will.
Father of love, source of all blessings, help me to pass from my old life of sin to the new life of grace. Prepare me for the glory of your Kingdom. I ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God forever.
THURSDAY
Almighty and Everlasting God, You have given the human race Jesus Christ our Savior as a model of humility. He fulfilled Your Will by becoming Man and giving His life on the Cross. Help us to bear witness to You by following His example of suffering and make us worthy to share in His Resurrection. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son.
FRIDAY
Dear Lord, we are now in the holy season of Lent. We begin to realize anew that these are the days of salvation, these are the acceptable days. We know that we are all sinners. We know that in many things we have offended Your infinite majesty. We know that sin destroys Your life in us as a drought withers the leaves and chokes the life from the land, leaving an arid, dusty desert. Help us now, Lord, in our feeble attempts to make up for past sin. Bless our efforts with the rich blessing of Your grace. Make us realize ever more our need of penance and of mortification. Help us to see, in our ordinary difficulties and duties, the trials and temptations of every day, the best opportunity of making up for past infidelities. Every day, we are so often reminded in field and wood, in sky and stream, of Your won boundless generosity to us. Help us to realize that You are never outdone in generosity and that the least thing we do for You will be rewarded, full measure, pressed down, shaken together and flowing over. Then we shall see, in our own souls, how the desert can blossom, and the dry and wasted land can bring forth the rich, useful fruit that was expected of it from the beginning.
Dear Lord Jesus, by Your Passion and Resurrection, You brought life to the world.
But the glory of the Resurrection came only after the sufferings of the Passion.
You laid down Your life willingly and gave up everything for us.
Your body was broken and fastened to a Cross, Your clothing became the prize of soldiers, your blood ebbed slowly but surely away, and Your Mother was entrusted to the beloved disciple.
Stretched out on the Cross, deprived of all earthly possessions and human aid,
You cried out to Your Father that the end had come. You had accomplished the work given You, and You committed into His hands, as a perfect gift, the little life that remained to You.
Lord, teach me to accept all afflictions after the example You have given.
Let me place my death in Yours and my weakness in Your abandonment,
Take hold of me with Your love, that same foolish love that knew no limits,
and let me offer myself to the Father with You so that I may rise with You to eternal life.
