| Luke 21: 1 - 4 | |
| 1 | He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury; |
| 2 | and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. |
| 3 | And he said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; |
| 4 | for they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all the living that she had." |
Heal me, O Lord
O Infant Jesus, I come to You, seeking You to save me. I am in great need for your miraculous help in pressing financial situation that I am going through currently. I do not seek a large sum of money or trouble you for unneeded comforts or luxuries. All I am requesting is for enough money to relief my financial debt woes, ease this stress and some extra to get my day to day life back on track. The stress caused by my worries has started to interfere and mess with all my other parts of my life. Full of trust, I truly believe and with hope to obtain Your holy grace. I love You, Jesus, I am painfully sorry for my sins and I beg You, and to set me free from them. I promise to change, improve myself and to never offend You. I offer myself to You, give me the means to do Your work, and spread Your Love. I have only so much to give, if only I were allowed the chance. Infant Jesus show me Your goodness, and deliver me from my difficulties. Infant Jesus, Mighty and Sweet Child, I offer You all Glory, Praise and Thanksgiving belongs to You. Divine Child Jesus, Infant Jesus, heal me by Your will, extend Your holy hand and by Your power take away all my worries and bestow Your peace upon me today that I may have eternal joy with You, Mary, Your Most Holy mother and St. Joseph, Your loving foster father. O Infant Jesus, You who have said, ask and you shall receive, seek and you will find, ask and it shall be opened to you. Through the intercession of Mary, Your Most Holy mother and St. Joseph, Your loving foster father, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted. AMEN.
O Christ Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness, give us the sense of Your presence, Your love, and Your strength. Help us to have perfect trust in Your protecting love and strengthening power, so that nothing may frighten or worry us, for, living close to You, we shall see Your hand, Your purpose, Your will through all things. Amen.
O Immaculate Virgin Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church! You, who from this place revealed your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection; hear the prayer that we address to you with filial trust, and present it to your Son Jesus, our sole Redeemer. Mother of mercy, Teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice, to you, who come to meet us sinners, we dedicate on this day all our being and all our love. We also dedicate to you our life, our work, our joys, our infirmities, and our sorrows. Grant peace, justice and prosperity to our peoples; for we entrust to your care all that we have and all that we are, our Lady and Mother. We wish to be entirely yours and to walk with you along the way of complete faithfulness to Jesus Christ in His Church: hold us always with your loving hand. Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, we pray to you for all the bishops, that they may lead the faithful along paths of intense Christian life, of love and humble service of God and souls. Contemplate this immense harvest, and intercede with the Lord that He may instill a hunger for holiness in the whole People of God, and grant abundant vocations of priests and religious, strong in faith and zealous dispensers of God's mysteries. Grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the same love with which you conceived in your womb the life of the Son of God. Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Fair Love, protect our families, so that they may always be united, and bless the upbringing of our children. Our hope, look upon us with compassion, teach us to go continually to Jesus and, if we fall, help us to rise again, to return to Him, by means of the confession of our faults and sins in the Sacrament of Penance, which gives peace to the soul. We beg you to grant us a great love for all the holy Sacraments, which are, as it were, the signs that your Son left us on earth. Thus, Most Holy Mother, with the peace of God in our conscience, with our hearts free from evil and hatred, we will be able to bring to all true joy and true peace, which come to us from your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
| Psalms 138: 1 - 5 | |
| 1 | I give thee thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing thy praise; |
| 2 | I bow down toward thy holy temple and give thanks to thy name for thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness; for thou hast exalted above everything thy name and thy word. |
| 3 | On the day I called, thou didst answer me, my strength of soul thou didst increase. |
| 4 | All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, for they have heard the words of thy mouth; |
| 5 | and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD. |
Andrew, son of Zebedee and the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the first called by Jesus to follow him as his disciple. St. Andrew was known for starting the Eastern Catholic Churches. Andrew is patron of Russia.| Romans 10: 9 - 18 | |
| 9 | because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. |
| 10 | For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips and so is saved. |
| 11 | The scripture says, "No one who believes in him will be put to shame." |
| 12 | For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and bestows his riches upon all who call upon him. |
| 13 | For, "every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved." |
| 14 | But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher? |
| 15 | And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!" |
| 16 | But they have not all obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?" |
| 17 | So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ. |
| 18 | But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have; for "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world." |
| Psalms 19: 8 - 11 | |
| 8 | the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; |
| 9 | the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever; the ordinances of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether. |
| 10 | More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. |
| 11 | Moreover by them is thy servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. |
| Matthew 4: 18 - 22 | |
| 18 | As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. |
| 19 | And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." |
| 20 | Immediately they left their nets and followed him. |
| 21 | And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zeb'edee and John his brother, in the boat with Zeb'edee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. |
| 22 | Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him. |
| Daniel 2: 31 - 45 | |
| 31 | "In your vision, O king, you saw a statue, very large and exceedingly bright, terrifying in appearance as it stood before you. |
| 32 | The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs bronze, |
| 33 | the legs iron, its feet partly iron and partly tile. |
| 34 | While you looked at the statue, a stone which was hewn from a mountain without a hand being put to it, struck its iron and tile feet, breaking them in pieces. |
| 35 | The iron, tile, bronze, silver, and gold all crumbled at once, fine as the chaff on the threshing floor in summer, and the wind blew them away without leaving a trace. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. |
| 36 | "This was the dream; the interpretation we shall also give in the king's presence. |
| 37 | You, O king, are the king of kings; to you the God of heaven has given dominion and strength, power and glory; |
| 38 | men, wild beasts, and birds of the air, wherever they may dwell, he has handed over to you, making you ruler over them all; you are the head of gold. |
| 39 | Another kingdom shall take your place, inferior to yours, then a third kingdom, of bronze, which shall rule over the whole earth. |
| 40 | There shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron; it shall break in pieces and subdue all these others, just as iron breaks in pieces and crushes everything else. |
| 41 | The feet and toes you saw, partly of potter's tile and partly of iron, mean that it shall be a divided kingdom, but yet have some of the hardness of iron. As you saw the iron mixed with clay tile, |
| 42 | and the toes partly iron and partly tile, the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. |
| 43 | The iron mixed with clay tile means that they shall seal their alliances by intermarriage, but they shall not stay united, any more than iron mixes with clay. |
| 44 | In the lifetime of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed or delivered up to another people; rather, it shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and put an end to them, and it shall stand forever. |
| 45 | That is the meaning of the stone you saw hewn from the mountain without a hand being put to it, which broke in pieces the tile, iron, bronze, silver, and gold. The great God has revealed to the king what shall be in the future; this is exactly what you dreamed, and its meaning is sure." |
| Daniel 3: 57 - 61 | |
| 57 | Bless the Lord, all you works of the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever. |
| 58 | Angels of the Lord, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever. |
| 59 | You heavens, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever. |
| 60 | All you waters above the heavens, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever. |
| 61 | All you hosts of the Lord, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him above all forever. |
| Luke 21: 5 - 11 | |
| 5 | And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, |
| 6 | "As for these things which you see, the days will come when there shall not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." |
| 7 | And they asked him, "Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign when this is about to take place?" |
| 8 | And he said, "Take heed that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name, saying, `I am he!' and, `The time is at hand!' Do not go after them. |
| 9 | And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified; for this must first take place, but the end will not be at once." |
| 10 | Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; |
| 11 | there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. |
