God our Father,
may we always profit by the prayers
of the Virgin Mother Mary,
for You bring us life and salvation
through Jesus Christ her Son
Who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
July 27, 2019
July 26, 2019
Good Saint Anne,
obtain for me an increase of faith
in the great mystery of the Holy Eucharist.
Help me to see in this great Sacrament,
Christ our High Priest,
making real for me the saving grace
of His death on the cross;
feeding my soul with His Flesh and Blood
so that I may live in Him and He in me;
producing the unity of the people of God
and gathering His Church together.
By your powerful intercession with God,
help me to center my life around the altar
that I may inherit the promise of The Lord:
Amen.
July 25, 2019
O gracious God, we remember before You today
Your servant and apostle James,
first among the Twelve to suffer martyrdom
for the Name of Jesus Christ.
We pray that You will pour out
upon the leaders of your Church
that spirit of self-denying service
by which alone they may have
true authority among your people;
through the same Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God,
now and forever.
July 24, 2019
O Lord, you see how everywhere the winds have burst forth,
and the sea is convulsed with the great violence of the rising waves.
Command, we beseech You who alone are able,
both the winds and the sea.
Restore to mankind the true peace of your name,
that peace which the world cannot give,
and the calm of social harmony.
Under your inspiration may men overthrow the rule of greed,
bring back the love of God, justice,
charity toward neighbor, temperance in all desires.
May all recognize that they are subject to You,
and must serve You who are truth and salvation;
that without You they labor in vain.
In Your law is reason and fatherly kindness.
You are ever at hand with Your strength
and Your power to help man to keep it.
July 23, 2019
O Jesus! True liberty of angels,
Paradise of delights, remember the horror and sadness
which You endured when Your enemies,
like furious lions, surrounded You,
and by thousands of insults,
spits, blows, lacerations and other unheard-of-cruelties,
tormented You at will.
In consideration of these torments and insulting words,
I beseech You, O my Savior,
to deliver me from all my enemies,
visible and invisible, and to bring me, under Your protection,
to the perfection of eternal salvation.
Amen!
July 22, 2019
St. Mary Magdalene, woman of many sins,
who by conversion became the beloved of Jesus,
thank you for your witness that Jesus forgives
through the miracle of love.
You, who already possess eternal happiness
in His glorious presence, please intercede for me,
so that someday I may share in the same everlasting joy.
Amen.
July 21, 2019
Lord, source of eternal life and truth,
give to your shepherd, Francis, a spirit
of courage and right judgement,
a spirit of knowledge and love.
By governing with fidelity those entrusted to his care
may he, as successor to the apostle Peter and vicar of Christ,
build your Church into a sacrament of unity,
love, and peace for all the world.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ,
your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God forever and ever.
Amen.
July 20, 2019
All-powerful and ever-living God,
in the plan of your wisdom,
she who bore the Christ in her womb
was raised body and soul in glory to be with Him in heaven.
May we follow her example in reflecting Your holiness
and join her hymn of endless life and praise.
Amen.
July 19, 2019
Lord Jesus Christ,
who are called the Prince of Peace,
who are Yourself our peace and reconciliation,
make all men and women witnesses of truth,
justice, and brotherly love.
Banish from their hearts whatever might endanger peace.
Enlighten our rulers that they may guarantee
and defend the great gift of peace.
May all peoples on the earth become as brothers and sisters.
May longed for peace blossom forth and reign always over us all.
July 18, 2019
O glorious Saint Camillus,
special patron of the sick and poor,
who devoted yourself to the relief of their
temporal and spiritual necessities.
Obtain for them from Almighty God
the healing of all their maladies,
or at least, the spirit of Christian patience
and resignation that may sanctify them
and comfort them in the hour of their passing to eternity;
at the same time obtain for us the precious grace
of living and dying after your example
in the practice of Divine love.
Amen
July 17, 2019
Accept, O Mother of Christ,
our cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human beings,
laden with the sufferings of whole societies.
Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit to conquer all sin:
individual sin and the "sin of the world",
sin in all of its manifestations.
Let there be revealed once more in the history of the world
the infinite saving power of the redemption:
the power of merciful love.
May it put a stop to evil.
May it transform consciences.
May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of hope.
Amen.
July 16, 2019
O most beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel,
Fruitful Vine, Splendour of Heaven,
Blessed Mother of the Son of God,
Immaculate Virgin, assist me this my necessity.
O Star of the Sea, help me and show me
you are my Mother.
O Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Queen of Heaven and Earth,
I humbly ask you from the bottom of my heart,
to assist me in this necessity;
there are none that can withstand your power.
O, show me herein you are my Mother,
O Mary, conceived without sin,
pray for us who come to you
Sweet Mother,
I place this cause in your hands.
July 15, 2019
Have mercy on me, O Lady,
for my enemies have trodden upon me every day:
all their thoughts are turned to evil against me.
Stir up fury, and be mindful of war:
and pour out your anger upon them.
Renew wonders and change marvelous things:
let us feel the help of your arm.
Distill upon us the drops of your sweetness:
For you are the cupbearer of the sweetness of grace.
July 14, 2019
Immaculate Heart of Mary
help us to conquer the menace of evil
which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today,
and whose immeasurable effects
already weigh down upon our modern world
and seem to block the paths toward the future.
From famine and war, deliver us.
From sins against human life deliver us.
From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity
of the children of God, deliver us.
From every kind of injustice in the life of society, deliver us.
From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.
From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us.
Accept our pleas, O Mother, and help us overcome our sins.
July 13, 2019
O Mary, Most Holy and Immaculate Mother of God,
of Jesus, our Victim-High Priest,
True Prophet, and Sovereign King,
I come to you as the Intercessor of All Grace,
for that is truly what you are.
O Fountain of all Grace!
O Fairest of Roses!
Most Pure Spring!
Receive me, Most Holy Mother!
Present me and my every need to the Most Holy Trinity!
That having been made pure and holy
in His Sight through your hands,
they may return to me, through you,
as graces and blessing.
I give and consecrate myself to you,
Mary, Intercessor of All Grace,
that Jesus, our One True Mediator,
Who is the King of All Nations,
may Reign in every heart.
Amen.
The Columbans are a society of missionaries, including priests and lay people, who minister to people of various cultures as a way of witnessing to the universal love of God.