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Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

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  • Spiritual Reading

    Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December  (optional commemoration of Saint John of Kęty, Priest) Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 23 December From a treatise by St Hippolytus against the Noetic heresyThe hidden sacrament is revealed There is, brethren, one G...
  • Office of Readings

    Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December  (optional commemoration of Saint John of Kęty, Priest) Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December  (optional commemoration of Saint John of Kęty, Priest) Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, m...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the So...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son a...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December  (optional commemoration of Saint John of Kęty, Priest) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord,...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December Compline (Night Prayer) (today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and t...
  • Verse of the Day

    Daily Verse "Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful."–James 5:16
  • Meditation

    Today's Meditation “Mary remained with the donkey at the very entrance of the street while Joseph sought a lodging in the nearest houses—in vain, for Bethlehem was full of strangers, all running from place to place. Joseph returned to Mary, saying that as no shelter was to be found ther...
  • Lectionary

    Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent Lectionary: 198 Reading I 1 Sm 1:24-28 In those days, Hannah brought Samuel with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and presented him at the temple of the LORD in Shiloh.  A...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Weekdays of Advent: December 22nd listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:46-56): Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior. For he has looked upon his lowly servant. From this day all gen...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 22 December From a commentary by the Venerable Bede on St Luke's GospelThe Magnificat And Mary said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour...
  • Office of Readings

    Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the S...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December  Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to t...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December Compline (Night Prayer) (today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and ...
  • Verse of the Day

    Daily Verse "Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do."–Colossi...
  • Meditation

    Today's Meditation “An excellent method of preserving interior silence is to keep exterior silence. . . even in the world, each one of us can make his own solitude, a boundary beyond which nothing can force its way unperceived. It is not noise in itself that is the diffi...
  • Lectionary

    Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent Lectionary: 197 Reading I Sg 2:8-14     Hark! my lover–here he comes         springing across the mountains,         leaping across the hills....
  • Gospel/Homily

    Weekdays of Advent: December 21st listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:39-45): Mary set out in those days and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Eliza...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December  (optional commemoration of Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor) Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 21 December From a commentary by St Ambrose on St Luke's GospelThe Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary The angel Gabr...
  • Office of Readings

    Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December  (optional commemoration of Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor) Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lo...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December  (optional commemoration of Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor) Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and t...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son an...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December  (optional commemoration of Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December Compline (Night Prayer) (today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to...
  • Verse of the Day

    Daily Verse "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread ...
  • Lectionary

    Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent Lectionary: 196 Reading I Is 7:10-14 The LORD spoke to Ahaz: Ask for a sign from the Lord, your God;     let it be deep as the nether world, or high as the sky! But Ahaz answered,     “I w...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Weekdays of Advent: December 20th listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:26-38): In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, a...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Monday 20 December 2021 20 December  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 20 December From a sermon of St Bernard of ClairvauxThe whole world awaits Mary's reply You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not ...
  • Office of Readings

    Monday 20 December 2021 20 December  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son an...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 20 December 2021 20 December  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the So...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 20 December 2021 20 December Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 20 December 2021 20 December Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 20 December 2021 20 December Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 20 December 2021 20 December  Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 20 December 2021 20 December Compline (Night Prayer) (today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to ...
  • Verse of the Day

    Daily Verse "The end of all things is at hand. Therefore, be serious and sober for prayers. Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining."–1 Peter 4:7-9
  • Lectionary

    Fourth Sunday of Advent Lectionary: 12 Reading I Mi 5:1-4a     Thus says the LORD:     You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah         too small to be among the clans of Judah,     from you shall come...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Fourth Sunday of Advent (C) listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:39-45): During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabe...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 4th Sunday of Advent From the treatise "Against the Heresies" by St IrenaeusThe operation of the redeeming Incarnation God is man’s glory. Man is the vessel which receive...
  • Office of Readings

    Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to t...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the S...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to th...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent  Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father an...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent Compline (Night Prayer) ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.Amen. Alleluia. ...
  • Verse of the Day

    Daily Verse "But no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. This need not be so, my brothers."–J...
  • Meditation

    Today's Meditation “It is, then, in following the will of God, in spite of all the difficulties that may arise both from within and from without, in the constant offering of ourselves to God as the creatures of His hand to do and to be what He would have us, in the surrender of one thing afte...
  • Lectionary

    Saturday of the Third Week of Advent Lectionary: 194 Reading I Jer 23:5-8     Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD,         when I will raise up a righteous shoot to David;     As king he shall reign...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Weekdays of Advent: December 18th listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 1:18-24): Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child throug...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 18 December From the Letter to DiognetusGod showed his love through his Son No man has ever seen God or known him, but God has revealed himself to us through faith, by which alone it ...
  • Office of Readings

    Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the So...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son a...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December  (First Vespers of tomorrow, 4th Sunday of Advent) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, mak...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December Compline (Night Prayer) ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.Amen. Alleluia. ______...
  • Verse of the Day

    Daily Verse "Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterers. Let your life be free from love of money but be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never forsake you or abandon you." Thus we may say with confid...
  • Lectionary

    Friday of the Third Week of Advent Lectionary: 193 Reading I Gn 49:2, 8-10 Jacob called his sons and said to them:     “Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob,         listen to Israel, your father.    ...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Weekdays of Advent: December 17th listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 1:1-17): The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of ...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Friday 17 December 2021 17 December  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 17 December From a letter of Pope St Leo the GreatThe mystery of our reconciliation with God To speak of our Lord, the son of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as true and perfect man is of no v...
  • Office of Readings

    Friday 17 December 2021 17 December  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son an...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 17 December 2021 17 December  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the So...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 17 December 2021 17 December Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 17 December 2021 17 December Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 17 December 2021 17 December Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 17 December 2021 17 December  Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 17 December 2021 17 December Compline (Night Prayer) (today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to ...
  • The Light of Christ's Nativity Shines Bright in our Dark World

    The Light of Christ’s Nativity Shines Bright in Our Dark World Constance T. Hull The world, in many ways, seems to be going mad. Things that should be simply a matter of common sense are no longer accepted as truth. More and more people see the spiritual darkness growing. Mankind has a...
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  • Verse of the Day

    Daily Verse "Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for others, knowing that you will receive from the Lord the due payment of the inheritance; be slaves of the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will receive recompense for the wrong he committed, and there is no partiality."&nda...
  • Lectionary

    Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent Lectionary: 189 Reading I Is 45:6c-8, 18, 21c-25 I am the LORD, there is no other;     I form the light, and create the darkness, I make well-being and create woe;     I, the LORD, do all thes...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Thursday of the Third Week of Advent Podcast Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 7:24-30): When the messengers of John had left, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John. “What did you go out to the desert to see—a reed swayed by the wind? Then w...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Thursday 16 December 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Advent  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Thursday of the 3rd week of Advent From the Dogmatic Constitution "Dei Verbum" of the Second Vatican CouncilChrist fulfils all prophecies God, who creates and m...
  • Office of Readings

    Thursday 16 December 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Advent  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 16 December 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Advent  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 16 December 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Advent Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to t...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 16 December 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Advent Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fat...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 16 December 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Advent Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 16 December 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Advent  Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 16 December 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Advent Compline (Night Prayer) (today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fath...
  • Verse of the Day

    Daily Verse "Then Jesus approached and said to them, "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. ...
  • Lectionary

    Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent Lectionary: 189 Reading I Is 45:6c-8, 18, 21c-25 I am the LORD, there is no other;     I form the light, and create the darkness, I make well-being and create woe;     I, the LORD, do all thes...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 7:18b-23): The disciples of John told him about all these things. John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to the Lord to ask, “Are you the one who is to c...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Wednesday 15 December 2021 Wednesday of the 3rd week of Advent  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Wednesday of the 3rd week of Advent From the treatise "Against the Heresies" by St IrenaeusAt Christ's coming, God will be visible to man There is one God, wh...
  • Office of Readings

    Wednesday 15 December 2021 Wednesday of the 3rd week of Advent  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to t...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 15 December 2021 Wednesday of the 3rd week of Advent  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 15 December 2021 Wednesday of the 3rd week of Advent Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 15 December 2021 Wednesday of the 3rd week of Advent Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the F...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 15 December 2021 Wednesday of the 3rd week of Advent Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to th...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

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