Welcome to the ULC Minister's Network

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

Recent Entries

  • Office of Readings

    Saturday 9 October 2021 Saturday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saints Denis, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs  or Saint John Leonardi, Priest  or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 9 October 2021 Saturday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saints Denis, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs  or Saint John Leonardi, Priest  or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first H...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 9 October 2021 Saturday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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

    Saturday 9 October 2021 Saturday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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

    Saturday 9 October 2021 Saturday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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

    Saturday 9 October 2021 Saturday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saints Denis, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs  or Saint John Leonardi, Priest  or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary  (First Vespers of tomorrow, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time) Vespers (Evening Praye...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 9 October 2021 Saturday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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....
  • Lectionary

    Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 465 Reading I Jl 1:13-15; 2:1-2 Gird yourselves and weep, O priests!     wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth,     O ministers of my God!...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 11:15-26): As Jesus was casting out a devil some of the people said, «He drives out demons by the power of Beelzebul, the chief of the demons». ...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Friday 8 October 2021 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time An instruction by St Vincent of LérinsThe development of doctrine Is there to be no development of religion in the Church ...
  • Office of Readings

    Friday 8 October 2021 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  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 Fat...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 8 October 2021 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  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...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 8 October 2021 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 F...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 8 October 2021 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 8 October 2021 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 Fath...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 8 October 2021 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  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 t...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 8 October 2021 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 a...
  • Lectionary

    Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary Lectionary: 464 Reading I Mal 3:13-20b You have defied me in word, says the LORD,     yet you ask, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “It is vain to serve God,    &nbs...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 11:5-13): Jesus said to his disciples, «Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to his house in the middle of the night and says: ‘Friend, le...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Thursday 7 October 2021 Our Lady of the Rosary  on Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Our Lady of the Rosary Virgin and Child with a Rosary (c.1650) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), Museo del Prado, Madrid...
  • Office of Readings

    Thursday 7 October 2021 Our Lady of the Rosary  on Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 7 October 2021 Our Lady of the Rosary  on Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 ha...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 7 October 2021 Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 7 October 2021 Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 7 October 2021 Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 7 October 2021 Our Lady of the Rosary  on Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Thursday 7 October 2021 Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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...
  • Saint of the Day

      Saint of the Day St. Bruno St. Bruno (1030-1101) was born to a noble and prominent family in Cologne, Germany. He was well educated and excelled in his studies, and became a priest around the year 1055. He went on to direct and teach at the episcopal s...
  • Verse of the Day

      Verse of the Day "[There is] one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each of us according to the measu...
  • Lectionary

    Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 463 Reading I Jon 4:1-11 Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry that God did not carry out the evil he threatened against Nineveh. He prayed, “I beseech you, LORD, is not this what ...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 11:1-4): One day Jesus was praying in a certain place and when He had finished, one of his disciples said to him, «Lord, teach us to pray, just as ...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Wednesday 6 October 2021 Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Bruno, Priest  or Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time From St Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the Tralli...
  • Office of Readings

    Wednesday 6 October 2021 Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Bruno, Priest  or Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher  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...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 6 October 2021 Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Bruno, Priest  or Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher  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...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 6 October 2021 Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 6 October 2021 Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 6 October 2021 Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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

    Wednesday 6 October 2021 Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Bruno, Priest  or Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher  Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm inste...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Wednesday 6 October 2021 Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 Fa...
  • Verse of the Day

    Verse of the Day "Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who are of a fearful heart, "Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."" Isaiah 35:3-4
  • Meditation

      Meditation of the Day "What is this brightness—with which God fills the soul of the just—but that clear knowledge of all that is necessary for salvation? He shows them the beauty of virtue and the deformity of vice. He reveals to them the vanity of the worl...
  • Lectionary

    Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 462 Reading I Jon 3:1-10 The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:  “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you.” So Jonah ...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 10:38-42): As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, He entered a village and a woman called Martha welcomed him to her house. She had a sister named M...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Tuesday 5 October 2021 Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Faustina Kowalska, Religious  or Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time From St Ignatius of Antioch's l...
  • Office of Readings

    Tuesday 5 October 2021 Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Faustina Kowalska, Religious  or Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitat...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 5 October 2021 Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Faustina Kowalska, Religious  or Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Inv...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 5 October 2021 Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 5 October 2021 Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 Fathe...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 5 October 2021 Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 Fa...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 5 October 2021 Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Faustina Kowalska, Religious  or Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest  Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the I...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Tuesday 5 October 2021 Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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...
  • Saint of the Day

      Saint of the Day St. Francis of Assisi St. Francis (1181-1226) was born in Assisi, Italy, to a wealthy cloth merchant. He was a spoiled child given to pleasure, fine dress, liberal spending, and worldliness. Handsome and courteous, he was a favorite am...
  • Verse of the Day

      Verse of the Day "He said to them, "Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned."" Mark 16:15-16  
  • Lectionary

    Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi Lectionary: 461 Reading I Jon 1:1–2:1-2, 11 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jonah, son of Amittai: “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it; their wickedness has come up before me....
  • Gospel/Homily

    Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 10:25-37): A teacher of the Law came and began putting Jesus to the test. And he said, «Master, what shall I do to receive eternal life?». Jesus...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Monday 4 October 2021 Saint Francis of Assisi  on Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Saint Francis of Assisi A painting (c.1598) by Cigoli (1559-1613), Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. A letter from St Francis of Assi...
  • Office of Readings

    Monday 4 October 2021 Saint Francis of Assisi  on Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 4 October 2021 Saint Francis of Assisi  on Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 4 October 2021 Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 F...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 4 October 2021 Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 4 October 2021 Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 Fath...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 4 October 2021 Saint Francis of Assisi  on Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 has...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Monday 4 October 2021 Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time 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 a...
  • Saint of the Day

      Saint of the Day St. Theodore Guerin St. Theodore Guerin (1798–1856), also known as St. Theodora, was born in Etables, France, towards the end of the French Revolution. She was a pious child who loved prayer and who knew her vocation was to be a ...
  • Verse of the Day

      Verse of the Day "What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written: "For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered."...
  • Lectionary

    Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 140 Reading I Gn 2:18-24 The LORD God said: "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him." So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of ...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mk 10,2-16): Some Pharisees came and put him to the test with this question, «Is it right for a husband to divorce his wife?». He replied, «What law ...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Sunday 3 October 2021 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Pastoral Guide, by Pope St Gregory the GreatLet the pastor be discreetly silent, and to the point when he speaks A spiritual guide should...
  • Office of Readings

    Sunday 3 October 2021 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time  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 an...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 3 October 2021 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time  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 Fathe...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 3 October 2021 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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 ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 3 October 2021 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 3 October 2021 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 3 October 2021 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time  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 Fat...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Sunday 3 October 2021 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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. Alle...
  • Saint of the Day

      Saint of the Day Guardian Angels October 2nd is the Feast of the Guardian Angels. Although Guardian Angels have been venerated since the early days of the Church, it wasn’t until the 17th century that Pope Clement X extended their feast day to th...
  • Verse of the Day

      Verse of the Day "Peter [said] to them, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit. For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far o...
  • Meditation

      Meditation of the Day "Now, man is afraid of death by nature, afraid of the decay of the body. But here is a really starling fact: whoever has put on the faith of the Cross despises even what is naturally dreadful, and for Christ’s sake is not afraid of death. So...
  • Lectionary

    Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels Lectionary: 460/650 Reading I Bar 4:5-12, 27-29 Fear not, my people!     Remember, Israel, You were sold to the nations     not for your destruction; It was because you angered God   ...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Saturday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 10,17-24): The seventy-two disciples returned full of joy. They said, «Lord, even the demons obeyed us when we called on your name». Then Jesus ...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Saturday 2 October 2021 The Holy Guardian Angels  on Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: The Holy Guardian Angels "The Guardian Angel" (1656) by Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669), National Gallery of Ancient Art, Rome From a ...
  • Office of Readings

    Saturday 2 October 2021 The Holy Guardian Angels  on Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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 hast...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 2 October 2021 The Holy Guardian Angels  on Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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 ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 2 October 2021 Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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

    Saturday 2 October 2021 Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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

    Saturday 2 October 2021 Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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

    Saturday 2 October 2021 The Holy Guardian Angels  on Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time (First Vespers of tomorrow, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Inv...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Saturday 2 October 2021 Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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....
  • Saint of the Day

      Saint of the Day St. Therese of Lisieux St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) was the last of nine children born to Saints Louis and Zelie Martin in Alencon, France. Her family was devoutly religious, and all five surviving siblings, all daughters, entere...
  • Verse of the Day

      Verse of the Day "So Pilate said to him, 'Then you are a king?' Jesus answered, 'You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.'" —John 18:37 ...
  • Lectionary

    Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church Lectionary: 459 Reading I Bar 1:15-22 During the Babylonian captivity, the exiles prayed: “Justice is with the Lord, our God; and we today are flushed with shame,...
  • Gospel/Homily

    Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 10,13-16): Jesus said, «Alas for you Chorazin! Alas for you Bethsaida! So many miracles have been worked in you! If the same miracles had been performed...
  • Spiritual Reading

    Friday 1 October 2021 Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor  on Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor From a group photograph taken at the...
  • Office of Readings

    Friday 1 October 2021 Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor  on Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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, ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 1 October 2021 Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor  on Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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 G...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 1 October 2021 Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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 F...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 1 October 2021 Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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 ...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 1 October 2021 Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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 Fath...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 1 October 2021 Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor  on Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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...
  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Friday 1 October 2021 Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time 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 a...