2022

John 15:13

Verse:

“Greater love has no one than this; to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” - John 15:13

Prayer For Sacrifice and Friendship

Heavenly Father, thank You for the greatest of all examples of love that Christ demonstrated toward me, in that while I was still a sinner, He died for me. He has called me to be a member of His Church and to love others as He has loved me. May I love others in His strength and power, to Your praise and glory. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

Sources:

https://dailyverses.net/2021/9

Original version of the prayer: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/John/15/13

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Saint Thomas of Villanova

Daily Saints

Saint Thomas was from Castile in Spain and received his surname from the town where he was raised. He received a superior education at the University of Alcala and became a popular professor of philosophy there. After joining the Augustinian friars at Salamanca, Thomas was ordained and resumed his teaching despite a continuing absentmindedness and poor memory. He became prior and then provincial of the friars, sending the first Augustinians to the New World. He was nominated by the emperor to the archbishopric of Granada, but refused. When the see again became vacant he was pressured to accept. The money his cathedral chapter gave him to furnish his house was given to a hospital instead. His explanation to them was that “our Lord will be better served by your money being spent on the poor in the hospital. What does a poor friar like myself want with furniture?” In his lifetime Thomas of Villanova was already called “the almsgiver” and “the father of the poor.” He was canonized in 1658.

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Colossians 3:13

Daily Reflections, Verse

Verse:

“Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” - Colossians 3:13

Prayer For Forgiveness

Dear Lord, please forgive me for harboring anger. Equip me with a supernatural ability to forgive those who have hurt me. Guard my heart when old emotions threaten to surface. Strip my heart of anger and replace it with joy. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Sources:

https://dailyverses.net/2021/9

Original version of the prayer by Tracie Miles: https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/relieving-prayers-for-forgiveness.html

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Saint Matthew

Daily Saints

Matthew was born in Capernaum, and was working as a tax-collector when Jesus called him. He is thought by some scholars to have written and early version of his Gospel in Aramaic, a precursor to the Greek version we now have. He is also said to have preached in the East. Tradition differs as to the sense of his missions and as to whether he died a natural death or a martyr’s. His relics were reputedly discovered in Salerno (Italy) in 1080. His symbol is an angel, and he is a patron saint of tax collectors and accountants.

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2 Corinthians 10: 17-18

Daily Reflections, Verse

Verse:

“But, ‘Let the one who boasts in the Lord’. For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.” - 2 Corinthians 10: 17-18

Prayer For Humility

“Grant, O Lord, that I may look for nothing, claim nothing; and that I may go through all the scenes of life, not seeking my own glory, but looking wholly unto you, and acting wholly for you. Let me never speak any word that may tend to my own praise, unless the good of my neighbour requires it; and even then let me beware, lest, to heal another, I wound my own soul. Let my ears and my heart be ever shut to the praise that comes from men. Amen.

Sources:

https://dailyverses.net/2021/9

Original version of the prayer by John Wesley: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Prayers-for-Humility

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Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and Companions

Daily Saints

The first native Korean priest, Andrew Kim Taegon was the son of Christian converts. Following his baptism at the age of 15, Andrew traveled 1,300 miles to the seminary in Macao, China. After six years, he managed to return to his country through Manchuria. That same year he crossed the Yellow Sea to Shanghai and was ordained a priest. Back in Korea, he was assigned to arrange for more missionaries to enter by a water route that would elude the border patrol. He was arrested, tortured, and finally beheaded at the Han River near Seoul, the capital. Besides Andrew and Paul, Pope John Paul II canonized 98 Koreans and three French missionaries who had been martyred between 1839 and 1867, when he visited Korea in 1984. Among them were bishops and priests, but for the most part they were lay persons: 47 women and 45 men.

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“Lemlunay” T’Boli Tribal Festival

Philippine Regional Festival

Lemlunay or also known as T’Boli Tribal Festival is an annual celebration staged at Lake Sebu, South Cotabato in Philippines. It is celebrated every third week of September that features tribal rituals that start at early down amidst sounds of gongs and native music, culminating at the town plaza where cultural dances and ethic sports like horse fight are held. It was originally just a small town fiesta celebrating the feast day of Sta Cruz. During 1970’s, the religious feast has incorporated the features of the Mo-inum or thanksgiving ritual of the T´bolis. The commemorative mass held during the final day features a unique blend of Catholic ritual and ethnic color. This festival was from the belief of the T’Boli in a golden age that they called Lemlunay which means “the good place one goes to in the afterlife”. The word “Lemlunay” is a sort of Camelot or paradise that they would like to make for their tribe. It is when the people there reenergize and renew their vow to work for this coveted state of life.

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1 Corinthians 15:22

Daily Reflections, Verse

Verse:

“For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.” - 1 Corinthians 15:22

Prayer For Salvation

Heavenly Father, thank You that I have been taken out of Adam and placed in Christ. Thank You that in Christ I have been made alive and received His life - His eternal life, in the Person of the indwelling Holy Spirit. May I learn to live as You intended man to live - in total dependence upon You, so that the life of Christ may be seen in me, to Your praise and glory. This I ask in Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Sources:

https://dailyverses.net/2021/9

Original version of the prayer: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/1-Corinthians/15/22

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Saint Januarius

Daily Saints

Little is known about the life of Januarius. He is believed to have been martyred in the Emperor Diocletian’s persecution of 305. Legend has it that Januarius and his companions were thrown to the bears in the amphitheater of Pozzuoli, but the animals failed to attack them. They were then beheaded, and Januarius’ blood ultimately brought to Naples.

“A dark mass that half fills a hermetically sealed four-inch glass container, and is preserved in a double reliquary in the Naples cathedral as the blood of St. Januarius, liquefies 18 times during the year…Various experiments have been applied, but the phenomenon eludes natural explanation….”

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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Gosples & Readings

Liturgy of the Word

First Reading: Amos 8:4-7

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Amos

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy
and destroy the poor of the land!
"When will the new moon be over," you ask,
"that we may sell our grain,
and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat?
We will diminish the ephah,
add to the shekel,
and fix our scales for cheating!
We will buy the lowly for silver,
and the poor for a pair of sandals;
even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!"
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Never will I forget a thing they have done!

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8

Response– Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor

Praise, you servants of the LORD,
praise the name of the LORD.
Blessed be the name of the LORD
both now and forever.
R– Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor

High above all nations is the LORD;
above the heavens is his glory.
Who is like the LORD, our God, who is enthroned on high
and looks upon the heavens and the earth below?
R– Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor

He raises up the lowly from the dust;
from the dunghill he lifts up the poor
to seat them with princes,
with the princes of his own people.
R– Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor

Second Reading: 1 Tm 2:1-8

A reading from the First Letter of Saint Paul to Timothy

Beloved:
First of all, I ask that supplications, prayers,
petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone,
for kings and for all in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life
in all devotion and dignity.
This is good and pleasing to God our savior,
who wills everyone to be saved
and to come to knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God.
There is also one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus,
who gave himself as ransom for all.
This was the testimony at the proper time.
For this I was appointed preacher and apostle
— I am speaking the truth, I am not lying —,
teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

It is my wish, then, that in every place the men should pray,
lifting up holy hands, without anger or argument

Alleluia: 2 Cor 8:9

Alleluia, alleluia.Though our Lord Jesus Christ was rich, he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel: Luke 16: 1-13

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke

Jesus said to his disciples,
"A rich man had a steward
who was reported to him for squandering his property.
He summoned him and said,
'What is this I hear about you?
Prepare a full account of your stewardship,
because you can no longer be my steward.'
The steward said to himself, 'What shall I do,
now that my master is taking the position of steward away from me?
I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg.
I know what I shall do so that,
when I am removed from the stewardship,
they may welcome me into their homes.'
He called in his master's debtors one by one.
To the first he said,
'How much do you owe my master?'
He replied, 'One hundred measures of olive oil.'
He said to him, 'Here is your promissory note.
Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.'
Then to another the steward said, 'And you, how much do you owe?'
He replied, 'One hundred kors of wheat.'
The steward said to him, 'Here is your promissory note;
write one for eighty.'
And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently.
"For the children of this world
are more prudent in dealing with their own generation
than are the children of light.
I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth,
so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
The person who is trustworthy in very small matters
is also trustworthy in great ones;
and the person who is dishonest in very small matters
is also dishonest in great ones.
If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth,
who will trust you with true wealth?
If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another,
who will give you what is yours?
No servant can serve two masters.
He will either hate one and love the other,
or be devoted to one and despise the other.
You cannot serve both God and mammon."

The Readings and Gospel were sourced from:

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091822.cfm

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Liturgy of the Word

First Reading: Amos 8:4-7

Second Reading: 1 Tm 2:1-8

Alleluia: 2 Cor 8:9

Gospel: Luke 16: 1-13

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