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Psalm 37:4

Verse:

“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” - Psalm 37:4

Prayer To Align To The Will of God

Heavenly Father, forgive me for the times when I have delighted myself in wrong things. Keep me from fretting over evildoers in this increasingly confusing world, and help me to keep the eyes of my heart on Jesus and to delight myself in the things of God. Align my thoughts to Your thoughts, I pray, and my will to the will of God. May the desires of my heart unite with Your perfect will and eternal purposes, for Your everlasting praise and glory. This I ask in Jesus' name, Amen.

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Saint Joan of the Cross

Born in 1666, in Anjou, France, Joan worked in the family business—a small shop near a religious shrine—from an early age. She has become known to be greed and insensitive to the poor. One day she was touched by the strange woman who claimed she was on intimate terms with the deity. Joan became a new person. She began caring for needy children. Then the poor, elderly, and sick came to her. Over time, she closed the family business so she could devote herself fully to good works and penance.

She went on to found what came to be known as the Congregation of Saint Anne of Providence. It was then she took the religious name of Joan of the Cross. By the time of her death in 1736 she had founded 12 religious houses, hospices, and schools. Pope John Paul II canonized her in 1982.

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Galatians 5:25

Verse:

“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit” - Galatians 5:25

Prayer To The Holy Spirit

Help me to walk in you, the Spirit of God. Grow good fruit in my life. You are the one who produces these in me: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. I cannot live out these things on my own; I need you. Amen

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Saint Roch

Saint Roch is the patron saint of the sick and invalids. He was born in 1295 to a rich family in Montpellier, France. Tradition says Saint Roch was born with a birthmark of a red cross on his chest. He joined the Franciscan Order and distributed his fortune among the poor. While living in Italy, he caught the plague while ministering to the sick and was expelled from the town. Ill and starving, he was saved when a hunting dog found him and brought him bread every day.

He recovered and decided to devote himself to caring for the sick. After his recovery, Saint Roch returned to Montpellier, France. His uncle, the governor, did not recognize him and cast him into prison as a spy. After five years in the prison, he died, stretched out on the ground and after receiving the Last Sacraments.

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Psalm 46:1

Verse:

“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble” - Psalm 46:1

Prayer When We are Feeling Troubled

All powerful God, I am in trouble and I’m afraid. I’ve sinned and I feel alone. Please cover me and strengthen me God. Please give me shelter and protection. Cover me so I am not harmed. I want to be closer to you. Blessed be your name, Amen.

Sources:

https://www.verseoftheday.com/

https://dailyprayerguide.net/a-prayer-of-strength-when-we-are-in-trouble-psalms-46-1/

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Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary “having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” This doctrine was dogmatically defined by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950, in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, while exercising papal infallibility. But Pope Pius was not declaring the belief in the Assumption as something new or novel. There is written evidence of the belief as early as the 4th century in text that covers several different languages and a fairly wide geographical dispersion. Teaching of the Assumption of Mary became widespread across the Christian world, having been celebrated liturgically as early as the 5th century in the East.

It was celebrated in the West under Pope Sergius I in the 8th century and Pope Leo IV then confirmed the feast as official. Theological debate about the Assumption continued, following the Reformation, climaxing in 1950 when Pope Pius XII defined it as dogma for the Catholic Church. In the Eastern Orthodox churches, the Assumption is referred as the Dormition of the Theotokos (a Greek word literally meaning “God bearer”). Notice that the belief leaves open the question of Mary’s natural death.

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1 Chronicles 16:10

Verse:

“Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice’ ” - 1 Chronicles 16:10

Prayer To Glorify God

e praise You, we worship You, we glorify, we give thanks to You for Your great glory. We lift up our hands in worship and praise before You, for You alone are worthy of our reverential fear and humble praise. May we never cease to worship You in thought and in deed, and may our lives never cease to be lived in awe and wonder, knowing that the eternal Creator and almighty God of the universe should die to save a sinner such as I. Praise Your holy name, for ever and ever, Amen.

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John 8:12

Verse:

“When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life’ ” - John 8:12

Prayer To Walk in the Light

O, Author of light; Creator of all that is good, perfect, holy, and right, help us to keep our gaze fixed steadily on the light of your divine Presence, lifting us above all that overwhelms us. Lord, only when we walk in your light can we see the humanity of brothers and sisters of every race and background. Amen.

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Saint Maximilian Kolbe

Our saint today Raymund Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894, in the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. He entered the seminary of the Conventual Franciscans in Lvív- then Poland which is now Part of Ukraine. Though he achieved doctorates in Philosophy and Theology, he was deeply interested in science, the he even drew plans for rocket ships. At the young age of 24, he was ordained. He is the founder of the Militia de Immaculata, whose aim was to fight and combat evil with the witness of the good life, prayer, work, and suffering. When, Maximilian was on the last hours of his life. He lifted his fleshless arm to receive the bite of the hypodermic needle. It was filled with carbolic acid. They burned his body with all the others. Fr. Kolbe was beatified in 1971 and was canonized in 1982.

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Revelation 3:21

Verse:

“To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne ” - Revelation 3:21

Prayer For Seeking God

Lord, I pray you would move the Spirit more boldly in my life. I know that any sin can grieve and diminish the voice of the Spirit, and I pray against the temptation to sin. Help me crave your presence more than I crave sin. Help me grow in the fruit of the Spirit and so walk closer with Yourself. I pray for guidance from your Spirit — let your will and promises always be a meditation of my heart.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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