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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs) 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, co...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent 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 ...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent 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...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent 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...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs) 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, ...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent 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 t...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Jesus: The Finisher of Our Faith Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2 Jes...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Dear Heavenly Father, You are God, our Protector and our Healer. I pray for the nations and peoples that are in the midst of war, struggling to recover from brokenness and trying to rebuild after disasters. ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Isaiah 54:10 NIV Though the mountains be shaken, and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
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St. Colette Saint of the Day St. Colette (1381-1447) was born in Picardy, France, the daughter of a poor carpenter who served the local Benedictine abbey. Her parents conceived her in their old age after praying to St. Nicholas for a child, naming Colette after him. She became well known...
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Today's Meditation “God sees you in secret. Know that he sees into your very depths, infinitely farther than you do yourself. Make a simple, lively act of faith in his presence. Christian soul, place yourself entirely under his gaze. He is very near. He is present, for he gives being and moti...
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First Sunday of Lent Lectionary: 24 Reading I Dt 26:4-10 Moses spoke to the people, saying: “The priest shall receive the basket from you and shall set it in front of the altar of the LORD, your God. Then you shall declare before the Lord, your God, &lsq...
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First Sunday of Lent (C) listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 4:1-13): Filled with the holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 1st Sunday of Lent A commentary of St Augustine on Psalm 60In Christ we suffered temptation, and in him we overcame the Devil Hear, O God, my petition, listen to my prayer. Who ...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent 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...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent 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...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent 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...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent 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...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent 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 ...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent 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...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent 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. ________ Exami...
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Today's Meditation “Many Christians regard Confession in the light of an unimportant act of piety, if not mere ceremony . . . many go even frequently to Confession, but so few amend, and consequently derive little or no benefit from the Sacrament. … Be, then, most thoroughly convinced ...
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Jesus: Our High Priest So also, Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: "You are My Son, today I have begotten You." Hebrews 5:5 There were many priests in the Old Testament assigned to small groups of people. E...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily PrayerDear Lord Jesus, You are greater and higher than all leaders and rulers today... And He (Jesus) has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.Revelation 19:16 You have authority over all leaders, nations and governments... And ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Revelation 19:16 NKJV And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
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Saturday after Ash Wednesday Lectionary: 222 Reading I Is 58:9b-14 Thus says the LORD: If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; If you bestow your bread ...
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Saturday after Ash Wednesday listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk Lk 5:27-32): Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him....
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Saturday after Ash Wednesday From the treatise "Against the Heresies" by St IrenaeusThe friendship of God Our Lord, the Word of God, first drew men to God as servants, bu...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday 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...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday 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...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday 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 ...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday 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...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday 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...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday (First Vespers of tomorrow, 1st Sunday of Lent) 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. ...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday 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. ___...
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Touch The Untouched Friday, March 4, 2022 Paul said "I am determined to preach the Gospel where it has not been preached." The results are usually more dramatic where the Gospel has never been preached, rather than in places where the Gospel has already been heard. When you s...
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The Trinity: The Lord Is There (Jehovah Shammah) The city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE (Jehovah Shammah). Ezekiel 48:35 The name Jehovah Shammah means the Lord Is There. The Lord is already in Heaven, where you will spend eternity. Ezekiel described th...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God, Thank You for giving me the opportunity to live my life to the fullest through the price paid by Your Son Jesus on the cross. I want to cherish each day that I have with You here on earth. I...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Romans 12:12 NIV Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Psalms 138:3 NKJV In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul. Psalms 56:4 NKJV In...
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Today's Meditation “Christian life is a retreat. We are ‘not of this world’, just as Jesus Christ is ‘not of this world’ (John 17:14). What is the world? It is, as St. John said, the ‘lust of the flesh’, that is, sensuality and corruption in our desires and...
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Friday after Ash Wednesday Lectionary: 221 Reading I Is 58:1-9a Thus says the Lord GOD: Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wick...
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Friday after Ash Wednesday listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 9:14-15): Then the disciples of John approached him and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast (much), but your disciples do not fast?” Jesus answered them, “Can...
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Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Casimir) Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Friday after Ash Wednesday A homily of Pseudo-ChrysostomPrayer is the light of the soul The highest good is prayer and conversation ...
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Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Casimir) 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...
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Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Casimir) 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 ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday 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 ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday 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...
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Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday 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 ...
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Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Casimir) 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...
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Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday 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 S...
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Soak it up Thursday, March 3, 2022 Did you ever make tea? You put the tea bag in hot water and let it sit. It takes time. Believers treat God like fast food. You run in and have His presence and Word, and then run out. You put the tea bag in, you take it out, and then complai...
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Jesus: The Son of Mary Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us? Mark 6:3 Jesus is the Son of Mary, born as a human baby; yet Mary was a virgin. Jesus was born sinless, witho...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for calling me to follow You as Your disciple... My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. John 10:27 Thank You for adopting me into Your eternal famil...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day John 10:27 NKJV My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” R...
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Thursday after Ash Wednesday Lectionary: 220 Reading I Dt 30:15-20 Moses said to the people: “Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, an...
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Thursday after Ash Wednesday listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 9:22-25): Jesus said to his disciples: “The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third...
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Thursday 3 March 2022 Thursday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Katharine Drexel) Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Thursday after Ash Wednesday From a sermon of Saint Leo the Great, popePurification of spirit through fasting and almsgi...
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Thursday 3 March 2022 Thursday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Katharine Drexel) 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...
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Thursday 3 March 2022 Thursday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Katharine Drexel) 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. ...
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Thursday 3 March 2022 Thursday after Ash Wednesday 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 ...
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Thursday 3 March 2022 Thursday after Ash Wednesday 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...
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Thursday 3 March 2022 Thursday after Ash Wednesday 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...
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Thursday 3 March 2022 Thursday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Katharine Drexel) 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...
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Thursday 3 March 2022 Thursday after Ash Wednesday 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 t...
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Ash Wednesday Daily Feast In biblical times it was common to sprinkle ashes on the head as a sign of repentance and humility. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, which is the time we contemplate our relationship with God and identify the areas in our spiritual life that need work. The ash...
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Month of the St. Joseph Devotion of the Month The Church traditionally dedicates the month of March to the special veneration of St. Joseph, whose feast day is March 19th. "He was chosen by the eternal Father as the trustworthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures, namely, his divine...
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Daily Verse "A slave of the Lord should not quarrel, but should be gentle with everyone, able to teach, tolerant, correcting opponents with kindness. It may be that God will grant them repentance that leads to knowledge of the truth, and that they may return to their senses out of the devil&rsquo...
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Today's Meditation “Our Blessed Lord, bound like a thief, is conducted through the public streets of Jerusalem accompanied by a large body of soldiers who indulge their rage and hatred by ill-treating Him in every possible way, and surrounded by a multitude of people who overwhelm Him with in...
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The New Testament Sacrifices Wednesday, March 2, 2022 The Old Testament is filled with sacrifices, guilt offerings, sin offerings, trespass offerings, peace offerings and thanksgiving offerings...so many offerings in the temple. We are glad that the sacrifices are over, right...
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Jesus: The Lord Who Is, Who Was and Who Is to Come I am . . . the Lord who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:8 Jesus is the Lord Who Is, Who Was and Who Is to Come. He is eternal, without beginning and without end. This description ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Heavenly Father, You are the Almighty God. Thank You for creating me and for Loving me. Today I am grateful for my body, which You have given to me... ...you are the temple of God... ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day I Corinthians 3:16 NKJV Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
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Ash Wednesday Lectionary: 219 Reading I Jl 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, ...
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Ash Wednesday listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 6:1-6.16-18): Jesus said to his disciples: “Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. W...
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Wednesday 2 March 2022 Ash Wednesday Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Ash Wednesday From a letter of Pope St Clement I to the CorinthiansRepent Let us fix our attention on the blood of Christ and recognise how precious it is to God his Father, since...
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Wednesday 2 March 2022 Ash Wednesday 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 a...
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Wednesday 2 March 2022 Ash Wednesday 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 S...
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Wednesday 2 March 2022 Ash Wednesday 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...
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Wednesday 2 March 2022 Ash Wednesday 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...
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Wednesday 2 March 2022 Ash Wednesday 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...
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Wednesday 2 March 2022 Ash Wednesday 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...
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Wednesday 2 March 2022 Ash Wednesday 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 ...
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THE WISDOM OF FRUITFLIES Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Shalom, to you my Friend and Co-Minister in the Great Commission... In the first chapter of the Book of Romans, the apostle Paul chronicles the descent of man from the knowledge of God to idolatry, to sexual imm...
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The Holy Spirit: Dew I will be like the dew to Israel. Hosea 14:5 The Holy Spirit is Dew who can refresh your spirit with His presence today. Feel Him! He is Dew, coming gently to leave refreshment, even when you can’t see with your physical eyes. Do you feel the ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God, You are a merciful God, and I give you my praise and thanks. As I go through my days, I see many acts of kindness and love around me, such as a mother smiling as she looks at the baby in her arms or someone ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Matthew 6:10 NKJV Your kingdom comes. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven
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Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 348 Reading I 1 Pt 1:10-16 Beloved: Concerning the salvation of your souls the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and investigated it investigating the time and circumst...
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Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mk 10:28-31): Peter began to say to Jesus, “We have given up everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has ...
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Tuesday 1 March 2022 Tuesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Tuesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time From the Confessions of St AugustineWhoever I may be, Lord, I lie exposed to your scrutiny Let me know you, O you who know me; the...
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Tuesday 1 March 2022 Tuesday of week 8 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 Fath...
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Tuesday 1 March 2022 Tuesday of week 8 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 ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Tuesday 1 March 2022 Tuesday of week 8 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 Fa...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Tuesday 1 March 2022 Tuesday of week 8 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 a...
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Tuesday 1 March 2022 Tuesday of week 8 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 Fathe...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Tuesday 1 March 2022 Tuesday of week 8 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 th...
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Tuesday 1 March 2022 Tuesday of week 8 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 and...
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You Have to sit to Have a Footstool Monday, February 28, 2022 It is written in Isaiah 66:1, "Heaven is My throne and earth is My footstool." Psalm 110 says, "Sit down at my right side until I make your enemies a footstool." This is also speaking about Messiah. Hebrews says in...
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Jesus: The Lamb of God Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29 On the banks of the Jordan River, John the Baptist announced to the world, “Behold! The Lamb of God.” For hundreds of years, thousands of faithful Israelites s...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God, Thank You for Your Word, The Bible, and for the guidance and truth it speaks into my life. I want to know You more with each day, as I set aside time to read my Bible and to let Your words rest upon my lips,...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Psalms 119:105 NKJV Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. James 1:19-20 NIV My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because h...