O Christ Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness, give us the sense of Your presence, Your love, and Your strength. Help us to have perfect trust in Your protecting love and strengthening power, so that nothing may frighten or worry us, for, living close to You, we shall see Your hand, Your purpose, Your will through all things. By Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Father, we beg Your blessing for the Right to Life, the Unborn, the weak, the sick and the old; all who are finding themselves being targets of the vicious culture of death; that our Lord Jesus bless and protect all who stand up for the Christian dignity of persons. That God enlighten those who are traveling down death's highway by their involvement, in any way, with either the contemporary death culture, selfism, relativeism, or any of the new age errors of our times, that God envelop our...

Lord, I believe: I wish to believe in Thee. Lord, let my faith be full and unreserved, and let it penetrate my thought, my way of judging Divine things and human things. Lord, let my faith be joyful and give peace and gladness to my spirit, and dispose it for prayer with God and conversation with men, so that the inner bliss of its fortunate possession may shine forth in sacred and secular conversation. Lord, let my faith be humble and not presume to be based on the...

Reading 1: 1 Kings 13:33-34, Reading 1: 1 Kings 12:26-32, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 106:19-22, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 106:6-7, Gospel: Mark 8:1-10

Reading 1: 1 Kings 12:19, Reading 1: 1 Kings 11:29-32, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 81:10-15, Gospel: Mark 7:31-37

Reading 1: 1 Samuel 11:4-13, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 106:40, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 106:35-37, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 106:3-4, Gospel: Mark 7:24-30