Category: Prayers

“Since we for our part are surrounded by this cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every encumbrance of sin which clings to us and persevere in running the race which lies ahead.” –Hebrews 12:1 Mass Readings: January 31 First:Hebrews 12:1-4; Resp:Psalm 22:26-28,30-32; Gospel:Mark 5:21-43 You have been running the Christian race for miles, even for years of your life. Sometimes you were the hare and sometimes the tortoise, but nonetheless you’ve run the race. Now you may be tempted to stop running. The love of Christ that impelled you for so long seems weaker (2 Cor 5:14). You don’t...

Jesus “went up the mountain and summoned the men He Himself had decided on, who came and joined Him.” –Mark 3:13 Mass Readings: January 20 First: Hebrews 8:6-13; Resp: Psalm 85:8,10-14;Gospel: Mark 3:13-19 In the USA, in a few days will be the forty-fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s legalization of abortion. This decision legalized millions of serial killings. It is a gigantic step backward into the culture of death. It is a capitulation to Hitler and the Third Reich. Hitler lost World War II militarily, but his diabolical ideas reign supreme today in our culture of death. However, there...

Jesus “is always able to save those who approach God through Him, since He forever lives to make intercession for them.” –Hebrews 7:25 Mass Readings: January 19 First: Hebrews 7:25–8:6; Resp: Psalm 40:7-10,17; Gospel: Mark 3:7-12 Something about Jesus makes us feel like mobbing Him. “A great crowd followed Him from Galilee, and an equally great multitude came to Him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, Transjordan, and the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon” (Mk 3:7-8). “In view of their numbers, He told His disciples to have a fishing boat ready for Him so that He could avoid the press of the...

“The matter is clearer still if another priest is appointed according to the likeness of Melchizedek.” –Hebrews 7:15 Mass Readings: January 18 First: Hebrews 7:1-3,15-17; Resp: Psalm 110:1-4; Gospel: Mark 3:1-6 The Israelites were enslaved, defeated in war, starved to death, exiled, and oppressed. In their pain, they asked Yahweh how He would free them. They received the revelation that they would be saved by the priesthood. The Christians to whom the book of Hebrews was written were persecuted and martyred by the Roman government. They “endured mockery, scourging, even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, sawed in two, put...