Saturday of the First Week of Advent Reading I | Is 30:19-21, 23-26 Thus says the Lord GOD,the Holy One of Israel:O people of Zion, who dwell in Jerusalem,no more will you weep;He will be gracious to you when you cry out,as soon as he hears he will answer you.The Lord...
First Sunday of Advent Reading I | Jer 33:14-16 The days are coming, says the LORD,when I will fulfill the promiseI made to the house of Israel and Judah.In those days, in that time,I will raise up for David a just shoot ;he shall do what is right and just in the...
Saturday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Reading I | Dn 7:15-27 I, Daniel, found my spirit anguished within its covering of flesh,and I was terrified by the visions of my mind.I approached one of those presentand asked him what all this meant in truth;in...
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading I | Dn 12:1-3 In those days, I Daniel,heard this word of the Lord:”At that time there shall ariseMichael, the great prince,guardian of your people;it shall be a time unsurpassed in distresssince nations began until...
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading I | 1 Kgs 17:10-16 In those days, Elijah the prophet went to Zarephath.As he arrived at the entrance of the city,a widow was gathering sticks there; he called out to her,”Please bring me a small cupful of water to...
Saturday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time Reading I | Rom 16:3-9, 16, 22-27 Brothers and sisters:Greet Prisca and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus,who risked their necks for my life,to whom not only I am grateful but also all the churches of the...
Merciful and compassionate Father, we come to you in our need to seek your protection against the COVID 19 virus that has disturbed and even claimed lives.
We ask you now to look upon us with love and by your healing hand, dispel the fear of sickness and death, restore our hope, and strengthen our faith.
We pray that you guide the people tasked to find cures for this disease and to stem its transmission.
We thank you for the vaccines developed made possible by your guiding hands.
Bless our efforts to use these vaccines to end the pandemic in our country.
We pray for our health workers that they may minister to the sick with competence and compassion.
Grant them health in mind and body, strength in their commitment, protection from the disease.
We pray for those afflicted. May they be restored to health. Protect those who care for them. Grant eternal rest to those who have died.
Give us the grace in these trying times to work for the good of all and to help those in need. May our concern and compassion for each other see us through this crisis
and lead us to conversion and holiness.
Grant all these through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Amen.
We fly to Your protection, O Holy Mother of God. Do not despise our petition in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.
Our Lady, health of the sick, pray for us. St. Joseph, pray for us. St. Raphael the Archangel, pray for us. San Roque, pray for us. San Lorenzo Ruiz, pray for us. San Pedro Calungsod, pray for us