You began immediately,
O holy Virgin,
to love and glorify God most perfectly,
and from that first moment
to the last of your life,
you did ever love and glorify him more and more.
As for me, in spite of all the years
I have been in this world,
I have not yet begun to love and serve him as I should.
August 30, 2019
August 29, 2019
Eternal Father,
turn away Your angry gaze from our guilty people
whose face has become unsightly in Your eyes.
Look instead upon the Face of Your Beloved Son,
for this is the Face of Him
in Whom You are well pleased.
We now offer You this Holy Face,
covered with shame and disfigured by bloody bruises
in reparation for the crimes of our age
August 28, 2019
Breathe into me, Holy Spirit,
that my thoughts may all be holy.
Move in me, Holy Spirit,
that my work, too, may be holy.
Attract my heart, Holy Spirit,
that I may love only what is holy.
Strengthen me, Holy Spirit,
that I may defend all that is holy.
By St. Augustine.
Protect me, Holy Spirit,
that I may always be holy.
August 27, 2019
Blessed Monica, mother of St. Augustine,
we give thanks to our Father in Heaven
Who looked with mercy upon your tears
over your wayward son.
His conversion and heroic sanctification
were the fruit of your prayers.
Dear St. Monica
we now ask you to pray with us
for all those sons and daughters that have wandered away from God,
August 26, 2019
Shwebo dropped us at our last stop, and he headed off to return to his village, the Shwebo district from which he gets his name. We returned to the Sisters’ house and had dinner. The next day Columban Sr. Kathleen brought us to her Buddhist friends up the hills of Sagaing.
August 26, 2019
Jesus, I entrust all my problems to you.
Come to me. Speak to me.
Reveal the will of God to me.
Deliver me from dangers and diseases.
Jesus! Pour your precious blood on me.
Remove all the stain of sin from me.
Grant me freely, redemption from sin
and salvation by the merit of the crucifixion
and glorious resurrection of Jesus Christ.
August 25, 2019
O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Queen of the World, rule over us,
together with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, Our King.
Save us from the spreading flood of modern paganism;
kindle in our hearts and homes the love of purity,
the practice of a virtuous life,
an ardent zeal for souls,
and a desire to pray the rosary more faithfully.
August 24, 2019
May we be assisted, we beseech You , O Lord,
by the worshipful intercession of Your glorious Mother, the ever-Virgin Mary;
that we, who have been enriched by her perpetual blessings,
may be delivered from all dangers,
and through her loving kindness made to be of one heart and mind:
Who lives and reigns world without end.
Amen.
August 23, 2019
O St. Rose,
first flower of sanctity in the New World,
let the fragrance of Your virtues diffuse itself in our lives.
Grant that we may imitate Your holy purity;
obtain for us courage in the practice of penance.
Teach us, O St. Rose,
to love Christ Crucified and Mary His Mother.
Beseech Your Divine Spouse,
to bless all the Americas,
The Columbans are a society of missionaries, including priests and lay people, who minister to people of various cultures as a way of witnessing to the universal love of God.