FIfth Sunday of the Easter Season 2016

Collect:
Almighty ever-living God, constantly accomplish the Paschal Mystery within us, that those you were pleased to make new in Holy Baptism may, under your protective care, bear much fruit and come to the joys of life eternal. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 14:21-27
Psalm 145
Revelations 21:1-5A
John 13:31-33A, 34-35

Fourth Saturday of the Easter Season 2016

Collect:
Extolling your might, O Lord, we humbly implore you, that, as Saint George imitated the Passion of the Lord, so he may lend us ready help in our weakness. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 13:44-52
Psalms 98
John 14:7-14

Fourth Friday of the Easter Season 2016

22 April 2016
Collect:
O God, author of our freedom and of our salvation, listen to the voice of our pleading and grant that those you have redeemed by the shedding of your Son's Blood may have life through you and, under your protection, rejoice for ever unharmed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.


Readings of the Day:
Acts 13:26-33
Psalm 2
John 14:1-6

Fourth Thursday of the Easter Season 2016

21 April 2016
Collect:
O God, who led the Bishop Saint Anselm to seek out and teach the depths of your wisdom, grant, we pray, that our faith in you may so aid our understanding, that what we believe by your command may give delight to our hearts. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.


Readings of the Day:
Acts 13:13-25
Psalms 89
John 13:16-20

Fourth Wednesday of the Season of Easter 2016

20 April 2016
Collect:
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, putting off our old self with all its ways, we may live as Christ did, for through the healing paschal remedies you have conformed us to his nature. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 12:24-13:5
Psalms 67
John 12:44-50

Fourth Tuesday of the Easter Season 2016

19 April 2016
Collect:
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, celebrating the mysteries of the Lord's Resurrection, we may merit to receive the joy of our redemption. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 11:19-26
Psalms 87
John 10:22-30

Fourth Monday of the Easter Season 2016

Collect:
O God, perfect light of the blessed, by whose gift we celebrate the paschal mysteries on earth, bring us, we pray, to rejoice in the full measure of your grace for ages unending. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 11:1-18
Psalms 42
John 10:1-10

Fourth Sunday of the Easter Season 2016

Today is "Good Shepherd Sunday"

Collect:
Almighty ever-living God, lead us to a share in the joys of heaven, so that the humble flock may reach where the brave Shepherd has gone before. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 13:14, 43-52
Psalm 100
Revelations 7:9. 14B-17
John 10:27-30

Third Saturday of the Easter Season 2016

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR 2ND GRADE STUDENTS WHO WILL BE MAKING THEIR FIRST COMMUNION THIS EVENING!

Collect:
O God, who in the font of Baptism have made new those who believe in you, keep safe those reborn in Christ, that, defeating every onslaught of error, they may faithfully preserve the grace of your blessing. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 9:31-42
Psalm 116
John 6:60-69

Friday of the Third Week of the Easter Season 2016

Collect:
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we, who have come to know the grace of the Lord's Resurrection, may, through the love of the Spirit, ourselves rise to newness of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.


Readings of the Day:
Acts 9:1-10
Psalm 117
John 6:52-59

Third Thursday of the Easter Season 2016

14 April 2016
Collect:
Almighty ever-living God, let us feel your compassion more readily during these days when, by your gift, we have known it more fully, so that those you have freed from the darkness of error may cling more firmly to the teachings of your truth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen
Readings of the Day:
Acts 8:26-40
Psalm 66
John 6:44-51

Third Wednesday of the Easter Season 2016

13 April 2016
Collect:
Grant, almighty God that we may withstand the trials of this world with invincible firmness of purpose, just as you did not allow your Martyr Pope Saint Martin the First to be daunted by threats or broken by suffering. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 8:1B-8
Psalm 66
John 6:35-40

Third Tuesday of the Easter Season 2016

12 April 2016
Collect:
O God, who open wide the gates of the heavenly Kingdom to those reborn of water and the Holy Spirit, pour out on your servants an increase of the grace you have bestowed, that, having been purged of all sins, they may lack nothing that in your kindness you have promised. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 7:51-8:1
Psalm 31
John 6:30-35

Monday of the Third Week of the Easter Season 2016

11 April 2016
Collect:
O God, for whose honor the Bishop Saint Stanislaus fell beneath the swords of his persecutors, grant we pray, that we may persevere strong in faith even until death. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 6:8-15
Psalm 119
John 6:22-29

Third Sunday of the Easter Season 2016

10 April 2016
Collect:
May your people exult for ever, O God, in renewed youthfulness of spirit, so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption, we may look forward in confident hope to the rejoicing of the day of resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 5:27-32, 40B-41
Psalm 30
Revelations 5:11-14
John 21:1-19

Second Saturday of Easter 2015

9 April 2016
Collect:
Set aside, O Lord, the bond of sentence written for us by the law of sin, which in the Paschal Mystery you canceled through the Resurrection of Christ your Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 6:1-7
Psalm 33
John 6:16-21

Second Friday of Easter 2016

8 April 2016
Collect:
O God, hope and light of the sincere, we humbly entreat you to dispose our hearts to offer you worthy prayer and ever to extol you by dutiful proclamation of your praise. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 5:34-42
Psalm 27
John 6:1-15

Second Thursday of Easter 2016

7 April 2016
Collect:
O God, who chose Saint John Baptist de la Salle to educate young Christians, raise up, we pray, teachers in your Church ready to devote themselves wholeheartedly to the human and Christian formation of the young. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 5:27-33
Psalm 34
John 3:31-36

Second Wednesday of the Easter Season 2016

6 April 2016
Collect:
As we recall year by year the mysteries by which, through the restoration of its original dignity, human nature has received the hope of rising again, we earnestly beseech your mercy, Lord, that what we celebrate in faith we may possess in unending love. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 5:17-26
Psalm 34
John 3:16-21

Second Tuesday of Easter 2016

5 April 2016
Collect:
O God, who raised up the Priest Saint Vincent Ferrer to minister by the preaching of the Gospel, grant, we pray, that, when the Judge comes, whom Saint Vincent proclaimed on earth, we may be among those blessed to behold him reigning in heaven. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 4:32-37
Psalm 93
John 3:7B-15

Second Monday of Easter 2016

4 April 2016
~Today is also the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. A link has been added about this Feast Day.~
Collect:
O God, who willed that your Word should take on the reality of human flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary, grant, we pray, that we, who confess our Redeemer to be God and man, may merit to become partakers even in his divine nature. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10
Psalm 40
Hebrews 10:4-10
Luke 1:26-38

2nd Sunday of Easter - Divine Mercy Sunday 2016

~Today we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday. A link has been added about this special feast.~
Collect:
God of everlasting mercy, who in the very recurrence of the paschal feast kindle the faith of the people you have made your own, increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been washed, by whose Spirit they have been reborn, by whose Blood they have been redeemed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Readings of the Day:
Acts 5:12-16
Psalm 118
Revelations 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19
John 20:19-31

Saturday of the Octave of Easter 2016

2 April 2016
Collect:
O God, who by the abundance of your grace give increase to the peoples who believe in you, look with favor on those you have chosen and clothe with blessed immortality those reborn through the Sacrament of Baptism. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 4:13-21
Psalm 118
Mark 16:9-15

Friday of the Octave of Easter 2016

Collect:
Almighty ever-living God, who gave us the Paschal Mystery in the covenant you established for reconciling the human race, so dispose our minds, we pray, that what we celebrate by professing the faith we may express in deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 4:1-12
Psalm 118
John 21:1-14