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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 33919 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2023-05-09 20:46:16 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-05-09 20:46:16 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">For many, Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate important women in our lives and the blessing from God that they represent.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While not technically a Catholic or Christian holiday at its core, Mother’s Day is still an important day of prayer and reflection for many, recognizing not only the gift of Mary to the Church, but the gift of mothers and motherlike figures in our lives. Mother’s Day also falls during the Month of Mary, which the Church has recognized for centuries, turning to Our Lady as a guide to better know and love her Son, Jesus.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">To assist those seeking to make their observance of Mother’s Day particularly prayerful, Hallow has assembled a number of Mother’s Day prayers and prayer resources.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow also recognizes that Mother’s Day can be a challenging time for many. Our prayers are with those struggling with fertility issues, those who have recently lost their mothers, those who might not have the best relationship with their family or any others for whom it’s a difficult or traumatic day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-simple-prayers-for-mother-s-day">Simple Prayers for Mother’s Day</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Heavenly Father, I lift up to you today my mother and all mothers. Bless them with strength to continue to care for their children, with the same bold, selflessness Mary showed Jesus. Help my mother and all mothers feel our gratitude and truly know their impact. May we honor them today and on all days as vessels of Your love. In Your name I pray. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>God, today, we celebrate mothers, but the truth is, we ought to celebrate them every day. Their love manifests in small, subtle ways each day–in the mundane that sometimes we can take for granted. We thank you for their sacrificial love and ask you to uplift them today. Thank you for the gift they are in our lives. In Your name we pray. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>When our mothers are tired, Lord, give them strength. When they feel alone, give them comfort. When they feel overwhelmed with the challenges of parenting, help them to know peace. In their darkest moments, be their Light. At times in our lives, our mothers are everything to us, meeting our every need. We ask You to provide them today with whatever gift they need. In gratitude, we pray. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Mary, full of grace, I ask for your intercession today for my earthly mother. Pray for her, and pray that her example of love draws me closer to Your son, not only on Mother’s Day but on all days. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/FJaHeI6oFzb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-marian-inspired-prayers">Marian-Inspired Prayers</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mother’s Day is a great time to consider drawing closer to Mary and spending time in prayer asking for her intercession.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Hail Mary is an easy way to invite Mary into your Mother’s Day celebration, and you can also consider praying the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">Rosary</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Perhaps you also consider learning more about the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-marian-consecration/">Marian Consecration</a>, a lifelong commitment to Mary that takes place over 33 days.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Also, learn more about the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-mary-undoer-of-knots-novena/">Mary, Undoer of Knots Novena</a>, which is inspired by Mary interceding at the wedding at Cana, asking for Jesus’s help. She can help us untangle the knots in our life the way she helped the wedding hosts emerge from their difficult situation.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-intercessory-prayers-for-mother-s-day">Intercessory Prayers for Mother’s Day&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you’ve been tasked with writing intercessory prayers (prayers of the faithful) for Mass on Mother’s Day, allow Hallow to help.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here a few simple Mother’s Day prayers suitable for most prayers of the faithful:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For all mothers, grandmothers, step-mothers and motherlike figures in our lives, may God bless them abundantly, we pray to the Lord,</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For all those longing to be mothers, may You console them through their hard times and bless them with the gift of conception. We pray to the Lord,</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>That government leaders make good decisions to support mothers at all stages of motherhood, we pray to the Lord,</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>May we be inspired by Mary our Mother to journey with Jesus, in good times and in challenging times, we pray to the Lord,</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-mother-s-day-bible-verses">Mother’s Day Bible Verses</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Bible celebrates motherhood in numerous places.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Certainly, there are beautiful passages related to Mary that are worth revisiting on Mother’s Day or any day, but there are other verses in Scripture relating to mothers worth reflecting on:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Isaiah 66:13 “As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you;”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Psalm 22:10-11 “For you drew me forth from the womb, made me safe at my mother’s breasts. Upon you I was thrust from the womb; since my mother bore me you are my God.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Proverbs 1:8-9 “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and reject not your mother’s teaching; A graceful diadem will they be for your head; a pendant for your neck.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/FJaHeI6oFzb">Download Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>More Prayers</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/morning-prayer/">Morning Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/solemnity-of-mary-mother-of-god/">Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">Seven Sorrows Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe-prayers-celebrations/">Our Lady of Guadalupe</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-therese-novena/">St. Thérèse Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Mother’s Day Prayers 2024: Prayers for Mother’s Day [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => mothers-day-prayers [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-04-16 15:09:43 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-04-16 15:09:43 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=33919 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 33711 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2023-05-05 13:00:29 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-05-05 13:00:29 [post_content] => <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Through his ‘artistic creativity’ man appears more than ever ‘in the image of God.'</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>St. Pope John Paul II</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As students prepared for finals, projects, exams, and a highly anticipated summer, they took a break to showcase their incredible artistic talent for the first-ever Hallow Student Art Competition.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Art is one of the most unique and beautiful expressions of the Christian faith. For thousands of years, art has made tangible the personal and meaningful relationship with one’s faith. The allure of art, in part, comes from its universality among age groups, cultures, and centuries.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Inviting students of all ages from across the world to participate in the creation of artwork for the Hallow App, exemplifies the universality of even the artwork that appears on a phone or computer screen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Students were asked to create a piece of religious artwork that would be considered for a month-long feature in the ‘Kids’ section of the Hallow App.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In just a few short weeks, students of all ages and grade levels submitted their artwork for consideration. Watercolor, pencil, crayon, and even some digital pieces were submitted with the hope that these pieces would be chosen as the winning artwork. The Hallow design team had the pleasure of reviewing the artwork and was incredibly impressed with the talent of the young students.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The winning artwork was produced by students who created pieces of art that not only showcased their talent but also incorporated beautiful and relevant images from our faith and remained cohesive with other art on Hallow. We are proud to announce the winners and honorable mentions from the 2023 Hallow Student Easter Art Competition!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Winning Artwork</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><a href="https://hallow.com/chapters/348">Intro: Littles</a></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>David </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Grades K-5</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:image {"id":33822,"width":471,"height":330,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none","className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/K-5_628x440.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-33822" width="471" height="330"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><a href="https://hallow.com/chapters/349">Intro: Middles</a></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Nick </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Grades: 6-8</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:image {"id":33725,"width":512,"height":359,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none","className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-3-1024x717.png" alt="" class="wp-image-33725" width="512" height="359"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>"My portrait of Christ shows Jesus in deep prayer with the Father."</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><a href="https://hallow.com/chapters/350">Intro: Teens</a></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Lauren </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Grades: 9-12</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:image {"id":33733,"width":512,"height":359,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none","className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-4-1024x717.png" alt="" class="wp-image-33733" width="512" height="359"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>"Art is something really special for me and one of the best things about it is being able to directly connect with the viewer and gain an understanding from just a picture. I’ve been raised Catholic all my life and for this painting I wanted to be able to give back to God using my talent."</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Honorable Mentions</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Intro: Littles&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Cecilia </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Grades K-5</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:image {"id":33716,"width":431,"height":303,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none","className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-33716" width="431" height="303"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Intro: Middles</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Emma </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Grades 6-8</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:image {"id":33712,"width":479,"height":398,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none","className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image.png" alt="" class="wp-image-33712" width="479" height="398"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Intro: Teens</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Ashleigh Rose</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Grades 9-12</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:image {"id":33721,"width":477,"height":674,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none","className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-33721" width="477" height="674"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow is blessed to have designers with remarkable talents in the arts, and there has also been something truly special about featuring student artwork alongside artwork in the app. Keep your eye out for upcoming Hallow art competitions for you, your children, and your students!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>Click <a href="http://hallow.com/communities/schools">here</a> or the button below to learn more about Hallow for Schools.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="http://hallow.com/communities/schools">Hallow for Schools</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Prayer for Artists</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Bless the creators, O God of creation,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>who by their gifts make the world</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>a more joyful and beautiful realm.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through their labors</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>they teach us to see more clearly</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>the truth around us.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In their inspiration</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>they call forth wonder and awe</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>in our own living.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In their hope and vision</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>they remind us</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>that life is holy.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Bless all who create in your image,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>O God of creation.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Pour your Spirit upon them</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>that their hearts may sing</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>and their works be fulfilling.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Amen.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>(Source: <a href="https://www.ruminatemagazine.com/blogs/ruminate-blog/prayers-for-artists">Ruminate Magazine</a>)</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/n9L7obzoyzb">Download the Hallow App</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> [post_title] => The 2023 Hallow Student Easter Art Competition [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => hallow-student-easter-art-competition [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-05-05 16:09:24 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-05-05 16:09:24 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=33711 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 35474 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2023-05-01 21:22:16 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-05-01 21:22:16 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Patron Saints: Table of Contents:</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#about">What are patron saints?</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#countries">Patron saints of countries</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#causes-devotions">Patron saints causes and devotions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#hallow">Hallow and the saints</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#faqs">Common questions about patron saints </a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Saints hold a special place in the body of the Catholic Church and are especially prominent in its prayer life.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The USCCB <a href="https://www.usccb.org/offices/public-affairs/saints">describes</a> saints as people in heaven “who lived heroically virtuous lives, offered their life for others, or were martyred for the faith, and who are worthy of imitation.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Reflecting on the connection between prayer and the communion of saints, <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2021/documents/papa-francesco_20210407_udienza-generale.html">Pope Francis said</a>, “When we pray, we never do so alone: even if we do not think about it, we are immersed in a majestic river of invocations that precedes us and proceeds after us.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Sometimes, people, churches, and organizations share a special connection to a saint. This refers to the concept of patronage, and a certain saint being known as “the patron saint of” a particular group.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="about">What Are Patron Saints?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Patron saints are members of the communion of saints who certain groups look to for special intercession.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">History and tradition often dictate patron saints, but individuals and groups also can choose a patron saint.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This commonly occurs during Confirmation, when those being confirmed (the “confirmandi”) choose a saint’s name as part of the process for this important sacrament.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Organizations often choose saints that align with their mission or those they feel a special connection to.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">For example, Catholic University’s Institute for Transformation of Catholic Education (ITCE) chose patron saints connected to education.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It explains that <a href="https://itce.catholic.edu/about/our-patrons-and-logo/">it seeks</a> “patronage and prayers of the great educator saints who have gone before us. ITCE looks in a special way to six patron saints who exemplify our guiding principles”:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/augustine-of-hippo/">St. Augustine of Hippo</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>St. Thomas Aquinas</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-catherine-of-siena-feast-prayers-quotes-feast-day/">St. Catherine of Siena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/elizabeth-ann-seton/">St. Elizabeth Ann Seon</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>St. Edith Stein</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/john-paul-ii/">St. John Paul II</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow’s patron saint is <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-teresa-of-avila-prayers-quotes-feast-day/">St. Teresa of Avila</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/patronsaints">Try Hallow for Free Today</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="countries">Patron Saints of Countries</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The early 20th-century work “<a href="https://archive.org/details/catholicencyclop11herbuoft/page/562/mode/2up?q=patron">The Catholic Encyclopedia</a>”&nbsp; explains that the term “patron” may be applied to a church, a district, a country, or a corporation.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While church patrons are usually self-evident in their name, countries also have patron saints (sometimes more than one!) that might be less widely known–perhaps because they can shift over time.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here are popular patron saints associated with different countries around the world:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/st-mary-of-the-cross-mackillop-named-second-patron-of-australia/">Australia</a>: St. Mary MacKillop</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Brazil - Mary as <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/our-lady-of-aparecida-prayers-feast-day/">Our Lady of Aparecida</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>China - St. Joseph</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Colombia - Mary as Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/there-were-many-contenders-for-englands-patron-saint-so-how-did-we-end-up-with-george/">England</a> - St. George</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>India - St. Thomas (who died in India)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Ireland - St. Patrick</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Mexico - Mary as <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe-prayers-celebrations/">Our Lady of Guadalupe</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/03/17/470679579/how-did-st-patrick-get-to-be-the-patron-saint-of-nigeria">Nigeria</a> - St. Patrick</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Norway - St. Olaf</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Poland - Mary as Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Scotland - <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/andrew/">St. Andrew</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/spain-honors-its-patron-st-james-the-greater">Spain</a> - St. James</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>United States - Mary of the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-the-immaculate-conception-church-teaching-prayers/">Immaculate Conception</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Smaller regions can have specific patron saints as well. <a href="https://www.usccb.org/resources/who-was-junipero-serra">St. Junipero Serra </a>is the patron saint of the state of California. At the same time, St. Vibiana is <a href="https://cathedralchapel.org/sacraments">considered</a> the patron saint of Los Angeles and St. Francis of Assisi the patron saint of San Francisco.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="causes-devotions">List of Patron Saints and their Causes/Devotions</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Groups of people united in specific causes also identify with patron saints, though they are usually not officially recognized by the Church in the same way that the Church recognizes the patronage of a country or church building.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Still, these saints are important to these groups and often play a crucial role in the faith life of their members.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Alcoholics - Venerable Matt Talbot (Not a saint but <a href="https://www.lincolndiocese.org/news/diocesan-news/15338-ask-the-register-patron-of-alcoholics">considered patron of</a> those struggling with alcohol abuse)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Animals - <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/francis-of-assisi/">St. Francis of Assisi</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Cancer - St. Peregrine (Pray the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-peregrine-novena/">St. Peregrine Novena</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Children - St. Nicholas</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Computer programmers - <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/carlos-acutis/">Bl. Carlo Acutis</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Fertility and Pregnancy - <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/gianna-beretta-molla/">St. Gianna</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Healing - St. Raphael</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Jobs - St. Cajetan (patron of job-seekers/unemployed)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Lost Causes - St. Jude (pray the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-jude-novena/">St. Jude Novena</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Nurses - St. Camillus (patron of all those in healthcare)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Police Officer - St. Michael the Archangel</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Poor - St. Vincent de Paul (known as “<a href="https://uscatholic.org/articles/201409/st-vincent-de-paul-patron-of-the-poor/">charity’s saint</a>”)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Protection - St. Michael the Archangel (pray the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-st-michael-chaplet/">St. Michael Chaplet</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Soldiers - St. Michael the Archangel</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Students - St. Thomas Aquinas</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Travelers - <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/christopher/">St. Christopher</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Workers - <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-joseph-worker-novena/">St. Joseph the Worker</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There can be patrons for even more specific causes and devotions. For example, while St. Raphael is considered the patron saint of healing, one might ask for the intercession of St. Bernardine of Siena, patron saint of <a href="https://www.sjnirvine.org/blog/stbernardinesiena">respiratory illnesses</a>, if dealing with a condition specific to the lungs.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Similarly, while St. Thomas Aquinas is the patron saint of students, someone struggling to promptly complete homework assignments might look to <a href="https://www.catholicherald.com/article/columns/a-patron-saint-for-procrastinators/">St. Expeditus</a>, patron saint of procrastinators.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Catholics never pray <em>to</em> saints. Rather, saints are venerated and Catholics ask for their intercession. Catholics ask saints to pray to God. Their example of boldly living their faith can inspire us and lead us closer to God.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/all-saints-day-faq-origin-celebrations-and-prayers/">All Saints Day</a> recognizes all the holy men and women saints in heaven.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="hallow">Hallow and the Saints</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Hallow app has an entire Daily Saint section dedicated to sharing the story of one saint each day, to inspire your own prayer life and journey toward holiness.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Our Saints in 7 Days Series dives deeper into the lives of prominent saints, exploring their journey to sainthood how it’s relevant to our own lives.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Learn about saints by downloading the Hallow app today.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/patronsaints">Pray with Saints on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="faqs">Frequently Asked Questions about Patron Saints</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Who are the patron saints?</strong> There are many! Many saints are patrons of different places or groups. St. Mary and St. Joseph are among the most popular patron saints.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>How many patron saints are there? </strong>Adding up patron saints of continents, countries, states and cities, the list would easily approach one thousand different patron saints. Throw in patron saints of organizations and causes, and there are even more.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>What is the list of all patron saints?</strong> Because many patron saints of different causes are not official titles, there’s no official, comprehensive list of all saints and their patronages. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>How are patron saints chosen?</strong> Patron saints are "assigned by a venerable tradition, or chosen by election as a special intercessor with God.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-saints-resources">More Saints Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-with-saints/">How to Pray with Saints</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/padre-pio-prayers-feast-day/">Padre Pio: Miracles and Feast Day</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/mental-health-praying-with-saints/">Saints and Mental Health</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Patron Saints: Lists of Catholic Patron Saints, Who They Are and Why They Matter [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => patron-saints [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-09-04 20:45:07 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-09-04 20:45:07 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=35474 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 33592 [post_author] => 3 [post_date] => 2023-04-29 14:46:51 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-04-29 14:46:51 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The last few months have been an absolute whirlwind. God has us on a crazier ride than I ever could’ve imagined. This Lent, Hallow was the first faith-based app to ever crack the top 10 apps in the App Store overall coming in at #3 - beating Netflix, Spotify, Instagram, Amazon, Tiktok, YouTube and so many more of the largest apps in the world. It took us almost two years from launching Hallow to get to 1 million prayers prayed in total on the app. This Lent we had over a million prayers prayed each day. We just crossed 225 million prayers prayed in total and, as of last week, now over 10 million downloads.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. All credit belongs to Him and to the incredible team of folks we have working so hard here at Hallow.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We’ve also been humbled and blessed to be able to close an additional $50 million Series C fundraise bringing the total funding raised for Hallow to $105 million. The round was led by <a href="https://www.goodwatercap.com/">Goodwater Capital</a>, the largest consumer tech-only venture fund in the world that also happens to be founded by two incredible men of faith and explicitly rooted in the mission of Micah 6:8: “do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.” The name Goodwater comes from the combination of Good News and Living Water, reflecting their mission to empower entrepreneurs to change the world for good.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Every decision we’ve made in building <a href="https://hallow.com/">Hallow</a> has resulted from deep prayer and conversation with our faith advisors, and this new round is no different (read more about our structure as a Public Benefit Corporation <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/why-we-made-hallow-a-public-benefit-corp/">here</a>).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This round and these milestones are exciting. We’re thrilled to partner together with mission-driven partners, team members (we’re hiring! Join our team <a href="http://hallow.com/jobs">here</a>) and creators to invest even more heavily in building an experience that helps the world to build a daily habit of prayer. But with each of these milestones, something has become more and more clear over time.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This is not why we do this. The numbers are not what we’re working for. It’s not the vision for Hallow.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The vision for Hallow is not numbers, but individuals - not millions of downloads, but each one of us as children of God. The vision for Hallow is Sarah.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Sarah is a young married mom of three little girls. She became tragically addicted to alcohol and stimulants and was involved in a longstanding affair. She’d never really taken her faith very seriously. Her husband found out about the affair and left. She was alone, ashamed, and depressed - thinking often she’d be better off dead. She saw a post about the app and something moved her. She figured she might as well give it a try. She realized, she told us, that in her darkest hour - when everyone she knew had left, everything she cared about had been destroyed - that the only person there with her in the darkness was Christ. She began praying with the app over a dozen times a day. And in her words, He picked her broken pieces up off the floor and put her together again. She cut off the affair. She got sober for the first time in years. She prayed for her husband’s miraculous forgiveness and, in his own experience in adoration, he forgave her. Their family has been reunited.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">She told us, “I know you probably get these stories all the time, but I just wanted to let you know, that if you never do anything else in your life, please know that you saved me. I don’t think I’d be standing here alive today if it were not for this app and the grace that God gave me through it.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This is why we do this. This is what we’re working for. This is the vision for Hallow.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If we spend the next 30 years and are able to be a part of just one more person like Sarah’s journey back to God, if we help God reach out to just one more of His lost ones…then it will have all been infinitely worth it.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And I don’t think Sarah is alone. I think there are millions and millions of Sarah’s. Honestly, I think we’re all a bit like Sarah in our own way. We’re all a little lost. We’re all a little stuck. We’re all a little bit further from God than He invites us to be.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">But our faith is one of hope. And if there’s anything that this experience has taught me, it’s that there is no valley that God cannot reach. There is no darkness that the Light cannot overcome.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I cannot wait to see what He does next.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">AMDG,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Alex at Hallow</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Note: Sarah’s name has been anonymized for privacy</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => 10 Million Downloads & Series C Funding [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => 10-million-installs [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-05-18 11:47:19 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-05-18 11:47:19 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=33592 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 31106 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-04-26 20:29:49 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-04-26 20:29:49 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Feast of St. Joseph the Worker is May 1. A relatively new <a href="https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-joseph-the-worker/">feast</a> in the liturgical calendar, it was introduced in 1955 by Pope Pius XII. This special day and novena commemorate St. Joseph as someone who most gracefully integrated spiritual life with his daily, laborious life as a father, husband, and worker. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The patron saint of the Church and guardian of the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-family-novena/">Holy Family</a>, Joseph is a beautiful example for us to follow God's purpose despite what the world might say or what little recognition we might get for doing so. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pray this novena to St. Joseph the Worker for nine days, culminating on May 1 (Feast of St. Joseph the Worker) or March 19 (Solemnity of Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin). We can pray this novena to ask for Joseph’s special care over a particular intention such as help in an area of our lives needing discernment.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/YXgSJ1Qk6wb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Each of us can discover in Joseph – the man who goes unnoticed, a daily, discreet and hidden presence – an intercessor, a support and a guide in times of trouble.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><em>Pope Francis&nbsp;</em></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="St-Joseph-Novena"><strong>St. Joseph the Worker Novena</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:yoast/how-to-block {"hasDuration":true,"minutes":"5","jsonDescription":"","steps":[{"id":"how-to-step-1675191317639","name":["Make the Sign of the Cross. 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Amen.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1675191361027"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Recite the novena. </strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Joseph, by the work of your hands and the sweat of your brow, you supported Jesus and Mary, and had the Son of God as your fellow worker. </em><br/><br/><em>Teach me to work as you did, with patience and perseverance, for God and for those whom God has given me to support.</em><br/><br/><em>Teach me to see in my fellow workers the Christ who desires to be in them, that I may always be charitable and forbearing towards all. </em><br/><br/><em>Grant me to look upon work with the eyes of faith, so that I shall recognize in it my share in God's own creative activity and in Christ's work of our redemption, and so take pride in it. </em><br/><em>When it is pleasant and productive, remind me to give thanks to God for it. And when it is burdensome, teach me to offer it to God, in reparation for my sins and the sins of the world. </em><br/><br/><em>O good father Joseph! I beg you, by all your sufferings, sorrows and joys, to obtain for me what I now ask. Obtain for all those who have asked my prayers, everything that is useful to them in the plan of God. Be near to me in my last moments that I may eternally sing the praises of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Amen. </em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1675191385931"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Pray an Our Father. </strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">Our Father</a>, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1675191394299"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Hail Mary</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1675191402110"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Glory Be</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1675191411129"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Sign of the Cross</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 33473 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-04-26 19:48:11 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-04-26 19:48:11 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One of four female Doctors of the Church, St. Catherine of Siena, is known for her writings on mysticism and spiritual guidance and her efforts for Church unity in the fourteenth century. We celebrate the feast of St. Catherine of Siena on the anniversary of her death, April 29.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#early-life-vocation">Early life and vocation&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#sainthood">Sainthood</a><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#death">Death</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#canonization">Canonization</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#doctor-of-the-church">Doctor of the Church</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#co-patroness-europe">Co-Patroness of Europe</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#saint-catherine-of-siena-prayers">St. Catherine of Siena prayers</a><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#come-into-my-heart-prayer">“Come Into My Heart”</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#love-undefiled-prayer">“Love Undefiled”</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#saint-catherine-of-siena-quotes">St. Catherine of Siena quotes</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#related-prayers-saints">Related prayers and saints</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="early-life-vocation">Early life and vocation</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Caterina Benincasa, later St. Catherine of Siena, was born in 1347 in Siena, Italy, as the <a href="https://www.nationalshrine.org/blog/lessons-from-the-life-of-saint-catherine-of-siena-laywoman-and-activist/">25th child</a> in a large family. Within a year of her birth, there was great <a href="https://www.franciscanmedia.org/franciscan-spirit-blog/st-catherine-of-siena-the-feisty-dominican/">turmoil</a> in Italy due to the plague and continuing economic and military problems. The Church was also still in a state of conflict, as the Catholic papacy had moved to Avignon, France, in 1309, before Catherine’s birth. This period in Church history is known as the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Western-Schism">Western Schism</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Catherine experienced her first mystical vision – of Christ blessing her – at the age of 5. Two years later, she vowed to live a chaste life at 7. About a decade after, Catherine’s older sister passed away, and her parents urged her to marry her sister’s widower. Yet, despite her parents’ desires, Catherine refused. Instead, she entered the <em>Mantellate</em>, the female branch of the Dominicans of the Third Order, at 16 after her <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20101124.html">vision</a> of St. Dominic.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Vowing a life of piety and chastity, she lived in silence and isolation for some years but soon turned to a more public life of prayer, activism, and spiritual counseling.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="sainthood">Sainthood</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Catherine became known throughout Italy for her asceticism and efforts in church reform in her twenties. At 28, she received the stigmata (wounds resembling Christ’s from his crucifixion), similar to <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/padre-pio-prayers-feast-day/">Padre Pio</a>, St. Francis of Assisi, and <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-divine-mercy-chaplet/">St. Faustina Kowalska</a>, among others.&nbsp;Religious art of St. Catherine of Siena often depicts her with the stigmata, such as the below sculpture. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":33486,"sizeSlug":"medium","linkDestination":"none","className":"is-style-rounded"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium is-style-rounded"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/pexels-natasa-dav-2166599-333x500.jpg" alt="St. Catherine of Siena is often depicted with the stigmata in religious art, such as the above sculpture. " class="wp-image-33486"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Aside from her spiritual and mystic theological writings, namely <em>The Dialogues</em>, St. Catherine of Siena is most famous for her influence on Pope Gregory XI to reunite the Church in Rome. After residing in Avignon since 1309, the papacy returned to Rome in 1377; because of such efforts, Catherine is often referred to as a “Doctor of Unity,” in addition to her title as a Doctor of the Church. Pope Benedict XVI <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20101124.html">spoke</a> to St. Catherine of Siena’s influence in 2010:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Today I would like to talk to you about </em><strong><em>a woman who played an eminent role in the history of the Church: St Catherine of Siena.</em></strong><em> The century in which she lived — the 14th — was a troubled period in the life of the Church and throughout the social context of Italy and Europe. Yet, even in the most difficult times, the Lord does not cease to bless his People, bringing forth Saints who give a jolt to minds and hearts, provoking conversion and renewal. Catherine is one of these and still today speaks to us and </em><strong><em>impels us to walk courageously toward holiness to be ever more fully disciples of the Lord.</em></strong><em> </em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><em>Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, General Audience on November 24, 2010</em></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/VsgwDiAfizb">Pray with Hallow’s Daily Saint</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="" id="death">1380: Death</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Catherine of Siena died of a stroke in 1380 at 33 years old – the same age as Christ on the day of His crucifixion. St. Faustina Kowalska also passed at 33.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="" id="canonization">1461: Canonization&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Pius II canonized St. Catherine of Siena in 1461.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="" id="doctor-of-the-church">1970: Doctor of the Church</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Paul VI, then Pope, declared St. Catherine of Siena a Doctor of the Church in 1970.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="" id="co-patroness-europe">1999: Co-Patroness of Europe</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And in 1999, St. John Paul II, then Pope, <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/motu_proprio/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_01101999_co-patronesses-europe.html">named</a> St. Catherine of Siena one of the co-patronesses of Europe, alongside St. Bridget of Sweden, and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein). He spoke to her boldness,&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>With the same vigour, Catherine addressed Churchmen of every rank, demanding of them the most exacting integrity in their personal lives and their pastoral ministry. The uninhibited, powerful and incisive tone in which she admonished priests, Bishops and Cardinals is quite striking. It is essential—she would say—to root out from the garden of the Church the rotten plants and to put in their place “new plants” which are fresh and fragrant. And strengthened by her intimacy with Christ, the Saint of Siena was not afraid to point out frankly even to the Pope, whom she loved dearly as her “sweet Christ on earth”, that the will of God demanded that he should abandon the hesitation born of earthly prudence and worldly interests, and return from Avignon to Rome, to the Tomb of Peter.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><em>St. (Pope) John Paul II, October 1, 1999</em></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/VsgwDiAfizb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="saint-catherine-of-siena-prayers">St. Catherine of Siena Prayers</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="" id="come-into-my-heart-prayer">“Come Into My Heart” Prayer</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A short prayer to ask the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/">Holy Spirit</a> to draw near and lead us toward God’s love in our thoughts and actions.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Holy Spirit, come into my heart;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Draw it to Thee by Thy power, O my God,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>And grant me charity with filial fear.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Preserve me, O beautiful love, from every evil thought;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Warm me, inflame me with Thy dear love,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>And every pain will seem light to me.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>My Father, my sweet Lord, help me in all my actions.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Jesus, love.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Jesus, love.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Amen.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/VsgwDiAfizb">Holy Spirit, Come Into My Heart</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="" id="love-undefiled-prayer">“Love Undefiled” Prayer</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A prayer of praise and thanksgiving that also guides us in asking for Him to lead us to His true Light.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Eternal God, eternal Trinity,&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>You have made the Blood of Christ so precious through His sharing in Your Divine nature.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>You are a mystery as deep as the sea;&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>the more I search, the more I find,&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>and the more I find the more I search for You.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>But I can never be satisfied;&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>what I receive will ever leave me desiring more.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>When You fill my soul I have an ever-greater hunger,&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>and I grow more famished for Your light.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I desire above all to see You, the true light, as you really are.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Amen.</em>&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="saint-catherine-of-siena-quotes">St. Catherine of Siena Quotes</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“The human heart is drawn by love.”&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 33268 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2023-04-19 14:30:39 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-04-19 14:30:39 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Easter Traditions Table of Contents</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Introduction</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#australian">Australian Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#brazilian">Brazilian Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#filipino">Filipino Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#german">German Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#greek">Greek Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#guatemalan">Guatemalan Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#irish">Irish Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#italian">Italian Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#mexican">Mexican Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#nigerian">Nigerian Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#polish">Polish Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#spanish">Spanish Easter Traditions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One of the most beautiful aspects of our faith is that people around the world can express it differently while being united in Christ.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":"lent-embed"} --> <p class="lent-embed">People in all pockets of the globe celebrate Easter; the rich diversity of those celebrations and observances is genuinely a gift from God.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Most of these traditions across cultures share three common elements:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Mourning Jesus’s death on Good Friday and celebrating and rejoicing in His victory over death</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Bringing together children, adults and those of all ages</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Feasting with loved ones</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Easter reminds us that Christ didn’t just rise once and disappear but that He remains present with us. When we gather together to mourn His death and celebrate His resurrection with rituals, customs and meals, He is present with us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">So this Easter, whether or not your traditions include the Easter bunny, dyeing Easter eggs, or just Mass and a meal with loved ones, remember that the Risen Christ is present with you and in celebrations all over the world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/yTXSkhwW7yb">Build a prayer tradition. Try Hallow for free.</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="australian">Australian Easter Traditions: Easter Bilby</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Americans and others have the Easter Bunny. Australia? The Easter Bilby.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The tradition <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-easter-bilby/6gWRIe23vNolKw?hl=en">dates back to the 1960s</a> and a children’s story called “Billy the Aussie Easter Bilby.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Australian chocolate maker Haigh’s makes Easter Bilbies and <a href="https://www.haighschocolates.com.au/curated-collections/easter/easter-bilbies">donates a portion of the proceeds</a> to protect the species, which is currently endangered.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="brazilian">Brazilian Easter Traditions</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Traditional Triduum liturgies are popular in Brazil, especially Good Friday, where services sometimes run through the darkness of nighttime until the sun rises on Saturday morning.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The celebration of Easter is prominently displayed in supermarkets thanks to eggs known as <a href="https://receitas.globo.com/datas-comemorativas/pascoa/ovo-de-pascoa-recheado-4d51042f52e0b252bc00a862.ghtml">ovo recheado pascoa</a>. Gourmet versions can be eaten, but the concept also applies to decoration. 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This celebration is a procession that begins early in the morning before the sun rises.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Men process towards their local church with a statue or image of the risen Christ. Women process towards the church with an image or statue of Mary, covered in a black veil.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The crowds meet at the church where a young girl dressed in angelic white removes the veil.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This custom celebrates the belief that, although it’s not explicitly mentioned in the Bible, Jesus visited Mary after His resurrection, just as any good son would visit their mother!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">French Easter Traditions</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Easter bells take the place of the Easter Bunny in the France, as “les cloches de Pâques” are said to stop ringing on Holy Thursday as they fly to the Vatican “carrying with them the grief of anyone who is mourning the crucifixion.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-flying-bells-of-easter/IgIiUT7uXlRyLg">French folklore suggests</a> that the bells return in time to deliver Easter eggs to children and ring loudly on Easter Sunday to celebrate Jesus’s resurrection.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="german">German Easter Traditions</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">White is the official liturgical color of Easter, but in Germany, green is strongly associated with the celebration of the holiday.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Germans sometimes refer to Holy Thursday as <a href="https://www.thelocal.de/20190418/der-grndonnerstag">Gründonnerstag</a>, a day on which it’s customary to eat green vegetables like kale and spinach.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In certain regions of Germany, especially Hamburg, giant bonfires known as <a href="https://www.hamburg.com/visitors/holidays/16074408/easter-bonfires/">osterfeuer</a> are also customary. 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The crowds sings and chants while children carry lanterns.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Easter feasts often include Greece’s most famous protein, lamb.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="guatemalan">Guatemalan easter traditions</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Countries across Central and South America proudly celebrate Easter, and Guatemala is no exception.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Alfombras are the most famous symbol of the Guatemalan Easter celebrations. They are colorful rugs that are laid outside church doors and Good Friday, hand-decorated by members of the local community, young and old.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The tradition draws inspiration from the palms that welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://www.milmilagros.org/story/semana-santa-in-guatemala">Alfombras</a> are also common in Honduras and other Spanish-speaking communities around the world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="irish">Irish Easter traditions</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Tradition Irish Easter celebrations include “<a href="https://aleteia.org/2023/04/04/6-charming-old-irish-traditions-to-bring-back-this-easter/">Cluideog</a>,” in which Irish children dance for friends and neighbors, hoping to get raw eggs that they can roast over the fire. Modern renditions might include chocolate eggs!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hot cross buns and other breads marked with the cross are popular.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Ireland’s Catholic identity overlaps with its secular history on Easter Sunday in the Easter Sunday Commemoration, which recognizes the Irish Rising in 1916, a rebellion against British rule.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">That historical observation does not diminish the religious importance of the day–the Irish still celebrate Easter with large feasts with plenty of meat and potatoes.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="italian">Italian Easter Traditions</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Food highlights many Italian Easter celebrations. Just as with Christmas, with the Italian “Feast of the Seven Fishes,” the holiday calls for specific foods, like Pane di Pasqua (a colorful Easter bread) and colomba, a bread similar to panettone.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Beyond food, notable Italian Easter traditions include the Via Crucis, in which the Pope leads the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-stations-of-the-cross/">Stations of the Cross</a> <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250981/full-text-way-of-the-cross-meditations-at-the-colosseum">throughout Rome</a>, finishing at the Colosseum.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Easter celebrations usually continue well beyond Sunday with <a href="https://www.summerinitaly.com/traveltips/pasquetta-easter-monday">Pasquetta</a>, or “Little Easter,” as Easter Monday is known.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="mexican">Mexican Easter Traditions</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://www.journeymexico.com/blog/easter-in-mexico-semana-santa-and-pascua">Semana Santa</a> in Mexico and in Mexican cultures is ripe with tradition.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One notable custom is the burning of Judas, in which communities set fire to a statue or effigy of Judas.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Cascarones–hollowed-out eggs, filled with confetti or glitter–are <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-revered-and-very-messy-easter-tradition-you-might-not-have-heard-about/2019/04/19/c623d4e4-62f0-11e9-9412-daf3d2e67c6d_story.html">another popular</a> Mexican Easter tradition. Children crack them over each other’s heads in a festive, laughter-filled activity on Easter.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The tradition remains in Mexico, parts of&nbsp;the southwest United States like Texas, and Mexican communities throughout the world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq5-C33pcYl/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"> <div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq5-C33pcYl/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> </p> <div style=" display: flex; 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Families gather together with others from their local parishes to enjoy a picnic–and often, a little soccer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/yTXSkhwW7yb">Try Hallow for Free Today!</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="polish">Polish Easter Traditions</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Święconka, also known as “the blessing of the baskets,” takes place on the morning of Holy Saturday and remains one of the most popular Easter traditions in Poland.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">People bring baskets filled with food (and often lined in white cloth) to local churches to be blessed. This food becomes the meal for Easter Sunday morning, shared with family and friends.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Śmigus Dyngus is another Polish easter tradition beloved by children across the country. On Easter Monday (sometimes called “Dyngus Day”), boys and girls playfully battle with water sprinklers, trying to get each other wet while swatting at each other with pussy willow branches.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The tradition continues in Polish-American communities in the United States, especially in areas with large Polish populations like Buffalo and Chicago. 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Brotherhoods known as “<a href="https://northernspaintravel.com/what-is-a-cofradia/">cofradia</a>” often take the lead in these solemn parades.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mona de Pasqua, a round, bread-like sweet cake decorated with hard-boiled eggs, can be found on most dessert tables in Spanish homes on Easter.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">More Easter Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/easter/">Easter Guide</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/easter-prayers/">Easter Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-week-schedule/">Holy Week Schedule</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => Easter Traditions: Customs and Celebrations of Easter Around the World [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => easter-traditions [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-03-28 18:10:41 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-03-28 18:10:41 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=33268 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 32919 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2023-04-05 14:04:49 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-04-05 14:04:49 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>April 5, 2023</strong> — Legatus International (Legatus) has partnered with Hallow, a Catholic prayer and meditation app, to provide Legatus members and employees with a personal prayer resource, as well as to co-develop content on incorporating faith in business.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Launched in 2018, Hallow is the #1 Catholic app in the App Store and features audio-guided prayer, meditation, mental health, music, scripture, athletic, and sleep content. Hallow’s mission is to help the world pray and grow closer to God by putting Him at the center of daily life.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow was the first religious or meditation app in history to break into the Top 10 in the Apple App Store’s overall charts, peaking at No. 3 during the week of Ash Wednesday, 2023. The app has helped people in more than 150 countries pray more than 200 million times. It is currently available in English, Spanish, Polish, and Portuguese, with further language expansion planned for the future.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“In order to be true Ambassadors for Christ, our members must first focus on their own spirituality. Offering Hallow will be another resource for our members to stratify their spirituality so they truly study, live, and spread the faith in all aspects of their lives,” said Stephen M. Henley, President of Legatus International.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Legatus members now have access to Hallow’s premium subscription service and its selection of over 6,000 audio-guided prayers and meditations, including:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Daily prayer content, including the daily Mass reading, the Rosary, daily Examens, and the Divine Mercy Chaplet;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Daily reflections on the Gospel of the day by Scripture scholar Jeff Cavins;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Sunday Sermons led by international faith leaders, including Bishop Robert Barron and Fr. Mike Schmitz;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Mini-courses of specific faith topics, including <em>The Science of Happiness</em> by Harvard Business School professor Dr. Arthur Brooks, <em>Spiritual Warfare </em>by exorcist Fr. Vincent Lampert, and <em>A Biblical Walk Through the Mass</em> by Dr. Edward Sri.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Actual prayers recorded by saints, including Mother Teresa, Padre Pio, and St. Oscar Romero;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Meditations and reflections on overcoming common emotional wounds by Sr. Miriam James Heidland and Dr. Bob Schuchts of the John Paul II Healing Center;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Sessions on understanding and overcoming stress and anxiety with Regina Boyd, LMHC, founder of Boyd Counseling Services;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Prayers and spiritual exercises for families, including family Mass prep, sacramental preparation content, profiles of different saints, and age-specific formation content;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Traditional spiritual content, including dozens of novenas and litanies;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Prayers and Bible Stories geared toward finding peace before going to sleep, led by familiar voices such as Mario Lopez, Mark Wahlberg, Sarah Swafford, Fr. Mike Schmitz, and Emily Wilson.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As part of the newly-announced partnership, Hallow will collaborate with the Legatus network of business leaders to co-develop custom content on the intersection of faith in business. This content will be exclusively available in the Hallow app and include a mix of inspiration, educational, and experiential content.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“We’re incredibly excited to be able to support the prayer lives of Legatus members. Especially in a time where the pressure from the world is extremely high for business leaders to perform and balance seemingly infinite tasks and priorities, it’s critically important to take the time to remember that Christ calls us to a unique vision of work and leadership,” said Hallow co-founder and CEO, Alex Jones. “Our sincere hope in this partnership is to provide a resource that helps everyone that leads teams to find peace, to grow in humility, and to surrender ourselves and our organizations to God.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">For questions regarding Legatus, please contact info@legatus.org.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">For questions regarding Hallow, please contact info@hallow.app.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>About the Legatus International</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="http://www.legatus.org">Legatus International</a> is a singular peer group organization for Catholic CEOs and business leaders, founded in 1987 by Thomas S. Monaghan, former owner of Domino’s Pizza and the Detroit Tigers.&nbsp; Legatus – which means “ambassador” in Latin – helps executives become exemplary Catholics in their business, community, and personal spheres of influence. With over 90 chapters and 5,000-plus members throughout the U.S. and Canada, Legatus offers members regional, national, and international networking meetings, retreats, conventions, and inspiring travel – along with the award-winning monthly <em>Legatus Magazine</em>.&nbsp; Legatus is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>About Hallow</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://hallow.com/">Hallow</a> helps people deepen their relationship with God through audio-guided prayers, sleep meditations, Bible readings, meditations, and music. The app has over 6,000 sessions, including a daily Rosary, daily Gospel, daily saint, novenas, examens, Father Mike Schmitz’s<em> Bible in a Year</em>, <em>The Chosen</em>’s Jonathan Roumie’s audio Bible, Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons, peaceful Christian music, Gregorian chant, and so much more. Launched in December 2018, Hallow is now the #1 Catholic app in the world and has been used to pray over 200 million times across 150-plus countries.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => Legatus International Announces Hallow as Official Prayer and Meditation App [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => legatus-international-hallow-partnership [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-04-05 14:04:52 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-04-05 14:04:52 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=32919 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 32561 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-03-27 20:59:37 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-03-27 20:59:37 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Holy Thursday is the final day of <a href="https://hallow.com/lent/">Lent</a> and the first day of the Paschal Triduum, the shortest liturgical season within the Church. Lent ends at the beginning of the Holy Thursday’s Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, which leads us into prayer and reflection on the final night of Christ’s life preceding His death on <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/good-friday-the-passion-of-christ/">Good Friday</a> and resurrection on Easter Sunday.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Biblical-Roots-Holy-Thursday">Biblical Roots of Holy Thursday</a>&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Chrism-Mass-Blessing-Oils">Holy Thursday Morning Chrism Mass and Blessing of the Oils</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Mass-Readings">Mass Readings: Holy Thursday, Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper 2025</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Holy-Thursday-Prayers">Holy Thursday Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#FAQ">Holy Thursday Frequently Asked Questions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Additional-Reading">Additional Reading</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Biblical-Roots-Holy-Thursday">Biblical Roots of Holy Thursday&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One of the most eventful and vital days in the liturgy of the Church, Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus with His disciples, where He instituted both the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist and the Sacrament of Holy Orders (the priesthood).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As we read in 1 Corinthians about the Eucharist,&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>“This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And in the Gospel of John, Chapter 13 about the Sacrament of Holy Orders, Jesus washed the feet of His disciples and urged them to follow after Him and spread the Good News:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>“For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.”&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Because of this command of Christ to do as He has done, Holy Thursday is often called “Maundy Thursday” (from the Latin “mandatum,” meaning “commandment”), especially in Protestant traditions.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">To reenact this final night of Christ’s life, most churches will wash the feet of several parishioners and hold <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/eucharist-holy-communion-adoration-prayer/">Eucharistic adoration</a> following Mass.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">At the end of the Evening Mass, there is no concluding prayer. Instead, the altar is stripped, lit candles remain the only source of light, and incense is used to prepare the Church for the upcoming procession of the Eucharist. Wearing a humeral veil (to cover his hands as he carries the Blessed Sacrament), the priest and procession bring the Body of Christ to an Altar of Repose, often in a sanctuary or chapel separate from the main altar, where the faithful are encouraged to pray before the Eucharist following the Mass.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This special worship after Mass replicates the patient waiting of the disciples as they kept a vigil with Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and agitated.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Matthew 26</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The beautiful Holy Thursday liturgy guides us to consider the many ways in which Christ calls us to remember Him, to place our trust in Him, and to follow His example – to keep our own vigil with Him as we await His Passion and Resurrection.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/8wEIaciEmyb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Chrism-Mass-Blessing-Oils">Holy Thursday Morning Chrism Mass and Blessing of the Oils</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On Holy Thursday morning, most dioceses celebrate the <a href="https://catholicexchange.com/what-is-the-chrism-mass/">Chrism Mass</a>, including the bishop’s annual blessing of the three holy oils: the Oil of the Sick, the Oil of Catechumens, and the holy Chrism. The Chrism Mass and blessing of the oils occur worldwide, and afterward, the blessed oils are distributed across respective dioceses for sacramental use.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A typical Reception of the Holy Oils follows this order: the Holy Oils, in vessels, are processed, and then placed on a table where they are incensed after the main altar is incensed. Then, the priest explains the meaning behind the blessing of the Holy Oils and how each might be used sacramentally. (<a href="https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year-and-calendar/triduum/order-for-the-reception-of-the-holy-oils">USCCB</a>)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Oil of the Sick: “for healing of body, mind, and soul”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Oil of the Catechumens: “for the anointing of those preparing for Baptism”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Holy Chrism: “to anoint infants after Baptism, those who are to be confirmed, Bishops and Priests at their Ordination, and altars and churches at the time of their dedication”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The procession of oils can vary from parish to parish, though there are some guidelines. As the <a href="https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year-and-calendar/triduum/order-for-the-reception-of-the-holy-oils">USCCB</a> notes, “A simple ceremony that is sober yet joyful, consistent with the Roman liturgy, and emphasizing the grace of the sacraments and unity with the bishop, would seem to be the most appropriate way to receive the oils in a parish.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In particular dioceses, for various reasons, the Chrism Mass is sometimes celebrated on a different day than Holy Thursday during <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-week-schedule/">Holy Week</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Read more about the history behind the Chrism Mass and the holy oils of the Church in this <a href="https://catholicexchange.com/what-is-the-chrism-mass/">article</a> by Fr. William Saunders for Catholic Exchange.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Mass-Readings">Mass Readings for Holy Thursday, Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper 2025</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Holy Thursday is not a <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-days-of-obligation/">holy day of obligation</a>, though the faithful are encouraged to attend the Evening Mass. Consider reading and meditating on the readings before Mass:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">First Reading from Exodus&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Second Reading from Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>1 Cor 11:23-26</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Gospel, according to John</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Jn 13:1-15</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” Jesus answered, “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet, but is entirely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; for this reason he said, “Not all of you are clean.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Holy-Thursday-Prayers">Holy Thursday Prayers</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pray with the Entrance Antiphon for Holy Thursday Evening Mass:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>We should glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom our salvation, life and resurrection, through whom we are saved and delivered. (Cf. Galatians 6:14)</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Or, pray with the Pange Lingua, a Eucharistic hymn and prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>of His flesh the mystery sing;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>of the Blood, all price exceeding,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>shed by our immortal King,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>destined, for the world's redemption,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>from a noble womb to spring.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Of a pure and spotless Virgin</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>born for us on earth below,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>He, as Man, with man conversing,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>stayed, the seeds of truth to sow;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>then He closed in solemn order</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>wondrously His life of woe.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>On the night of that Last Supper,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>seated with His chosen band,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>He the Pascal victim eating,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>first fulfills the Law's command;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>then as Food to His Apostles</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>gives Himself with His own hand.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Word-made-Flesh, the bread of nature</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>by His word to Flesh He turns;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>wine into His Blood He changes;-</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>what though sense no change discerns?</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Only be the heart in earnest,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>faith her lesson quickly learns.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Down in adoration falling,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Lo! the sacred Host we hail;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>newer rites of grace prevail;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>faith for all defects supplying,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>where the feeble sense fail.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>To the everlasting Father,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>and the Son who reigns on high,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>with the Holy Ghost proceeding</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>forth from Each eternally,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>be salvation, honor, blessing,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>might and endless majesty.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Amen. Alleluia.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On <a href="https://hallow.app.link/8wEIaciEmyb">Hallow</a>, discover our Holy Thursday prayer collection to guide you in meditating on the charity of Jesus and remain close to Him on the night before His death.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/8wEIaciEmyb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="FAQ">Frequently Asked Questions about Holy Thursday</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>What is Holy Thursday?</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Holy Thursday signals the end of Lent and the beginning of the Paschal Triduum, a period of three days tracing Christ’s three final days on earth before His resurrection. Holy Thursday Evening Mass reenacts the final night of Christ’s life with His disciples at the Last Supper, including the traditional washing of the feet.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Is Holy Thursday a Holy Day of Obligation?&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Holy Thursday is not a Holy Day of Obligation. Victoria Tufano, for <a href="https://uscatholic.org/articles/200807/who-picks-the-holy-days-of-obligation/">U.S. Catholic</a>, explains this is “not because the church considers them less important, but because it is simply assumed that Catholics know how essential these most solemn days are to our faith and will attend the liturgy accordingly.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Can you eat meat on Holy Thursday?&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Yes, you can eat meat on Holy Thursday; it is not technically a day of <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/lent-fasting-rules/">abstinence from meat</a> in the Catholic Church.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>What happened at the Last Supper?</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Jesus shared the Last Supper with His disciples on the final night of His life; it signifies both the institution of the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Holy Orders before Christ’s crucifixion on Good Friday and resurrection on Easter Sunday.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>When does Lent end?</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lent ends at the beginning of the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>How long is Holy Thursday Mass?</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Holy Thursday Mass liturgy includes some extra components, such as the oil presentation and foot washing ceremony, so it often runs 30-45 minutes longer than a typical Mass. It also includes the procession of the Eucharist and adoration after Mass, which might lengthen your time at church.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>What is the liturgical color for Holy Thursday?</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The liturgical color for Holy Thursday, like all other feasts of the Lord, is white.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>What are the symbols of Holy Thursday?&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Bread and wine represent the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/corpus-christi/">Body and Blood of Christ</a>, recalling the events at the Last Supper. The image of the <a href="https://bustedhalo.com/ministry-resources/a-catholic-guide-to-holy-week-symbols">towel</a> around Jesus’ waist also represents one of his last acts on earth, the washing of His disciples’ feet.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Additional-Reading">Additional Reading</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/palm-sunday/">Palm Sunday 2025</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/easter/">Complete Guide to Easter&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/easter-prayers/">Easter Prayers 2025</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-act-of-contrition/">How to Pray the Act of Contrition</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-litany-of-humility/">Litany of Humility</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-sacred-heart-novena/">Sacred Heart Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/8wEIaciEmyb">Download the Hallow App</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> [post_title] => Holy Thursday 2025: Biblical Roots of the Last Supper and Washing of the Feet, Readings, and Prayers [post_excerpt] => One of the most eventful and vital days in the liturgy of the Church, Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus with His disciples. 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 32326 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-03-13 15:48:33 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-03-13 15:48:33 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Read about the history of St. Patrick, the great "Apostle of Ireland," and learn his famous Breastplate Prayer: "Christ with me, Christ before me."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#About-St-Patrick">About St. Patrick</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Prayer-of-St-Patrick">Prayer of St. Patrick</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#The-Irish-Blessing">The Irish Blessing</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="http://every-day-irish-blessings">Short Irish blessings for Every Day</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Introduction">Introduction</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)&nbsp; is one of the most globally celebrated feast days. From the city of Chicago that dyes its river green to the many parades in Ireland, North American cities, and elsewhere, this day commemorates the saint who introduced Ireland to Christianity.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Outside of Ireland, those cities include Boston, Chicago, and New York, just to name a few. All are home to large parades and streets lined with green decor to celebrate “St. Paddy,” typically on the weekend before or after the feast day on March 17.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Overall, this day has transformed into more of a cultural celebration than a religious one per se, though there are many prayers and Irish blessings we’ll share with you to prayerfully celebrate this Catholic saint aside from the corned beef and cabbage.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="About-St-Patrick">About St. Patrick</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Patrick is one of the most well-known saints worldwide, with millions who share his name (Pádraig, Patricio, Patrício to name a few translations) and many churches named after him. Ever visited <a href="https://saintpatrickscathedral.org/live">St. Patrick’s Cathedral</a> in Manhattan?&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Born in the late fourth century A.D. in Roman Britain (either Scotland or Wales, historians <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/saints/patrick_1.shtml#:~:text=Enslaved%20by%20pirates&amp;text=He%20was%20put%20to%20work,much%20of%20his%20time%20praying.">debate</a>), legend holds this saint drove all snakes out of Ireland, though we know there have never been snakes in Ireland. This legend likely arose from the credit to St. Patrick’s for spreading Christianity in Ireland; he is known as the great “Apostle of Ireland.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Patrick was actually kidnapped when he was 16 by <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-patrick-of-ireland-180">Irish raiders</a> in his homeland and taken to Ireland where he was enslaved for several years. According to tradition, he spent six years in the Slemish Mountain region in Northern Ireland as a shepherd of pigs and sheep. He eventually escaped and journeyed back to his homeland as a stowaway across the North Channel.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Upon returning, he studied Christianity and became a deacon and, ultimately, a bishop. After a <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/03/17/st--patrick--bishop--disciple-of-ireland-.html">great vision</a>, St. Patrick returned to Ireland to evangelize.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As we read in his <a href="https://www.confessio.ie/etexts/confessio_english#"><em>Confessio</em></a>,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>So I am first of all a simple country person, a refugee, and unlearned. I do not know how to provide for the future. But this I know for certain, that before I was brought low, I was like a stone lying deep in the mud. Then he who is powerful came and in his mercy pulled me out, and lifted me up and placed me on the very top of the wall. That is why I must shout aloud in return to the Lord for such great good deeds of his, here and now and forever, which the human mind cannot measure.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>St. Patrick</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Many believe that St. Patrick used the symbol of the shamrock – the three-leafed clover – as a means of evangelization; the three leaves represent the Holy Trinity of God the Father, the Son, and the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/">Holy Spirit</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/0EjxYley8xb">Download Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Prayer-of-St-Patrick">Prayer of St. Patrick</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This Prayer of St. Patrick is also known as the Breastplate Prayer or “Lorica” Prayer – Latin for “a Roman cuirass of leather or metal.” It is a beautiful prayer to say in the morning and remind yourself of the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-strength/">strength</a> of Christ that works through you, and of course, an excellent prayer for St. Patrick’s Day.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Many variations shorten the bolded portion of the full prayer below into a shorter prayer:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me, Christ in the eye that sees me, Christ in the ear that hears me.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here’s the full Prayer of St. Patrick:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I arise today</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through a belief in the Threeness,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through confession of the Oneness</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Of the Creator of creation.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I arise today</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through the strength of Christ's birth and His baptism,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through the strength of His crucifixion and His burial,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through the strength of His resurrection and His ascension,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through the strength of His descent for the judgment of doom.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I arise today</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through the strength of the love of cherubim,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In obedience of angels,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In service of archangels,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In the hope of resurrection to meet with reward,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In the prayers of patriarchs,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In preachings of the apostles,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In faiths of confessors,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In innocence of virgins,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In deeds of righteous men.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I arise today</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through the strength of heaven;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Light of the sun,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Splendor of fire,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Speed of lightning,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Swiftness of the wind,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Depth of the sea,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Stability of the earth,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Firmness of the rock.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I arise today</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through God's strength to pilot me;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God's might to uphold me,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God's wisdom to guide me,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God's eye to look before me,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God's ear to hear me,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God's word to speak for me,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God's hand to guard me,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God's way to lie before me,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God's shield to protect me,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God's hosts to save me</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>From snares of the devil,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>From temptations of vices,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>From every one who desires me ill,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Afar and anear,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Alone or in a multitude.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I summon today all these powers between me and evil,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Against every cruel merciless power that opposes my body and soul,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Against incantations of false prophets,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Against black laws of pagandom,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Against false laws of heretics,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Against craft of idolatry,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Against spells of women and smiths and wizards,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Against every knowledge that corrupts man's body and soul.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Christ shield me today</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Against poison, against burning,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Against drowning, against wounding,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>So that reward may come to me in abundance.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Christ on my right, Christ on my left,</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Christ in the eye that sees me,</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Christ in the ear that hears me.</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I arise today</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through a belief in the Threeness,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through a confession of the Oneness</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Of the Creator of creation.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/0EjxYley8xb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="The-Irish-Blessing">The Irish Blessing</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Both famous and anonymous, the Irish Blessing is common around departures or new beginnings, such as weddings, funerals, or goodbyes to friends and family moving away to a new place. It is a prayer of strength, protection, and best wishes. The Irish Blessing has a handful of Scriptural references as well, James Wilson for Irish Central <a href="https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/may-the-road-rise-meet-you-irish-blessing-meaning">writes</a>,&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>The reference to the wind is thought to be a reference to the Holy Spirit, who came as a “mighty wind” at <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/pentecost/">Pentecost</a>. The sun’s warmth alludes to God’s Mercy which the New Testament (Luke 1:78, NIV) tells us “by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven.” The mention of rain is thought to be symbolic of God’s provision – nothing will grow without rain.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>James Wilson</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:pullquote --> <figure class="wp-block-pullquote"><blockquote><p><strong><em>May the road rise up to meet you.</em></strong><br><strong><em>May the wind be always at your back.</em></strong><br><strong><em>May the sun shine warm upon your face;</em></strong><br><strong><em>the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,</em></strong><br><strong><em>May God hold you in the palm of His hand.</em></strong></p></blockquote></figure> <!-- /wp:pullquote --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="every-day-irish-blessings">Irish blessings for St. Patrick’s Day and Every Day</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Many of these Irish blessings remain anonymous, passed down among generations. Most center around blessing friends and family to live a life of growing joy and abundance.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>“May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.”</em>&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>“May green be the grass you walk on, may blue be the skies above you, may pure be the joys that surround you, may true be the hearts that love you.”&nbsp;</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>“May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you’re going, and the insight to know when you’re going too far.”</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>“May peace and plenty be the first to lift the latch to your door and Happiness be your guest today and evermore.”</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/0EjxYley8xb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Before you go, don’t “Irish Goodbye!” Click <a href="https://hallow.app.link/0EjxYley8xb">here</a> to download Hallow and check out the 10,000+ prayers and meditations on the app. God bless!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Other Resources:&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-hope/">Prayers for Hope</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-healing/">Prayers for Healing</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/padre-pio-prayers-feast-day/">St. Padre Pio</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-with-saints/">How to Pray With Saints</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/lent-prayers/">Lent Prayers for 2024</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => St. Patrick's Day Prayers and Irish Blessings 2024 [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => st-patricks-day-prayers-irish-blessings [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-03-18 14:59:08 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-03-18 14:59:08 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=32326 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 31898 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2023-02-23 19:40:11 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-02-23 19:40:11 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Praying with the daily readings is a beautiful way to encounter God's word each day. You can even pray Lectio Divina&nbsp;with the daily readings by focusing on a particular passage, sentence, or even just a word that sticks out to you. This ancient method of prayer helps us let go of our own agendas and open ourselves to what God is trying to say to us. <br><br>Daily Readings:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Tuesday-March-7">Tuesday, March 7</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Wednesday-March-8">Wednesday, March 8</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Thursday-March-9">Thursday, March 9</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Friday-March-10">Friday, March 10</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Saturday-March-11">Saturday, March 11</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Sunday-March-12">Sunday, March 12</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Monday-March-13">Monday, March 13</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="http://Tuesday-March-14">Tuesday, March 14</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="Tuesday-March-7">Daily Readings: Tuesday, March 7</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">First Reading (Isaiah 1: 10, 16-20)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">10 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!<br>16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, 17 learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.<br><br>18 Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Psalm (Psalms 50: 8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. <br>9 I will not accept a bull from your house, or goats from your folds. <br>16 But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips? <br>17 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. <br>21 These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you. <br>23 Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honor me; to those who go the right way I will show the salvation of God.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Gospel (Matthew 23: 1-12)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; 3 therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach. 4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them. 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long. 6 They love to have the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues, 7 and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have people call them rabbi. 8 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all students. 9 And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father—the one in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="Wednesday-March-8">Daily Readings: Wednesday, March 8</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">First Reading (Jer 18:18-20)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">18 Then they [The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem said] said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah—for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">19 Give heed to me, O Lord,<br>and listen to what my adversaries say!<br>20 Is evil a recompense for good?<br>Yet they have dug a pit for my life.<br>Remember how I stood before you<br>to speak good for them,<br>to turn away your wrath from them.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Psalm (Psalms 115: 1-2, 3-4, 15-16)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,<br>for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.<br>2 Why should the nations say,<br>“Where is their God?”<br>3 Our God is in the heavens;<br>he does whatever he pleases.<br>4 Their idols are silver and gold,<br>the work of human hands.<br>15 May you be blessed by the Lord,<br>who made heaven and earth.<br>16 The heavens are the Lord’s heavens,<br>but the earth he has given to human beings.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Gospel (Matthew 20:17-28)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">¹⁷While Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, ¹⁸“See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death; ¹⁹then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified; and on the third day he will be raised.”<br><br>²⁰Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling before him, she asked a favor of him. ²¹And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Declare that these two sons of mine will sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.” ²²But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” ²³He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left, this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”<br><br>²⁴When the ten heard it, they were angry with the two brothers. ²⁵But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. ²⁶It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, ²⁷and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; ²⁸just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”<br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="Thursday-March-9">Daily Readings: Thursday, March 9</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">First Reading (Jeremiah 17: 5-10)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">5 Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord. 6 They shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. 8 They shall be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream. It shall not fear when heat comes, and its leaves shall stay green; in the year of drought it is not anxious, and it does not cease to bear fruit. 9 The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse—who can understand it? 10 I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Psalm (Psalms 1: 1-2, 3, 4, 6)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; <br>2 but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night. <br>3 They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper. <br>4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. <br>6 for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Gospel (Luke 16: 19-31)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">[Jesus said:] 19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. 24 He called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony. 26 Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’ <br><br>27 He said, ‘Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’ 30 He said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="Friday-March-10">Daily Readings: Friday, March 10</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">First Reading (Genesis 37: 3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he had made him a long robe with sleeves. 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him. 12 Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem. 13 And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” He answered, “Here I am.” <br><br>17 The man said, “They have gone away, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers, and found them at Dothan. 18 They saw him from a distance, and before he came near to them, they conspired to kill him. 19 They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer. 20 Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams.” 21 But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.” 22 Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand and restore him to his father. 23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the long robe with sleeves that he wore; 24 and they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it. <br><br>25 Then they sat down to eat; and looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying gum, balm, and resin, on their way to carry it down to Egypt. 26 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? 27 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers agreed. 28 When some Midianite traders passed by, they drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Psalm (Psalms 105: 16-17, 18-19, 20-21)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">16 When he summoned famine against the land, and broke every staff of bread, <br>17 he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. <br>18 His feet were hurt with fetters, his neck was put in a collar of iron; <br>19 until what he had said came to pass, the word of the Lord kept testing him. <br>20 The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free. <br>21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Gospel (Matthew 21: 33-43, 45-46)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">[Jesus said:] 33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 34 When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35 But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’ 39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.” <br><br>42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes’? <br><br>43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom. 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. 46 They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="Saturday-March-11">Daily Readings: Saturday, March 11</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">First Reading (Micah 7: 14-15, 18-20)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that belongs to you, which lives alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. 15 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, show us marvelous things. 18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of your possession? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in showing clemency. 19 He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. 20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and unswerving loyalty to Abraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors from the days of old.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Psalm (Psalms 103: 1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">1 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. <br>2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits— <br>3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, <br>4 who redeems your life from the Pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, <br>9 He will not always accuse, nor will he keep his anger forever. <br>10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. <br>11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; <br>12 as far as the east is from the west, so far he removes our transgressions from us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Gospel (Luke 15: 1-3, 11-32)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” <br><br>3 So he told them this parable: 11 Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.’ So he divided his property between them. 13 A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living. 14 When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs. 16 He would gladly have filled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything. 17 But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger! 18 I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.”’ <br><br>20 So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him. 21 Then the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly, bring out a robe—the best one—and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; 24 for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate. 25 “Now his elder son was in the field; and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on. 27 He replied, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has got him back safe and sound.’ 28 Then he became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and began to plead with him. 29 But he answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command; yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’ 31 Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="Sunday-March-12">Daily Readings: Sunday, March 12</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">First Reading (Exodus 17: 3-7)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">3 But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” 4 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” 5 The Lord said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Psalm (Psalms 95: 1-2, 6-7, 8-9)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">1 O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! <br>2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! <br>6 O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! <br>7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would listen to his voice! <br>8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, <br>9 when your ancestors tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Second Reading (Romans 5: 1-2, 5-8)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. <br><br>6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die. 8 But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Gospel (John 4: 5-42)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">5 So he [Jesus] came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.<br><br>7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)[a] 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.” <br><br>16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you[b] say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I am he,[c] the one who is speaking to you.” <br><br>27 Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah,[d] can he?” 30 They left the city and were on their way to him. 31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36 The reaper is already receiving[e] wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” <br><br>39 Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="Monday-March-13">Daily Readings: Monday, March 13</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">First Reading (2 Kings 5: 1-15)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">1 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy. 2 Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 3 She said to her mistress, “If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.” 4 So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said. 5 And the king of Aram said, “Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king of Israel.” <br><br>He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments. 6 He brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” 7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.” <br><br>8 But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the entrance of Elisha’s house. 10 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean.” 11 But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, “I thought that for me he would surely come out, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy! 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?” He turned and went away in a rage. 13 But his servants approached and said to him, “Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14 So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean. <br><br>15 Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company; he came and stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel; please accept a present from your servant.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Psalm (Psalms 42: 2, 3; 43: 3, 4)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? <br>3 My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?” <br>3 O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling. <br>4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Gospel (Luke 4: 24-30)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">24 And he [Jesus] said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown. 25 But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; 26 yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27 There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. 30 But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="" id="Tuesday-March-14">Daily Readings: Tuesday, March 14</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">First Reading (Daniel 3: 25, 34-43)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">25 Then Azariah stood still in the fire and prayed aloud: 34 For your name’s sake do not give us up forever, and do not annul your covenant. 35 Do not withdraw your mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham your beloved and for the sake of your servant Isaac and Israel your holy one, 36 to whom you promised to multiply their descendants like the stars of heaven and like the sand on the shore of the sea. 37 For we, O Lord, have become fewer than any other nation, and are brought low this day in all the world because of our sins. 38 In our day we have no ruler, or prophet, or leader, no burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, no place to make an offering before you and to find mercy. 39 Yet with a contrite heart and a humble spirit may we be accepted, 40 as though it were with burnt offerings of rams and bulls, or with tens of thousands of fat lambs; such may our sacrifice be in your sight today, and may we unreservedly follow you, for no shame will come to those who trust in you. 41 And now with all our heart we follow you; we fear you and seek your presence. 42 Do not put us to shame, but deal with us in your patience and in your abundant mercy. 43 Deliver us in accordance with your marvelous works, and bring glory to your name, O Lord.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Psalm (Psalms 25: 4-5ab, 6, 7bc, 8-9)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">4 Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. <br>5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long. <br>6 Be mindful of your mercy, O Lord, and of your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. <br>7 Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness’ sake, O Lord! <br>8 Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. <br>9 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. <br>10 All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="">Gospel (Matthew 18: 21-35)</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">21 Then Peter came and said to him [Jesus], “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times. <br><br>23 “For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. 24 When he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him; 25 and, as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, and payment to be made. 26 So the slave fell on his knees before him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ 27 And out of pity for him, the lord of that slave released him and forgave him the debt. 28 But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat, he said, ‘Pay what you owe.’ 29 Then his fellow slave fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ 30 But he refused; then he went and threw him into prison until he would pay the debt. 31 When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. 32 Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. 33 Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?’ 34 And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt. 35 So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => Daily Readings: Tuesday, March 7 - Tuesday, March 14 [post_excerpt] => Daily Readings: Tuesday, March 7 - Tuesday, March 14 [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => daily-readings [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-03-03 21:08:10 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-03-03 21:08:10 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=31898 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )