![]() “Holy Spirit, help me to bear fruit that remains.”Ĭome Holy Spirit and fill the hearts of your faithful. Help me, Lord, be better each day, and to follow the way of salvation. There is enough strife in our world today. Give me the grace, Lord, this day to follow her message in my life. This happened during the first world war and warned that, if we do not change our lives, that a worse war would come, the Second World War. She also recommended we pray the rosary daily, that is, reflecting on the life, death, and resurrection of her son, Jesus. Our Lady’s message given to the three children of Fatima was to: reform your lives, do penance for your sins. Support them and keep them healthy and safe from harm. On this day, Lord, bless all mothers, as nationally we celebrate our mothers. I need the power of the Holy Spirt to live fully as a Christian and to be assured of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, giving me the grace I need to say no to temptations and keep my faith alive in hard times, and to fill my heart and keep me connected to Jesus. Give me your grace to rejoice with the scripture readings of today for the coming of the Spirit that Jesus will send us after his ascension. Oh, Lord, my merciful God, we continue to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, as he prepares his disciples for his ascension. Allow me to proclaim you as Lord in my day. Paul preaches to Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. We see an example of this in our first reading. Give me the grace today, Lord, to also testify to the truth of your divinity in my time and in my place as a follower of you, both in what I say and what I do. Oh, compassionate God, in today’s Gospel Jesus continues to assure his disciples that he will send the Holy Spirit of truth to testify to Jesus’ divinity and that the disciples will also testify to the truth about Jesus. Give me the grace of your Holy Spirit in good and difficult times in my life. It may be hard to praise you in my illness, or financial difficulties or social rejection, but you have sent me your spirit to bolster me up to continue to offer you praise, thanksgiving, and honor. Paul and Titus, who suffered persecution, were beaten by a mob, and stripped as we read in today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles, yet they sang your praises despite it all. Lord, teach me how to praise you in good times and in bad, may I never lose sight of your love and glory like Sts.
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