Spiritual Enhancement
For daily mass readings we recommend:
USCCB for daily reading, prayers, store, they also offer video reflection, and listening to the reading.
The following are pictures and prayers to help you on your spiritual journey.
USCCB for daily reading, prayers, store, they also offer video reflection, and listening to the reading.
The following are pictures and prayers to help you on your spiritual journey.
JUNE - PRIEST APPRECIATION MONTH
If you have a priest in your parish that is staying, being reassign or having a new priest assigned to you, please pray for them this month.
They do so much for us. They have daily mass, sometimes they have several parishes they are assigned to they have to take care of. They may have a school they teach at. They are guidance counselor for us and marriage counselor for newlyweds. They preside over weddings and funerals. They go to nursing homes and pray for the sick, go to the hospital when there is an accident or even to an actual accident to provide the last rites. Let us pray for them.
They do so much for us. They have daily mass, sometimes they have several parishes they are assigned to they have to take care of. They may have a school they teach at. They are guidance counselor for us and marriage counselor for newlyweds. They preside over weddings and funerals. They go to nursing homes and pray for the sick, go to the hospital when there is an accident or even to an actual accident to provide the last rites. Let us pray for them.
A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS
Keep them, I pray Thee dearest Lord, Keep them for they are Thine;
Thy Priests whose lives burn out before Thy consecrated shrine.
Keep them for they are in the world Through from the world apart, When earthly pleasures tempt, allure, Shelter them in Thy heart.
Keep them, and comfort them in hours Of loneliness and pain
When all their life of sacrifice
For souls seems but in vain.
Keep them, and O remember Lord, They have no one but Thee
Yet they only human hearts,
With human frailty.
Keep them as spotless as the host That daily they caress—
Their every thought and word and deed, Deigh, dearest Lord to bless. Amen (Anonymous)
Keep them, I pray Thee dearest Lord, Keep them for they are Thine;
Thy Priests whose lives burn out before Thy consecrated shrine.
Keep them for they are in the world Through from the world apart, When earthly pleasures tempt, allure, Shelter them in Thy heart.
Keep them, and comfort them in hours Of loneliness and pain
When all their life of sacrifice
For souls seems but in vain.
Keep them, and O remember Lord, They have no one but Thee
Yet they only human hearts,
With human frailty.
Keep them as spotless as the host That daily they caress—
Their every thought and word and deed, Deigh, dearest Lord to bless. Amen (Anonymous)
SAINT CELEBRATION DAYS FOR JUNE
JUNE 1: ST. JUSTIN, MARTYR
JUNE 2: STS. MARCELLINUS AND PETER, MARTYR
JUNE 3: STS. CHARLES LWANGA & COMPANIONS,MARTYR
JUNE 4: ST. FRANCIS CARACCIOLO, RELIGIOUS
JUNE 5: ST. BONIFACE, BISHOP & MARTYR
JUNE 6: ST. NORBERT, BISHOP
JUNE 7: ST. ROBERT OF NEWMINSTER, ABBOT
JUNE 8: ST. MEDARD, BISHOP
JUNE 9: ST. EPHREM, DEACON & DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
JUNE 10: ST. LANGERICUS (LANDRY), BISHOP OF PARIS
JUNE 11: ST. BARNABAS, APOSTLE
JUNE 12: BLESSED GUY (VIGNOTELLI) OF CORTONA, PRIEST
JUNE 13: ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, PRIEST & DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
JUNE 14: ST. METHODIUS, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE
JUNE 15: ST. GERMAINE COUSIN, VIRGIN
JUNE 16: ST. BENNO, BISHOP OF MEISSEN
JUNE 17: ST. HARVEY (HERVE), ABBOT
JUNE 18: ST. GREGORY BARBARIGO, BISHOP
JUNE 19: ST. ROMUALD, ABBOT
JUNE 20: ST. JOHN OF MATERA, ABBOT OF PULSANO
JUNE 21: ST. ALOYSIUOS GONZAGA, RELIGIOUS
JUNE 22: ST. PAULINUS OF NOLA, BISHOP & ST. JOHN FISHER, BISHOP, & THOMAS MORE, MARTYRS
JUNE 23: ST. ETHELREDA (AUDRY), VIRGIN
JUNE 24: NATIVITY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
JUNE 25: ST. PROSPER OF REGGIO, BISHOP
JUNE 26: ST. ANTHELM, BISHOP
JUNE 27: ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA, BISHOP & DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
JUNE 28: ST. IRENAEUS, BISHOP & MARTYR JUNE 29: STS. PETER & PAUL, APOSTLES
JUNE 30: THE FIRST HOLY MARTYRS OF THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH.
Please pray for the newly ordained priest and deacons. Pray that their new appointment are a success.
JUNE 1: ST. JUSTIN, MARTYR
JUNE 2: STS. MARCELLINUS AND PETER, MARTYR
JUNE 3: STS. CHARLES LWANGA & COMPANIONS,MARTYR
JUNE 4: ST. FRANCIS CARACCIOLO, RELIGIOUS
JUNE 5: ST. BONIFACE, BISHOP & MARTYR
JUNE 6: ST. NORBERT, BISHOP
JUNE 7: ST. ROBERT OF NEWMINSTER, ABBOT
JUNE 8: ST. MEDARD, BISHOP
JUNE 9: ST. EPHREM, DEACON & DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
JUNE 10: ST. LANGERICUS (LANDRY), BISHOP OF PARIS
JUNE 11: ST. BARNABAS, APOSTLE
JUNE 12: BLESSED GUY (VIGNOTELLI) OF CORTONA, PRIEST
JUNE 13: ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, PRIEST & DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
JUNE 14: ST. METHODIUS, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE
JUNE 15: ST. GERMAINE COUSIN, VIRGIN
JUNE 16: ST. BENNO, BISHOP OF MEISSEN
JUNE 17: ST. HARVEY (HERVE), ABBOT
JUNE 18: ST. GREGORY BARBARIGO, BISHOP
JUNE 19: ST. ROMUALD, ABBOT
JUNE 20: ST. JOHN OF MATERA, ABBOT OF PULSANO
JUNE 21: ST. ALOYSIUOS GONZAGA, RELIGIOUS
JUNE 22: ST. PAULINUS OF NOLA, BISHOP & ST. JOHN FISHER, BISHOP, & THOMAS MORE, MARTYRS
JUNE 23: ST. ETHELREDA (AUDRY), VIRGIN
JUNE 24: NATIVITY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
JUNE 25: ST. PROSPER OF REGGIO, BISHOP
JUNE 26: ST. ANTHELM, BISHOP
JUNE 27: ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA, BISHOP & DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
JUNE 28: ST. IRENAEUS, BISHOP & MARTYR JUNE 29: STS. PETER & PAUL, APOSTLES
JUNE 30: THE FIRST HOLY MARTYRS OF THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH.
Please pray for the newly ordained priest and deacons. Pray that their new appointment are a success.