Week Three - Friday Prayer Before Communion Ora / Pray May the sacrifice of our worship, Lord, we pray, be offered to you unceasingly, to...

Week Three - Thursday The Gospel Luke 3:10-18 Ora / Pray The crowds asked John the Baptist, “What should we do?” He said to them in...

Week 3 - Wednesday 2nd Reading Philippians 4:4-7 Ora / Pray Brothers and sisters: Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again:...

Week Three - Tuesday Responsorial Isaiah 12:2-6 Ora / Pray R. Cry out with joy and gladness: for among you is the great and Holy One of...

Week Three - Monday 1st Reading Zephaniah 3:14-18 Shout for joy, O daughter Zion! Sing joyfully, O Israel! Be glad and exult with all...

Week Three - Gaudete Sunday Collect Ora / Pray O God, who see how your people faithfully await the feast of the Lord's Nativity, enable...

Week Two - Saturday Prayer After Communion Ora / Pray Replenished by the food of spiritual nourishment, we humbly beseech you, O Lord,...

Week Two - Friday Prayer Before Communion Ora / Pray Be pleased, O Lord, with our humble prayers and offerings, and since we have no...

Week Two - Thursday Ora / Pray The Gospel Luke 3:1-6 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was...

Week Two - Wednesday Ora / Pray 2nd Reading Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11 Brothers and sisters: I pray always with joy in my every prayer for...

Week Two - Tuesday Ora / Pray Responsorial Psalm Psalms 126: 1-6 R. The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy. When...

Week Two - Monday 1st Reading Baruch 5:1-9 Ora / Pray Jerusalem, take off your robe of mourning and misery; put on the splendor of glory...

Week Two - Sunday Collect Ora / Pray Almighty and merciful God, may no earthly undertaking hinder those who set out in haste to meet your...

Week One - Saturday Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!! Prayer After Communion Ora / Pray May these mysteries, O Lord, in which we...

Week One - Friday Prayer Before Communion Ora / Pray Accept, we pray, O Lord, these offerings we make, gathered from among your gifts to...

Week One - Thursday The Gospel Luke 21:25-28, 34-36 Ora / Pray Jesus said to his disciples: “There will be signs in the sun, the moon,...

Week One - Wednesday 2nd Reading 1 Thessalonians 3:12—4:2 Brothers and sisters: May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one...

Week One - Tuesday Responsorial Psalm Psalm 25:4-5, 8-10, 14 Ora / Pray R. To you, O Lord, I lift my soul. Your ways, O LORD, make known...

Week One - Monday 1st Reading - Jeremiah 33:14 - 16 Ora / Pray The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made...

Week One - Sunday Collect Ora / Pray Grant your faithful, we pray, almighty God, the resolve to run forth to meet your Christ with...

Give Your Spouse a Happier Marriage for Christmas! Introduction Advent, that time of the year where our focus is upon the upcoming...

Four years ago Robert and I became Benedictine Oblates making our promises to Our Lady of Clear Creek Monastery. Becoming an oblate means...

What a wonderful time of the year to share the immensity of our faith with our children. After having celebrated All Saints Day...

“This kind of evil spirits can be cast forth by nothing but prayer and fasting.” Lauds antiphon for Ember Wednesday in September Ember...