Intercession:
For those whose work involves
promoting abortion and contraceptive use: may God help them understand that the
casual sex they foster undermines the capacity for the self-giving, faithful
and enduring love that is the
longing of every heart.
Prayer:
Our Father, 3 Hail Marys, Glory Be
Reflection:
Today marks the feast day of the newly
canonized American saint, Mother Marianne Cope, OSF (1838-1918). St. Marianne
Cope emigrated with her family from Germany as an infant and grew up in Utica,
NY. She joined the Sisters of St. Francis at the age of twenty-four and later
helped to found and operate two regional hospitals in upstate New York. In 1883, she answered the plea of
Hawaii’s king to operate hospitals and care for the victims of leprosy,
traveling to Hawaii with six Franciscan sisters. During the last thirty years
of her life, she chose to be exiled on the island of Molokai where she cared
for women and children with leprosy. She was a life-long witness to the equal
dignity and value of every human being. She brought beauty and order to the
lives of these outcasts, and provided them with educational and religious instruction
as well as teaching them music and the decorative arts. St. Marianne, help us
to see the beauty and value in every human life.
Acts of Reparation (choose one)
- Learn how to pray the Angelus prayer and get into the habit of saying it every day—at noon or 6 p.m. or on awakening (or all three times).
- Today ignore your sweet tooth. Make healthy eating choices.
- Clean a room in your house without being asked or without telling anyone. Pray for your family members while you clean “and your Father who sees in secret will repay you” (Matthew 6:6)
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