Intro to the day:  “Always in your sleep and vigils the angels of God and holy visions will come to you, for you are a temple of God, in body and soul.”

Today is Thursday of the First Week of Ordinary Time. We are praying for the faculty, staff, and families of DePaul School for Hearing and Speech in Pittsburgh, PA.

In the Gospel, Jesus heals a man of leprosy.

Gospel: Mark 1:40-45

Saint of the Day: Saint Íta of Killeedy

Marian prayer for the day: Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows - St. Bridget

O Blessed Virgin Mary, Immaculate Mother of God, who didst endure a martyrdom of love and grief, beholding the sufferings and sorrows of Jesus! Thou didst co-operate in the benefit of my redemption by thy innumerable afflictions and by offering to the Eternal Father His only-begotten Son as a holocaust and victim of propitiation for my sins. I thank thee for the unspeakable love which led thee to deprive thyself of the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus, true God and true Man, to save me, a sinner. Oh! make use of the unfailing intercession of thy sorrows with the Father and the Son, that I may steadfastly amend my life and never again crucify my loving Redeemer by new sins; arid that, persevering till death in His grace, I may obtain eternal life through the merits of His Cross and Passion.

Amen.

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