As we celebrate the second day of our Lord Jesus’ Resurrection to New Life, fill us with new hope. Monday, April 10įather of the Resurrection and the Life, we adore and we love you. We ask this through Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit. All we need to do is move forward and leave behind what keeps us going back to the tomb of our past. Let your resurrection remind us that there is a much better life you offer to each of us. Do not allow us to stay long in the tomb of our loneliness, isolation, attachment or obsession. Help us also learn to move on from the past. Help us learn to let go of the things beyond our power, and surrender everything to you. Like the women who wept at the tomb, come to visit our brothers and sisters suffering from the loss of a loved one. As we follow the readings every day, send forth your Holy Spirit to guide us and make us understand the mystery of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus. Tuesday, April 11įather of life and resurrection, we praise and honor you today. Empower us, we pray, to be witnesses of your resurrection, for you are Lord, who lives and reigns with God, the Father, and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Thank you, Lord, for surrounding us with your glory of resurrection. However, through today’s Gospel Reading, you remind us that you are always there, accompanying us and helping us to recognize your presence in our daily life. O Risen Lord, many times we travel alone in our Emmaus journey with doubts and questions about whether you are around or somewhere far away. We want to pray for our brothers and sisters who suffer from any kind of illnesses: bodily, mental, and spiritual. May the power of your Holy Name and their faith in your name be the source for them to gain strength, and may you restore their health. May you open their mind to help them understand your love for them through all those who care and love them. May you also bless the effort of their families, friends and caregivers who take care of the sick. We ask you this, Lord Jesus, who lives and reigns forever and ever. “…by faith in his name,… has given him this perfect health, in the presence of all of you ” (Acts 3:16) O Risen Lord, we come to you today and humbly ask for your forgiveness and mercy for the times when we rejected you, and instead followed our own plans and desires. As you asked your disciples to “ cast the net over the right side of the boat, and you will find something,” may you also continue to remind us to listen to you and to do as you ask us to do. We know, Lord, that you are the most important stone in the structure of our lives. May God open our eyes to see You, Jesus, as you really are – the cornerstone of eternal salvation, for you live and reign, forever and ever. “The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone.” Psalm 118:22 May your Kingdom reign throughout the whole world. As you called us to do this mission, may you also strengthen each one of us with the power of the Holy Spirit, so that we too may be fruitful in our mission. Please rebuke our unbelief and hardness of heart, but help us to believe lue sky and be faithful to the mission that you have entrusted to us. Lord Jesus, you called each one of us today to be the witnesses of your Resurrection. “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.” Help us, Lord, to understand this core of our faith. May we never fail to recognize you in our suffering brothers and sisters who need our helping hands, but let us “bring our hands and put them to action,” that we too may experience that life you promised us through believing in your name, for you live and reign, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever. Teach us to believe in you each and every day that you are the Risen Lord who conquered sin and death. Sunday, April 16īlessed are those who have not seen and have believed. Help us to stay close to you for we know that your Kingdom live and reign forever and ever. Help us to see clearly your plans for us. Thank you for watching over those who ask your love and mercy. Help us to be patient and know that you are always on time. All we know that you are working behind the scenes and unfolding your plan in our lives at just the right time. Thank you for all the blessings that you have bestowed upon all those who take refuge in you. … so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.Īt times we are like Nicodemus, we do not understand many earthly things. Grant us your Holy Spirit, we humbly ask you, to give us wisdom that we may understand and be wise stewards of your Kingdom. In this life, may we continue to lift up the Son of Man through our words and actions, and may we experience and understand the heavenly things. We ask you this, Lord, who lives and reigns with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.īlessed are all who take refuge in the Lord.
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