Blessed are ye that weep now: for you shall laugh. Blessed are ye that hunger now: for you shall be filled. And all the multitude sought to touch him: for virtue went out from him and healed all.Īnd he, lifting up his eyes on his disciples, said: 'Blessed are ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. And they that were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. Alleluia!Īt that time, Jesus coming down from the mountain, stood in a plain place: and the company of his disciples and a very great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast, both of Tyre and Sidon, Who were come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.įor as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so also through Christ does our comfort abound. The snare has been broken and we are free. Our soul has been rescued as a bird from the snare of the hunters. But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: although loving you more, I be loved less. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you.

Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you.

For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury. Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.īrethren: I ought to have been commended by you, For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing. Thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Three young men, mercifully grant that the flames of sin may not burn O God, You Who tempered the flames of fire for the Both suffered martyrdom under Diocletian in the year 304, and their bodies were brought to Rome by some Christian mariners.Ĭomfort us, O Lord, with the unfailing protection of Your holy martyrs Cyprian and Justina, for You are always merciful to those who are helped by Your saints. Cyprian later became a priest and then a bishop.

Ĭommemoration of SAINTS CYPRIAN AND JUSTINAĪt Antioch the virtue of the virgin Justina converted Cyprian, a magician, to Christianity. May the harvest for Christ grow daily more abundant in the whole world through the intercession of these saints.

O God, You blessed the first fruits of the faith in the vast expanse of North America by the missionary labors and martyrdom of blessed Isaac, John, and their companions. Praise the Lord, all you nations praise Him, all you peoples! These are they who have come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. Fathers Isaac Jogues and Anthony Daniel and the two lay oblates, John Lalande and Rene Goupil, gave their lives in what is now New York State Fathers John de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Garnier, and Noel Chabanel in central Canada. After struggling with unbelievable privations and hardships, they were severely tortured and martyred by the Iroquois Indians between the years 16. These eight French Jesuit missioners, the first canonized saints of the North American continent, labored and died among the most barbaric of red men in the most impenetrable fastnesses of the 17th-century New World.

Bishop morlino sspx