September 3: Pope Saint Gregory
O God, who care for your people with gentleness and rule them in love, through the intercession of Pope Saint Gregory, endow, we pray, with a spirit of wisdom those to whom you have given authority to govern, that the flourishing of a holy flock may become the eternal joy of the shepherds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
September 5: Saint Theresa of Calcutta
God, who called blessed Teresa, virgin, to respond to the love of your Son thirsting on the cross with outstanding charity to the poorest of the poor, grant us, we beseech you, by her intercession, to minister to Christ in his suffering brothers. Through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
September 8
Nativity of Mary
Impart to your servants, we pray, O Lord, the gift of heavenly grace, that the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin may bring deeper peace to those for whom the birth of her Son was the dawning of salvation.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
Sept 9
Saint Peter Claver
O God, who made Saint Peter Claver a slave of slaves
And strengthened him with wond3rful charity and patience
As he came to their help,
Grant, through his intercession,
That seeking the things of Jesus Christ
We may love our neighbor in deeds and in truth.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 12
Most Holy Name of Mary
Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we Thy faithful people, who rejoice in the name and protection of the most holy Virgin Mary, may by her loving intercession be delivered from all evils here on earth, and be made worthy to reach eternal glory in the life to come. Through Christ our Lord, Amen.
Sept 13
Saint John Chrysostom
O God, strength of those who hope in you,
Who willed that the Bishop Saint John Chrysostom
Should be illustrious by his wonderful eloquence
And his experience of suffering,
Grant us we pray,
That, instructed by his teaching,
We may be strengthened through the example
Of his invincible patience.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 14
Exaltation of the Holy Cross
O God, who willed that your Only begotten Son
Should undergo the Cross to save the human race,
Grant, we pray
That we, who have known his mystery on earth,
May merit the praise of his redemption in heaven.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 15
Our Lady of Sorrows
O God, who willed that when your Son was lifted high on the Cross, his Mother should stand close by and share his suffering, grant that your church, participating with the Virgin Mary in the Passion of Christ, may merit a share in his resurrection.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
Sept 16
O God, who gave Saints Cornelius and Cyprian to your people,
As diligent shepherds and valiant martyrs,
Grant that through their intercession
We may be strengthened in faith and constancy
And spend ourselves without reserve
For the unity of the Church.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 17
Sigmata of Saint Francis:
Almighty God, you renewed the marks of the sufferings of your Son in the body of our holy Father Francis in order to inflame our hearts with the fire of your love. Through his prayers may we be conformable to the death of your Son and thus share also in his resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 17
O God, who adorned the Bishop Saint Robert Bellarmine
With wonderful learning and virtue
To vindicate the faith of the church,
Grant through his intercession,
That in the integrity of that same faith
You people may always find joy.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 19
Saint Januarius
O God, who grant us to venerate
The memory of the Martyr Saint Januarius,
Give us, we pray the joy of his company
In blessed happiness for all eternity.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 20
Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gon and Paul Chong Ha-sang, and Companions
O God, who have been pleased to increase
Your adopted children in all the world,
And who made the blood of the martyrs
Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gon and his Companions
A most fruitful seed of Christians,
Grant that we may be defended by their help
And profit always from their example
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 21
Saint Matthew
O God, who with untold mercy
Were pleased to choose as an Apostle
Saint Matthew, the tax collector,
Grant that, sustained by his example and intercession,
We may merit to hold firm to following you.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
September 23
Almighty ever-living God, who by a singular grace,
Gave the Priest Saint Pius a share
In the Cross of your Son
And, by means of his ministry,
Renewed the wonders of your mercy,
Grant that through his intercession
We may be united constantly to the suffering of Christ.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 26
Saints Cosmos and Damian
May you be magnified, O Lord,
By the revered memory of your saints
Cosmos and Damian
For with providence beyond words
You have conferred on them everlasting glory,
And on us, your unfailing help.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Saint Vincent de Paul
O God, who for the relief of your poor
And the formation of the clergy
Endowed the priest Saint Vincent de Paul
With apostolic virtues,
Grant, we pray, that, afire with that same spirit,
We may love what he loved,
And put into practice what he taught.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 28
Saint Wenceslaus
O God, who taught the martyr Saint Wenceslaus
To place the heavenly Kingdom before an earthly one,
Grant through his prayers that, denying ourselves,
We may hold fast to you with all our heart.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Saint Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, martyrs
Grant us, we pray, Lord God,
The same perseverance shown by your Martyrs
Saint Lawrence Ruiz and his companions
In serving you and their neighbor,
Since those persecuted for the sake of righteousness
Are blessed in your Kingdom.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 29
Saint Michael, Gabriel and Raphael
O God, who dispose in marvelous order
Ministries both angelic and human,
Graciously grant
That our life on earth may be defended
By those who watch over us
As they minister perpetually to you in heaven.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Sept 30
O God, who gave the priest Saint Jerome
A living and tender love for Sacred Scripture,
Grant that your people
May be ever more fruitfully nourished by your Word
And find in it the fount of life.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
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