“Stir up Your power, we pray, O Lord, and come, that with You to protect us, we may find rescue from the pressing dangers of our sins, and with You to set us free, we may be found worthy of salvation. Who lives and reigns…” #Catholic #Advent #Prayer patrolo.gy/l3h

#StJerome ponders #Matthew 9:28 on Friday of #Advent 1, “As the Lord Jesus was passing on from the ruler’s house and proceeding to his own (as we read above): “And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city…” #Catholic #Dailymass patrolo.gy/mxv

“Desire for the vision of God” — #StAnselmOfCanterbury — “Insignificant man, escape from your everyday business for a short while, hide for a moment from your restless thoughts. Break off from your cares and troubles and be less concerned about your…” patrolo.gy/xu4

“My transgressions, truly I know them; my sin is always before me. Against You, You alone, have I sinned; what is evil in Your sight I have done. So You are just in your sentence, without reproach in your judgment O see, in guilt I was born…” #Psalm51 patrolo.gy/3XlXAMV

“The Lord is my light and my salvation.” #Psalm27 patrolo.gy/3XQuS7g #Catholic #Advent #DailyMass bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...

When it comes to living #Advent, what does it mean to prepare? Reflections on the verb «to prepare» as used by #JohnTheBaptist when quoting the #prophet #Isaiah on the #SecondSundayOfAdvent. patrolo.gy/Advent2-2025

“In the first Advent God veiled his divinity to prove the faithful; in the second Advent he will manifest his glory to reward their faith.” -St. John Chrysostom ❤️ Jesus is coming... Prepare your heart during this Advent season.

“Stir up Your power, O Lord, and come to our help with mighty strength, that what our sins impede the grace of Your mercy may hasten. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of…” #Advent #Catholic #Prayer patrolo.gy/nng

#Apponius ponders #Isaiah 26:1 on Thursday of #Advent 1, “Hence, if they find anyone outside, they beat, wound and rob him by not believing in the true flesh of Christ that was nailed to the cross, from whom true blood flowed…” #Catholic #Dailymass patrolo.gy/2iu

“Keep watch: he is to come again” — #StEphrem — “To prevent his disciples from asking the time of his coming, Christ said: About that hour no one knows, neither the angels nor the Son. It is not for you to know times or moments. He has kept those…” patrolo.gy/9ff61d

“Have mercy on me, God, have mercy, for in you my soul has taken refuge. In the shadow of your wings I take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by. I call to you, God the Most High, to God who provides for me, and put to shame those…” #Psalm57 patrolo.gy/3YAWyNV

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” #Psalm118 patrolo.gy/3HGHxVs #Catholic #Advent #DailyMass bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...

“O God, Who through the preaching of #StFrancisXavier won many peoples to Yourself, grant that the hearts of the faithful may burn with the same zeal for the faith and that Holy Church may everywhere rejoice in an abundance…” #Catholic #Advent #Prayer patrolo.gy/8dr

On the #Memorial of the #Priest and #Missionary #StFrancisXavier, #Origen ponders #Matthew 15:30, “Again Jesus went up on the mountain where he sat down. Not only people who were healthy but also those suffering from…” #Catholic #Advent #Dailymass patrolo.gy/qyh

“Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel” — #StFrancisXavier — “We have visited the villages of the new converts who accepted the Christian religion a few years ago. No Portuguese live here—the country is so utterly barren and poor. The native…” patrolo.gy/rcz

“I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.” #Psalm23 patrolo.gy/3DBsCind #Catholic #Advent #StFrancisXavier #DailyMass bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...

“Look with favor, Lord God, on our petitions, and in our trials grant us your compassionate help, that, consoled by the presence of your Son, whose coming we now await, we may be tainted no longer by the corruption of…” #Advent #Catholic #Prayer patrolo.gy/dn5

On Tuesday of #Advent 1, #StJerome ponders #Isaiah 11:1, “Until the beginning of the vision, or the burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amos saw, his entire prophecy was about Christ, a prophecy that we want to explain…” #Catholic #Dailymass patrolo.gy/s15

“The marvel of the Incarnation” — #StGregoryNazianzen — “The very Son of God, older than the ages, the invisible, the incomprehensible, the incorporeal, the beginning of beginning, the light of light, the fountain of life and immortality, the image…” patrolo.gy/4485ba

“The LORD’s is the earth and its fullness, the world, and those who dwell in it. It is He who set it on the seas; on the rivers he made it firm. Who shall climb the mountain of the LORD? Who shall stand in his holy place? The clean… ” #Psalm24 patrolo.gy/3WT4EQJ

“Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace for ever.” #Psalm72 patrolo.gy/3ouqlv8 #Catholic #Advent #DailyMass bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...

“Keep us alert, we pray, O Lord our God, as we await the advent of Christ Your Son, so that, when He comes and knocks, He may find us watchful in prayer and exultant in His praise. Who lives and reigns with You in the unity…” #Advent #Catholic #Prayer patrolo.gy/nm0

#Origen ponders #Isaiah 4:2-4 on Monday of #Advent 1, “When one has recognized the differences in sins, one can see how the Lord says in Isaiah, “The Lord will wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Zion and will…” #Catholic #Dailymass patrolo.gy/c36

“The season of Advent” — #StCharlesBorromeo — “Beloved, now is the acceptable time spoken of by the Spirit, the day of salvation, peace and reconciliation: the great season of Advent. This is the time eagerly awaited by the patriarchs and prophets…” patrolo.gy/l3e

“To my words give ear, O LORD; give heed to my sighs. Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God. To you do I pray, O LORD. In the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I plead and watch before you. You are no God who delights…” #Psalm5 patrolo.gy/3JaPG5p

“Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.” #Psalm122 patrolo.gy/3BeutCE #Catholic #Advent #DailyMass bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...

“Alleluia! When Israel came forth from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a foreign people, Judah became his temple, Israel became his domain. The sea beheld them and fled; the Jordan turned back on its course. The mountains leapt like rams…” #Psalm114 patrolo.gy/3mzrpgH

“The future corruption of the world therefore is thought of in two ways. In one, related to the moral descent of fire, and in the other, related to the ...” #Origen #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #Sunday #Mass #Advent patrolo.gy/Advent2025A1

The unfolding of #Advent … “Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our days, that, by the help of Your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed...” #Catholic #Sundaymass patrolo.gy/om1

“Grant Your faithful, we pray, almighty God, the resolve to run forth to meet Your Christ with righteous deeds at His coming, so that, gathered at His right hand, they may be worthy to possess the heavenly Kingdom…” #Advent #Catholic #Prayer patrolo.gy/wa3

On the #First #Sunday of #Advent, #Tertullian ponders #Isaiah 2:4, “The gospel will be this “way” of the new law and the new word in Christ, no longer in Moses. “And he shall judge among the nations,” even concerning their …” #Catholic #Sundaymass patrolo.gy/6009df

“On the twofold coming of Christ” — #StCyrilOfJerusalem — “We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but a second as well, much more glorious than the first. The first coming was marked by patience; the second will bring the crown of a divine…” patrolo.gy/c81cad

“O God, you are my God; at dawn I seek you; for you my soul is thirsting. For you my flesh is pining, like a dry, weary land without water. I have come before you in the sanctuary, to behold your strength and your glory. Your loving mercy …” #Psalm63 patrolo.gy/3XDpQeH

“Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.” #Psalm122 patrolo.gy/3BeutCE #Catholic #Advent #SundayMass bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...

#Advent blessings and time for volume 1 of the #LiturgyOfTheHours. A wise and holy seminary professor told us as seminarians that he adds the General Instruction of the LotH to his Advent spiritual reading to ponder its deep and rich theology of #prayer.

“The future corruption of the world therefore is thought of in two ways. In one, related to the moral descent of fire, and in the other, related to the ...” #Origen #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #Sunday #Mass #Advent patrolo.gy/Advent2025A1

“Father all-powerful, your gifts of love are countless and your goodness infinite; as we come before you on Thanksgiving Day with gratitude for your kindness, open our hearts to have concern for every man, woman, and child, so that…” #Catholic #Prayer patrolo.gy/ua8

#Origen ponders #Luke 21:34 on Saturday of Week 34, “But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare.” You…” #Catholic #Dailymass patrolo.gy/d2l

“Let us sing alleluia to the good God Who delivers us from evil” — #StAugustine — “Let us sing alleluia here on earth, while we still live in anxiety, so that we may sing it one day in heaven in full security. Why do we now live in anxiety? Can you…” patrolo.gy/fh0

“It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your loving mercy in the morning, and your truth in the watches of the night, on the ten-stringed lyre and the lute, with the sound of song on the…” #Psalm92 patrolo.gy/3RBjrie

“Give glory and eternal praise to him.” #Daniel3 patrolo.gy/337zCPh #Catholic #OrdinaryTime #DailyMass bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...

“Father all-powerful, your gifts of love are countless and your goodness infinite; as we come before you on Thanksgiving Day with gratitude for your kindness, open our hearts to have concern for every man, woman, and child, so that…” #Catholic #Prayer patrolo.gy/ux1

#StAmbrose ponders #Luke 21:31 on Friday of Week 34, “You see him in the clouds. I certainly do not think that Christ will come in the darkness of mist and the chill of rain. The clouds are visible and surely cover the heaven in…” #Catholic #Dailymass patrolo.gy/ga4

“Let us banish the fear of death and think of the eternal life that follows it” — #StCyprian — “Our obligation is to do God’s will, and not our own. We must remember this if the prayer that our Lord commanded us to say daily is to have any meaning…” patrolo.gy/aba746

“My transgressions, truly I know them; my sin is always before me. Against You, You alone, have I sinned; what is evil in Your sight I have done. So You are just in your sentence, without reproach in your judgment O see, in guilt I was born…” #Psalm51 patrolo.gy/3XlXAMV

“Give glory and eternal praise to him!” #Daniel3 patrolo.gy/337zCPh #Catholic #OrdinaryTime #DailyMass bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...

“Father all-powerful, your gifts of love are countless and your goodness infinite; as we come before you on Thanksgiving Day with gratitude for your kindness, open our hearts to have concern for every man, woman, and child, so that…” #Catholic #Prayer patrolo.gy/1xt

On #ThanksgivingDay, #StCyrilAlexandria ponders #Luke 17:14, “Why did he not say, “I will, be cleansed,” as he did in the case of another leper, instead of commanding them to show themselves to the priests? It was because the law…” #Catholic #Dailymass patrolo.gy/bt6

“If we are sheep, we overcome, if wolves, we are overcome” — #StJohnChrysostom — “As long as we are sheep, we overcome and, though surrounded by countless wolves, we emerge victorious; but if we turn into wolves, we are overcome, for we lose the…” patrolo.gy/1co