Glorious Wonderworker,St.Anthony, father of the poor who once disclosed the heart of a miser buried in his gold; you are gifted with compassion for the miseries of the unfortunate and you obtain a hearing from God for our prayers. Accept as a token of gratitude the alms which we place before you in aid of the poor. Grant that they may prove to those the advantage of those suffering and to our own benefit.In your gracious benevolence assist us in our temporal, and especially in our spiritual necessities, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow, love. Where there is injury, pardon.Where there is doubt, faith.Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. Oh,Divine Master, grant, that I may not, so much seek to be consoled, as to console,to be understood as to understand ,to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
We are the church. I am a sinner saved by His grace as my arms and legs do not go where He wishes them to go to do His work for His children due to some health problems. I am a little bit of a wuss. But for those who are obedient are graces and blessings. Jesus came to give life and to give it more abundantly. John 10:10. Read Ephesians 3:13-24. Jeremiah 29:11.
I thank you for doing the work before you one family at a time.
in Christs name.
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