SUNDAY

Family Harmony

Vocations -- Married life, Single life, Religious life, Clerical life. Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary

Saints: Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. Anne and St. Joachim (Mary's parents)
St. Elizabeth (Mary's cousin),St. Monica, St. Thomas More, St. Elizabeth of Portugal
St. Fabiola, St. Helena, St. John Vianney (parish priests)

MONDAY

Respiratory System Disorders "Employment / Financial difficulties"

Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary Saints: Holy Spirit (the "Breath" of God), St. Vincent de Paul (financial difficulties), St. Benedict (homeless), St. Blaise (throat diseases, hoarseness), St. Gemma (tuberculosos)

TUESDAY

Digestive System disorders

"World Hunger / Poverty"

Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary

Saints: St. Charles Borromeo (stomach), St. Bonaventure and St. Elmo (intestines), St. Erasmus (abdominal pain), St. Pancras (cramps), St. Martha, St. Albinus (kidney disease & gallstones), St. Cathal (hernia), St. Anthony of Padua (the poor), St. Apollonia (toothache)

WEDNESDAY

Nervous System Disorders -- Brain / Spinal Cord injuries or diseases

Emotional / Psychological disorders, Anxiety, Depression, Addictions) "Victims of Sexual, Physical, Emotional, Psychological Abuse"

Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary Saints: St. Dymphna (anxiety, psychological disorders), St. Monica (alcoholism), St. John of God (alcoholism),

St. Lucy (blindness), St. Raphael the Archangel (blindness), St. Francis de Sales deafness), St. Avertinus (dizziness)

St.Maximillian Kolbe (drug addiction), St. Polycarp (earache), St. Vitus (epilepsy), St. Bernardino of Siena (gambling addiction)

St. Bibliana (hangovers), St. Teresa of Avila (headaches), St. Gereon (migraine sufferers), St. Christopher (nightmares)

St. Quirinius (obsessive/compulsive disorder), St. Madron (pain), St. Margaret the Barefooted (physical abuse), St. Dymphna (sexual abuse)

St. Maria Goretti (rape), St. John Chrysostom (stuttering, speech impediments), St. Germaine Cousin (child abuse)

THURSDAY

Skeletal / Muscular / Endocrine (Skin) System disorders

"Cancer" Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary

Saints: St. Peregrin (Patron Saint of Cancer patients), St. James (arthritis), St. Anthony the Great (eczema), St. Victor of Marseilles (foot problems), St. Cadoc

(glandular disorders), St. Seraphina (handicapped), St. Fiacre (hemorrhoids), St. Servatius (leg injuries), St. Osmund (paralysis) St. Anthony the Abbot (skin disease)

FRIDAY

Circulatory System disorders

(Traditionally, a day set-aside for Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus)

"Reconciliation -- with God & Neighbor / For an end to War"

Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary

Saints: Sacred Heart of Jesus, Immaculate Heart of Mary, St. Rita (bleeding), St. John of God (heart patients), St. Teresa of Avila (heart attack sufferers), St. Lucy (hemorrhage)

SATURDAY

Reproductive System disorders Conception / Childbirth difficulties

(Traditionally, a day set-aside for Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary)

"Virtues -- Faith, Hope, Love, Purity, Chastity"

For an end to Abortion / Post-Abortion Healing

Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary

Saints: Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. Anne (Mary's mother), St. Elizabeth (Mary's cousin), St. Catherine of Sweden, Holy Innocents, St. Nicholas of Tolentino, St. Agatha, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Rita, St. Catherine of Genoa

St. Margaret, St. Ulric, St. Gummarus (impotence), St. Rita (infertility), St. Dorothy (against miscarriages), St. Giles (nursing mothers), St. Raymund Nonnatus (pregnant women)

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary for World Peace (Excerpted from Corpus Christi Parish Bulletin 8/85)

Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin -- Mother of Jesus and our loving Mother -- with loving fervor in our hearts, we salute and honor you as "Queen of Peace". We pray that your intercession may protect us and all people from hatred and discord, and direct our hearts into the ways of peace and justice which your Son taught and exemplified.

We ask your Maternal care for our Holy Father who works to reconcile the nations in peace. We seek your guidance for our President and other world leaders as they strive for world peace. Glorious "Queen of Peace" grant us peace in our hearts, harmony in our families, and concord throughout the world. Immaculate Mother -- as Patroness of our country -- watch over us and protect us with your Motherly love.

Prayer of St. Francis

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;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O 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.

Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and, do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -- by the power of God --
cast into hell Satan and all evil spirits, who prowl throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Scripture Meditations

"If you do well, you can hold-up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door; his urge is toward you, but you can be his master." (Genesis 4:7)
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and on your own intelligence rely not; in all your ways be mindful of Him and He will make straight your paths." ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart and rely not on your own understanding; in everything you do, put God first, and He will direct you and crown your efforts with success") (Proverbs 3:5-6)
"Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be as cunning as serpents and as innocent as doves . . . When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given, at that moment, what you are to say. For it will not be you, but the Spirit of your Father speaking thru you." (Matthew 10:16,19)
"Amen, I say unto you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by My heavenly Father. For where two or more of you are gathered together, in My name, there am I in their midst." (Matthew 18:19-20)
"Where sin abounds, there grace abounds all the more." (Romans 5:20)
"In all these things, we are more than 'conquerors' thru Him who loved us." (Romans 8:37)
"God is faithful and will not let you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial, He will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it." (1 Corinthians 10:13)
"GOD: My Grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness. PAUL: I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, it is then that I am strong." (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)
"Indeed some might say, 'You have faith, and I have works'.Demonstrate your faith to me without works, and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works,. You believe that God is One. You do well to believe that. Even the demons believe that, and tremble." (James 2:18-19)

If you have a prayer request, please contact the Corpus Christi "Prayer Line": at 892-5388

"For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eye, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of dispair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus."
(St. Therese of Lisieux)