All Saints Day

The Saints will shine like the sun

in the kingdom of their Father,

alleluia.

Feast 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;

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.

Ask and You Shall Receive

... Prayer ...

We do not pray to change divine decree,

but only to obtain what God has decided

will be obtained through prayer.

In other words, as St. Gregory says,

"by asking, men deserve to receive what

the all-powerful God has decreed

from all eternity to give them."

St. Thomas Aquinas