Lectio Divina

Bishop Brian leads us in “Lectio Divina” – a time of prayer and meditation using the text of the Gospel, you are all invited to visit the Diocesan Youtube. Click the photo below for the Lectio Divina.

Praying with and to the Saints

Prayer for Spiritual Communion by St Alphonsus Liguori

My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Holy Sacrament of the altar.
I love you above all things and I passionately desire to receive you into my soul.
Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, come spiritually into my soul so that I may unite myself wholly to you now and forever. Amen.

Prayer to St. Roch

O Blessed Saint Roch,
Patron of the sick,
Have pity on those
Who lie upon a bed of suffering.

Your power was so great
When you were in this world,
That by the sign of the Cross,
Many were healed of their diseases.

Now that you are in heaven,
Your power is not less.
Offer, then, to God
Our sighs and tears
And obtain for us that health we seek
Through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

(Repeat the following 3 times)

Saint Roch, pray for us,
That we may be preserved from all diseases of body and soul.