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Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (I John 5:14) Religion forum threads labeled (Prayer) are closed to debate of any kind.

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds Isaiah 49:8-13Restoration of Israel 8 This is what the Lord says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, 9 to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’ “They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill. 10 They will neither hunger nor thirst,...

Saturday of the 2nd week of Lent St. Turibius Chapel – Columbus, OH First readingMicah 7:14-15,18-20 ©Have pity on us one more timeWith shepherd’s crook, O Lord, lead your people to pasture,the flock that is your heritage,living confined in a forestwith meadow land all around.Let them pasture in Bashan and Gileadas in the days of old.As in the days when you came out of Egyptgrant us to see wonders.What god can compare with you: taking fault away,pardoning crime,not cherishing anger for everbut delighting in showing mercy?Once more have pity on us,tread down our faults,to the bottom of the seathrow...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds Jeremiah 50:“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place.New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) Our Own Nation's "bad shepherds" are being revealed, one by one.New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds Psalm 79:1313 Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) We are the "Sheep of His Pasture."New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

March 05 2021 St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Marshall, East Texas Lectionary 234Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingGenesis 37:3-4,12-13,17-28 ©Let us kill him: then we shall see what becomes of his dreamsIsrael loved Joseph more than all his other sons, for he was the son of his old age, and he had a coat with long sleeves made for him. But his brothers, seeing how his father loved him more than all his other sons, came to hate him so much that they could not say a civil word to him. His brothers went to pasture their father’s flock at Shechem....

March 05 2021 St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Marshall, East Texas Lectionary 234 The readings on this page are from the Jerusalem Bible, which is used at Mass in most of the English-speaking world. The New American Bible readings, which are used at Mass in the United States, are available in the Universalis apps, programs and downloads.You can also view this page with the Gospel in Greek and English.

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds Nehemiah 1:7-88 “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, 9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) Nehemiah's prophecy came true, in his century and in ours.New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright...

March 04 2021 Saint Casimir (Kazimierz) of Poland St Casimir Chapel, Vilnius Cathedral, Vilnius (Wilno), Lithuania By Juliux - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3254027 Lectionary 233Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingJeremiah 17:5-10 ©A curse on the man who puts his trust in man and turns from the LordThe Lord says this:‘A curse on the man who puts his trust in man,who relies on things of flesh,whose heart turns from the Lord.He is like dry scrub in the wastelands:if good comes, he has no eyes for it,he settles in the parched places of the wilderness,a salt land, uninhabited.‘A blessing on...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds Psalm 107:1-91 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. 2 Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story— those he redeemed from the hand of the foe, 3 those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.[a] 4 Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle. 5 They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away. 6 Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them...

March 03 2021 St. Katharine Drexel {from Philadelphia} St John the Evangelist Church, Philadelphia, PA Lectionary 232Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingJeremiah 18:18-20 ©My enemies are digging a pit for me‘Come on,’ they said, ‘let us concoct a plot against Jeremiah; the priest will not run short of instruction without him, nor the sage of advice, nor the prophet of the word. Come on, let us hit at him with his own tongue; let us listen carefully to every word he says.’Listen to me, O Lord,hear what my adversaries are saying.Should evil be returned for good?For they are digging a...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT, Vice President, Supreme Court, Senate, Congress, our First Responders and Military AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Five years ago Kate suffered a series of seizures and ultimately was diagnosed with ADEM (Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis). She was put on seizure medication. Since then, seizures became rare, but recently she had two episodes within a month. Let us pray for her continuing recovery. Saint Catherine of Siena is her patron saint. I also ask for the intercession of Saint Vitus. PRAYER TO ST VITUS FOR PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM EPILEPSY St Vitus, born in Italy, is the Patron Saint of dancers, comedians and those suffering from epileptic fits, together with St Dymphna. The cult of St Vitus is ancient....

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and ShepherdsEzekiel 39:27When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations.New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) This Particular Topic is all through Scripture.New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

March 02 2021 St. Angela of the Cross Seville Cathedral, Spain Lectionary 231Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingIsaiah 1:10,16-20 ©Cease to do evil; learn to do goodHear the word of the Lord,you rulers of Sodom;listen to the command of our God,you people of Gomorrah.‘Wash, make yourselves clean.Take your wrong-doing out of my sight.Cease to do evil.Learn to do good,search for justice,help the oppressed,be just to the orphan,plead for the widow.‘Come now, let us talk this over,says the Lord.Though your sins are like scarlet,they shall be as white as snow;though they are red as crimson,they shall be like wool.‘If you are...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

He has just learned cancer has spread to distant lymph nodes, and he has a very young child with special needs, whose mother has abandoned them both.

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and ShepherdsHosea 6Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. 2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. 3 Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”New...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.