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Daily Prayer for Today's Catholic APRIL 2020 ® DAILY PRAYER FOR TODAY’S CATHOLIC Canticle of Zechariah (Benedictus) Luke 1:68-79 lessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; Bhe has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty savior, born of the house of his servant David. Through his holy prophets he promised of old that he would save us from our enemies, from the hands of all who hate us. He promised to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant. This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to set us free from the hands of our enemies, free to worship him without fear, holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life. You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way, to give his people knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins. In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high shall break upon us, to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Give Us This Day® Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 V 2 V 3 V 4 V [St. Francis of Paola] [St. Isidore] ✛ Sts. Agape, Chionia, ✛ St. Francis of Paola ✛ St. Lodovico Pavoni ✛ St. Benedict the Black April 2020 and Irene Msgr. John McIlhon Sr. Mary McGlone Fr. Guerric DeBona Kathy Coffey 5 Sixth Week of Lent R 6 V 7 V 8 V 9 W 10 R 11 W Palm Sunday Holy Thursday Good Friday Easter Vigil Brian Doyle ✛ Ven. Marie Madeleine ✛ Martyrs of the ✛ Egeria d’Houët Rwandan Genocide Rita Ferrone Fr. Jerome Kodell Caryll Houselander Fr. Daniel Groody Within the Word: Jesus: Servant and Jessica Coblentz St. Angela of Foligno Savior Abbot Primate Gregory Polan 12 Octave of Easter W 13 W 14 W 15 W 16 W 17 W 18 W Easter Sunday Barbara Brown Taylor ✛ Rachel Carson ✛ Bp. James Walsh ✛ Anna Dengel ✛ St. Bernadette ✛ Max Josef Metzger ✛ Ven. Cornelia Michael Jordan Laskey Carolyn Woo St. Augustine Soubirous Richard Reece Connelly Within the Word: The Experience of Daniella Zsupan- Chiara Lubich Resurrection Micah Kiel Jerome 19 Second Week of Easter W 20 W 21 W 22 W 23 W 24 W 25 R Divine Mercy Sunday [St. Anselm] [St. George; St. Adalbert] [St. Fidelis of St. Mark Sigmaringen] St. John Paul II ✛ St. Agnes of ✛ Käthe Kollwitz ✛ Fr. Engelbert Mveng ✛ Cesar Chavez ✛ St. Benedict Menni ✛ St. Mark Montepulciano St. John Chrysostom Sr. Margaret Michaud Fr. James Wallace Diana Gaillardetz St. Gregory the Great Within the Word: To Breathe Together Br. Guy Consolmagno Sr. Barbara Reid 26 Third Week of Easter W 27 W 28 W 29 W 30 W [St. Peter Chanel; St. Louis St. Catherine of Siena [St. Pius V] Grignion de Montfort] Mary Stommes ✛ Bp. Juan Gerardi ✛ Bd. Pauline von ✛ St. Catherine of Siena ✛ Fr. Daniel Berrigan Julian of Norwich Mallinckrodt Vinita Hampton Bob Hurd Within the Word: The Stain of Fr. Joseph Donders Wright Persecution Fr. George Smiga Key ✛ Blessed Among Us by Robert Ellsberg Reflection / Within the Word Author [ ] Optional Memorial Vestment colors: R Red V Violet W White Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 V 2 V 3 V 4 V [St. Francis of Paola] [St. Isidore] ✛ Sts. Agape, Chionia, ✛ St. Francis of Paola ✛ St. Lodovico Pavoni ✛ St. Benedict the Black and Irene Msgr. John McIlhon Sr. Mary McGlone Fr. Guerric DeBona Kathy Coffey 5 Sixth Week of Lent R 6 V 7 V 8 V 9 W 10 R 11 W Palm Sunday Holy Thursday Good Friday Easter Vigil Brian Doyle ✛ Ven. Marie Madeleine ✛ Martyrs of the ✛ Egeria d’Houët Rwandan Genocide Rita Ferrone Fr. Jerome Kodell Caryll Houselander Fr. Daniel Groody Within the Word: Jesus: Servant and Jessica Coblentz St. Angela of Foligno Savior Abbot Primate Gregory Polan Triduum: A Time Apart Kathleen Norris 12 Octave of Easter W 13 W 14 W 15 W 16 W 17 W 18 W Easter Sunday Barbara Brown Taylor ✛ Rachel Carson ✛ Bp. James Walsh ✛ Anna Dengel ✛ St. Bernadette ✛ Max Josef Metzger ✛ Ven. Cornelia Michael Jordan Laskey Carolyn Woo St. Augustine Soubirous Richard Reece Connelly Within the Word: The Experience of Daniella Zsupan- Chiara Lubich Resurrection Micah Kiel Jerome 19 Second Week of Easter W 20 W 21 W 22 W 23 W 24 W 25 R Divine Mercy Sunday [St. Anselm] [St. George; St. Adalbert] [St. Fidelis of St. Mark Sigmaringen] St. John Paul II ✛ St. Agnes of ✛ Käthe Kollwitz ✛ Fr. Engelbert Mveng ✛ Cesar Chavez ✛ St. Benedict Menni ✛ St. Mark Montepulciano St. John Chrysostom Sr. Margaret Michaud Fr. James Wallace Diana Gaillardetz St. Gregory the Great Within the Word: To Breathe Together Br. Guy Consolmagno Sr. Barbara Reid 26 Third Week of Easter W 27 W 28 W 29 W 30 W [St. Peter Chanel; St. Louis St. Catherine of Siena [St. Pius V] Grignion de Montfort] Mary Stommes ✛ Bp. Juan Gerardi ✛ Bd. Pauline von ✛ St. Catherine of Siena ✛ Fr. Daniel Berrigan Julian of Norwich Mallinckrodt Vinita Hampton Bob Hurd Within the Word: The Stain of Fr. Joseph Donders Wright Persecution Fr. George Smiga Give Us ® ThısDayDAILY PRAYER FOR TODAY’S CATHOLIC Peter Dwyer, Publisher ◆ Mary Stommes, Editor Ælred Senna, OSB, Associate Editor Catherine Donovan, Associate Publisher Robert Ellsberg, “Blessed Among Us” Author Irene Nowell, OSB, Liturgical Editor, Morning and Evening Susan Barber, OSB, Intercessions Editorial Advisors James Martin, SJ ◆ Irene Nowell, OSB Carolyn Y. Woo ◆ Timothy Radcliffe, OP Kathleen Norris ◆ Ronald Rolheiser, OMI www.giveusthisday.org Give Us This Day, Liturgical Press PO Box 7500, Collegeville, MN 56321-7500 Customer Service: 888-259-8470, [email protected] © 2020 by the Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. Printed in the United States of America. Give Us This Day® (ISSN 2159-2136, print; 2166-0654, large print; 2159-2128, online) is published monthly by Liturgical Press, an apostolate of Saint John’s Abbey, 2950 Saint John’s Road, Collegeville, Minnesota. Rev. John Klassen, OSB, Abbot. For complete publication information see page 453. Published with the approval of the Committee on Divine Worship, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. CONTENTS April 2020 ◆ Volume 10, Issue 4 An Easter Pilgrimage Paula Huston ................................. 5 Teach Us to Pray: Eucharistic Adoration Fr. James Martin . 7 The Apostles’ Creed: Words to Live By Sr. Genevieve Glen ............... 8 Prayers and Blessings ............................................. 10 Prayer at Night .................................................. 14 Daily Prayer . 16 Order of Mass .................................................. 405 Liturgy of the Word (with Holy Communion) ...................... 437 Hymns ........................................................ 440 Guide to Lectio Divina ........................................... 448 About the Cover Br. Ælred Senna .................................. 452 An Easter Pilgrimage Paula Huston ost of what I knew about the Holy Land had come Mstraight out of Lutheran Sunday school: flannel- board Hebrew shepherds in striped bathrobes and sandals, Hurlbut’s lavishly illustrated Story of the Bible, with its images of white sheep on green hills, white clouds in blue skies, quaint boats rocking beside reedy shorelines. Even as an adult, I clung to the image of Israel as a kind of uninhabited parkland, empty except for Jesus and his simple followers. But now I was here, and nothing looked like I imagined it would. All around me, modern Jerusalem washed up against the 400-year-old Turkish battlements of the Old City like a furious tide: air brakes, horns, diesel fumes. Exhausted from the long flight and intensive grilling at the airport in Tel Aviv—I was a foreign woman, traveling alone, automatically suspect—I stood with my pack at my feet, shocked at the size of the crowds pouring out of the Damascus Gate and trying to adjust my expectations. By 8:00 the next morning, I was already at the Holy Sepulchre. It was the holiest week of the year, and I stood watching as old Greek peasant women in their black head scarves and long skirts hobbled toward the massive open doors of the Crusader-built church. Behind them came priests and nuns of all ethnicities: hooded Armenians, shrouded Abyssinians, diminutive Sri Lankans swathed in black. The huge courtyard kept filling up and emptying as the pilgrim river flowed in beneath the arches. 5 6 Then the bells began to toll: deep, harsh, earthshaking bells that slammed into my chest and set my nerves to jangling. I staggered inside the huge stone building while the bells went on and on, and people came surging in around me. There, with loud cries, they fell down on their hands and knees to kiss the great beige slab of stone. Glistening with holy water, it is the place where legend says Christ’s lacerated body lay to be anointed. I found myself crouching too, putting out a shivering hand to touch the wet surface. Then I joined the massive throng pressed together in front of the Chapel of the Angel. Kneeling for a few moments in the Tomb itself proved too much for me. I couldn’t sleep or eat or stop weeping for several days. My idyllic illusions about Jesus had been torn away, and I didn’t know where to turn next. But as it turned out, my Holy Week breakdown was actually a gift. Without that difficult pilgrimage, I might never have realized that my childish faith was not robust enough to carry me through what lay ahead. I needed to become a grown-up Christian.
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