Pray to God
DAILY BIBLE READINGS & PRAYERS
There are several excellent links that will email
daily Bible readings and reflections to computer, phone etc.
Bishop Robert Barron
https://www.wordonfire.org/
Dr Scott Hann
https://stpaulcenter.com/studies-tools/sunday-bible-reflections/
Catholic Daily Reflections
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/daily-reflections/
Irish Carmelite Reflections
https://www.carmelites.ie/readingsreflect.html
Universalis.com
https://universalis.com/n-email.htm
Catholic Daily Reflections and Prayers
https://mycatholic.life/email-subscription/
Liturgical Calendar
The Holy Rosary with Bishop Philip
A little while ago, I recorded a CD of the Rosary and distributed thousands of free copies across the Diocese for people to play in their cars or when doing the housework or whatever. Few people these days use CDs so instead you can click here to download an audio recording.
The Rosary, which developed in the High Middle Ages period, is a wonderful prayer to say, praying to Our Lord for protection from all danger, sickness and evil.
If you need help in saying the Rosary, click below for a simple explanation. I’d like to encourage you to say the Rosary each day. I often pray the Rosary while driving. There are many intentions to pray for, not least for peace in the world, vocations, the sick and suffering, and the faithful departed.
May Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us.
Prior to 2002 there were three sets of Mysteries - the Glorious, Joyful and Sorrowful mysteries - to mediate upon, and then Pope St John Paul II added the Luminous Mysteries, or Mysteries of Light. If you are unfamiliar with the Rosary, click here for the prayers and meditations featured on the recording and the days the various mysteries are normally prayed.
What is the Liturgy of the Hours?
“Seven times a day I praise you.” – Psalm 118(119):164
“The purpose of the Divine Office is to sanctify the day and all human activity.”
– Apostolic Constitution, Canticum Laudis.
“The Office is… the prayer not only of the clergy but of the whole People of God.”
– Apostolic Constitution, Canticum Laudis.
The Lord has commanded us to pray without ceasing, and this is what the Hours help us do.
Morning Prayer – at the start of the day’s work and the coming of the light.
Daytime Prayer – at mid-morning, noon and in the afternoon, to unite us
with the one for whom and through whom we are working.
Evening Prayer – at the end of the day’s work, to offer up what we have done.
Night Prayer – last thing at night, to commend our souls to God.
And finally, there is the magnificent Office of Readings,
at whatever time of day is best for us to reflect on the mystery of salvation,
with the help of Scripture and the writings of the Fathers of the Church.
SAINT OF THE DAY
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