'Ask and It Will Be Given to You'

Gospel of Matthew 7:7-12 

 Jesus said to his disciples: 

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; 

knock and the door will be opened to you. 

For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; 

and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 

Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asked 

for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asked for a fish? 

If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts 

to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father 

give good things to those who ask him. 

“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. 

This is the law and the prophets.”

Have Mercy on Me, O God, in Your Goodness

Today's Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19

R.    A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;

  in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.

Thoroughly wash me from my guilt

    and of my sin cleanse me.

R.    A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

A clean heart create for me, O God,

    and a steadfast spirit renew within me.

Cast me not out from your presence,

    and your Holy Spirit take not from me. 

R.    A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

For you are not pleased with sacrifices;

    should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it.

My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit;

    a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

R.    A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

Reparation Prayer for First Saturday in February

O Most Holy Virgin and our Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of your Immaculate Heart surrounded with the thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. 

Moved by the ardent desire of loving you as our Mother and of promoting a true devotion to your Immaculate Heart, we prostrate ourselves at your feet to prove the sorrow we feel for the grievance that men cause you, and to atone, by means of our prayers and sacrifices, for the offenses with which men return your tender love.

Obtain for them and for us the pardon of so many sins. A word from you will obtain grace and amendment for us all.

Hasten, O Lady, the conversion of sinners, that they may love Jesus and cease to offend the Lord, already so much offended, and will not fall into hell. Turn your eyes of mercy toward us, that henceforth we may love God with all our heart while on earth and enjoy Him forever in heaven. 

Amen.