Saint of the day · September 8
Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Feast
Psalm of the day: Psalm 101
1 A Psalm by David. I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
2 I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
3 I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
4 A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
6 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.
7 He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
8 Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
Prayer of the day: Prayer to Saint Rita of Cascia (for impossible causes)
Present to God, Father of mercy and source of all consolation, my humble and confident prayer. And you, who obtained from Jesus all that you asked, do not abandon me in this difficult hour, obtaining for me the grace of which I am so much in need. Amen.
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