Readings: 1 Jn 1:1‑4 / Jn 20:1a,2‑8 Prop
Missionary Cenacle Intentions: We dedicate today to honoring an Apostle of Jesus. Today we pray:
That an apostolic spirit thrive in the Missionary Cenacle, we pray.
That the Missionary Cenacle be a school for apostles in all its works, we pray.
That zeal, the white heat of charity, be abundant in the Church today, we pray.
For the members of the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, Mayagüez , Puerto Rico, we pray.
For the members of the Missionary Cenacle, especially our sick, we pray.
For the deceased members of the Missionary Cenacle, especially Sr. Winifred Marie Woodvine, MSBT, 1957; Sr. Benigna Conroy, MSBT, 1961, we pray.
Reading: Your thoughts this Christmas must take this in, and your worship of Him must not ignore it. What must His Immaculate Mother Mary think of it all? What were Her thoughts when she heard the cry of the Holy Innocents, and the shrieks of their agonizing mothers. Those little ones were so blest, the first martyrs of Jesus. But what lives for those little children of today without Jesus Christ! What a terrible future is opening up to them. You must think of these things as you place your gift. You have the Christmastide to think this over. (MCM, p. 29)