Readings: 1 Jn 2:29-3:6 / Jn 1:29‑34
Missionary Cenacle Intentions: We dedicate Saturdays to Mary, Queen of the Missionary Cenacle. Today we pray:
For a growth in our devotion to Mary, the Queen of the Missionary Cenacle, we pray.
For the end of oppression and inequality for all women, we pray.
For disarmament ‑ especially nuclear ‑ that leads to world peace, we pray.
For the members of the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate of Fuerza Divina (Candidate Cenacle), Coachella, CA, we pray.
For the members of the Missionary Cenacle, especially our sick, we pray.
For the deceased members of the Missionary Cenacle, especially Joseph Colgan, MCA, 1945; Sr. Therese de Sales Zakreski, MSBT, 2006, we pray.
Reading: What inspired (God's heroes) to such - complete giving of themselves? They loved God, and because they loved God, they must have loved their neighbor. They could not love God without a love of their neighbor. Their love was not a barren love. "Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends."(Jn. 15:13) It was the Name of Jesus that inspired such service and devotion. Because of the Holy Name of Jesus, unmindful of themselves, working for no return except to please God, they devoted their lives to others. If humanity has a debt of gratitude to them it owes it to the Holy Name of Jesus. (MCM, p. 36)