(Acts 20:28-38; Ps.68:29-30,33-36; Jn.17:11-19) O Father most holy, protect them with the name you have given me. In our gospel today Jesus prays to the Father, who rides on the height

O chosen apostle, destined to serve the Church as witness to the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, you who walked with Him from the beginning even until He was taken from our sight yet were not appointed by the Spirit as one of the Twelve until a...

(Acts 1:15-17,20-26; Ps.113:1-8; Jn.15:9-17) It was I who chose you to go forth and bear fruit. Since the saying in Scripture uttered long ago by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Da

O marvelous Wonder, O Lady who shines like the sun, who brings the Light into our midst and calls us to repentance that we might be saved, that the whole world might turn to the Lord and be preserved from destruction… you come at the end of the age...

(Acts 19:1-8; Ps.68:2-7,33; Jn.16:29-33) You will suffer in the world. But take courage! I have overcome the world. An hour is coming has indeed already come when you will be scat

O child of courage, though but a boy you gave your life as the strongest of men, proving thus your love for Christ, a love that steels souls even in the face of death, even in the youthful breast if

O brave soldiers, the world could not take Christ from your hearts; though it tried to expunge Him from the army in which you served, your allegiance to the holy One of Israel, our Lord and God, remained firm, and so death you preferred to life...

(Acts1:15-17,20a,20c-26; Ps.103:1-2,11-12,19-20; 1Jn.4:11-16; Jn.17:11b-19) As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. Jesus sent the apostles forth, and none of them wa

(Acts 18:23-28; Ps.47:2-3,8-10; Jn.16:23-28) He went about establishing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah. In our gospel today, Jesus again assures the disciples, Whatever

O leper with the lepers, you united yourself so thoroughly with those you served that you became one of them, one of the frightful...