Tuesday in the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time

We pray through a short liturgy and a reading from Saint Cyprian that reframes the Lord’s Prayer as a call to identity and holy living. We ask God to hallow his name in us through daily sanctification, relying on grace to persevere. 
• opening prayers and a morning offering united to the Mass 
• Saint Cyprian on the mercy of calling God our Father 
• living like sons and daughters as temples of God 
• “hallowed be your name” as holiness taking root in us 
• baptism, perseverance, and the need for daily sanctification 
• Scripture warnings against returning to sin and the call to new life 
• final collect asking for grace to follow God’s commands 
If you found this time of prayer and reflection fruitful, and would like more opportunities to grow in your faith, consider joining the Cristeros and purchasing authentications now available on Amazon.com. The Cristeros app is available on the Apple app in Google Play Store. More information on the Cristeros can be found at theCristeros.org. 

Transcript

Opening Prayer And Offering

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Tuesday, in the eleventh week of ordinary time. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and never shall be, world without end. Amen. O my Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day, in union with the holy sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, for the remission of my sins, for the intentions of my family and friends, and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father. Amen.

Saint Cyprian On Calling God Father

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From a treatise on the Lord's Prayer by Saint Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr. How merciful the Lord is to us, how kind and richly compassionate. To call the Lord our Father, and as Christ is God's Son, be called in turn sons of God. None of us would ever have dared to utter this name unless He Himself had allowed us to pray in this way. And therefore, dear friends, we should bear in mind and realize that when we call God our Father, we ought also to act like sons. If we are pleased to call him Father, let him in turn be pleased to call us sons. We should live like the temples of God we are, so that it can be seen that God lives in us. No act of ours should be unworthy of the Spirit. Now that we have begun to live in heaven and in spirit, all our thoughts and actions should be heavenly and spiritual. For, as the Lord God Himself has said, those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be despised. And the Blessed Apostle wrote in his letter, You are not your own. You were bought with a great price. So glorify and bear God in your body.

Hallowed Be Your Name In Us

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We go on to say, May your name be hallowed. It is not that we think to make God holy by our prayers, rather, we are asking God that his name may be made holy in us. Indeed, how could God be made holy, he who is the source of holiness? Still, because he himself said, Be holy, for I am holy, we pray and beseech him that we who have been hallowed in baptism may persevere in what we have begun. And we pray for this every day, for we have need of daily sanctification. Sinning every day, we cleanse our faults again and again by constant sanctification. The Apostle Paul instructs us in these words concerning the sanctification which God's loving kindness confers on us. Neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God, and such indeed you were, but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. We were sanctified, he says, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. Hence we make our prayer that this sanctification may remain in us. But further, our Lord, who is also our judge, warns those who have been cured and brought back to

Daily Sanctification And Guarding New Life

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life by him to sin no more, lest something worse happen to them. Thus we offer constant prayers and beg night and day that the sanctification and new life which is ours by God's favor may be preserved by his protection. I will prove the holiness of my great name. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, so that you may live by my statutes and observe my laws with care. Be holy, for I am holy, so that you may live by my statutes and observe my laws with care.

Closing Collect And Devotions

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O God, strength of those who hope in you, graciously hear our pleas, and since without you mortal frailty can do nothing, grant us always the help of your grace, that in following your commands we may please you by our resolve and our deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. Amen. All that I have and all that I am, I give to your hands, Jesus, through the heart of Mary, your blessed mother. Amen. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Invitation To Join The Cristeros

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If you found this time of prayer and reflection fruitful, and would like more opportunities to grow in your faith, consider joining the Cristeros and purchasing authentications now available on Amazon.com. The Christeros app is available on the Apple app in Google Play Store. More information on the Cristeros can be found at theCristeros.org.