Don’t Let Friday Pass You By Without Praying! 10 Catholic Things That Caught My Eye Today.

1. Friends posted this on Facebook:

Here in Lafayette and Acadiana we have adoration chapels everywhere. Rather than bringing our heavy hearts to the TV screen let’s bring them to the One who can heal! #prayersforlafayette

2. What Do You Do When Prayer is Dry or Feels Pointless?

3. Today’s Mass readings.

4. Randy Hain asks: “Do we make Christ and His Church attractive and inviting to others through our words, actions and the way we carry ourselves?”

5. From Saint Augustine via the Liturgy of the Hours today:

Good Father, how you loved us, sparing not your only Son but delivering him up for us sinners! How you loved us, for whose sake he, thinking it no robbery to be equal with you, was made subject to death on the cross. He alone, free among the dead, had the power to lay down his life and the power to take it up again. For our sake he became in your sight both victor and victim—victor, indeed, because he was victim. For our sake, too, he became before you both priest and sacrifice—priest, indeed, because he was a sacrifice, changing us from slaves to sons by being your Son and serving us.

Rightly then have I firm hope that you will heal all my infirmities through him who sits at your right hand and intercedes for us. Otherwise I should despair. For great and numerous are these infirmities of mine, great indeed and numerous, but your medicine is mightier. We might have thought your Word remote from any union with man, and so have despaired of ourselves, if he had not become flesh and dwelt among us.

Crushed by my sins and the weight of my misery, I had taken thought in my heart and contemplated flight into the desert. But you stopped me and gave me comfort with the words: Christ died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them.

Behold, Lord, I cast upon you my concern that I may live and I shall meditate on the wonders of your law. You know my ignorance and my weakness; teach me and heal me. Your only Son, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, redeemed me with his blood. Let not arrogant men speak evil of me. For I meditate on my ransom, and I eat it and drink it and try to share it with others; though poor I want to be filled with it in the company of those who eat and are filled and they shall praise the Lord who seek him.

6. Did you spend some time with Mary Magdalene this week? Bridget of Sweden? Philip Neri? There’s still time! Click on the links.

Who created you? Who redeems you? Who sustains you? #homilytweet pic.twitter.com/R9VH9GrZ8h

— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) July 24, 2015

Jesus did not tell us to follow him because he needed our help, but because he knew that loving him would make us whole. St Irenaeus

— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) July 23, 2015