Catholic Prayer of the Day 4 August 2022

Catholic Prayer of the Day 4 August 2022 – Christ Our Morning Star

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The Prayer, Christ Our Morning Star (by Bede the Venerable.)

O Christ, our Morning Star,
Splendour of Light Eternal,
shining with the glory of the rainbow,
come and waken us
from the greyness of our apathy,
and renew in us your gift of hope.

Amen.

Catholic Prayer of the Day 4 August 2022 – Christ Our Morning Star | Gospel – Matthew 16:13-23

¹³ When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of man is?’

¹⁴ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’

¹⁵ ‘But you,’ he said, ‘who do you say I am?’

¹⁶ Then Simon Peter spoke up and said, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’

¹⁷ Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a blessed man! Because it was no human agency that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven.

¹⁸ So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my community. And the gates of the underworld can never overpower it.

¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven: whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.’

Catholic Prayer of the Day 4 August 2022

²⁰ Then he gave the disciples strict orders not to say to anyone that he was the Christ.

²¹ From then onwards Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death and to be raised up on the third day.

²² Then, taking him aside, Peter started to rebuke him. ‘Heaven preserve you, Lord,’ he said, ‘this must not happen to you.’

²³ But he turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because you are thinking not as God thinks but as human beings do.’

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