Prayer at Home during the Pandemic

Use the Our Sunday Supplication Print Booklet or E-Guide to lead an "unplugged" prayer service in your home, using provided discussion questions for reflecting on the Sunday scripture readings - or just "plug in" for Fr. Brian's Homily below.  (Search "SMAParish" on YouTube for SmartTV)

Use the Our Sunday Supplication Print Booklet or E-Guide to lead an "unplugged" prayer service in your home, using provided discussion questions for reflecting on the Sunday scripture readings - or just "plug in" for Fr. Weger's homily below.  (Search "SMAParish" on YouTube for SmartTV)

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago has recommended intercessory prayers concerning the Covid-19 pandemic to be prayed at certain hours, or in conjunction with the Angelus or the Rosary.  View the hourly prayers HERE.

Pray the Stations of the Cross as we pray them on Fridays in Lent at St. Michael, with images of our beloved cast bronze Stations.  Search "SMAParish" on YouTube for SmartTV. 

While we cannot gather in our parish church to celebrate the sacred liturgy, we can and must celebrate the liturgy in our homes, our "domestic churches."  When we who are baptized pray at home, we do so united with one another, and with the Lord Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, alive in heaven, in the Church, and in our souls.  The sacred liturgy goes on in the daily praise and intercession of all the faithful, and our priests still celebrate the Holy Mass every day for us, in our name, and in union with us.  We will taste and see the goodness of the Lord again in due time.

The daily Mass readings can be found HERE, as well as in the free Give Us This Day and Magnificat online resources.

 

Everyone in the parish is invited to pray together on The Lord's Day using Our Sunday Supplication, a resource developed by our Archdiocesan Office of Worship together with our liturgy team here at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Parish!

Get Our Sunday Supplication here!

EVANGELIZATION HINT:  You don't have to be Catholic to fully participate in this liturgy!
Keep a safe social distance, but do invite a friend to join you or your family in prayer!

Pray the Liturgy of the Hours, the official Daily Prayer of the Universal Church HERE, or use one of the Daily Prayer resources below for shorter, modified daily prayers.  Upon subscribing to this free service, Keep the Lord's Day will be delivered to your e-mail inbox each Sunday.

Our priestly mission as baptized lay members of the Church is to offer daily the Sacrifice of Praise and to offer Intercessory Prayer for the needs of others.  In this way, each day is sanctified and all our living offered to the Father, through Christ, with him, and in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit.  The traditional daily prayer of the Church is known as the Liturgy of the Hours.

The following resources are available for daily liturgical prayer.  When we pray at home, we do so in union with the whole Church, and we pray in the name of the whole Church.  Find prayers for Morning, Evening and Night Prayer, together with daily reflections and information about saints of the day here:

• Give Us This Day (Free!)
• Magnificat (Free!)

A venerable tradition of daily prayer for the laity is praying the Rosary.  

• How to Pray the Rosary

• Daily Rosary Meditations with Dr. Mike Scherschligt

Reading and meditating on sacred scripture is at the heart of the Christian life, for Jesus himself is the Word of God.  Find daily scripture readings here:

• The Bible

• Give Us This Day (Free!)

• Magnificat (Free!)

• Guide to Lectio Divina (electronic)

• Guide to Lectio Divina (PDF)

Confession

• Our priests are making themselves available at more times for Confession during this time.  See our Confession Schedule here.

Anointing of the Sick

• Our priests are continuing their ministry to the sick.  Please call the parish office if you or someone you know is in need of the Anointing of the Sick.

The Adoration Chapel is closed now until further notice.