Friday After Ash Wednesday
March 7, 2014
Memorial of Sts. Perpetual and Felicity

The martyrdom of Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicity offers a very powerful example of the new world
created by the birth of Christianity.

Prayer:

Show gracious favour, O Lord, we pray, that we may have strength to accomplish with sincerity
the bodily observances we undertake.

Scripture Passage

Is not the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the
yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread
with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked,
to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin? Then your light shall break forth
like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you,
the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
you shall cry for help, and he will say, Here I am.

The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys7X2sRMkZg