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<div>&nbsp;<img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/fbinstagrambmwcyclegepisode8/full.jpg" alt="" width="222" height="222" class="image_img" style="float: left;" border="0" hspace="10/" />Friday, December 19, 2025 Ember Friday<br /><br /></div>
<div><em>"What souls we can convert by our prayers. <br />The one who saves a soul from hell saves this soul and his own as well".</em> <br />Saint Jean Vianney (1786-1859)<br /><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />My sisters and brothers in the Lord,<br /><br />Welcome to week fifty-one of BMW, <em>Be My Witnesses</em>. Just one more week to go! To be a witness is also to carry out the Spiritual Works of Mercy. &nbsp;This week we will talk about the seventh work of mercy which is directly related to what we did last week. Then we focused on burying the dead; this week we focus on praying for the living and the dead. &nbsp; &nbsp;</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Mission: Pray for the Living and the Dead &nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Saint Ambrose (c. 339 – 397), in his Treatise on Cain and Abel (Book 1), writes about prayer: “If you pray only for yourself, you pray for yourself alone. &nbsp;If each one prays for himself, he receives less from God’s goodness than the one who prays on behalf of others. &nbsp;But as it is, because each prays for all, all are in fact praying for each one.”</div>
