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First Reading for the Memorial of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Ephesians 3:14-19

Summary: I pray for you to be strengthened by God's Spirit, for Christ to dwell in your hearts through faith, and for you to understand the vastness of Christ's love.

A Prayer for Spiritual Strength

Brothers and sisters:
I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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