Our Morning Offering – 21 January – Monday of the Second week in Ordinary Time – Today’s Gospel: Mark 2:18–22

“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins;  if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins.”…Mark 2:22

Complete Us, O Lord Jesus Christ By St Anselm (1033-1109) Doctor of the Church

O Lord Jesus Christ, our redemption and our salvation, we praise You and give You thanks. Though we are unworthy of Your benefits, and cannot offer to You the devotion You deserve, let Your loving-kindness complete whatever our weakness tries to do. Before You, O Lord, we lay all our desires, and whatever our heart rightly wishes, it is because of Your gift. Help us love You as You command. Do not let Your gift be unfruitful in us. Complete what You have begun, give what You have made us desire, convert our lukewarmness into fervent love of You; for the glory of Your holy name. Amen