{"id":993,"date":"2017-12-13T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:07:34","slug":"st-lucy-feast-day-december-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/st-lucy-feast-day-december-13th","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucy (Feast Day \u2013 December 13th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">O God, our Creator and Redeemer, mercifully hear our prayers that as we venerate your servant, Saint Lucy, for the light of faith you bestowed upon her, you would increase and preserve this same light in our souls that we may be able to avoid evil, to do good, and to abhor nothing so much as the blindness and the darkness of evil and of sin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Relying on your goodness, O God, we humbly ask you, by the intercessory prayers of your servant, Saint Lucy, that you would give perfect vision to our eyes, that they may serve for your greater honor and glory and for the salvation of our souls in this world, that we may come to the enjoyment of your unfailing light of the Lamb of God in paradise. 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