God, our Father, you grant your saints the courage, the strength, the strength to confess your holy name. Your desire is that every man should live, for you are the God of life. Like Saint Ephigenia, grant us the grace to witness your love for us in the simplest things and in our daily lives, in the most routine jobs or when our faith is tested by adversity, pain and suffering. We believe in your word that everything is known to you, even the dry leaf that falls and the hair that falls from our head. You are the Immanuel, the God with us forever, the Risen One who says, 'I am with you forever, always, even to the end of the age!' (Matthew 28:20)