Three
Very Beautiful Prayers
An ancient Christian writer wrote that, "of all divine things, the most divine is to share with God in the saving of souls."
The following Prayers are very useful to a dying person, and should be
prayed often as an act of mercy. First, where these prayers originated.
There once was a Pope in Rome who was surrounded by many
sins. The Lord God struck him with a
fatal illness. When he say that he was
dying he summoned Cardinals, Bishops and learned persons and said to them:
"My dear friend! What comfort can
you give me now that I must die, and when I deserve eternal damnation for my
sins?" No one answered him. One of them a pious curate named John, said:
Father, why do you doubt the Mercy of God?" The Pope replied: "What comfort can you
give me now that I must die and fear that I'll be damned for my
sins?" John replied: "I'll
read three prayers over you: I hope, you'll be comforted and that you'll obtain
Mercy from God." The Pope was
unable to say more. The curate and all
those present knelt and said an Our Father, the then following prayers:
1.
Lord Jesus Christ! Thou Son of God and Son of the Virgin Mary,
God and Man, Thou Who in fear sweated blood for us on the Mount of Olives
in order to bring peace, and to offer
Thy Most Holy Death to God Thy Heavenly Father for the salvation of this dying
person...If it be, however, that by his sins he merits eternal damnation, then
may it be deflected from him. This, O Eternal Father through Our Lord Jesus
Christ, They Dear Son, Who liveth and reigneth in union with The Holy Spirit
now and forever. Amen
2.
Lord Jesus Christ! Thou Who meekly died on the trunk of the Cross for us,
submitting Thy Will completely to Thy Heavenly Father in order to bring peace
and to offer They most Holy Death to Thy Heavenly Father in order to free
....(this person)... and to hide from him what he has earned with his sins;
grant this O Eternal Father! Through Our
Lord Jesus Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in union with the Holy
Spirit now and forever. Amen.
3.
Lord Jesus Christ! Thou Who remained silent to speak through the
mouths of the Prophets: I have drawn
Thee to me through Eternal Lord, which Lord drew Thee from Heaven into the body
of the Virgin into the valley of this needful
world, which Love kept Thee 33 years in this world, and as a sign of
Great Lord, Thous hast given Thy Holy Body as Teue Food and Thy Holy Blood as
True Drink, as a sign of Great Love, Thous has consented to be a prisoner and
to be led from one judge to another and
as a sign of Great Love Thous hast consented to be condemned to death, and hast
consented to die and to be buried and truly risen, and appeared to Thy Holy
Mother and all the Holy Apostles, and as a sign of Great Love Thou hast
ascended, under Thy own Strength and Power, and sitteth at the Right Hand of
God Thy Heavenly Father, and Thou has sent Thy Holy Spirit into the hearts of
Thy Apostle and the hearts of all who hope and believe in Thee. Through Thy Sign of Eternal Love, open Heaven
today and take this dying person … and
all his sins into the Realm of Thy Heavenly Father, that he may reign with Thee
now and forever . Amen
Meanwhile the Pope died.
The curate persevered to the third hour, then the Pope appeared to him
in body and comforting him; his countenance
as brilliant as the sun, his clothes as white as snow, and he said: “My dear brother! Whereas I was supposed to be a child of
damnation I’ve become a child of happiness.
As you recited the first Prayer many of my sins fell from me as rain
from Heaven, and as you recited the second Prayer I was purified, as a goldsmith
purifies gold in a hot fire. I was still further purified as you recited
the third Prayer. Then I saw Heaven open
and the Lord Jesus standing on the Right Hand of God the Father Who said to me,
“Come, all thy sins are forgiven thee, you’ll be and remain in the Realm of My
Father forever. Amen!
With these words my
soul separated from my body and the Angels of God led it to Eternal Joy.
As the curate heard
this he said, “O Holy Father, I can’t tell these things to anyone, for they won’t
believe me.” Then the Pope said: “Truly I tell thee, the Angel of God stands
with me and has written the prayers in letters of gold for the consolement of
all sinners. If a person had
committed all the sins in the world, but
that the three Prayers shall have been read (over him) at his end (death), all
his sins will be forgiven him, even though his soul was supposed to suffer
until the Last Judgement, it will be redeemed (freed).
The person who hears
them read, he won’t die un unhappy death, also in whose house they will be
read. Thereford take these prayers and
carry them into St. Peter’s Basilica and lay them in the Chapel named the
Assumption of Mary, for certain consolation.
The person who will be near death, who reads them or hears them read
gains 400 years indulgence for the days he was supposed to suffer in Purgatory
because of his guilt. Also who reads this
Prayer or hears it read, the hour of his death shall be revealed to him. Amen
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