Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
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Prayer for Mercy of Coronavirus
Prayer For The Outbreak Of Diseases
Heavenly Lord and Creator of all things, have mercy on us
your people, for we have strayed from the path which You have given us.
Forgive
our many offenses and grant us your mercies.
We come to you today with tears of repentance and ask for
your protection from the terrible disease that threatens us.
We have sinned, Oh Lord, and we have disobeyed your
Commandments, but we besiege your mercy and compassion; have mercy on your
servants, on the elderly and the children; have mercy on us all, and keep away
from us the terrible diseases and viruses which have appeared in our days.
Send your holy angels, Oh Lord, to disperse every disease
and calamity and keep us safe and healthy that we may worship and glorify your
Most Holy Name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, through the
intercessions of the Holy Theotokos (Mary Mother of God) and of all your
Saints.
Amen
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Thursday, 4 October 2018
Saint Cajetan August 7
Saint Cajetan, priest
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| St. Cajetan, priest |
August 7
From a letter by Saint Cajetan, priest
Christ
dwells in our hearts by
I am a sinner and do not think much of myself; I have
recourse to the greatest servants of the Lord, that they may pray for you to the
blessed Christ and His Mother.
But do
not forget that all the saints
can not endear you to Christ
as much as you can
yourself.
It is entirely up to you.
If you want Christ to love you
and help you,
you must love Him
and always make an effort to please Him.
Do not waver in your purpose, because even if
all the saints and every single creature should abandon you, He will always be
near you, whatever your needs.
You know, of course, that we are pilgrims in this world, on
a journey to our true home in heaven.
The man who becomes proud loses his way and rushes to death. While living here we should strive to gain
eternal life. Yet or ourselves we cannot
achieve this since we have lost it through sin; but Jesus Christ ha recovered
it for us. For this reason we must
always be grateful to Him and love Him.
We must always obey Him, and as far as possible remain united with Him.
He has offered Himself
to be our food.
How wretched is the man
who knows nothing of
such a gift!
To us has been given the
opportunity
to receive Christ, son of the Virgin Mary,
and we refuse Him.
Woe to the man who does
not care enough to
receive Him.
My daughter, I want what is
good for myself; I beg the same for you.
Now there is no other way to bring this about than to ask the Virgin
Mary constantly to come to you with her glorious Son. Be bold!
Ask her to give you her Son, Who in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar
is truly food of your soul. Readily will
she give HI to you, still more readily will He come to you, giving you the
strength to make your way fearlessly through this dark wood. In it large numbers of our enemies lie in
wait, but they cannot reach us if they see us relying on such powerful help.
Nor, my child, must you receive Jesus Christ simply as a
means to further your own plans;
I want you to surrender to Him, that He may
welcome you and, as your divine Saviour, do to you and in you whatever He
wills.
This is what I want, this is what
I beg of you, this, as far as I can, is what I compel you to do.
taken from Liturgy of the Hours Weeks 18-34
Friday, 21 April 2017
St. Anselm A Prayer of all souls longing for God
Let me know You and love You,
so that I may find my joy in You
From the Proslogion by Saint Anselm, bishop
My soul, have you found what you are looking for?
You were looking for God, and you discovered
that He is the supreme being, and that you could not possibly imagine anything
more perfect. You have discovered that His
supreme being is life itself, light, wisdom, goodness, eternal blessedness and
blessed eternity. He is everywhere, and
He is timeless.
Lord my God, You gave me life and restored it when I lost
it. Tell my soul that so longs for You
what else You are besides what it has already understood, so that it may see You
clearly.
It stands on tiptoe to see
more, but apart from what it has seen already, it sees nothing but
darkness. Of course it does not really
see darkness, because there is not darkness in You, but it sees that it can see
no further because of the darkness in itself.
Surely, Lord, inaccessible light is Your dwelling place, for
no one apart from Yourself can enter into it and fully comprehend You.
If I fail to see this light it is simply
because it is too bright for me. Still,
it is by the light that I do see all that I can, even as weak eyes, unable to
look straight at the sun, see all they can by the sun’s light.
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| Light of God |
The light in which You dwell, Lord,
is beyond my
understanding.
It is so brilliant that I
cannot bear it, I cannot turn my mind’s eye toward it for any length of time. I am dazzle by its brightness, amazed by its
grandeur, overwhelmed by its immensity, bewildered by its abundance.
O supreme and inaccessible light, O complete and blessed
truth, how far You are from me, even though I am so near to You! How remote You are from my sight, even though
I am present in Yours! You are everywhere in Your entirety, and yet I do not
see You; in You I move and have my being, and yet I cannot approach You; You
are within me and around me, and yet I do not perceive You.
O God, let me know You and love You so that I may find my
joy in You;
and if I cannot do so fully in this life, let me at least make some
progress every day, until at last that knowledge, love and joy come to me in
all their plenitude.
While I am here on
earth let me learn to know You better, so that in heaven I may know You fully;
let my love for You grow deeper here, so that there I may love You fully. On earth then I shall have great joy in hope,
and in heaven complete joy in the fulfillment of my hope.
O Lord, through Your Son You command me, no, You counsel us
to ask, and You promise that You will hear us so that our joy may be
complete. Lord, I am making the request
that You urge us to make through Your Wonder-Counselor. Give me then what you promise to give through
Your Truth. You, O God, are faithful;
grant that I may receive my request, so that my joy may be complete.
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| St. Anselm, Bishop of Canterbury |
Meanwhile, let this hope of mine be in my thoughts and on my
tongue; let my heart be filled with it, my voice speak of it; let my soul
hunger for it, my body thirst for it, my whole being yearn for it, until I
enter into the joy of the Lord, who is Three in One, blessed forever.
Amen.
Taken from the Liturgy of the Hours, April 21 St. Anselm, bishop and doctor
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Prayer, Fasting, Mercy sermon by Saint Peter Chrysologus
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| St. Peter Chrysologus |
Prayer knocks, fasting obtains, mercy receives
From a sermon by Saint Peter Chrysologus, bishop
There are three things, my brethren, by which faith stands
firm, devotion remains constant, and virtue endures. They are prayer, fasting and mercy. Prayer knocks at the door, fasting obtains,
mercy receives. Prayer, mercy and
fasting: these three are one, and they give life to each other.
Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of
fasting. Let no one try to separate them;
they cannot be separated. If you have
only one of them or not all together, you have nothing. So if you prayer, fast; if you fast, show
mercy; if you want your petition to be heard, hear the petition of others. If you do not close your ear to others you
open God’s ear to yourself.
When you fast, see the fasting of others. If you want God to know that you are hungry,
know that another is hungry. If you hope
for mercy, show mercy. If you look for
kindness, show kindness. If you want to
receive, give. If you ask for yourself
what you deny to others, your asking is a mockery.
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| Saint Peter Chrysologus, Quote |
Let this be the pattern for all men when they practice
mercy: show mercy to others in the same way, with the same generosity, with the
same promptness, as you want others to show mercy to you.
Therefore, let prayer, mercy and fasting the one single plea
to God on our behalf, one speech in our defense, a threefold united prayer in
our favor.
Let us use fasting to make up for what we have lost by
despising others. Let us offer our souls
in sacrifice by means of fasting. There
is nothing more pleasing that we can offer to God, as the psalmist said in
prophecy: A sacrifice to God is a broken
spirit; God does not despise a bruised and humbled heart.
Offer your soul to God, make him an oblation of your
fasting, so that your soul may be a pure offering, a holy sacrifice, a living
victim, remaining your own and at the same time made over to God. Whoever fails to give this to God will not be
excused, for if you are to give him yourself you are never without the means of
giving.
To make these acceptable, mercy must be added. Fasting bears no fruit unless it is watered
by mercy. Fasting dries up when mercy
dries up. Mercy is to fasting as rain is
to the earth. However much you may cultivate
your heart, clear the soil of your nature, root out vices, sow virtues, if you
do not release the springs of mercy, your fasting will bear no fruit.
When you fast, if your mercy is thin your harvest will be
thin; when you fast, what you pour out in mercy overflows into your barn. Therefore, do not lose by saving, but gather
in by scattering. Give to the poor, and
your give to yourself. You will not be
allowed to keep what you have refused to give to others.
Friday, 17 March 2017
St. Augustine commentary on the Passion of Christ
The Passion of the Whole Body of Christ
From the commentary on the Psalms
by Saint Augustine, bishop
Lord, I have cried to
you, hear me. This is a prayer we can all say. This is not my prayer, but that of the whole
Christ. Rather, it is said in the name
of His Body.
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| Christ's Agony in the Garden |
When Christ was on earth He prayed in His human nature, and
prayed to the Father in the name of His Body, and when He prayed drops of blood
flowed from His whole body. So it is
written in the Gospel: Jesus prayed with
earnest prayer, and sweated blood. What
is this blood streaming from His whole body but the martyrdom of the whole
Church?
Lord, I have cried to
you, hear me; listen to the sound of my prayer, when I call upon you.
Did you imagine that crying was over when
you said: I have cried to you? You
have cried out, but do not as yet feel free from care.
If anguish is at an end, crying is at an end;
but if the Church, the Body of Christ,
must suffer anguish until the end of
time,
it must not say only:
I have cried
to you, hear me;
it must also say:
Listen
to the sound of my prayer, when I call upon You.
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| Prayer rises to heaven as incense |
Let my prayer rise
like incense in your sight;
let the raising of my hands
be an evening
sacrifice.
This is generally understood of Christ, the head, as every
Christian acknowledges. When day was
fading into evening, the Lord laid down His life on the cross, to take it up
again; He did not lose His life against His Will.
Here, too, we are symbolized. What part of Him hung on the cross if not the
part He had received from us?
How could
God the Father ever cast off and abandon His only Son, Who is indeed one God
with Him?
Yet Christ, nailing our
weakness to the cross (where, as the Apostle says: Our old nature was nailed to the cross with Him), cried out with
the very voice of our humanity: humanity: My
God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?
The evening sacrifice is then the passion of the Lord, the
cross of the Lord, the oblation of the victim that brings salvation, the
holocaust acceptable to God. In His resurrection
He made this evening sacrifice a morning sacrifice.
Prayer offered
in holiness
from a
faithful
heart
rises
like incense
from a holy altar.
Nothing is more fragrant
than the fragrance of the Lord.
May all who believe share in this fragrance.
Therefore, our old
nature, in the words of the Apostle, was
nailed to the cross with Him, in order, as he says, to destroy our sinful body, so that we may be slaves to sin no longer.
Taken from the Liturgy of the Hours Tuesday, 2nd Week of Lent
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| St. Augustine, 354 – 430 AD |
Saturday, 4 March 2017
Prayer homily by St. John Chrysostom
Prayer is the light of the Spirit
From a homily by Saint John Chrysostom, bishop
Prayer and converse with God is a supreme good: it is a
partnership and union with God.
As the
eyes of the body are enlightened when they see light, so our spirit, when it is
intent on God, is illumined by his infinite light, I did not mean the prayer of outward
observance but prayer from the heart, not confined to fixed times or periods
but continuous throughout the day and night.
Our spirit should be quick to reach out toward God not only
when it is carrying out its duties, caring for the needy performing works of
charity, giving generously in the service of others, our spirit should long for
God and call Him to mind, so that these works may be seasoned with the salt of
God’s love, and so make a palatable offering to the Lord of the universe. Throughout the whole of our lives we may
enjoy the benefit that comes from prayer if we devote a great deal of time to
it.
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| Modesty & Humility |
Prayer is the light of the spirit true knowledge of God, mediating between God and man. The spirit, raised up to heaven by prayer, clings to God with the utmost tenderness, like a child crying tearfully for its mothers, it craves the milk that God provides. It seeks the satisfaction of its own desires, and receives gifts outweighing the whole world of nature.
Prayer stands before God as an honored ambassador. It gives joy to the spirit, peace to the
hearts. I speak of prayer, no
words. It is the longing for God love
too deep for words, a gift not given by man but by God’s grace. The apostle Paul says:
We do not know how we are to pray
but the Spirit himself pleads for us
with inexpressible longings.
When the Lord gives this kind of prayer to a man, he gives
him riches that cannot be taken away, heavenly food that satisfies the
spirit. One who tastes this food is set
on fire with an eternal longing for the Lord: his spirit burns as in a fire of
the utmost intensity.
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| Humility and Mother Teresa |
Practice prayer from the beginning. Paint your house with the colors of modesty
and humility. Make it radiant with the
light of justice. Decorate it with the
finest gold leaf of good deeds. Adorn it
with the walls and stones of faith and generosity. Crown it with the pinnacle of prayer. In this way you will make it a perfect
dwelling place for the Lord. You will be
able to receive Him as in a splendid palace, and through His grace you will
already possess Him, His image enthroned in the temple of your spirit.
Taken from the Liturgy of the Hours for Friday after Ash
Wednesday
Friday, 10 February 2017
Novena of Abandonment to God
Novena
of Abandonment to God
Day One
Why do you confuse yourselves by worrying? Leave the care of your affairs to Me, and
everything will be peaceful. I say to
you in truth that every act of true, blind, and complete surrender to Me
produces the effect that you desire and resolves all difficult situations.
“O Jesus, I surrender myself to You; take care of
everything!”
(Repeat 3 – 10 times)
To surrender to Me does not mean to fret, to be upset, or to
lose hope, nor does it mean offering to me a worried prayer asking Me to
follow you and change your worry into
prayer. It is against this surrender,
deeply against it to worry, to be nervous and to desire to think about the
consequences of anything. It is like the
confusion that children feel when they ask their mother to see to their needs,
and then try to take care of those needs for themselves so that their childlike
efforts to get in their mother’s way.
To surrender means to placidly close the eyes of the soul,
to turn away from thoughts of tribulation and put yourself in my care, so that
only I act, saying, “You take care of it.”
“O Jesus, I surrender myself to You; take care of
everything.!”
(Repeat 3 – 10 times)
Day Three
How many things I do when the soul, in so much spiritual and
material need, turns to Me and says to Me; “You take care of it,” then closes its eyes and rests. In pain you pray for Me to act, but that I
act in the way you want. You do not turn
to Me; instead, you want Me to adapt to your ideas. You are not sick people who tell the doctor
how to. So do not act this way, but pray
as I taught you in the “Our Father”: “Hallowed by thy Name”; that is, be
glorified in my need. “Thy kingdom
come”; that is, let all that is in us and in the world be in accord with Your
kingdom. “Thy will be done on earth as
it is in Heaven”; that is, in our need, decide as You see fit for our temporal
and eternal life.
If you say to me truly: “Thy will be done,” which is the
same as saying: “You take care of it”, I will intervene with all my
omnipotence, and I will resolve the most difficult situations.
“O Jesus, I surrender myself to You; take care of
everything.”
(Repeat 3 – 10 times)
You see evil growing instead of weakening? Do not worry.
Close your eyes and say to me with faith: “Thy will be done; You take
care of it.” I say to you that I will
take care of it and that I will intervene as a doctor and I will accomplish
miracles when they are needed. Do you
see the sick person is getting worse? Do not be upset, but close your eyes and
say, “You take care of it.” I say to you
that no medicine more powerful that My loving intervention. By My love, I promise this to you.
“O Jesus, I surrender myself to You; take care of
everything.”
(Repeat 3 - 10 times)
Day Five
And when I must lead you on a path different from the one
you see, I will prepare you; I will carry you in My arms; I will let you find
yourself, like children who have fallen asleep in their mother’s arms, on the
other bank of the river. What troubles
you and hurts you immensely is your reason, your thoughts and worry, and your
desire at all costs to deal with what afflicts you.
“O Jesus I surrender myself to You; take care of
everything.”
(Repeat 3 – 10 times)
You are sleepless; you want to judge everything and see to
everything and you surrender to human strength-or worse, to men themselves,
trusting in their intervention. This is
what hinders My words and My views. Oh how much I wish from you this surrender,
to help you, and how I suffer when I see you so agitated! Satan tries to do exactly this: to agitate
you and to remove you from my protection and to throw you into the jaws of
human intiative. So, trust only in Me,
rest in Me, surrender to Me in everything.
“O Jesus, I surrender myself to You; take care of
everything.”
(Repeat 3 – 10 times)
Day Seven
I perform miracles to
proportion to your full surrender to Me and to you not thinking of
yourselves. I sow treasure troves of
graces when you are in the deepest poverty.
No person of reason, no thinker, has ever performed miracles, not even
among the saints. He does divine works
whosoever surrenders to God. So don’t
think about it anymore, because your mind is acute and it is very hard to see
evil and to trust in Me and to not think of yourself. Do this for all your needs; do this, all of
you, and you will see great, continual, silent miracles. I will take care of things; I promise this to
you.
“O Jesus, I surrender myself to You; take care of
everything.”
(Repeat 3 – 10 times)
Close your eyes and let yourself be carried away on the
flowing current of my grace; close your eyes and do not think of the present,
turning your thoughts away for the future just as you would temptation. Repose in Me believing in My goodness, and I
promise you by My love that if you say “You take care of it,” I will take care
of it all; I will console you, liberate you and guide you.
“O Jesus, I surrender myself to You; take care of
everything.”
(Repeat 3 – 10 times)
Day Nine
Pray always, in readiness to surrender, and you will receive
from it great peace and great rewards, even when I confer on you the grace of
immolation, of repentance and of love.
They what does surrfering matter?
It seems impossible to you? Close
your eyes and say with all your soul, “Jesus, you take care of it.” Do not be afraid; I will tatke care of things
and you will bless My Name by humbling yourself. A thousand prayers cannot equal one single
act of surrender; remember this well.
There is no novena more effective than this:
“O Jesus, I surrender myself to You; take care of
everything.”
(Repeat 3 – 10 times)
O Blessed Virgin Mary, my Mother I am yours now and forever.
Through you and with you I always want
to
belong completely to Jesus.
St. Clare’s Monastery, P.O. Box 3370 Mission, BC V2V 4J5
Canada
Friday, 9 December 2016
Prayer - Desire of the Heart
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| Prayer is the Desires of the Heart |
The Desire of Your Heart
Constitutes Your Prayer
From a discourse on the psalms by Saint Augustine, bishop
In the anguish of my
heart I groaned aloud. There is a hidden anguish which is inaudible to
men. Yet when a man’s heart is so taken
up with some particular concern that the hurt inside finds vocal expression,
one looks for the reason. And one will
say to oneself: perhaps this is what causes his anguish, or perhaps such and such
has happened to him.
But who can be certain
of the cause except God,
who hears and sees his anguish?
Therefore the psalmist says: In the anguish of my heart I groaned aloud. For
if men hear at all, they usually hear only bodily groaning and know nothing of
the anguish of the heart from which it issues.
Who then knows the cause of man’s groaning? All my desire is before you. No, it is not open before other men, for they
cannot understand the heart; but before
you is all my desire.
If your desire lies open to Him who is your Father
and Who sees in secret, He will answer you.
For the desire of your heart is itself your prayer.
And if the desire is constant, so is your prayer. The Apostle Paul had a purpose in saying: Pray without ceasing. Are we then ceaselessly to bend our
knees, to lie prostrate, or to lift up our hands? Is this what is meant in saying: Pray without ceasing? Even if we admit
that we pray in this fashion, I do not believe that we can do so all the time.
Yet there is another, interior kind of prayer without
ceasing, namely, the desire of the heart.
Whatever else you may be doing,
if you but fix your desire on God’s
Sabbath rest,
your prayer will be ceaseless.
Therefore, if you wish to pray without ceasing,
do not cease
to desire.
The constancy of your desire will itself be the ceaseless
voice of your prayer. And that voice of
your prayer will be silent only when your love ceases. For who is silent? Those of whom it is said: Because evil has abounded, the love of many
will grow cold.
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| St. Augustine of Hippo |
The chilling of love means that the heart is silent; while
burning love is the outcry of the heart.
If your love is without ceasing, you are crying out always; if you
always cry out, you are always desiring; and if you desire, you are calling to
mind your eternal rest in the Lord.
And all my desire is
before you. What if the desire of our heart is before him, but not our
groaning? But how is that possible since
the groaning is the voice of our desire?
And therefore it is said: My
groaning is not concealed from you. It may be concealed from men, but it is
not concealed from you. Sometimes God’s
servant seems to be saying in his humility: My
anguish is not concealed from you.
At other times he seems to be laughing.
Does that mean that the desire of his heart has died within him? If the desire is there, then the groaning is
there as well. Even if men fail to hear
it, it never ceases to sound in the hearing of God.
“We are Christ’s pilgrim people,
journeying until we reach
our homeland,
singing on the way as we eagerly
expect the fulfillment of our
hope.
For if one hopes, even though his
tongue is still,
he is singing always in his heart.
But the man who has no hope,
no matter what clamors and
shouts
he makes to be heard by men,
is speechless in the presence of God.”
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| God's pilgrim on the journey |
Excerpt from the Liturgy of the Hours Friday, 3rd Week of Advent
Monday, 11 July 2016
3 Black Men's Messages to the Black Communities in America! RACE WAR WARNING!
Violence that is happening with media pushing racism... We need to pray that this insanity ends!! We are ALL GOD'S CHILDREN, black, red, white, yellow --- blue, purple it doesn't matter.... murder for murder DOES NOT solve the problem!!!
Pray with me to bring peace to our country!! Watch this video link black men who are speaking out with the truth!! Please pass this on.
Please watch this YouTube channel!!!
https://youtu.be/bT9dPVJS-Z0
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Prayer to the Virgin Most Powerful
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| Virgin Most Powerful |
Virgin most powerful, loving helper of the Christian people,
how great is the thanks we owe thee for the assistance thou hast given our
fathers who invoked thy maternal help by the devout recitation of thy Rosary
when they were threatened by the Turkish infidels. From Heaven thou didst see
their deadly peril. Thou didst hear their voices imploring thy compassion.
Their humble prayers, enjoined by the great Pope, Saint Pius V, were acceptable
to thee, and thou camest quickly to deliver them.
Grant, Dear Mother, that in like manner the prolonged sighs
of the Holy Bride of Christ in these our days may reach thy throne and win thy
pity. Be moved to compassion and rise once again to deliver her from the many
foes who surround her on every side.
Even now from the four quarters of the earth there arises to
thy throne the prayer of the Rosary, to beg thy mercy in these troubled times.
Unfortunately our sins hinder, or at least retard their effect. Wherefore, Dear
Mother, obtain for us true sorrow for our sins and a firm resolution to face
death itself rather than return to our former sins. It grieves us that through
our own fault, thy help which we need so desperately, should be denied or come
too late.
Turn to us, O Mary, and graciously listen to the prayers of
the whole Catholic World: conquer the pride of those wicked men, who in their
insolence blaspheme Almighty God and would destroy His Church, against which,
according to the infallible words of Christ, the gates of Hell shall never
prevail. Let it be seen once more that when thou doth arise to protect the
Church, her victory is sure.
Amen.
Friday, 4 March 2016
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| Christ the King |
Prayer to Christ the King
O Christ Jesus, I acknowledge Thee King of the
Universe.
All that has been made has
been created for Thee.
Make full use of
Thy rights over me.
I renew the promises
I made in Baptism, when I renounced Satan and all his pomps and works, and I
promise to live a good Christian life: and especially I undertake to help, to
the extent of my means, to secure the triumph of the rights of God and of Thy
Church.
Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer
Thee my efforts to obtain that all hearts may acknowledge Thy Sacred Royalty,
and that so the Kingdom of Thy peace may be established throughout the entire
universe.
Amen.
Jesus, King and Center of all hearts, through the advent of
Thy Kingdom, grant us peace.
From the book - Holy Hour of Reparation, copyright 1945
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by St. Alphonsus Liguori
Sacred
Heart of Jesus
O Sacred Heart of Jesus,
living and life-giving
fountain of eternal life, infinite treasure of the Divinity,
and glowing
furnace of love,
You are my sanctuary.
O Adorable and Glorious Savior,
consume my heart with
that burning fire
that ever inflames Your Heart.
Pour down on my soul those graces
which flow from Your
Love.
Let my heart be one with,
and in
all things conformed to Yours.
May Your Will
be the rule of both my desires and my
actions.
Amen
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| St. Alphonsus Liguori |
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