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Sunday, November 12, 2023

Litany of the Saints

 Lord, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy on us.                          
Christ, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us. 
Lord, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. 

Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.    

God, the Father of Heaven,have mercy on us. 
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,have mercy on us. 

God the Holy Spirit,have mercy on us. 
Holy Trinity, one God,have mercy on us.    

Holy Mary,pray for us. 
Holy Mother of God,pray for us. 
Holy Virgin of Virgins,pray for us. 

St. Michael,pray for us. 
St. Gabriel,pray for us. 
St. Raphael,pray for us. 
All you Holy Angels and Archangelspray for us. 

St. John the Baptist,pray for us. 
St. Joseph,pray for us. 
All you Holy Patriarchs and Prophets,pray for us.    

St. Peter,pray for us. 
St. Paul,pray for us. 
St. Andrew,pray for us. 
St. James,pray for us. 
St. John,pray for us. 
St. Thomas,pray for us. 
St. James,pray for us. 
St. Philip,pray for us. 
St. Bartholomew,pray for us. 
St. Matthew,pray for us. 
St. Simon,pray for us. 
St. Jude,pray for us. 
St. Matthias,pray for us. 
St. Barnabas,pray for us. 
St. Luke,pray for us. 
St. Mark,pray for us. 
All you Holy Apostles and Evangelists,pray for us. 

All you Holy Disciples of the Lord,pray for us.
 All you Holy Innocents,pray for us.    

St. Stephen,pray for us. 
St. Lawrence,pray for us. 
St. Vincent,pray for us. 
St. Fabian and Sebastian,pray for us. 
St. John and Paul,pray for us. 
St. Cosmas and Damian,pray for us. 
All you Holy Martyrs,pray for us.    

St. Sylvester,pray for us. 
St. Gregory,pray for us. 
St. Ambrose,pray for us. 
St. Augustine,pray for us. 
St. Jerome,pray for us. 
St. Martin,pray for us. 
St. Nicholas,pray for us. 

St. John Paul, pray for us

All you Holy Bishops and Confessors,pray for us. 
All you Holy Doctors,pray for us.    

St. Anthony,pray for us. 
St. Benedict,pray for us. 
St. Bernard,pray for us. 
St. Dominic,pray for us. 
St. Francis,pray for us. 

St. Victor, pray for us
St. Patrick, pray for us
St. Pio, pray for us
St. Cajetan, pray for us

St. Gerard, pray for us
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us 

All you Holy Priests and Levites,pray for us. 

All you Holy Monks and Hermits,pray for us.   

 St. Mary Magdalene,pray for us. 
St. Agatha,pray for us. 
St. Lucy,pray for us. 
St. Agnes,pray for us. 
St. Cecilia,pray for us. 
St. Anastasia,pray for us. 
St. Catherine,pray for us. 
St. Clare,pray for us. 

St. Anne, pray for us
St. Therese, pray for us
St. Rita, pray for us
St. Monica, pray for us
St. Teresa, pray for us
St. Faustina, pray for us
St. Bernadette, pray for us
St. Kateri, pray for us
St. Rose of Lima, pray for us 

All you Holy Virgins and Widows,pray for us. 

All you Holy Saints of God,pray for us.    

Lord, be merciful,Lord, save your people. 
From all evil,Lord, save your people. 
From all sin,Lord, save your people.
 From your wrath,Lord, save your people. 
From a sudden and unprovided death,Lord, save your people.
 From the snares of the devil,Lord, save your people. 

From anger, hatred and all ill-will,Lord, save your people. 
From the spirit of uncleanness,Lord, save your people. 
From lightning and tempest,Lord, save your people. 
From the scourge of earthquake,Lord, save your people.
 From plague, famine and war,Lord, save your people. 
From everlasting death,Lord, save your people. 
By the mystery of your Holy Incarnation,Lord, save your people.
 By Your Coming,Lord, save your people. 
By Your Birth,Lord, save your people. 
By Your Baptism and Holy Fasting,Lord, save your people. 
By Your Cross and Passion,Lord, save your people. 
By Your Death and Burial,Lord, save your people. 
By Your Holy Resurrection,Lord, save your people. 
By Your wonderful Ascension,Lord, save your people. 
By the coming of the Holy Spirit,Lord, save your people. 
On the Day of Judgment,Lord, save your people.    

Be merciful to us sinners,Lord, hear our prayer. 
That you will spare us,Lord, hear our prayer. 
That you will pardon us,Lord, hear our prayer. 
That it may please you to bring us to true penance,Lord, hear our prayer. 

Guide and protect your holy Church,Lord, hear our prayer. 
Preserve in holy religion the Pope, and all those in holy Orders,Lord, hear our prayer. 
Humble the enemies of holy Church,Lord, hear our prayer. 
Give peace and unity to the whole Christian people,Lord, hear our prayer. 
Bring back to the unity of the Church all those who are straying, and bring all unbelievers to the light of the Gospel,Lord, hear our prayer. 
Strengthen and preserve us in your holy service,Lord, hear our prayer. 
Raise our minds to desire the things of heaven,Lord, hear our prayer. 
Reward all our benefactors with eternal blessings,Lord, hear our prayer.

 Deliver our souls from eternal damnation, and the souls of our brethren, relatives, and benefactors,Lord, hear our prayer. 
Give and preserve the fruits of the earth,Lord, hear our prayer. 
Grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed,Lord, hear our prayer. 
That it may please You to hear and heed us, Jesus, Son of the Living God,Lord, hear our prayer.   

 Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,spare us, O Lord! 
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,graciously hear us, O Lord! 
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,Have mercy on us.    
Christ, hear us,Christ, graciously hear us 
Lord Jesus, hear our prayer
Lord Jesus, hear our prayer. 
Lord, have mercy on us
Lord, have mercy on us. 
Christ, have mercy on us             
Christ, have mercy on us. 
Lord, have mercy on us
Lord, have mercy on us

Monday, September 11, 2023

Prayer by Thomas Merton

 My Lord God,

I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you
does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.

And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,

though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though
I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone

Psalm 139

 O LorD, you have probed me and you know me;

 you know when I sit and when I stand; 

you understand my thoughts from afar,

 My journeys and my rest you scrutinize, with all my ways you are familiar. 

Even before a word is on my tongue,

behold, O Lord, you know the whole of it.

Behind me and before, you hem me in and rest your hand upon me

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; too lofty for me to attain. 

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

A Mother’s Prayer to St. Rose of Lima

 St. Rose, devout Virgin, fragrant rose in the garden of God, sweetly blooming amid the thorns of distressing tribulation and severe mortification, white as snow in the immaculate innocence of your heart, glowing in the love of God that consumed you.

Your devotedness to your parents was so great that you labored night and day to relieve their poverty, and most tenderly cared for them in their sickness.

Most grateful, most humble daughter, have pity on me and my children. Teach me, by conduct truly Christian, to deserve the warmhearted gratitude of my children. Teach my children to appreciate my love and the numerous sacrifices that I cheerfully make for their sake; teach them to repay the same by filial love and obedience, and chiefly by fervent prayers for me.

Bless me and my entire family. May our hearts be intimately united even in adversity. Let us not place our happiness in temporal prosperity, but rather in the hope of a future eternal blessedness.

Pray, likewise, O sainted patroness of America, for all Christian mothers in particular, that Christian life and sentiments may everywhere be awakened among them. May these sentiments spread far and wide, uniting all families into the one great family of God, in which Jesus Christ may live and rule with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Isaiah 65:17-21