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Prayer to Saint Paul
O Glorious Saint Paul, after persecuting
the Church you became by Godʼs grace its most zealous Apostle. To carry
the knowledge of Jesus, our divine Savior, to the uttermost parts of
the earth you joyfully endured prison, scourging, stoning, and
shipwreck, as well as all manner of persecutions culminating in the
shedding of the last drop of your blood for our Lord Jesus Christ.
May your example inspire our parish priests today to be zealous in
their service to Godʼs people. Obtain for our priests the grace to labor
strenuously to bring the faith to others and to accept any trials and
tribulations that may come their way. Help them to be inspired by your
Epistles and to partake of your indomitable love for Jesus, so that
after they have finished their course they may join you in praising him
in heaven for all eternity. Amen.
Source: CAPG
Posted at 12:00AM Jun 30, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Prayer to the Sacred Heart for Priests
Remember, O most loving Heart of Jesus, that they for whom I pray are
those for whom You prayed so earnestly the night before Your death.
These are they to whom You look to continue with You in Your sorrows
when others forsake You, who share Your griefs and have inherited your
persecutions, according to Your word: That the servant is not greater
than his Lord.
Remember, O Heart of Jesus, that they are the
objects of the worldʼs hatred and Satanʼs deadliest snares. Keep them
then, 0 Jesus, in the safe citadel of Your Sacred Heart and there let
them be sanctified in truth.
May they be one with you and one among themselves, and grant that multitudes may be brought through their word to believe in You and love You. Amen.
Source: CAPG
Posted at 10:44PM Jun 11, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Summer Ember Saturday
Hymns, readings and prayers for this Whit Embertide:
Hymns: Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Come, Thou Holy Spiritus, come) Veni, Creator Spiritus, (Come Holy Spirit, Creator Blest) Readings: Ember Saturday:
Leviticus, 23. 9-11, 15-17, 21
Saint Paul to the Romans, 5. 1-5
Prayers:
An excellent prayer for this purpose is the Litany of the Saints, in which so many bishops, priests, and levites are invoked; or the Rosary may be appropriately said, grouping those for whom we pray into five classes, corresponding to the five decades.
Source: Ember Days (Curé d'Ars Prayer Group)
Posted at 12:00AM Jun 06, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Summer Ember Friday
Hymns, readings and prayers for this Whit Embertide:
Hymns: Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Come, Thou Holy Spiritus, come) Veni, Creator Spiritus, (Come Holy Spirit, Creator Blest) Readings: Ember Thursday:
Prayers:
An excellent prayer for this purpose is the Litany of the Saints, in which so many bishops, priests, and levites are invoked; or the Rosary may be appropriately said, grouping those for whom we pray into five classes, corresponding to the five decades.
Source: Ember Days (Cure d'Ars Prayer Group)
Posted at 12:00AM Jun 05, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Summer Ember Wednesday
"On Ember days we pray and make sacrifices for ourselves, our families, the Church and the world."
We should never let these seasons pass without adding prayer to our fasts, or it may be compensating fast by prayer. Our prayer should be for the clergy, not only those ordained, though for them especially; but for the Sovereign Pontiff, the cardinals, bishops, parochial clergy, missionaries and religious orders, seminarians; and for the grace of vocation to the priesthood. Hymns, readings and prayers for this Whit Embertide:
Hymns: Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Come, Thou Holy Spiritus, come)
Veni, Creator Spiritus, (Come Holy Spirit, Creator Blest)
Readings: Ember Wednesday: Acts of the Apostles, 2. 1-21 Acts of the Apostles, 5. 12-16 St. John, 6. 44-52
Prayers:
An excellent prayer for this purpose is the Litany of the Saints, in which so many bishops, priests, and levites are invoked; or the Rosary may be appropriately said, grouping those for whom we pray into five classes (Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, and Seminarians), corresponding to the five decades.
Source: Ember Days (Cure d'Ars Prayer Group)
Posted at 12:00AM Jun 03, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Novena for Priests for Pentecost
Jesus, Good Shepherd, You sent us the
Holy Spirit to guide Your Church and lead her faithful to You through
the ministry of Your priests.
Through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, grant to Your priests wisdom in leading, faithfulness in teaching,
and holiness in guarding Your sacred Mysteries.
As they cry out
with all the faithful, "Abba, Father!" may Your priests be ever more
closely identified with You in Your divine Sonship and offer their own
lives with You, the one saving Victim. Make them helpful brothers of one
another, and understanding fathers of all Your people. On this
Pentecost Sunday, renew in Your priests deeper faith, greater trust in
You, childlike reliance on our Mother Mary, and unwavering fidelity to
the Holy Father and his bishops.
Holy Mary, intercede for your priests.
St. Joseph, protect them.
St. Michael, defend them.
St. John Vianney, pray for them.
Amen.
source: Cure d'Ars Prayer Group
Posted at 12:00AM May 22, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Rogation Days, Prayer without Ceasing
May 18, 19, and 20 are three days of prayers and fasting that were traditionally known as Rogation Days.
Below you will find historical information I gathered from different sources:
"Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Ascension Thursday were instituted by the Church to appease divine justice, to ask protection in calamities, and invoke Godʼs blessing on the harvest .
These Rogation Days are of French origin, coming about in the 5th c., when St. Mamertus, Bishop of Vienne, Dauphiné instituted them after a series of natural calamities.
Rogation is simply an English form of the Latin rogatio, which comes from the verb rogare, which means "to ask". The Rogation Days were marked by the recitation of the litany of the Saints which would normally begin in or at a church.
After Saint Mary was invoked, the congregation would proceed to walk the boundaries of the parish, while reciting the rest of the litany (and repeating it as necessary or supplementing it with some of the penitential or gradual Psalms). Thus, the entire parish would be blessed, and the boundaries of the parish would be marked. The procession would end with a Rogation Mass, in which all in the parish were expected to take part.
If your parish does not celebrate the Rogation Days, you mark the days by reciting the Litany of the saints and fasting.
Rogation Days: Pray without Ceasing
The Litany to obtain Holy Priests
sources:
Ember & Rogation Days ~ Fr Ripperger
Rogation Days
Posted at 12:00AM May 18, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Re Consecration of the United State May 1, 2020
Posted at 12:00AM May 01, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Illustrious Patriach
O illustrious Patriarch St. Joseph, who
carried the Infant Jesus in thy blessed arms and who, during the space
of thirty years, lived in the most intimate familiarity with Him, take
under thy powerful protection those whom He has clothed with His
authority and honored with the dignity of His priesthood, whom He has
charged to continue His mission, to preach His Gospel, and to dispense
everywhere His graces and blessings.
Sustain them in their
fatigues and labors; console them in their pains; fortify them in their
combats; but above all, keep far from them all the evils of sin.
Obtain
for them the humility of St. John the Baptist, the faith of St. Peter,
the zeal and charity of St. Paul, the purity of St. John and the spirit
of prayer and recollection of which thou, my dear Saint, art the
model, so that, after having been on earth, the faithful dispensers of
the Mysteries of thy foster Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, they may in
Heaven receive the recompense promised to pastors according to the Heart
of God. Amen.
Source: Cure d'Ars Prayer Group
Posted at 10:43AM Mar 19, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Wednesday March 04, Ember days
The observance of Ember days is a very old tradition, going back to
the Apostolic time and
taking after the Roman Pagan customs that held festivals on each seasons
of the year. In 494, Pope
Gelasius I used the Ember Saturdays to confer ordination to the
priesthood.
From
their origins, Ember days had a two fold purpose: to pray for the
laborers and for the fruits
of the harvest. During these three days, Catholics were thanking Our
Blessed Lord "for the gifts
of nature" asking Him "to teach men to make use of them in moderation,
assist the needy" but most
of all to pray for more good priests.
Ember Days: Catholic Encyclopedia
In 1969, Pope Paul VI excluded the embers day from being mandatory
days of fast and abstinence and left their celebrations to the
discretion of the local bishops. Even though the US Bishopsʼ Conference
has decided not to celebrate them, we may still choose to do so as a
personal devotion since its observance at home or small communities is
not discouraged:
"17.
Vigils and Ember Days, as most now know, no longer oblige to fast and
abstinence. However, the
liturgical renewal and the deeper appreciation of the joy of the holy
days of the Christian year
will, we hope, result in a renewed appreciation as to why our
forefathers spoke of "a fast before a
feast." We impose no fast before any feast-day,
but we suggest that the devout will find greater
Christian joy in the feasts of the
liturgical calendar if they freely bind themselves, for their own
motives and in their own
spirit of piety, to prepare for each Church festival by a day of
particular self- denial,
penitential prayer and fasting."
Vigils and Ember Days (USCCB) 1966
Prayers:
- Seven Penitential Psalms
- Litany of Saints
- Litany to Obtain Holy Priests
- Holy Hour of Adoration and Reparation for Priests
For Ember Days
Listen, Almighty God, we beseech Thee, to the prayers which Thy universal Church offers to Thee at this time; beseeching Thy blessing on those who are about to be admitted to Thy Holy Service of the Altar. Give Thy grace to all who are called to any office and administration amongst Thy clergy; and so replenish them with the truth of Thy doctrine, and indue them with innocence of life, that they may faithfully serve thee to the glory of Thy great name and the benefit of Thy Holy Church. Amen
O God, of whose mercies there is no number, and of whose goodness the treasure is infinite, we humbly thank Thee for the gifts thou hast bestowed upon us. Continue Thy mercy to us, and give us also so much of thy temporal blessings as Thou knowest to be for our good.
Grant that the fruits of the earth may, by Thy holy favor, increase and multiply: defend them from all drought, frosts or tempests, or whatever else may be hurtful to them. It is from Thy hand only that we look for succor, and to Thee we have recourse in all our necessities. Amen.
Posted at 03:00AM Mar 04, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Lenten Reading plan: Daily readings from St. John Vianney, Patron of Parish Priests
There are forty days of Lent – but there are more than forty days listed below! This is because Sundays and the days of the Sacred Triduum are not counted as part of the forty days of Lent. But in our spiritual discipline, it is good to have a certain consistency every day. Therefore, I have included enough daily readings for all of the days from Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday.
The texts provided below are taken from the catecheses, exhortations, and sermon excerpts of the Holy Curé of Ars, Saint John Vianney. During the Year for Priests in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI has held up this important saint as a model for all parish priests. His writings contain a great depth of spirituality and wisdom.
These daily readings, which vary in length, will be a spiritual nourishment for all who read them. And as you read them, remember to pray for your priests: who baptized you, confirmed you, married you, anointed you, heard your confessions, and celebrated Mass for you. Your priest prays for you each day in his Mass and Breviary; do not forget to pray for him!
Source: Fr. Bryan W. Jerabek (Huntsville, Alabama, 2010)
Posted at 12:00AM Feb 26, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Feb. 18: St. Bernadette (Father Price's Daily Prayer)
O Mary Immaculate, Patron of America, who, through little Bernadette,
bade us pray and work for the conversion of the countless souls now perishing,
I offer all the prayers, actions, and suffering of this day and every day of my life for their conversion, and I beg of thee to bless my resolution to do what I can throughout
my life to bring about their salvation.
Saint Bernadette, pray for Father Price
Imprimatur: Most Rev. Vincent S. Waters, D.D. May 2, 1949
Source: Cure d'Ars Prayer Group
Posted at 10:23AM Feb 18, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
By thy maternal heart, O Mary, and by the glory which the holy Church has rendered thee, we conjure thee to pray for the Sovereign Pontiff and for Father [ name ] and to realize the hopes of peace which the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception excited in the breasts of the faithful. Amen.
Source: St. Josephʼs Manual ( Rev. James Fitton, 1877)
Posted at 12:00AM Feb 11, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
First Friday: Prayer to the Sacred Heart for Priests
Sacred Heart Stained Glass, Raleigh NC
Remember, O most loving Heart of Jesus,
that they for whom I pray are those for whom You prayed so earnestly the
night before Your death. These are they to whom You look to continue
with You in Your sorrows when others forsake You, who share Your griefs
and have inherited your persecutions, according to Your word: That the
servant is not greater than his Lord.
Remember, O Heart of
Jesus, that they are the objects of the worldʼs hatred and Satanʼs
deadliest snares. Keep them then, 0 Jesus, in the safe citadel of Your
Sacred Heart and there let them be sanctified in truth.
May they
be one with you and one among themselves, and grant that multitudes may
be brought through their word to believe in You and love You. Amen.
Source: CAPG
Posted at 08:56AM Feb 07, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]
Priest's Saturday
1. The Priest’s Saturday brings about an intimate union between priests and people. Surely the people will welcome with great joy the opportunity thus given to co-operate, by prayer and sacrifice, with the priest in all the work that he does for the parish. They will thus merit to have, and will efficaciously make, zealous and holy priests. Experience shows that also the children easily understand the Priest’s Saturday and enter with joy upon this apostolate.
2. Especially the sick, the convalescent, and the body disabled. Who are often so deeply pious and abounding in virtue, will find Priest’s Saturday a great and apostolic field of holy endeavor and their lonely days will take on a new and profound significance as they realize that a marvelous life-work lies open before them. Such unselfish and holy effort in behalf of priests, such prayers and sacrifices, will yield most glorious fruits and the world will soon feel the blessed influence of the Priest’s Saturday.
3. New vocations to the priesthood will be aroused and fostered, and surely in many a woman’s soul, as she prays and sacrifices for the sanctification of priests, the hidden wish will be felt: “ Oh, if I myself might become the mother of a priest!”
4. God grant that all take part in this great “apostolate to the apostles”! Surely it is a thing most pleasing to God and most fruitful in blessings here upon earth even as it redounds to the salvation of countless souls. Spread this idea wherever and whenever you can. Be a promoter. Get others to spread and promote it. Remember that concern for the sanctification of priests is most dear to the Sacred Heart of the Divine Savior and to the Sweet Heart of His Blessed Mother. It is their concerns. (Tr. W. H. , S.D.S.)
imprimatur: +Paulus Petrus, Epps. Sinus Viridis 22 Jan. 1935. The Salvatorian Fathers.
Give truly holy priests who, inflamed with the fire of Thy divine love, seek nothing but Thy greater glory and the salvation of our souls.
And thou, Mary, good Mother of priests, protect all priests in the dangers of their holy vocation and, with the loving hand of a Mother, also lead back to the Good Shepherd those poor priests who have become unfaithful to their exalted vocation and have gone astray.
Let them ever give us a glowing example of love and fidelity towards Holy Mother Church, towards the Pope, and bishops, and grant that by word and example they may shine as models of every virtue.
Most loving Jesus, bless all their priestly labors and sacrifices! Bless all their prayers and words at the altar and in the confessional, in the pulpit, and in school, in confraternities, and at the bedside of the sick! Protect and preserve them in all dangers from within and from without.
Divine Savior, give to Thy Church priests who abound in true holiness! Call many good boys and young men to the priestly and religious state! Aid and sanctify all those who are to become Thy priests! And to the souls of departed priests grant everlasting rest.
But to me give a true spirit of faith and humble obedience, in order that in my pastor I may ever behold the representative of God and willingly follow all his teachings. Amen
Source: Priest's Saturday
Posted at 12:00AM Feb 01, 2020 by VP in Prayers | Comments [0]