Prayer for heretics, perverts, etc.
by VP
Posted on Tuesday January 07, 2020 at 12:01AM in Prayers
Look down also with compassion on those deluded souls, who under the name of Christians, have gone astray from the One True Fold, of the One Head and Shepherd, Jesus Christ.
O bring them back to Thy Church and to Thee! Dispel their darkness; let them see how passion, and the wiles of the enemy, have blinded and misled them; remove their prejudices; take from them all pride, obstinacy, human respect, and self-conceit. Give them humility, a love of truth, and a strong grace to embrace it, in spite of all the opposition of the world, the flesh, and the Devil.
Gratitude
by VP
Posted on Wednesday December 18, 2019 at 11:00PM in Prayers
Praise and glory be to Thee, O most sweet Jesus, for the infinite love wherewith Thou dost vouchsafe to descend from heaven in the holy Mass to change bread and wine into Thy sacred flesh and blood, to conceal Thyself under these contemptible appearances and by means of this boundless humility to appease the just wrath of God and avert the chastisements due to us.
With our whole hearts we thank Thee for this inestimable benefit. With all the powers of our soul we praise and magnify Thee, and we beseech the hosts of heaven to unite their voices to ours and compensate for what is defective in our giving of thanks. We humble pray Thee to enlighten our minds, that we may clearly comprehend the saving mysteries which Thou dost daily enact upon our altars, that we may venerate them aright, and profit by them for our eternal salvation.
Amen.
Source:Cochem's Explanation of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
An Embertide Prayer
by VP
Posted on Tuesday December 17, 2019 at 11:00PM in Prayers
An Embertide Prayer
Almighty God, Who by Thy people has caused Thy holy religion to be acknowledged and spread, fill us all, whatever our calling, with such glowing love for Thee that boldly and untiringly we may advance Thy truth among men. Increase the laborers in Thy vineyard: give to all Thy ministers, bishops, other clergy, and their flocks, courage, patience and charity. Support and comfort us under all suffering and opposition, and at last, having turned many to righteousness, receive us safe from all defilement unto Thyself: through Jesus Christ, Our Savior. Amen
Source: St. Andrew’s Cross 1922
Wednesday in Ember Week of Advent: the day Christ was betrayed (Fast and half-abstinence)
by VP
Posted on Tuesday December 17, 2019 at 11:00PM in Prayers
"The Observance of ember-days is of great antiquity in the Church. Their connection with the ordination of the ministers of religion renders them particularly worthy the regard of the faithful. We cannot be too deeply impressed with the blessing granted a people, whose priests are according to Godʼs own heart. To obtain such, no humiliation should be deemed too great; no supplication should be neglected.
Whilst therefore we thank God for the fruits of the earth, and humble ourselves for the sins we have committed, we should beg God to supply his Church with worthy pastors." ( St. Vincentʼs Manual, 1854.)
Let us, therefore, revive Embers days!
Let us again pray, fast, and abstain for more faithful priests!
- Introit: (Isaias 45.8) Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down the Just: let the earth open and bud forth a Savior. (Psalm 18.2): The heavens show forth the glory of God: and the firmament declareth the work of His hands. Glory be to the Father...
- Collect: Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that the coming solemnity of our redemption may both confer upon us assistance in this present life and bestow the rewards of everlasting blessedness. Through our Lord...
- Lesson: From the Prophet Isaias, 2. 2-5
- Gradual (Psalms: 23, 7, 3, 4): Lift up your gates, O ye princes: and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of glory shall enter in. Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? The innocent in hands and clean of heart.
- Collect: Hasten, we beseech Thee, O Lord, tarry not: and grant us the help who trust in Thy loving kindness may be relieved by the consolations of Thy coming: Who livest and reignest....
- Lesson: From the Prophet Isaias 7. 10-15
- Gradual (Psalms: 144. 18,21): The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless His holy Name.
- Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, 1.26-38
- Offertory (Isaiah 35.4): Take courage, and now fear not: for behold our God will bring judgment: He Himself will come and will save us.
- Secret: May our fasts, we beseech Thee, O Lord, be acceptable unto Thee, and by expiating our sins, make us worthy of Thy grace, and bring us to Thine everlasting promises. Through our Lord...
- Communion (Isaiah 7.14): Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son: and His Name shall be called Emmanuel.
- Postcommunion: O Lord, we humbly beseech Thee, that being filled with the Gift of Thy Salvation, we may be effectually renewed by what we taste and enjoy. Through our Lord...
Source: CAPG
Prayer of the Sick for Vocations
by VP
Posted on Sunday December 08, 2019 at 11:00PM in Prayers

O God, Who through the sufferings and
death of Thine Only Begotten Son, didst redeem the race of men, grant,
we beseech Thee, that through the sufferings which I now humbly and
patiently bear out of love for Thee and in union with Jesus Christ, Thy
Son, Thou mayest be pleased to call to the sacred priesthood and the
religious life generous youths who will dedicate themselves to the
sublime vocation of bringing to souls the saving merits of the Passion
and Death of the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who livest and reignest
forever and ever.
Amen.
Source: CAPG
Prayer to the Holy Angels for Parishes
by VP
Posted on Wednesday October 02, 2019 at 10:30AM in Prayers
All you legions and choirs of Angels,
please make haste to come to the aid and defense of our One Holy Roman
Catholic Church.
Led by St. Michael, may She be protected from destruction within by all modernistic attempts that try to diminish the true presence of God and take away His proper and due respect!
In
particular, come to the aid of my parish (name your parish) that it may
remain or be remade to be a place of reverence and a stronghold from
which the One True Triune God may continue to lead and strengthen us.
Amen.
Source: Curé d'Ars Prayer Group
Prayer for the Protection of the Church to Saint Michael
by VP
Posted on Sunday September 29, 2019 at 12:00AM in Prayers
O glorious Saint Michael, guardian and
defender of the Church of Jesus Christ, come to the assistance of the
Church, against which the powers of Hell are unchained, guard with
especial care her august Head, and obtain that for him and for us the
hour of triumph may speedily arrive.
O glorious Archangel Saint
Michael, watch over us during life, defend us against the assaults of
the demon, assist us especially at the hour of death; obtain for us a
favorable judgment, and the happiness of beholding God face to face for
endless ages. Amen
Source: Curé d'Ars Prayer Group
Act of Reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
by VP
Posted on Friday June 28, 2019 at 07:00AM in Prayers
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Most Sweet Jesus, whose overflowing
charity for men is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence and
contempt, behold us prostrate before Thee, eager to repair by a special
act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries to which Thy loving
Heart is everywhere subject.
Mindful, alas! that we ourselves have had a share in such great
indignities, which we now deplore from the depths of our hearts, we
humbly ask Thy pardon and declare our readiness to atone by voluntary
expiation, not only for our own personal offenses, but also for the sins
of those, who, straying far from the path of salvation, refuse in their
obstinate infidelity to follow Thee, their Shepherd and Leader, or,
renouncing the promises of their baptism, have cast off the sweet yoke
of Thy law.
We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage
committed against Thee; we are now determined to make amends for the
manifold offenses against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and
behavior, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the
innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holy days, and the
shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy Saints. We wish also
to make amends for the insults to which Thy Vicar on earth and Thy
priests are subjected, for the profanation, by conscious neglect or
terrible acts of sacrilege, of the very crimes of nations who resist the
rights and teaching authority of the Church which Thou hast founded.
Would that we were able to wash away such abominations with our blood.
We now offer, in reparation for these violations of Thy divine honor,
the satisfaction Thou once made to Thy Eternal Father on the cross and
which Thou continuest to renew daily on our altars; we offer it in union
with the acts of atonement of Thy Virgin Mother and all the Saints and
of the pious faithful on earth; and we sincerely promise to make
recompense, as far as we can with the help of Thy grace, for all neglect
of Thy great love and for the sins we and others have committed in the
past. Henceforth, we will live a life of unswerving faith, of purity of
conduct, of perfect observance of the precepts of the Gospel and
especially that of charity. We promise to the best of our power to
prevent others from offending Thee and to bring as many as possible to
follow Thee.
O loving Jesus, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mother,
our model in reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make
of this act of expiation; and by the crowning gift of perseverance keep
us faithful unto death in our duty and the allegiance we owe to Thee,
so that we may all one day come to that happy home, where with the
Father and the Holy Spirit Thou livest and reignest, God, forever and
ever. Amen.
Source: From the Raccolta, #256 (S. P. Ap., June 1, 1928 and March 18, 1932); Enchridion of Indulgences #26.
This prayer was prescribed to be recited on this feast by Pope Pius XI
Novena for Priests to the Sacred Heart (Day 9: June 28th)
by VP
Posted on Friday June 28, 2019 at 12:00AM in Prayers
“We pray for all future priests now being formed in the wombs of their mothers, that they may be safe from physical and
spiritual harm, and come to ordination as God intends.”
Novena 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.
Novena
to the Sacred Heart
O most holy Heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore Thee, I
love Thee and with a lively sorrow for my sins, I offer Thee this poor
heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to Thy
will. Grant, good Jesus, that I may live in Thee and for Thee. Protect
me in the midst of danger; comfort me in my afflictions; give me health
of body, assistance in my temporal needs, Thy blessing on all that I
do, and the grace of a holy death. Within Thy Heart I place my every
care. In every need let me come to Thee with humble trust saying, Heart
of Jesus help me.
Novena for Priests to the Sacred Heart (Day 8: June 27th)
by VP
Posted on Thursday June 27, 2019 at 12:00AM in Prayers
“ We pray for the souls of priests in Purgatory, especially those most forgotten and who have no one else to pray for
them. Do Thou deliver them from the dire torments they endure; call them and admit them to Thy most sweet embrace in Paradise.”
Novena 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.
Novena
to the Sacred Heart
O most holy Heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore Thee, I
love Thee and with a lively sorrow for my sins, I offer Thee this poor
heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to Thy
will. Grant, good Jesus, that I may live in Thee and for Thee. Protect
me in the midst of danger; comfort me in my afflictions; give me health
of body, assistance in my temporal needs, Thy blessing on all that I
do, and the grace of a holy death. Within Thy Heart I place my every
care. In every need let me come to Thee with humble trust saying, Heart
of Jesus help me.