Simply Prayer of St. Mary Euphrasia

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This is dedicated to my friend, Armin, who has given me a good example of this prayer. +

Precious Blood Prayer for Healing

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Dear Blessed Mother, please pray this as much as it is to the good of my salvation:


Precious Blood of Jesus,

Cover my entire person with you love.

Place in my heart the knowledge and understanding that you love me so that it is present within me at all times.  Heal my wounds and memories of not being loved as I should have been loved, and remind me that you were always with me, that you loved me before I was created, and never stopped loving me.  Also heal my memories of having betrayed you, except to have sorrow that I will avoid all unnecessary near occasion of sin and rather live only for you.  Heal my heart from each and every heartbreak, and put in it's place hope and the ability to love as you love, without reserve, while remembering the integrity that you intend for me, because you loved me first. Heal my body physically and emotionally, according to your good pleasure, so that I may function in order to do my duties according to my state in life.  Heal my soul and animate it with an increase of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost that I will always trust in you. 

Order all my memories, hopes, and senses to your love, and form within me the conviction that I am entirely worthy of love because you wouldn't have suffered and died for me if I wasn't so completely lovable.

Remind me always that truth is required by justice, and charity is required by mercy. Help me to be increasingly just and merciful to all those I encounter, especially those closest to me. Help me to forgive all those who have hurt me, and take my hurts and join them to your suffering, that they may be effective in saving their souls and mine.

Help order my desires to please you, and to hope and be patient and trusting in you that in doing so you will always give me the best things for me in this life and for the next.

Amen.+

Prayer of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Ad Sacrosanctum Sacramentum

O sacred banquet at which Christ is consumed, The memory of His Passion recalled, our soul filled with grace, and our pledge of future glory received: How delightful, Lord, is Your spirit, which shows Your sweetness to men, offers the precious bread of heaven, fills the hungry with good things, and sends away empty the scornful rich.

V. You have given them bread from heaven.

R. A bread having all sweetness within it.

Let us pray:

God, Who left for us a memorial of Your Passion in this miraculous sacrament, Grant we implore You, that we may venerate the holy mystery of Your Body and Blood, so that we may ever experience in ourselves the fruitfulness of Your redemption.You who life and reign, world without end.

Amen.+

	ANIMA CHRISTI

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Poetic English translation

Anima Christi, sanctifica me. Corpus Christi, salva me. Sanguis Christi, inebria me. Aqua lateris Christi, lava me. Passio Christi, conforta me. O bone Jesu, exaudi me. Intra tua vulnera absconde me. Ne permittas me separari a te. Ab hoste maligno defende me. In hora mortis meae voca me. Et iube me venire ad te, Ut cum Sanctis tuis laudem te. In saecula saeculorum. Amen.+

Soul of Christ, sanctify me Body of Christ, save me Blood of Christ, inebriate me Water from the side of Christ, wash me Passion of Christ, strengthen me O good Jesus, hear me Within Thy wounds hide me Separated from Thee let me never be ("Permit me not to be separated from Thee") From the malicious enemy defend me ("From the malignant enemy defend me") In the hour of my death call me And bid me come unto Thee That I may praise Thee with Thy saints ("That with thy Saints I may praise Thee") Forever and ever Amen.+

Our Lady of the Holy Rosary / Battle of Lepanto

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Sermon:
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary / Our Lady Help of Christians


5-Part Documentary:
Battle of Lepanto - Part I
Battle of Lepanto - Part II
Battle of Lepanto - Part III
Battle of Lepanto - Part IV




Litany of Loreto

V. Lord, have mercy.
R. Christ have mercy.
V. Lord have mercy. Christ hear us.
R. 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.
Mother of Christ, pray for us.
Mother of divine grace, pray for us.
Mother most pure, pray for us.
Mother most chaste, pray for us.
Mother inviolate, pray for us.
Mother undefiled, pray for us.
Mother most amiable, pray for us.
Mother most admirable, pray for us.
Mother of good Counsel, pray for us.
Mother of our Creator, pray for us.
Mother of our Savior, pray for us.
Virgin most prudent, pray for us.
Virgin most venerable, pray for us.
Virgin most renowned, pray for us.
Virgin most powerful, pray for us.
Virgin most merciful, pray for us.
Virgin most faithful, pray for us.
Mirror of justice, pray for us.
Seat of wisdom, pray for us.
Cause of our joy, pray for us.
Spiritual vessel, pray for us.
Vessel of honor, pray for us.
Singular vessel of devotion, pray for us.
Mystical rose, pray for us.
Tower of David, pray for us.
Tower of ivory, pray for us.
House of gold, pray for us.
Ark of the covenant, pray for us.
Gate of heaven, pray for us.
Morning star, pray for us.
Health of the sick, pray for us.
Refuge of sinners, pray for us.
Comforter of the afflicted, pray for us.
Help of Christians, pray for us.
Queen of Angels, pray for us.
Queen of Patriarchs, pray for us.
Queen of Prophets, pray for us.
Queen of Apostles, pray for us.
Queen of Martyrs, pray for us.
Queen of Confessors, pray for us.
Queen of Virgins, pray for us.
Queen of all Saints, pray for us.
Queen conceived without original sin, pray for us.
Queen assumed into heaven, pray for us.
Queen of the most holy Rosary, pray for us.
Queen of peace, pray for us.


V. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
R. Spare us, O Lord.
V. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
R. Graciously hear us, O Lord.
V. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
R. Have mercy on us. V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray. Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord God, that we thy servants may enjoy perpetual health of mind and body, and by the glorious intercession of blessed Mary, ever Virgin, may we be freed from present sorrow, and rejoice in eternal happiness. Through Christ our Lord. R. Amen.

Thoughts on the Vigil of the Queenship of Mary

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Mother Angelica remarked on an episode of "Mother Angelica Live" back in 1999, that Jesus's public ministry began with the Blessed Virgin Mother's "second fiat".   Our Lord, addressing his mother lovingly with, "woman", as an allusion to what was written in Genesis ("I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." Gen. 3:15) and what was to be written yet in Revelation ("And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars... " Revelation 12:1) he asks her what was this to him since his time for public ministry had not yet come.  The Blessed Virgin Mother's response was prompt, knowing that her son was saying, "my ministry does not come until you give your second fiat."  She immediately then tells the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."  She KNEW that Jesus would make the wine from a miracle, but that he would require faithful servants, as she knew that her first fiat was required by God the Father to bring God the Son to take flesh.  The Blessed Mother knew that obedience to God is the condition God requires for in making "new wine" from old wine skins.  When we become of the age of reason, we then have the responsibility of chosing God's Will.  The Blessed Mother's first fiat was to the Holy Ghost, who espoused her after she gave her word that she would accept whatever was the holy Will of God.  God the Father chose Mary to bring about the physical manifestation of His love, that is Jesus Christ, through her espousal to the Holy Ghost.   This is the reason it is fitting to celebrate the QUEENSHIP OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN soon after the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.    There is no greater queen than the one who is most intimately connected to the Most Holy Trinity, since she has power given to her by God by her submission to Him, and because He chose her out of all His creation for this role.

Majestic Queen of Heaven and Mistress of the Angels, thou didst receive from God the power and commission to crush to head of Satan:  wherefore we humbly beseech thee, send forth the legions of heaven, that, under thy command, they may seek out all evil spirits, engage them everywhere in battle, curb their insolence, and hurl them back into the pit of hell.  "Who is like unto God?" 

O good and tender Mother, thou shalt ever be our hope and the object of our love.

O Mother of God, send forth the holy Angels to defend me and drive far from me the cruel foe.

Holy Angels and Archangels, defend of and keep us. 

An indulgence of 500 days (S.C. Ind., July 8, 1908; S.P. Ap., March 28, 1935).

O Mary, my dear Mother and mighty Queen, take and receive my poor heart with all its freedom and desires, all its love andaffection, and all the virtues and graces with which it can be adorned.  All that I am, all that I might be, my Lady and Queen, all that I have and hold in the order of nature as well as of grace, I have received from God through thy loving intercession; into thy soverign hands I commit it all, that it may be returned to its noble original; wherefore we confess that thou art the channel whereby the graces of heaven decent upon us; thou art likewise the aqueduct which carries them back to their source; thou art, as it were, an electric wire, whereby we are put in direct communication with our heavenly Father; thou art the immaculate way which leads us safe to the Heart of God.  Take, then, and accept all that I am, O Mary, Queen of every heart, and bind me to thee with the bonds of love, that I may be thine for ever, and may be able to say in truth:  "I belong to Jesus through Mary."  Thee onlly will I love, my Mother most pure; lend me thy heart; give me love for thee and for Jesus, and it is enough to make me happy and blessed in live, in death and in eternity.  Amen.

An indulgence of 500 days.

A plenary indulgence once a month on the usual conditions for the daily recitation of this prayer
(S.P. Ap., July 29, 1924 and July 12, 1933).

Prayer of a Soldier

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Prayer of a Soldier in France

by Joyce Kilmer

My shoulders ache beneath my pack
(Lie easier, Cross, upon His back).

I march with feet that burn and smart
(Tread, Holy Feet, upon my heart)

Men shout at me who may not speak
(They scourged Thy back and smote Thy cheek).

I may not lift a hand to clear
My eyes of salty drops that sear.

(Then shall my fickle soul forget
Thy Agony of Bloody Sweat?)

My rifle hand is stiff and numb
(From Thy pierced palm red rivers come).

Lord, Thou didst suffer more for me
Than all the hosts of land and sea.

So let me render back again
This millionth of Thy gift. Amen.