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Sayings of the Saints
“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.
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PRAYER
To Saint Jude Thaddeus
Make use I implore thee, of that particular privilege given to thee, to bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly— (Here make your request) and that I may praise God with thee and all the saints forever. I promise, O Blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, to always honor thee as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to thee. Amen.
~ National Shrine of St. Jude (Holy Card)
Chicago, Illinois | 18 |
| 3 |  PRAYER
To Saint Jude Thaddeus ~ To be said when problems arise or when one seems to be deprived of all visible help, or for cases almost despaired of.
Most holy Apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor who delivered thy beloved Master into the hands of His enemies has caused thee to be forgotten by many, but the Church honors and invokes thee universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone.
(continued) | 53 |
| 4 |  The CROWN of TWELVE STARS
ALL praise and thanksgiving be to the ever-blessed Trinity, who hath shown unto us Mary, ever-Virgin, clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a mystic crown of twelve stars.
℟. For ever and ever. Amen.
Let us praise and give thanks to God the Father, who elected her for his daughter.
℟. Amen. Pater noster.
Praise be to God the Father, who predestined her to be the Mother of his Son.
℟. Amen. Ave Maria.
Praise be to God the Father, who preserved her from all stain in her conception.
℟. Amen. Ave Maria.
Praise be to God the Father, who on her birthday adorned her with his choicest gifts.
℟. Amen. Ave Maria.
Praise be to God the Father, who gave her Joseph for her pure spouse and companion.
℟. Amen. Ave Maria and Gloria Patri.
(continued) | 34 |
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PRAYER for a Husband or Wife
(continued)
Preserve my love undefiled, according to thy divine command, and let the duty of love help to conduct me with comfort through all the obligations and difficulties of my state. Grant me discretion to manage all circumstances for the best, a true love for peace, and such a discreet compliance, as to resign my thoughts and inclinations for preserving it. Inspire me with true humility and patience,that I may submit to, and bear with all crosses, in the manner thy apostle requires. Furnish me with all other helps, that whatever difficulties may occur, I may persevere with cheerfulness in discharging the duties of my state, and never yield so far to any weakness, ill humour, or impatience, as to weaken, much less, to break the bond which thou hast sanctified, and which cannot be dissolved but by death. May I always be faithful and indefatigable in the discharge of the duties of my state; doing and suffering whatever falls to my lot, with such absolute submission to thy will, that both in peace and trouble, in prosperity and adversity, I may ever remember to resign myself cheerfully, O God, to thy pleasure or permission; and under all difficulties,still labour to work out my salvation. Amen.
The Key of Heaven or A Manual of Prayers, Dublin, 1839
Prayers for Different States of Life | 29 |
| 6 |  PRAYER for a Husband or Wife
Prayers for Different States of Life
O God, who has ordained the holy state of matrimony, wherein I am engaged, grant me grace to comply with all its obligations, and to perform them in such a manner as is becoming a Christian, not an unbeliever.
(continued) | 27 |
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ACT of Consecration to ST. MICHAEL the ARCHANGEL
I entreat thee not to look at how little, I, as thy servant have to offer, being only a wretched sinner, but to gaze, rather, with favorable eye at the heartfelt affection with which this offering is made, and remember that if from this day onward I am under thy patronage, thou must during all my life assist me, and procure for me the pardon of my many grievous offenses, and sins, the grace to love with all my heart my God, my dear Savior Jesus, and my Sweet Mother Mary, and to obtain for me all the help necessary to arrive to my crown of glory.
Defend me always from my spiritual enemies, particularly in the last moments of my life.
Come then, o Glorious Prince, and succor me in my last struggle, and with thy powerful weapon cast far from me into the infernal abysses that prevaricator and proud angel that one day thou prostrated in the celestial battle.
Saint Michael, defend us in our daily battle so that we may not perish in the last Judgment.
Amen.
St. Michael, the Archangel, ora pro nobis. | 28 |
| 8 |  St. Michael, the Archangel, pray for us.
ACT of Consecration to ST. MICHAEL the ARCHANGEL
O most noble Prince of the Angelic Hierarchies, valorous warrior of Almighty God and zealous lover of His glory, terror of the rebellious angels, and love and delight of all the just angels, my beloved Archangel SAINT MICHAEL, desiring to be numbered among thy devoted servants, I, today offer and consecrate myself to thee, and place myself, my family, and all I possess under thy most powerful protection.
(continued) | 32 |
| 9 |  Gospel-lessons to be pondered at Leisure by every Christian soul
One thing is necessary, St. Luke x. 42.
~ Richard Challoner, The Garden of the Soul. (1775) | 44 |
| 10 |  September 28th ~ St. Wenceslaus, Martyr
St. Wenceslaus, duke of Bohemia, ruled that country during its period of conversion to Christianity. His devotion to the Holy Eucharist is mentioned by St. Alphonsus in his book, Visits to the Blessed. Sacrament.
Wenceslaus was in the habit of sowing and reaping with his own hands the wheat from which the hosts were to be made, and he used to rise in the night even during the coldest seasons to visit the Blessed Sacrament. His virtue was the cause of his death, for it aroused the antagonism of his evil-minded mother and brother, who caused him to be assassinated September 28, 938.
~ The New Roman Missal (1937)
St. Wenceslaus, pray for us. | 50 |
| 11 |  St. Wenceslaus was Duke of Bohemia during the conversion of that country to Christianity. He suffered martyrdom at the hands of his own brother, Boleslas, in 938
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September 28th ~ FEAST of ST. WECESLAUS, Martyr
O GOD, Who, by the palm of martyrdom, didst remove Blessed Wenceslas from an earthly kingdom to the glory of heaven, keep us, by his prayers from all adversity, and grant that we may rejoice in everlasting companionship with him.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
Collect, September 28, St. Wenceslaus, Martyr
~ St. Joseph Daily Missal, 1956
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| 12 |  Month of the the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~
September 28th
MOTHER OF OUR SAVIOUR
MARY THE CO-REDEMPTRESS OF THE HUMAN RACE
(continued)
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Since Mary did cooperate with Jesus in the work of our salvation, it is our bounden duty to render to her our most heartfelt thanks.
~ Very Rev. Alexis M. Lepicier, O.S.M., The Fairest Flower of Paradise (1922) | 38 |
| 13 |  September 29th ~ Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel
VESPERS AND MATINS
Te splendor et virtus Patris
O JESU ! life-spring of the soul !
The Father’s Pow’r, and Glory bright !
Thee with the Angels we extol ;
From Thee they draw their life and light.
Thy thousand thousand hosts are spread,
Embattled o’er the azure sky ;
But Michael bears thy standard dread,
And lifts the mighty Cross on high.
He in that Sign the rebel powers
Did with their Dragon Prince expel ;
And hurl’d them from the Heaven’s high towers,
Down like a thunderbolt to hell.
Grant us with Michael still, O Lord,
Against the Prince of Pride to fight ;
So may a crown be our reward,
Before the Lamb’s pure throne of light.
Now to the Father, and the Son,
Who rose from death, all glory be ;
With Thee, O holy Comforter,
Henceforth through all eternity.
Lyra Catholica: Containing All the Breviary and Missal Hymns. Rev. Fr. Edward Caswall, M.A., translator. (1849) | 27 |
| 14 | St. Wenceslaus was Duke of Bohemia during the conversion of that country to Christianity. He suffeed martyrdom at the hands of his own brother, Boleslas, in 938
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September 28th ~ FEAST of ST. WECESLAUS, Martyr
O GOD, Who, by the palm of martyrdom, didst remove Blessed Wenceslas from an earthly kingdom to the glory of heaven, keep us, by his prayers from all adversity, and grant that we may rejoice in everlasting companionship with him.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
Collect, September 28, St. Wenceslaus, Martyr
~ St. Joseph Daily Missal, 1956
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Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~
September 28th
They bear upon the element of self that may be mingled with filial affection. We must keep no corner of our heart for ourselves. We must give our heart to God without reserve.
Then God Himself, master of our dearest feelings, will make us love our kinsfolk as we ought. The first uprooting of affection would be merely inhuman; the uprooting God wants of us is superhuman.
The blessed Virgin had from the first moment given every movement of her heart to God. In the very instant of the Incarnation she had renounced without reserve every possible element of self in her love for her Child. The ever more agonizing sacrifices demanded of her were not with the object of purifying her from the imperfections of her love, for there was in her no shadow of imperfection. Their sole end was to associate her with the redemptive suffering of her Son. The suffering of Jesus was not directed to His purification but to the redemption of the world. The sufferings of the Immaculate Virgin likewise were not for her purification: she could unite them with the sufferings that Jesus bore for the salvation of men. In this sense they were co-redemptive.
2. We must see both the likeness and the difference between the sufferings of Jesus and Mary.
First, note that Jesus’ sufferings could not increase grace in His soul, whereas Mary’s sufferings merited for her a progressive elevation in charity. But above all, note that His sufferings and hers were not redemptive in the same sense.
The sufferings of Jesus were the sufferings of One whom God had constituted the unique head of all humanity. Because of this, they were primarily and of themselves redemptive. Further, by reason of the infinite dignity of the person of Jesus, they had an infinite value; they constituted a superabundant atonement for the sins of all men and all ages.
The sufferings of Our Lady, needless to say, had only a finite value. Further, all their redemptive efficacy comes to them from the sufferings of Jesus. They are redemptive only secondarily and by participation. Jesus so loved the Virgin, made her so like to Himself, that He willed to communicate to her material sufferings something of the worth of His own; He willed that hers should be mingled with His and reckoned with His in compensation for the iniquity of men. God acts in a similar fashion, though to a lesser degree, in regard to very great saints whom He calls to suffer for the sins of others. St. Paul says that he rejoiced in his sufferings for the Colossians, adding the mysterious words, ‘And fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church’ (Col. i, 24).
The Compassion of Our Lady is thus united to the Passion of Our Lord in reparation for the sins of the whole world.
~ Charles Journet, Our Lady of Sorrows. Tr. F.J. Sheed. (1939) | 25 |
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Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~
September 28th
THE CO-REDEMPTRIX
1. ‘If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple’ (Luke xiv, 26). What Jesus is calling upon us to conquer is primarily, of course, whatever may be inordinate in the love of relations; and this may go further than is commonly thought. In any case the inordinate is the imperfect. The saints have eyes especially sharp for the discovery of imperfection, and they have followed these words of Our Lord with a docility that is frightening.
The prescriptions of the Gospel, repeated by the Saints, must be taken without any attempt at watering-down. They do not, of course, bear upon the ontological reality of love: we are not meant to destroy in ourselves all feelings of filial affection and become hard and cold of heart.
(continued) | 40 |
| 17 | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tMG3b8VYU_8&ra=m | 69 |
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Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~
September 27th
On April 22nd, 1727, this feast was extended by Benedict XIII to the whole Church under the name of Feast of the Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin. This is the feast we celebrate on the Friday after Passion Sunday.
But the Servites had been permitted to celebrate a second feast in the year, in express commemoration of the Seven Sorrows. By a decree of September 18th, 1814, Pope Pius VII, freed from captivity shortly before, extended this second feast to the universal Church. This is the origin of the September feast, first fixed for the third Sunday of the month, later transferred to September 15th. It is in the office of this second feast that the Seven Sorrows are enumerated. The mass is identical for the two feasts.
It is worth noting that as the custom had grown up among the Servites of representing Our Lady of Seven Dolours clad in a black mantle — the colour of their Order — the question was brought before the Sacred Congregation of Rites, February 21 st, 1643. Opinions differed and the reply was postponed. But certain consultors were of the opinion that it was unsuitable to clothe the Virgin in mourning, since she had borne her sorrows differently from other women.
A decree dated March 21st, 1744, gives permission for the statue of the Blessed Virgin to be shown in churches on the eve of Maundy Thursday clad in black and holding the body of Christ on her knees.
~ Charles Journet, Our Lady of Sorrows. Tr. F.J. Sheed. (1939) | 66 |
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Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~
September 27th
3. LITURGY
The feast of the Compassion of Our Lady was celebrated at first in individual churches under different names — Compassion of the Virgin, Lamentation of the Virgin, Tears of the Virgin, Transfixion or Martyrdom of the Heart of the Virgin, Our Lady of Seven Dolours, Our Lady of Pity (and even Our Lady de Spasmo or Our Lady of the Swoon, see Appendix III). On April 22nd, 1423, a synod of the Province of Cologne had prescribed and indulgenced the feast of the Compassion, in reparation for the impieties of the Hussites.
(continued) | 54 |
| 20 |  Sayings of the Saints
“The illusions of this world soon vanish, especially if a man arms himself with the Sign of the Cross. The devils tremble at the Sign of the Cross of our Lord, by which He triumphed over and disarmed them.”
~ St. Anthony the Abbott
~ St. Anthony the Abbott, pray for us. | 57 |
