“Without Me you can do nothing.” How many ambitions and points of honor, how much self-complacency, how many desires for self applause and for advancement in recognition of our personal worth are broken, like waves on the rocks, by these words!” – Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.
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St. Thomas Aquinas on Eutrapelia
“Augustine says (Music. ii, 15): ‘I pray thee, spare thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.’ Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists in playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse toContinue reading “St. Thomas Aquinas on Eutrapelia”
The Word on the Street – Hopefully Not Profanity!
Have people ever felt disgusted or uncomfortable when they hear someone drop an angry word? In today’s society, however, vulgarity and profanity exists everywhere; in conversation with someone else, from overheard conversations, on graffiti, even in the movies claimed to be “family”. We all may understand this hard fact, because we may have seenContinue reading “The Word on the Street – Hopefully Not Profanity!”
“Prayer Suggested by Our Lord to Elisabeth Leseur [(May 18th, 1912)]”
“O my God, through The Precious Blood of Jesus and His Five Blessed Wounds, grant me today five graces: the conversion of a sinner, the conversion of a heretic, infidel, or Jew, the salvation of someone dying in peril of everlasting death, a vocation to the priesthood or to religious life, and, for some newContinue reading ““Prayer Suggested by Our Lord to Elisabeth Leseur [(May 18th, 1912)]””
Psalm 129 – De Profundis (For the Holy Souls in Purgatory)
(Part said for the Holy Souls in Purgatory) V. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. R. And let perpetual light shine upon them. V. May they rest in peace. R. Amen. V. Let us pray. O God, The Giver of pardon and Lover of men’s salvation, we beseech Thee in Thy Clemency to grantContinue reading “Psalm 129 – De Profundis (For the Holy Souls in Purgatory)”
Christmas Novena Prayer
Hail and Blessed be the hour and the moment in which The Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour, vouchsafe, I beseech thee, O My God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior,Continue reading “Christmas Novena Prayer”
St. Gertrude the Great’s Prayer
Eternal Father, I offer you the most Precious Blood of Your Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the Universal Church, those in my own home, and within my family. Amen.
St. Dymphna Prayer
Good Saint Dymphna, great wonderworker in every affliction of mind and body, I humbly implore your powerful intercession with Jesus through Mary, the Health of the Sick, in my present need. (Mention it.) Saint Dymphna, martyr of purity, patroness of those who suffer from nervous and mental afflictions, beloved child of Jesus and Mary, prayContinue reading “St. Dymphna Prayer”
Saint Michael the Archangel Prayer (English and Latin)
Sáncte Míchael Archángele, defénde nos in proélio, cóntra nequítiam et insídias diáboli ésto præsídium. Ímperet ílli Déus, súpplices deprecámur: tuque, prínceps milítiæ cæléstis, Sátanam aliósque spíritus malígnos, qui ad perditiónem animárum pervagántur in múndo, divína virtúte, in inférnum detrúde. Ámen. Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness andContinue reading “Saint Michael the Archangel Prayer (English and Latin)”
Prayer for the Conversion of a Relative or Friend
(If the prayer is for a woman, use the feminine pronoun where necessary.) O Mary, Queen of Angels and of men, behold me an unworthy servant and listen to my prayer in behalf of (N. N.) who remains separated from the Church established by thy Divine Son. My Mother, dispensatrix of grace, strip from (N.Continue reading “Prayer for the Conversion of a Relative or Friend”
Under Mary's Mantle 