Novena to Saints Peter and Paul for Saint Benedict Center’s Needs
This is somewhat last minute, but we ask friends and benefactors of Saint Benedict Center to join our Brothers and Sisters in a Novena to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul to begin today, Saturday,...
View ArticleA Litany for Syria
The website, The Hermeneutic of Continuity has posted a Litany of Syrian Saints composed by reader of that site. It is thoroughly Catholic and can only be used privately. The post A Litany for Syria...
View ArticleRecommendation to One’s Guardian Angel for a Happy Hour of Death
My good Angel: I know not when or how I shall die. It is possible I may be carried off suddenly, and that before my last sigh I may be deprived of all intelligence. Yet how many things I would …...
View ArticleA Prayer to the Virgin against the Spirits of Darkness
A friend sent us a card with this prayer on it. She suggested that we recommend it to be said daily for the Synod of Bishops: Remedy against the “spirits of darkness” and the forces of hatred and fear....
View ArticleSaint Maximilian Maria Kolbe’s Prayer of Marian Consecration
O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire order of mercy to thee. I, N___, a repentant sinner, cast myself at thy feet...
View ArticlePrayer of a Slave
The following prayer is offered for the private devotion of our readers: Immaculate Heart of Mary, may your sorrows be my sorrows, may your joys be my joys, may your love be my love. I am your slave...
View ArticleNovena to the Holy Ghost; from Friday after Ascension Thursday to Saturday,...
This is the prototype of all novenas. It commemorates the nine days between the Ascension of Our Lord and the descent of the Holy Ghost on the first Pentecost Sunday. During this time Our Lady and the...
View ArticleChair of Unity Octave
Annual announcement: Today begins the traditional Chair of Unity octave, originally planned to last from the feast of Saint Peter’s Chair at Rome until the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul on...
View ArticlePrayer to Our Lady of Palestine
Going through Brother Francis’ books after he died in 2009 — when I initially posted this prayer on our site — I came upon an old Latin-Arabic missal. It was evidently published for Latin Rite...
View ArticlePrayer of Consecration to the Admirable Child Mary
Quotes Worth Contemplating for September 8 Prayer of Consecration to the Admirable Child Mary by St. John Eudes It would be well to renew this Consecration every year on the day on which it was made,...
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