O my God, I thank you and I praise you for accomplishing your holy and all-lovable will without any regard for mine. With my whole heart, in spite of my heart, do I receive this cross I feared so much! It is the cross of Your choice, the cross of Your love. I venerate it; […]
AN ACT OF ABANDONMENT (By Saint Francis De Sales) Read More »
O Lord Jesus Christ, Who art both the example and the reward of true humility: we beseech Thee that even as Thou didst make blessed Francis glorious by following Thee in despising earthly honors, so Thou wouldst suffer us also to become his companions alike in following Thee and in his glory. Who liveth and
PRAYER FOR THE FEAST OF SAINT FRANCIS BORGIA Read More »
The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart. This cross He now sends you He has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His Divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with
THE PRAYER “YOUR CROSS” (By St. Francis De Sales.) Read More »
Great and glorious God, my Lord Jesus Christ! I implore Thee to enlighten me and to disperse the darkness of my soul. Give me true faith, firm hope, and perfect charity. Grant me, O Lord, to know Thee so well that in all things I may act by Thy light and in accordance with Thy
PRAYER BEFORE A CRUCIFIX # 4 (By Saint Francis of Assisi.) Read More »
O God, You inspired blessed Felix, Your confessor, to leave his hermitage to devote himself to the work of ransoming prisoners; grant we pray You that, by his intercession, through Your grace we may be freed from the bondage of sin and may be safely led to our heavenly home. Through our Lord Jesus Christ,
THE PRAYER OF SAINT FELIX DE VALOIS Read More »
Hail, sweet Jesus! Praise, honor, and glory be to Thee, O Christ, who of Thine own accord didst embrace death, and, recommending Thyself to Thy heavenly Father, bowing down Thy venerable head, didst yield up Thy spirit. Truly thus giving up Thy life for Thy sheep, Thou hast shown Thyself to be a good shepherd.
PRAYER TO CHRIST IN HIS PASSION AND DEATH # 3 Read More »
I adore You, Lord and Creator, hidden in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I adore You for all the works of Your hands, that reveal to me so much wisdom, goodness and mercy, O Lord. You have spread so much beauty over the earth and it tells me about Your beauty, even though these beautiful things
PRAYER OF ST. FAUSTINA BEFORE THE EUCHARIST Read More »
My God, I give you this day. I offer You, now, all of the good that I shall do and I promise to accept, for love of You, all of the difficulty that I shall meet. Help me to conduct myself during this day in a manner pleasing to You. Amen.
PRAYER OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES Read More »
Divine Saviour, we come to Your sacred table to nourish ourselves, not with bread but with Yourself, true Bread of eternal life. Help us daily to make a good and perfect meal of this divine food. Let us be continually refreshed by the perfume of Your kindness and goodness. May the Holy Spirit fill us
YOUR SACRED TABLE – A Prayer Before Communion – By Saint Francis de Sales Read More »
O God, Who by a voice from Heaven didst vouchsafe to summon Thy blessed Confessor Felix from the desert to undertake the work of the ransoming of captives: grant, we beseech Thee, that by Thy grace we may be freed from the bondage of our sins through his intercession and may be guided safely to
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