I see that you have endowed your vicar by nature with a fearless heart; so I humbly, imploringly beg you to pour the light beyond nature into the eye of his understanding. For unless this light, acquired through pure affection for virtue, is joined with it, a heart such as his tends to be proud. […]
OFFERING OF MY LIFE (By Saint Catherine of Siena.) Read More »
O glorious Saint Camillus, special patron of the sick poor, thou who for forty years, with truly heroic charity didst devote thyself to the relief of their temporal and spiritual necessities, be pleased to assist them now even more generously, since thou art blessed in heaven and they have been committed by Holy Church to
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O God, Who on the top of Mount Sinai didst give the Law to Moses, and didst by means of Thy holy Angels, wondrously convey thither the body of blessed Catharine, Thy Virgin and Martyr: grant, we beseech Thee, that, through her merits and intercesion, we may be able to reach that mountain which is
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O, St. Catherine, who by your filial confidence in the Blessed Virgin merited the privilege of contemplating and conversing with Her while on this earth, obtain for us a faith like yours in Her maternal love. Grant that we may understand and appreciate the value of silence and of humility, and obtain for us the
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Saint Brother André, we celebrate your presence among us. Your loving friendship with Jesus, Mary and Joseph makes you a powerful intercessor with God, our Father. Compassion carries your words straight to God’s heart, and your prayers are answered and bring comfort and healing. Through you, from our lips to God’s ear, our supplications are
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God of Wisdom you made our sister Catherine burn with Divine love in contemplating the Lord’s passion and in serving your Church. With the help of her prayers may your people, united in the mystery of Christ, rejoice forever in the revelation of his glory, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
PRAYER FOR THE GIFTS OF SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA. Read More »
O Lord, may this mystical oblation benefit us: may it both release us from our guilt and confirm us in eternal salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who liveth and reigneth with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
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O Lord Jesus Christ, Who hast deigned to strengthen the Virgin, blessed Catherine, by a wonderful vision of Thy Immaculate Mother; grant, we bessech Thee, that after the examples of tender devotion shown us by the same blessed Catherine, we may so honor Thy holy Mother as to obtain the joys of eternal life. Who
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Say one “Our Father…” Say one “Hail Mary…” Jesus! True and fruitful Vine! Remember the abundant outpouring of Blood which Thou didst so generously shed from Thy Sacred Body as juice from grapes in a wine press. From Thy Side, pierced with a lance by a soldier, blood and water issued forth until there was
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Say one “Our Father…” Say one “Hail Mary…” O Jesus! Deep abyss of mercy, I beg of Thee, in memory of Thy Wounds which penetrated to the very marrow of Thy Bones and to the depth of Thy being, to draw me, a miserable sinner, overwhelmed by my offenses, away from sin and to hide
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