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PRAYER TO SAINT AGNES
St. Agnes, you refused to give up your faith; help us to be proud of our faith, to love it, to be strong in it, and to give witness to it daily.
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PRAYER TO SAINT AGNES
St. Agnes, vessel of honor, flower of unfading fragrance, beloved of the choirs of Angels, you are an example to the worth of virtue and chastity. O you who wear a Martyr’s palm and a virgin’s wreath, pray for us that,…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ALBERT THE GREAT
Dear Scientist and Doctor of the Church, natural science always led you to the higher science of God. Though you had an encyclopedia knowledge, it never made you proud, for your regarded it as a gift of God. Inspire…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ALBERT THE GREAT
God, You made St. Albert great by enabling him to combine human wisdom and Divine Faith. Help us so to adhere to his teaching that we may progress in the sciences and at the same time come to a deeper understanding and…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ALBERT THE GREAT
God of Truth you endowed our brother Albert with the gift of combining human wisdom with divine faith. May the pursuit of all human knowledge lead to a greater knowledge and love of you. We ask this through our Lord…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ALBERT THE GREAT
O Divine Creator, Saint Albert was a bishop who introduced Greek and Arabic science to medieval Europe, raising understanding of botany, biology, physics, and other studies of nature. A scientist himself, he wrote many…
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PRAYER FOR THE FEAST OF SAINT ALBERT THE GREAT
O God, Who didst make blessed Albert, Thy Bishop and Doctor, great by his bringing human wisdom into captivity to divine faith: grant us, we beseech Thee, so to follow the guidance of his teaching that we may enjoy…
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PRAYER OF SAINT ALBERT THE GREAT In Celebration Of God’s Perfections
We pray to You, O Lord, who are the surpeme Truth, and all truth is from you. We beseech You, O Lord, who are the highest Wisdom, and all the wise depend on You for their wisdom. You are the supreme Joy, and all who are…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
Glorious Saint Alphonsus, loving Father of the poor and sick, all your life you devoted yourself with a charity really heroic to lightening their spiritual and bodily miseries. Full of confidence in your tender pity for…
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PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH BY SAINT ALPHONSUS
O holy Patriarch, St. Joseph, I rejoice with you at the exalted dignity by which you were deemed worthy to act as father to Jesus, to give Him orders, and to be obeyed by Him whom heaven and earth obey! O great Joseph,…
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PRAYER OF SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI. (ONE THING NECESSARY)
O my God, help me to remember that time is short, eternity long. What good is all the greatness of this world at the hour of death? To love You, my God, and save my soul is the one thing necessary. Without You, there is…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
My glorious and well-beloved patron, St. Alphonsus, you have toiled and suffered abundantly to assure to men the fruits of the Redemption. Behold the miseries of my poor soul and have pity on me. By your powerful…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI FOR ARTHRITIS.
St. Alphonsus, preacher, confessor, founder, bishop, doctor of prayer and friend of the poor, you are also the special patron of all who suffer from arthritis and the pains of many years. When our fingers twist with…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
St. Alphonsus, you are the special patron of all who suffer from arthritis and the pains of many years. When our fingers twist with pain, keep us focused on the hands of Christ pierced with nails. When our knees throb…
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MARIAN PRAYER OF SAINT ALOYSIUS GONZAGA (A.D. 1568-1591)
O Holy Mary, my mother, into your blessed trust and custody, and into the care of your mercy I this day, every day, and in the hour of my death, commend my soul and my body. To you I commit all my anxieties and…
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COME, THOU REDEEMER OF THE EARTH (By Saint Ambrose of Milan)
Come, Thou Redeemer of the earth, and manifest Thy virgin birth: let every age adoring fall; such birth befits the God of all. Begotten of no human will, but of the Spirit, Thou art still the Word of God in flesh…
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A PRAYER BEFORE MASS (THURSDAY) (By Saint Ambrose)
For Thou hast mercy upon all, O Lord, and hatest nothing that Thou hast made. Remember how frail our nature is, and that Thou art our Father and our God. Be not angry with us for ever, and shut not up Thy tender mercies…
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A PRAYER BEFORE MASS (SATURDAY) (By Saint Ambrose)
I entreat Thee also, O Lord, by this most holy mystery of Thy Body and Blood, wherewith we are daily fed, and cleansed, and sanctified in Thy Church, and are made partakers of the one Supreme Divinity, grant unto me Thy…
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A PRAYER BEFORE MASS (MONDAY) (By Saint Ambrose)
King of virgins and Lover of chastity and innocence, extinguish in my frame, by the dew of Thy heavenly blessing, the fuel of evil concupiscence, that I may be pure both in soul and in body. Mortify in my members the…
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A PRAYER BEFORE MASS (WEDNESDAY) (By Saint Ambrose)
Mindful then, O Lord, of Thy worshipful Passion, I approach Thine Altar, sinner though I am, to join in the offering unto Thee that Sacrifice which Thou hast instituted and commanded to be offered in remembrance of Thee…
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A DAILY PRAYER BEFORE DAILY MASS (By Saint Ambrose)
O gracious Lord Jesus Christ, though I, who am a sinner, in nowise presume on any merits of my own, and put all my trust in Thy goodness and mercy, yet do I fear and tremble in drawing near to the Table on which is…
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A PRAYER BEFORE MASS (SUNDAY) (By Saint Ambrose)
O great High-Priest, the true Pontiff, Jesus Christ, who didst offer Thyself to God the Father a pure and spotless Victim upon the Altar of the Cross for us miserable sinners, and didst give us Thy Flesh to eat and Thy…
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A PRAYER BEFORE MASS (FRIDAY) (By Saint Ambrose)
We pray Thee also, O Lord, Holy Father, for the souls of the faithful departed: that this great Sacrament of Thy love may be to them health and salvation, joy and refreshment. O Lord, my God, grant them this day a great…
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A PRAYER BEFORE MASS (TUESDAY) (By Saint Ambrose)
Who can worthily be present at this Sacrifice, unless Thou, O God, makest him worthy? I know, O Lord, yea, truly do I know, and this do confess to Thy loving-kindness, that I am unworthy to approach so great a Mystery,…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ANDREW
Brother of Simon Peter, you heard John the Baptist say: “Behold the Lamb of God,” and you chose to follow Jesus. Leaving your nets, you became a successful fisher of souls. Lover of the Crucified Christ, you too were…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ANDREW
First-Called Apostle of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ, thou high follower of the Church, most praiseworthy Andrew! We laud and glorify thine apostolic labours, we lovingly commemorate thy blessed coming to us, we…
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A PRAYER TO SAINT ANDREW
We humbly beseech Thy Majesty, O Lord, that as the blessed Apostle Andrew, was once a teacher and ruler of Thy Church, so he may ever be our advocate with Thee. Through our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. O Christ, our Lord,…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ANDREW
O glorious St. Andrew, you were the first to recognize and follow the Lamb of God. With your friend, St. John, you remained with Jesus from that first day, for your entire life, and now throughout eternity. As you led…
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THE PRAYER SAINT ANNE, BLESS MY FAMILY
My family is the heart of my life. It is my little Church. Saint Anne, guard the members of my family against all physical and spiritual danger. You lived in the presence of your husband Joachim and your little daughter…
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PRAYER BEFORE A PICTURE OR STATUE OF SAINT ANNE
Dearest St. Anne, it is you I wish to honour in your statues and images. They are the tangible representations of the mysteries of divine love that were accomplished in you. The sight of your holding the infant Virgin…
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PRAYER TO ST. ANNE # 3 (To obtain an increase of faith)
Good Saint Anne, obtain for me an increase of faith in the great mystery of the Holy Eucharist. Help me to see in this great Sacrament, Christ our High Priest, making real for me the saving grace of His death on the…
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PRAYER TO ST. ANNE # 2
Good St. Anne, you were especially favored by God to be the mother of the most holy Virgin Mary, the Mother of our Savior. By your power with your most pure daughter and with her divine Son, kindly obtain for us the…
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ACT OF CONSECRATION TO SAINT ANNE
O Good and merciful Saint Anne, in order to honour you with more zeal, and pray to you with more confidence, I come to consecrate myself to you, for time and for eternity. Hence I choose you, after the most Blessed…
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PRAYER TO SAINT ANNE
Glorious and holy St. Anne, whom the Heavens admire, whom the Saints honour, and the earth reveres, the just, the penitent, and the sinner consider you as their powerful advocate before God, for by your intercession the…
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PRAYER TO ST. ANNE # 1 (To obtain a special favor)
Glorious St. Anne, filled with compassion for those who invoke thee, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at thy feet and humbly beg of thee to take the present…
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MEMORARE TO SAINT ANNE TO OBTAIN A SPECIAL FAVOUR
Remember, O glorious and Good Saint Anne, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored they help and sought thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, behold, I cast…
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