Lord, now you let your servant go in peace. Your word has been fulfilled. My own eyes have seen the salvation which You have prepared in the sight of every people. A light to reveal You to the nations and the glory of Your people Israel. Amen.
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(This prayer is designed to be said within the family before a Crucifix on Good Friday.) Mother or a child: Jesus lives His entire life for his journey or a child: under the Cross of salvation. St. John’s Gospel gives us some of His last words (12:27-33): Now my soul is troubled. And what shall […]
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Our Father, who art in heaven, sacred is Your Word. Your kingdom come, Your Words be heard on earth as they are in heaven. Give us today Your Sacred Word. Forgive our neglect of it in the past as we forgive those who neglect us. Lead us toward an encounter with You each time we […]
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Out of the depths I have cried to Thee O Lord! Lord, hear my voice. Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. If Thou, O Lord! wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it? For with Thee there is mercy: and by reason of Thy law I have waited on Thee, […]
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Out of the depths I call to you, Lord. O Lord, listen to my cry. Be attentive to the sound of my pleading. If you, Lord, note all our offences, who then, O Lord, could stand? But with you is forgiveness, For which we revere you. I wait for the Lord, my soul awaits; I […]
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Every day of my life belongs to Thee, O my God, and every action of my life should be performed with the pure intention of honouring Thee alone. From this moment I offer them to Thy Sacred Heart, and by this offering, I consecrate them without reserve to Thy glory. What a motive for performing […]
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Eternal Father, we offer Thee the precious Blood of Jesus, shed for us through exceeding love, and with exceeding pain from the wound of His right hand; through the merits and virtues of which, we beseech Thy divine Majesty to bestow on us Thy sacred benediction, that by its efficacy we may be protected from […]
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O Jesus, it is not the heavenly reward You have promised which impels me to love You; neither is it the threat of hell that keeps me from offending You. It is You O Lord, it is the sight of You affixed to the Cross and suffering insults; it is the sight of Your broken […]
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O Jesus, Who by reason of Thy burning love for us hast willed to be crucified and to shed Thy Most Precious Blood for the redemption and salvation of our souls, look down upon us here gathered together in remembrance of Thy most sorrowful Passion and Death, fully trusting in Thy mercy; cleanse us from […]
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Lord Jesus! You, Who in the most bitter moments of Your passion showed an ardent thirst for souls, grant that we may share in this thirst. Give us the light to grow in the knowledge of Your word and grant us strength so that, by collaborating in preaching this word at every moment of our […]
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