Prayers
St. Dominic
FRA ANGELICO
1428
Prayer to St. Catherine of Siena and St. Dominic
O holy Priest of God and
glorious Patriarch, Saint Dominic,
thou who wast the friend, the well-beloved son and the confident of the
Queen of Heaven, and didst work so many miracles by the power of the
holy
Rosary; and thou, Saint Catherine of Siena, first daughter of this
Order
of the Rosary, and powerful mediator at Mary's throne with the Heart of
Jesus, with whom thou didst exchange thy heart; do thou, my beloved
Saints,
have regard to my necessities and pity the sad condition in which I now
find myself. On earth you opened thy hearts to the miseries of thy
fellow-men
and thy hands were strong to help them; now in Heaven thy charity hath
not grown less nor hath thy power waned. Pray, ah, pray for me to the
Mother
of the Rosary, and to her Divine Son, for I have great confidence that
through thy intercession I shall obtain the favor I so much desire.
Amen.
Glory be to the Father and to
the Son and to the Holy
Ghost,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever shall be.
Amen.
Three times
In honor of St. Vincent Ferrer, Glory be,
etc., Three times, and in honor of St. Thomas
Aquinas, Glory
be, etc., Three times.
From the Raccolta
SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA
PRIMARY PATRON OF ITALY
579
A Prayer
O Saint Catherine, thou lily of virginity and rose of charity who didst
adorn the
garden of Saint Dominic, heroine of Christian zeal who wast chosen like
Saint Francis to be the special Patron of Italy, to thee we have
recourse with confidence, invoking thy mighty protection upon ourselves
and upon the whole Church of Christ, thy Beloved, in whose Heart thou
didst drink of the inexhaustible fountain of all grace and all peace
for thee and for the world. From that Divine Heart thou didst draw the
living water of virtue and concord in families, of upright conduct in
young people, of union among the discordant nations, of renewal of
public morality and of brotherly love, which is compassionate and
benevolent towards the unfortunate and suffering, and didst teach us by
thy example how to unite the love of Christ with the love of country.
If thou lovest the land of Italy and its people entrusted to thee, if
pity for us moves thee, if that tomb is dear to thee in which Rome
venerates and honors thy virginal remains, oh! graciously turn thine
eyes and thy favor upon our pain and upon our prayer, and fulfill our
desires.
Defend, assist, and comfort thy fatherland and the world. Under thy
protection and thy guidance be the sons and daughters of Italy, our
hearts and our minds, our labors and our hopes, our faith and our love;
that faith and that love which formed thy very life and made thee the
living image of Christ crucified in thy intrepid zeal for His Spouse,
Holy Church.
O heroic and holy messenger of union and peace for the Church of
Christ, thou who didst restore the successor of Peter to the Apostolic
Roman See in the splendor of its authority and teaching office, protect
and console him in his paternal and universal solicitude, in his
anxious cares and in his counsels for the salvation and the
tranquillity of the peoples of the earth; revive, preserve, and
increase in us and in all faithful Christians, O heavenly Patroness,
the affection and the filial submission which thou didst cherish for
him and for the fold of Christ in a world at peace. Amen (Pope
Pius XII)
This prayer formerly carried an indulgence of 500
days and a
plenary indulgence on the usual conditions, when this prayer has been
recited daily for a month (Pius XII Rescript in his own hand, March 7,
1942, document exhibited March 24, 1942; S. P. Ap.,
June 18, 1949).
580
A Prayer
O admirable Saint Catherine, thou who didst merit to make of thy
whole life the noblest holocaust, constantly inspiring thyself to a
most ardent love for Jesus, the Lamb without blemish, and for His
beloved Spouse the Church, whose rights thou didst strenuously affirm
and support in troubled times, obtain, likewise, for us the grace not
only to pass unscathed through the corruption of this world, but also
to remain unshakably faithful to the Church, in word, in deed, in
example, to see always, and to make others see, in the Vicar of Christ
our anchor, as it were, in the storms of life, the beacon light that
points the way to the harbor of safety in the dark night of our times
and of men's souls.
This prayer formerly carried an indulgence of 300 days and
a plenary indulgence on the usual conditions, when this prayer has been
recited daily for a month (S. P. Ap., Dec. 12, 1940).
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