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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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I have one of those killer headaches and really can't manage to write a coherent thought. Here is a repost of something published last year. I just discovered (because I live on another planet sometimes) that EWTN has this devotion every morning at 7:30am preceding morning Mass.

Today, I will post the Chaplet to the Archangel Michael. In a later post, I will provide the history of this Chaplet that St. Michael himself gave to a visionary centuries ago. You do not need to have the chaplet beads but it does make it easier. I confess to having a bit of a mental block in being able to memorize the prayers, which would make praying it anywhere more convenient. As of now, I have a small booklet from Tan Books on the Archangel Michael that contains the chaplet and I use that to pray from without the beads. In these perilous and sinful times, we should look to the Archangels and especially St. Michael for their protection and help.

Begin by making the sign of the Cross and reciting the following:

O God, Come to my assistance

O Lord, Make haste to help me

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, etc

Pray each of the following salutations, followed by one Our Father and three Hail Mary's

First Saluation:

At the intercession of St. Micheal and the Heavenly Choir of the Seraphim, may it please God to grant us the grace to receive into our hearts the fire of his perfect charity. Amen (1 Our Father, 3 Hail Mary's)

Second Salutation:

At the intercession of St. Michael and the Heavenly Choir of the Cherubim, may God grant us the grace to abandon the ways of sin and follow the path of Christian perfection. Amen (1 Our Father, 3 Hail Mary's)

Third Salutation:

At the intercession of St. Michael and the Heavenly Choir of the Thrones, may it please God to infuse into our hearts a true and earnest spirit of humility. Amen (as above)

Fourth Salutation:

At the intercession of St. Michael and the Heavenly Choir of the Dominations, may God grant us the grace to control our senses and to correct our disordered passions. Amen

Fifth Salutation:

At the intercession of St. Michael and the Heavenly Choir of the Powers, may God vouchsafe to keep our souls from the wiles and temptations of the devil. Amen

Sixth Salutation:

At the intercession of St. Michael and the choir of Admirable Celestial Virtues, may Our Lord keep us from falling and deliver us from evil. Amen

Seventh Salutation:

At the intercession of St. Michael and the Heavenly Choir of the Principalities, may it please God to fill our hearts with the spirit of true and hearty obedience. Amen

Eighth Salutation:

At the intercession of St. Michael and the Heavenly Choir of the Archangels, may it please God to grant us the gift of perserverance in the faith and in all good works that we may thereby be enabled to attain unto the glory of Paradise. Amen

Ninth Salutation:

At the intercession of St. Michael and the Heavenly Choir of Holy Angels, may God vouchsafe to grant that they may protect us during life and after death, may lead us into the everlasting glory of Heaven. Amen.

Next, say one Our Father each for Sts. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael and your guardian angel. Then say the prayers that follow:

St. Michael, glorious prince, chief and champion of the Heavenly Host, guardian of the souls of men, conquerer of the rebel angels, steward of the Palace of God, under Jesus Christ, our worthy leader endowed with superhuman excellence and virtue: Free us from every ill who with full confidence have recourse to thee and enable us to make progress every day in the faithful service of our God. Amen

Pray for us, Most Blessed St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of His promises.

Eternal God, Who in Thine Own marvelous goodness and pity, didst for the common salvation of men choose the Glorious Archangel Michael to be Prince of Your Church, make us worthy, we pray Thee, to be delivered by his beneficient protection from all our enemies, that at the hour of our death, none of them may approach to harm us. Rather, grant that by the same Archangel Michael, we may be introduced into the presence of Thy Most High and Divine Majesty, through the merits of the same Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen

Those who recite this chaplet daily are promised St. Michael's protection as well as that an angel from each of the Nine Choirs will accompany the faithful person to the Holy Table every time they receive Holy Communion.

3 comments:

CarolineMay 4, 2011 at 11:25 AM
Praying for relief and healing for your headaches...
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JulieMay 4, 2011 at 5:54 PM
Hope you feel better soon.
Thank you for re-posting this chaplet. I used to say it regularly, but let it go because, sigh, I found it rather time-consuming. (As our friend Terry would say, "I know!")
Lately I've been running into it everywhere on the net and in brochures left in the chapel.
I think I'm getting the hint, finally.:)
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TLWMay 4, 2011 at 6:21 PM
Caroline, thank you, you don't know how much I appreciate that.

Julie, thanks, I'm much better today. You know I FINALLY have the chaplet memorized, so I don't have to carry the booklet around with me. In reality, it takes less than 15 minutes to pray. So, pray it whenever you can, even if it's in segments. That's funny about the booklets - I often leave them behind in places for people to find. Wouldn't that be something if you had one?
Joyce :)
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Mary, Queen of Peace

Ever glorious and blessed Mary, Queen of Virgins, Mother of Mercy, hope and comfort of dejected and desolate souls, through that sword of sorrow which pierced thy tender heart whilst thine only Son, Christ Jesus, our Lord, suffered death and ignominy on the cross; through that filial tenderness and pure love He had for thee, grieving in thy grief, whilst from His cross He recommended thee to the care and protection of His beloved disciple, St. John, take pity, I beseech thee, on my poverty and necessities; have compassion on my anxieties and cares; assist and comfort me in all my infirmities and miseries, of every kind whatsoever. Thou art the Mother of Mercies, the sweet comforter and only refuge of the needy and the orphan, of the desolate and afflicted. Cast, therefore, an eye of pity on a miserable, forlorn child of Eve, and hear my prayer; for since, in just punishment of my sins, I find myself encompassed by a multitude of evils, and oppressed with much anguish of spirit, wither can I fly for more secure shelter, O amiable Mother of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, than under the wings of thy maternal protection? Attend, therefore, I beseech thee, with an ear of pity and compassion, to my humble and earnest request. I ask it, through the bowels of mercy of thy dear Son; Through that love and condescension wherewith He embraced our nature, when, in compliance with the divine Will, thou gavest thy consent, and whom, after the expiration of nine months thou didst bring forth from the chaste enclosure of thy womb, to visit the world, and bless it with His presence. I ask it, through that anguish of mind wherewith thy beloved Son, our dear Saviour, was overwhelmed on the Mount of Olives, when He besought His eternal Father to remove from Him, if possible, the bitter chalice of His future passion. I ask it, through the threefold repetition of His prayers in the garden, whence afterwards, with dolorous steps and mournful tears, thou didst accompany Him to the doleful theatre of His death and sufferings. I ask it, through the welts and bruises of His virginal flesh, occasioned by the cords and whips wherewith He was bound and scourged, when stripped of His seamless garment, for which His executioners afterwards cast lots. I ask it, through the scoffs and ignominies by which He was insulted; the false accusations and unjust sentence by which He was condemned to death, and which He bore with heavenly patience. I ask it, through His bitter tears and bloody sweat; His silence and resignation; His sadness and grief of heart. I ask it, through the blood which trickled from His royal and Sacred Head, when struck with the sceptre of a reed and pierced with His crown of thorns. I ask it, through the excruciating torments He suffered, when His hands and feet were fastened with gross nails to the tree of the cross. I ask it, through His vehement thirst, and bitter potion of vinegar and gall. I ask it, through His dereliction on the cross when He exclaimed, "My God! my God! why hast Thou forsaken me?" I ask it, through His mercy extended to the good thief, and through His recommending His precious soul and spirit into the hands of His eternal Father before He expired, saying, "It is consummated." I ask it, through the blood mixed with water, which issued from His Sacred Side when pierced with a lance, and whence a flood of grace and mercy has flowed to us. I ask it, through His immaculate life, bitter passion and ignominious death on the cross, at which nature itself was thrown into convulsions, by the bursting of rocks, rending of the veil of the Temple, the earthquake, and the darkness of the sun and moon. I ask it, through His descent into hell, where He confronted the Saints of the old law with His presence, and led the captivity captive. I ask it, through His glorious victory over death, when He arose again to life on the third day, and through the joy which His appearance for forty days after gave thee, His blessed Mother, His Apostles, and the rest of His Disciples; when in thine and their presence He miraculously ascended into heaven. I ask it, through the grace of the Holy Spirit, infused into the hearts of His Disciples, when He descended upon them in the form of fiery tongues, and by which they were inspired with zeal in the conversion of the world, when they went to preach the gospel. I ask it, through the awful appearance of thy Son, at the last dreadful day, when He shall come to judge the living and the dead, and the world, by fire. I ask it, through the compassion He bore thee in His life, and the unspeakable joy thou didst feel at thine assumption into heaven, where thou art eternally absorbed in the sweet contemplation of His divine perfections. O glorious and ever blessed Virgin! comfort the heart of thy supplicant, by obtaining for me, (Mention your prayer intention here...) And as I am persuaded my Divine Saviour doth honour thee as His beloved Mother, to whom He refuses nothing, because thou asketh nothing contrary to His honour, so let me speedily experience the efficacy of thy powerful intercession, according to the tenderness of thy maternal affection, and His filial loving heart, who mercifully granteth the requests and complieth with the desires of those that love and fear Him. Wherefore, O most blessed Virgin, beside the object of my present petition, and whatever else I may stand in need of, obtain for me also of thy dear Son, our Lord and our God, a lively faith, firm hope, perfect charity, true contrition of heart, unfeigned tears of compunction, sincere confession, condign satisfaction, abstinence from sin, love of God and my neighbour, contempt of the world, patience to suffer affronts and ignominies, nay, even, if necessary, an opprobrious death itself, for love of thy Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Obtain likewise for me, O sacred Mother of God, perseverance in good works, performance of good resolutions, mortification of self-will, a pious conversation through life, and, at my last moments, strong and sincere repentance, accompanied by such a lively and attentive presence of mind, as may enable me to receive the last Sacrament of the Church worthily, and die in thy friendship and favour. Lastly, obtain through thy Son, I beseech thee, for the souls of my parents, brethren, relatives and benefactors, both living and dead, life everlasting, from the only Giver of every good and perfect gift, the Lord God Almighty, to Whom be all power now and forever. Amen.

Prayer of St. Bonaventure

Pierce, O most sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound of Thy love, and with true, calm and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever languish and melt with entire love and longing for Thee, may yearn for Thee and for thy courts, may long to be dissolved and to be with Thee.
Grant that my soul may hunger after Thee, the Bread of Angels, the refreshment of holy souls, our daily and super substantial bread, having all sweetness and savor and every delightful taste.
May my heart ever hunger after and feed upon Thee, Whom the angels desire to look upon, and may my inmost soul be filled with the sweetness of Thy savor; may it ever thirst for Thee, the fountain of life, the fountain of wisdom and knowledge, the fountain of eternal light, the torrent of pleasure, the fullness of the house of God;
may it ever compass Thee, seek Thee, find Thee, run to Thee, come up to Thee, meditate on Thee, speak of Thee, and do all for the praise and glory of Thy name, with humility and discretion, with love and delight, with ease and affection, with perseverance to the end; and be Thou alone ever my hope, my entire confidence, my riches, my delight, my pleasure, my joy, my rest and tranquility, my peace, my sweetness, my food, my refreshment, my refuge, my help, my wisdom, my portion, my possession, my treasure; in Whom may my mind and my heart be ever fixed and firm and rooted immovably. Amen.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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Mary, Queen of Peace

St Michael the Archangel

St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi

St. Teresa Benedicta of The Cross