tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26540057549478584562024-03-13T12:26:50.624-07:00The O.P. Prayer ApostolateOn the 9th of August, 2021, the O.P. Prayer Apostolate was founded.
The Apostolate was founded with the intention of assisting both the laity and clergy in building a devotion to the prayer, liturgy, and spirituality of the Order of Preachers, founded by Our Holy Father Saint Dominic in 1216. The O.P. Prayer Apostolatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00344698712460785190noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-59573714430061595072024-02-01T07:29:00.000-08:002024-02-01T07:36:39.719-08:00Novena to Blessed Jordan of Saxony<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Blessed Jordan of Saxony, <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">worthy successor of Saint Dominic, <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">in the early days of the Order, <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">your example and zeal prompted many men and women <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to follow Christ in the white habit of Our Holy Father. <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As patron of Dominican Vocations, <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">continue to stimulate talented and devoted men and women <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to consecrate their lives to God. <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Through your intercession, <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">lead to the Order of Preachers <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">generous and sacrificing persons, <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">willing to give themselves fervently to the apostolate of Truth. <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Help them to prepare themselves to be worthy of the grace of a Dominican vocation. Inspire their hearts to become learned of God, <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">that with firm determination <br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">they might inspire to be champions of the Faith and true lights of the World.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;">[Mention Your Intention Here] Say One Our Father.<br /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Say One Hail Mary.<br /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Say One Glory Be.<br /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Blessed Jordan of Saxony, pray for us (thrice).</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div>The O.P. Prayer Apostolatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00344698712460785190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-30429518455211123872023-08-12T01:46:00.005-07:002023-08-12T01:46:44.250-07:00Prayer for the Intercession of Blessed Bonaventura Paredes<p><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who shows themselves admirable in your Saints and likes to be glorified in them! I give thanks for the extraordinary virtues with which you deigned to adorn the soul of the Most Reverend Fr. Bonaventura. I pray for your honor, that you honor him with graces and miracles, so we can soon venerate him on the altars.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I beg you to grant me through his intercession, the special grace that I ask of you, if it is for your greater glory and benefit to my soul. Amen. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-17334837130398654392023-03-09T06:53:00.002-08:002023-03-09T06:54:32.899-08:00Prayer for the Glorification of Blessed Marie-Jean-Joseph Lataste, O.P.<p><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;">Lord Jesus Christ, who said: "I did not come to call the just but sinners" (Matth. 9:13); O good Shepherd, who seeks the far-wandering sheep to bring them back to the fold; since you have placed in the heart of Your servant Marie-Jean-Joseph Lataste the merciful thought to open religious houses under the patronage of St. Mary Magdalen, in which any sinful woman, purified by the desire for repentance and by Your pardon, to aspire to be admitted into the ranks of virgin daughters of St. Dominic consecrated to Your service, and to end their days in religious life "just like the souls of those who had never faltered, reunited and conjoined to them as sisters in the midst of sisters"; </span><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">We beg of you to glorify your servant, founder of the Work of Bethany, so that the innocent virgins who speed to these cloisters might be stirred up by these examples of charity, to show themselves tender and patient mothers, and that these houses might attract a great number of souls who have borne the yoke of sin, as a burning light which will show them the gate where they may taste the sweetness of penitence, and happy above all to love You, O Jesus, in the innocence reclaimed by tears, with the firm hope that Your grace they may preserver and be brought to the port of eternal salvation. Amen.</span></span></p>The O.P. Prayer Apostolatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00344698712460785190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-70190548068542795512023-03-09T06:39:00.006-08:002023-03-09T07:20:54.570-08:00Prayer of Blessed Marie-Jean-Joseph Lataste to Our Lord <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">O my Jesus! How I love You! Give Yourself to me, and give me to You! Identify me with You; may my will be Yours! Incorporate me to Yourself, so that I may not live except in You and for You! May I spend for You all that I have received from You, without keeping anything for myself! May I win for You Souls! Souls, O my Jesus! Souls!</span></span></div>The O.P. Prayer Apostolatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00344698712460785190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-16096684199972646552022-08-16T14:53:00.008-07:002022-10-27T04:39:29.728-07:00Prayer to Saint Thomas Aquinas (From the Breviary of the Order of Preachers, 1967)<p><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">O God, you make your Church glorious through the wonderful teaching of the blessed Thomas, your Confessor and Doctor, and render it fruitful by his holy deeds; grant us, we beseech you, both to understand what he taught and to imitate what he did. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.<br /></span></span></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-11276371498879177012022-08-04T00:19:00.001-07:002022-08-04T00:19:54.104-07:00Prayer to Our Holy Father Saint Dominic (From the Breviary of the Order of Preachers, 1967)<span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">O God, you were pleased to enlighten your Church with the merits and teaching of the blessed Dominic, your confessor and our father; grant, at his intercession, that she may not be wanting in temporal help, and may always increase in spiritual growth. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.<br /></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-82696028472433203182022-08-02T11:17:00.007-07:002022-08-04T09:22:40.682-07:00Prayer to Blessed Juana de Aza, Mother of Saint Dominic<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">O God, who didst wonderfully make known to Thy handmaid, Blessed
Jane, the grace of the heavenly calling of her son, Dominic, we beseech
Thee that, imitating her and her son thus foreshown to her, we may, by
the loving intercession of them both, receive everlasting rewards.
Through Christ our Lord.</span></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-88990176037433579352022-08-01T00:54:00.011-07:002022-08-04T09:22:48.280-07:00Prayer to Blessed Manes de Guzmán (From the Breviary of the Order of Preachers, 1967)<span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">O God, by wondrous ways you led your blessed confessor, Mannes, into the path of perfection; by the same gracious mercy direct our actions, that we may be able to seek out what you command and obtain what you promise. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. <br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-46776169686320417652022-07-18T14:01:00.008-07:002022-08-01T22:58:11.529-07:00Novena to Saint Dominic<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white;">O Renowned Champion of the faith of Christ, most holy father, St. Dominic, look down from that throne of glory where thou enjoyest the reward of all thy labours upon me, thy poor unworthy child.</span></span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white;">I praise and thank God for the exalted degree of sanctity to which he has raised thee, and the special privileges by which he has raised thee, and the special privileges by which he has distinguished thee; and I conjure thee by that gratitude with which thou shalt for all eternity be penetrated to thy divine Benefactor, to root out of my heart whatever is not agreeable in his sight, especially that evil habit by which I most frequently offend him. Obtain, likewise, the favours I request in this Novena.</span></span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white;">O glorious Mother of God, Queen of the Sacred Rosary, who didst love Dominic with the affection of a mother, and wert most tenderly loved and honoured by him, vouchsafe to look upon me for his sake with an eye of pity: deign to join with him in presenting my petitions to thy most blessed Jesus whom I sincerely desire from this moment to love with all my heart, and to serve with all my strength. </span></span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white;">Mother of my Redeemer, I place myself now under thy powerful protection, as a certain means of obtaining all necessary grace here, and eternal happiness hereafter. Amen.</span></span></span></span></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-71366812746701275522022-07-18T13:49:00.003-07:002022-08-01T22:58:23.653-07:00Novena in Honour of All Saints of the Order of Saint Dominic<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;">Anthem:<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;">The Lord hath raised up the needy from the earth, and hath placed them among princes; making Dominic, in his heavenly home, a joyful father of children.<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;">Let us pray.<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;">O God, who hast vouchsafed to make the Order of Preachers fruitful in an abundant progeny of Saints, and hast gloriously crowned in them the merits of all heroic virtues; grant unto us to follow their footsteps, that we may at last be united in perpetual festivity with those in heaven, whom we venerate today under one celebration upon earth. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.</span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-88486965094609023872022-05-22T15:22:00.007-07:002022-08-01T22:59:03.593-07:00Prayer for Vocations to the Order of Preachers<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;"><span>Blessed Jordan, worthy successor of St Dominic, in the early days of the Order, your example and zeal prompted many men and women to follow Christ in the white habit of Our Holy Father. As</span><span> patron of Dominican vocations, continue to stimulate talented and devoted men and women to consecrate their lives to God. Through your intercession, lead to the Order of Preachers generous and sacrificing persons, willing to give themselves fervently to the apostolate of Truth. </span><span>Help them to prepare themselves to be worthy of the grace of a Dominican vocation. Inspire their hearts to become learned of God, that with firm determination they might aspire to be ‘champions of the Faith and true lights of the world’. </span><span>Amen. </span></span></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-17579173887137213712022-05-04T03:00:00.003-07:002022-08-01T00:03:07.010-07:00Prayer for the Beatification of Servant of God Mother Catherine (Abrikosova) of Siena<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">O God Almighty, Your Son suffered on the Cross and died for the salvation of people. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Imitating Him, Your Servant mother Catherine (Abrikosova) loved You from the bottom of her heart, served You faithfully during the persecutions and devoted her life to the Church Make her famous in the assembly of Your blessed, so that the example of her faithfulness and love would shine before the whole world. I pray to You through her intercession, hear my request... through Christ our Lord. Amen.</span></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-4762443270695468962022-04-24T03:31:00.009-07:002022-08-04T09:22:56.722-07:00Prayer to Saint Margaret of Hungary<p><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">O God, the lover and guardian of chastity, by whose gifts Thy handmaid Margaret united the beauty of virginity and the merit of good works, grant we pray, that through the spirit of salutary penance we may be able to recover integrity of soul. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-2170375624393820382022-04-05T08:38:00.003-07:002022-04-05T08:39:30.210-07:00Prayer to Saint Vincent Ferrer (From the Breviary of the Order of Preachers, 1967)<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">O God, through the wonderful preaching of your confessor, the blessed Vincent, you granted that a multitude of peoples should come to acknowledge your name; grant, we beseech you, that we may be worthy to be rewarded in heaven by him whom he announced on earth as the Judge who is to come, our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you. Amen.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-15894934564352098112022-03-07T02:40:00.001-08:002022-04-24T03:21:48.136-07:00Prayer to Saint Thomas Aquinas for Purity<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; text-align: right;">Chosen lily of innocence, pure St. Thomas,<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: right;">who kept chaste the robe of baptism<br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: right;">and became an angel in the flesh after being girded by two angels,<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: right;">I implore you to commend me to Jesus, the Spotless Lamb,<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: right;">and to Mary, the Queen of Virgins.<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: right;">Gentle protector of my purity, ask them that I,<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: right;">who wear the holy sign of your victory over the flesh,<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: right;">may also share your purity,<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: right;">and after imitating you on earth<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: right;">may at last come to be crowned with you among the angels. Amen.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-2139322537633744392022-01-17T17:54:00.015-08:002023-03-09T06:34:23.405-08:00Prayer for the Canonisation of Blessed Jordan of Saxony<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">O Merciful God, You granted your servant Blessed Jordan of Saxony the graces to lead the Order of Preachers after the repose of Our Holy Father Saint Dominic, grant that the same Blessed Jordan, Patron of Vocations to the Order of Preachers, will be raised to the sanctity of the altar and glorified by Your Church. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through Christ Our Lord, and the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Amen.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-75844390111733965792022-01-10T18:13:00.004-08:002022-04-24T03:36:13.859-07:00Prayer to Saint Dominic (Written by Fr. Marie-Étienne Vayssière, O.P., Provinical of Toulouse, 1935)<p><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space: break-spaces;">O wonderful hope which, at the hour of your death, you left to your grieving brothers, promising your paternal help in their distress. Fulfill, Father, what you have promised; help us by your prayers. You who by so many miracles have manifested your influence, bring us heaven's help; put an end to the evils that have befallen us. Fulfill, Father, what you have promised; help us by your prayers. For the glory of the Father, the glory of the Son, and the flory of the Holy Spirit. Fulfill, Father, what you have promised; help us by your prayers.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-24189721558123944722022-01-03T08:12:00.001-08:002022-01-03T08:12:18.257-08:00Prayer for the Epiphany of the Lord (From First Vespers in the Breviary of the Order of Preachers, 1967)<p><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space: break-spaces;">O God, who today, by a guiding star, revealed the birth of your Son to the Gentiles, grant that we who now know you by faith, may come to the contemplation of your glory. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-56308761691129411402021-12-24T09:27:00.002-08:002021-12-24T12:54:11.728-08:00Prayer for the Nativity of Our Lord (From First Vespers in the Breviary of the Order of Preachers, 1967)<p><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space: break-spaces;">O God, you make us happy by the annual expectation of our redemption; grant that we who joyfully receive your only begotten Son as a Redeemer, may without fear, when he comes as a judge, see our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you. Amen.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-72841983790122874372021-11-15T08:37:00.000-08:002021-11-15T08:37:21.097-08:00 Prayer for the Feast of Saint Albert the Great (From the Missale Romanum, 1962)<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333; white-space: break-spaces;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">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 perfect light in heaven. Through our Lord.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-6896412957414643942021-11-11T07:00:00.005-08:002022-04-05T08:44:00.258-07:00Prayer for the Feast of All Saints of the Order of Preachers (From the Breviary of the Order of Preachers, 1967) <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">O God, you have been pleased to enrich the Order of Preachers with a countless offspring of saints, and have gloriously crowned in them the heroic merits of every virtue; grant us so to tread in their steps, that as today we honor them with one solemnity on earth, we may at length be united with them at the unending festival in heaven. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.</span></span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-76352749007099252872021-10-20T09:00:00.005-07:002022-04-27T02:23:56.093-07:00Litany of Saint Dominic <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #333333;">Lord, hav</span><span style="background-color: #333333;">e mercy on us. </span><i style="background-color: #333333;">Lord, have mercy on us.<br /></i><span style="background-color: #333333;">Christ, have mercy on us. <i>Christ, have mercy on us.<br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #333333;">Lord, have mercy on us. <i>Lord, have mercy on us.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i>Christ, hear us. <i>Christ, graciously hear us.<br /></i>God, the Father of Heaven, <i>Have mercy on us.<br /></i>God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, <i>Have mercy on us.<br /></i>God, the Holy Ghost, <i>Have mercy on us.<br /></i>Holy Trinity, one God, <i>Have mercy on us.</i></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8471683940780168598" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Holy Mary, <i>pray for us.</i></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Holy Mother of God...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Queen of the Holy Rosary...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our glorious father, St. Dominic...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, follower of Jesus Christ...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, eminently endowed with the virtues of His Sacred Heart...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, adorer of the Blessed Sacrament...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, singularly devoted to our Blessed Lady...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, promoter of her honor...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, promulgator of the Holy Rosary...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, splendor of the Priesthood...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, founder of the Friars Preachers...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, apostle of the Albigenses...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, mirror of ecclesiastical discipline...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, rose of patience...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, most ardent for the salvation of souls...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, most desirous of martyrdom...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, evangelical man...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, doctor of truth...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, ivory of chastity...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, man of truly apostolic heart...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, poor in the midst of riches...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, rich in an unspotted life...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, burning with zeal for perishing souls...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, preacher of the Gospel...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, rule of abstinence...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, herald of heavenly things...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, salt of the earth...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, who didst water the earth with thy blood...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, shining in the choir of virgins...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, most humble...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, most obedient...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, most chaste...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">St. Dominic, most charitable...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That at the hour of death we may be received unto heaven with thee...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Be merciful unto us, O Lord, and pardon us.</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Be merciful unto us, O Lord, and graciously hear us.<br />From all sin and evil, <i>Deliver us, O Lord.</i></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">From the snares of the devil...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">From eternal death...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By the merits of our holy father, St. Dominic...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By his ardent love...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By his indefatigable zeal...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By his extraordinary labors...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By his inexpressible penances...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By his voluntary poverty...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By his perpetual chastity...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By his perfect obedience...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By his profound humility...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By his rare constancy...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By all his other virtues...</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, <i>Spare us, O Lord.</i></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, <i>Hear us, O Lord.</i></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, <i>Have mercy on us.</i><br /><br /></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="sans-serif" style="text-align: left;">℣</span>. Pray for us, O blessed father Dominic,</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="sans-serif" style="text-align: left;">℟</span><i>. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.</i><br /><br /></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us pray.</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord God, that we Thy servants may enjoy continual health of mind and body and that through the glorious intercession of blessed Mary ever Virgin, we may be delivered from present sorrow, and hereafter enjoy everlasting happiness. Through Christ our Lord. </span></div><div align="justify" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Amen.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-15047179404914507742021-10-19T08:46:00.003-07:002022-04-05T08:44:05.391-07:00Commemoration of all the Saints of the Dominican Order<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;">V.
The holy grace of Christ hath exalted the saints, whom the Order of Father
Dominic has raised up. We beg to be helped by their merits and to be commended to
God by their prayers.<br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: white; font-family: georgia;">R.
And their praise the Church shall proclaim.</span><br /><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us pray.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grant,
we beseech Thee, almighty God, that the examples of the saints of our Order may
incite us to a better life; that we may imitate the deeds of them whose memory
we celebrate. Through Christ our Lord. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Amen.</span></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-36103070394294979702021-10-17T02:44:00.002-07:002022-04-27T02:23:49.865-07:00Prayers to Saint Thomas Aquinas (From the Blessed Sacrament Prayerbook)<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #333333; font-family: georgia;">Prayer to St. Thomas Aquinas - 1:<br /></span><span style="background-color: #333333; font-family: georgia;">O Merciful God, grant that I may eagerly desire, carefully search out, truthfully acknowledge, and ever perfectly fulfil all things which are pleasing to Thee, to the praise and glory of Thy name. </span><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Amen.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">Prayer to St. Thomas Aquinas - 2:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">O Blessed Thomas, patron of schools, obtain for us from God an invincible faith, burning charity, a chaste life, and true knowledge, through Christ our Lord. Amen.</span><br /></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654005754947858456.post-8604900733837676322021-10-11T16:34:00.005-07:002021-11-09T15:46:08.091-08:00Prayer of Saint Thomas Aquinas Before Class or Study<p><span style="background-color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">Concede mihi, misericors DEUS, quæ tibi placita sunt ardenter concupiscere, prudenter investigare, veraciter agnoscere et perfecte adimplere ad laudem et gloriam nominis tui. Amen.</span></span></p><span style="background-color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">
O Merciful God, grant that I may eagerly desire, carefully search out, truthfully acknowledge, and ever perfectly fulfil all things which are pleasing to Thee, to the praise and glory of thy Name. Amen.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com