The Fatima Prayer, was taught by Our Lady of Fatima on July 13, 1917 to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal. The three shepherd children – Francisco, Jacinta, and Lucia, were asked to recite this prayer at the end of each decade of the rosary. It was approved for public use in 1930, and has since become a common (though optional) part of the Rosary.
After Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, Calungsod is the second Filipino to be declared a saint. He’s also known as Peter Calungsod and Pedro Calonsor. Was a Visyan migrant, sacristan and missionary catechist who, along with the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores, suffered religious persecution in Guam for their missionary work in 1672 (Wikipedia).
Feast day: April 2
Canonized: October 21, 2012
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A personal favorite of mine, this perpetual novena is short and sweet that I can pray on a regular basis. Hope you find this helpful and ask Mama Mary for her intercession. The shrine in Paris France is a special place for me as a pilgrim or devotee of Our Lady.
For physical Novena cards, I found an online shop (not sponsored) that sells beautifully crafted prayer cards –
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This solemnity is a day that we remember all the saints, honor those who have come before us.
Here’s a prayer from the Association of Miraculous Medal that you can pray today or in any occasion.
Dear Father,
You have given the saints in heaven eternal happiness and they now live in the fullness of your glory. Because of their holy love for you, they also care about me and my family, my friends, my church, and my neighbors. Thank you for the gift of their friendship and the witness of their holy lives. I ask our patron saints and every saint who has become especially dear to me to intercede for us. I ask them to help us journey safely on the narrow path that leads to heaven. O Lord, give us their protection. Grant us their assistance in overcoming temptation and gaining the fullness of life with you.
Amen.
Heavenly Father, I thank you for loving me.I thank you for sending your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ to the world to save and to set me free.I trust in your power and grace that sustain and restore me.
Loving Father, touch me now with your healing hands, for I believe that your will is for me to be well in mind, body, soul and spirit.
Cover me with the most precious blood of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.
Cast anything that should not be in me.
Root out any unhealthy and abnormal cells.
Open any blocked arteries or veins and rebuild and replenish any damaged areas.
Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection by the power of Jesus’ precious blood.
Let the fire of your healing love pass through my entire body to heal and make new any diseased areas so that my body will function the way you created it to function.
Touch also my mind and my emotion, even the deepest recesses of my heart.
Saturate my entire being with your presence, love, joy, and peace and draw me ever closer to you every moment of my life.
And Father, fill me with your Holy Spirit and empower me to do your works so that my life will bring glory and honor to your holy name.
I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Why do you confuse yourselves by worrying? Leave the care of your affairs to me and everything will be peaceful.
I say to you in truth that every act of true, blind, complete surrender to me produces the effect that you desire and resolves all difficult situations… A thousand prayers do not equal one act of abandonment; don’t ever forget it. There is no better novena than this:
O Jesus, I abandon myself to you. Jesus, you take over.
God the Holy Spirit,
third person of the blessed Trinity.
Spirit of truth love and holiness,
proceeding from the Father
and the Son,
and equal to them in all things.
I adore You and love You with all my heart.
Teach me to know and to seek God,
by whom and for whom I was created.
Fill my heart with holy fear and love of God.
Grant me compunction and patience
and allow me not to fall into sin.
Give me an increase of faith, hope &
charity and bring forth in my soul
all the virtues proper to my state of life.
Give me Your four cardinal virtues,
Your seven gifts, and Your twelve fruits.
Make me a faithful follower of Jesus
and an obedient child of the church.
Give me the grace to keep the commandments
and to receive the sacraments worthily.
Raise me to perfection in the state of
life which You have called me.
And lead me to a happy death,
through Jesus Christ, O Lord.
Grant me also O Holy Spirit,
You who are the giver of all good gifts,
the special favor for which I ask…
(mention your request)
if it be for Your greater honor
and the good of my soul.
God bless,
mitch.e
I’d like to share the hymn – “Ave Maria de Lourdes” in French. As seen on a short clip I recorded below.
Ave, Ave, Ave Maria!
Ave, Ave, Ave Maria!O Vierge Marie, le peuple Chrétien,
à Lourdes vous prie, chez vous il renvient.Le fond de la roche s’éclaire à l’instant:
la dame s’approche, fait signe à l’enfant.“Venez, je vous prie, ici, quinze fois,
avec vos amies entendre ma voix.”Avec insistance la dame,
trois fois, a dit: “pénitence”
Chrétien, c’est pour toi!“A cette fontaine venez et buvez;
dans l’eau pure et sainte
allez vous laver.”“Je veux qu’ici même,
au pied de ces monts,
le peuple que j’aime
vienne en procession.”
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