Catholic Prayers

V. The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary,
R. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen

V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord. R. Be it done unto me according to Your Word.
Hail Mary, full of grace…

V. And the Word was made flesh,
R. And dwelt among us.
Hail Mary, full of grace…

V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let Us Pray
Pour forth, we beseech You, O Lord, Your Grace into our hearts; that as we have known the incarnation of Christ, your Son by the message of an angel, so by His passion and cross we may be brought to the glory of His Resurrection. Through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen.

V. Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.
R. For He whom you did merit to bear, alleluia.

V. Has risen, as he said, alleluia.
R. Pray for us to God, alleluia.

V. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.
R. For the Lord has truly risen, alleluia.

Let us pray.
O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech Thee, that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may obtain the joys of everlasting life. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

Make the Sign of the Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Opening Prayer
You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us. O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fountain of Mercy for us, I trust in You!

Our Father
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Hail Mary
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

The Apostle’s Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, Our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified; died, and was buried. He descended into Hell; the third day He arose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, sited at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

On the one “Our Father” bead say “Eternal Father”
Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.

On the ten small beads of Each Decade say “For the sake”
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Repeat for the remaining decades
Saying the “Eternal Father” on the “Our Father” beads and then saying “For the sake of His sorrowful Passion” on the “Hail Mary” beads.

Conclude with Holy God (Repeat three times)
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Optional Closing Prayer
Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion–inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself. Amen

Gloria Patri
(Doloxy) Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Make the Sign of the Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Holding the Crucifix, say the
Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day He rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

On the first bead, say an
Our Father
Our Father, who art in heaven; hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Say one
Hail Mary
Hail, Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. on each of the next three beads.

Say the
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

For each of the five decades, announce the Mystery (perhaps followed by a brief reading from Scripture) then say the Our Father. While fingering each of the ten beads of the decade, next say ten Hail Mary’s while meditating on the Mystery. Then say a Glory Be.

After finishing each decade, some say the
Fatima prayer:
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell; lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who have most need of your mercy.

After saying the five decades, say the
Hail, Holy Queen
Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope, to thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears; turn, then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!;

V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,
R. that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray:
O God, whose Only Begotten Son, by his life, Death, and Resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, grant, we beseech thee, that while meditating on these mysteries of the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Visitation – Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth who rejoices in Mary being chosen to be the Mother of God. Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. (Luke 1:39-41a)

Fruits of the ministry: Love of Neighbor

The Nativity – Jesus is born!
While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. (Luke 2:6-7)

Fruits of the ministry: Poverty of Spirit, Detachment from the Things of the World

The Presentation -The Infant Jesus is presented in the Temple.
When the time came for purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. (Luke 2:22)

Fruits of the ministry: Obedience

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple – Jesus is lost for three days and is found by Mary and Joseph in the temple with the teachers listening and asking questions.
When his parents saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, “Child, why have you treated us like this?” He said to them, “Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my father’s house?” (Luke 2:48-49)

Fruits of the ministry: Piety

The Scourging of Jesus at the Pillar – Jesus is brought to Pilate for trial. Pilate can see no fault in Jesus.
So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified. (Mark 15:15)

Fruits of the ministry: Purity, Mortification

The Crowning of Thorns – Jesus is taken by the soldiers who strip him and place a crown of thorns on his head. Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard of the palace (that is, the govérndr’s headquarters); and they called together the whole cohort. And they clothed him in a purple cloak; and after twisting some thorns into a crown they put it on him. And they began saluting him “Hail, King of the Jews” (Mark 15:16-18)

Fruits of the ministry: Moral Courage

The Carrying of the Cross – Jesus carried his cross to the Place of the Skull which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
Carrying the cross by himself, he went to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. (John 19:16b-17)

Fruits of the ministry: Patience

The Crucifixion – Jesus is nailed to the cross. With him were criminals who were also being crucified. One criminal evokes Jesus to remember him when he enters into heaven.
When they came to the place of that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus, there were criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then he said ‘Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom. (Luke 23:33,42)

Fruits of the ministry: Salvation, Self-Denial

Wedding at Cana – Jesus’ miracle at the Wedding of Cana is the first sign of his public ministry.
Jesus did this the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. (John 2:7-10,12)

Fruits of the ministry: To Jesus through Mary

Proclamation of the Kingdom of God – Jesus proclaims the Kingdom of God.
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent and believe in the Good News. (Mark 1:15)

Fruits of the ministry: Repentance, Trust in God

Transfiguration – Jesus is transfigured on the mountain.
Then from a cloud came a voice that said, “This is my Son the Chosen; listen to him!” (Luke 9:28-29,35)

Fruits of the ministry: Desire for Holiness

Institution of the Eucharist – (John 13:1) Jesus gives us his Body and Blood.
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. (1 Corinthians 11:23-26)

Fruits of the ministry: Eucharistic Adoration, Active Participation at Mass

The Ascension – Jesus appears to two of his followers on the road to Emmaus and they do not recognise him until they break together.
Then he lead them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven. (Luke 24:50-51)

Fruits of the ministry: Hope, Desire for Heaven

The Descent of the Holy Spirit – The followers and disciples of Jesus were gathered together on the day of Pentecost. When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven their came a sound like a rush of violent wind… All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. (Acts 2:2-4)

Fruits of the ministry: Wisdom, Love of God

The Assumption – After the death of Mary the Mother of Jesus she was taken body and soul into heaven.
My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, for he has looked with favour on the lowliness of his servant. Surely from now on all generations will call me blessed; (Luke 1:46-48)

Fruits of the ministry: Devotion to Mary

The Coronation – Mary the Mother of God is crowned Queen of Heaven.
A great portent appeared in heaven: a women clothed with the sun, with a moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. (Revelation 12:1)

Fruits of the ministry: Eternal Happiness

“I am the Lord your God, you shall not have strange gods before Me.”

1. Have I denied God? Have I been ashamed of or denied my faith in front of others?
2. Have I ridiculed the teachings or practices of the Church?
3. Have I neglected my prayers?
4. Have I used witchcraft, Wicca, or other Occult practices?
5. Have I practiced various forms of superstition such as fortune tellers, mediums, tarot ouija boards, tarot cards?

“Do not take the name of the Lord in vain.”

1. Do I use God’s name carelessly, in anger, or in surprise? Have I called down evil upon anyone or anything?

“Keep holy the Sabbath Day.”

1. Have I, through my own fault, failed to come to Mass each Sunday and every Holy Day of Obligation?
2. Do I arrive at Mass late or leave early without good reason?
3. Do I allow myself to be distracted at Mass?

“Honor your father and mother.”

1. Have I disobeyed my parents or treated them with disrespect?
2. Am I disrespectful, impolite, or discourteous toward my family?
3. Have I neglected my work or my studies? Have I been helpful in my home?
4. Have I failed to study seriously and with diligence?
5. Have I missed an exam at school because of laziness?
6. Am I disrespectful toward the elderly?
7. Am I disobedient to the civil law or to those in authority such as the police?

“You shall not kill.”

1. Did I have an abortion or help another to have an abortion?
2. Have I mutilated my body or another’s body?
3. Did I attempt suicide or seriously consider thoughts of suicide?
4. Do I act violently by fighting or hitting others?
5. Have I had thoughts of hatred toward another?
6. Have I taken illegal drugs or abused prescription drugs?
7. Have I sold or distributed illegal drugs?
8. Do I neglect to take proper care of my body?
9. Do I eat too much, or sleep too much?
10. Do I drink beer or other alcoholic beverages in excess?
11. Have I allowed myself to become intoxicated?
12. Am I too concerned about my health or appearance?
13. Do I deliberately harbor unkind and revengeful thoughts about others?
14. Have I taken revenge?
15. Have I used harsh or abusive language toward another?
16. Do I act rudely, impolitely, or ridicule others? Have I been guilty of the sin of racism?
17. Am I cruel to animals?

“Do not commit adultery. And Do not covet your neighbors wife.”

1. Have I desired or done impure things?
2. Have I taken pleasure in entertaining impure thoughts or desires?
3. Have I read impure material, listened to music with impure lyrics, or looked at impure images, whether in photos or on television or in movies or on the Internet?
4. Have I aroused sexual desire in myself or another by impure kissing, embracing, or touching?
5. Have I committed impure actions alone, i.e., masturbation? Have I committed homosexual acts or other unnatural acts?
6. Do I use artificial contraception whether surgical, barrier or chemical methods?
7. Have I dressed immodestly or been too concerned with the way I look?
8. Do I use vulgar language or tell or listen to impure jokes or stories?

“You shall not steal. And Do not covet your neighbor’s goods.”

1. Have I taken anything that was not my own?
2. Have I damaged private or public property or defaced it by vandalism?
3. Have I been guilty of shop-lifting?
4. Have I accepted or bought stolen property or helped someone to steal?
5. Have I bribed someone?
6. Do I gamble excessively?
7. Have I borrowed something without the owner’s permission?
8. Have I failed to return something I borrowed?
9. Do I waste money or spend it extravagantly?
10. Have I harbored a greed for money or worldly possessions?
11. Have I made of money, or any possession, a false god?
12. Do I waste goods or food? Have I cheated on tests or schoolwork?
13. Have I cheated in games or sports?

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

1. Have I lied deliberately?
2. Have I sworn to do something sinful or illegal?
3. Have I slandered others by attributing to them sins they did not commit or of which I had no evidence?
4. Do I gossip about others or listen to gossip? Have I told a secret I was asked to keep?
5. Have I betrayed someone’s trust?
6. Have I criticized anyone uncharitably?
7. Do I make rash judgments and harbor false suspicions about others?
8. Have I deliberately misled or deceived anyone?
9. Have I refused to forgive someone or held a grudge against him or her?
10. Have I failed to apologize or make amends to someone I offended?

1. Am I greedy or selfish or do I indulge in self-pity? Am I proud or vain or do I show off?
2. Am I superficial and worldly?
3. Do I desire to be praised by exaggerating my success? Am I touchy and hypersensitive?
4. Do I magnify the least oversight or thoughtlessness into an insult or deliberate slight?
5. Have I been boastful?
6. Have I been arrogant with others?
7. Have I obstinately defended actions which are sinful, either my own or other’s?
8. Am I rebellious?
9. Have I spent useless time planted before the TV when I could be doing more constructive things?
10. Am I envious of someone’s possessions and do I inordinately desire them to be my own?
11. Do I take delight in the misfortunes of others?

Envy is a sadness which we feel, on account of the good that happens to our neighbor.”

1. Do I feel sad at the prosperity of others?
2. At their success in games? In athletics?
3. Do I rejoice at their failures?
4. Do I envy the riches of others?

“Pride is an untrue opinion of ourselves, an untrue idea of what we are not.”

1. Have I a superior attitude in thinking, or speaking or acting?
2. Am I snobbish?
3. Have I offensive, haughty ways of acting or carrying myself?
4. Do I hold myself above others?
5. Do I demand recognition?
6. Do I desire to be always first?
7. Do I seek advice?
8. Am I ready to accept advice?
9. Am I in any sense a “bully”?
10. Am I inclined to be “bossy”?
11. Do I speak ill of others?
12. Have I lied about others?
13. Do I make known the faults of others?
14. Do I seek to place the blame on others, excusing myself?
15. Is there anyone to whom I refuse to speak?
16. Is there anyone to whom I have not spoken for a long time?
17. Am I prone to argue?
18. Am I offensive in my arguments?
19. Have I a superior “know-it-all attitude” in arguments?
20. Am I self-conscious?
21. Am I sensitive? Am I easily wounded?

“Sloth is a kind of cowardice and disgust, which makes us neglect and omit our duties, rather than to discipline ourselves.”

1. Have I an inordinate love of rest, neglecting my duties?
2. Do I act lazily?
3. Am I too fond of rest?
4. Do I take lazy positions in answering prayers?
5. Do I kneel in a lounging way?
6. Do I delight in idle conversation?
7. Do I fail to be fervent in the service of God?

“Lust is the love of the pleasures that are contrary to purity.”

1. Have I desired or done impure things?
2. Have I taken pleasure in entertaining impure thoughts or desires?
3. Have I read impure material, listened to music with impure lyrics, or looked at impure images, whether in photos or on television or in movies or on the Internet?
4. Have I aroused sexual desire in myself or another by impure kissing, embracing, or touching?
5. Have I committed impure actions alone or masturbation?
6. Do I dress immodestly or am I too concerned with the way I look?
7. Do I use vulgar language or tell or listen to impure jokes or stories?
8. Have I given into desires of adultery even in my imagination?

“Covetousness is a disordered love of the goods of this world.”

1. Do I dispose of my money properly or selfishly?
2. Do I discharge my duties in justice to my fellow man?
3. Do I discharge my duties in justice to the Church?

“Gluttony is a disordered love of eating and drinking.”

1. Do I eat to live or live to eat? Do I drink to excess?
2. Do I get drunk? Do I misuse prescription drugs?
3. Do I use illegal drugs?
4. Have I allowed myself to become addicted to alcohol and/or drugs?

“An emotion of the soul, which leads us violently to repel whatever hurts or displeases us.”

1. Am I prone to anger?
2. Does practically any little thing arouse my temper?
3. Am I what is generally termed “a sore-head”?
4. Do I fail to repress the first signs of anger?
5. Do I fail to get along well with everybody?
6. Do I ponder over slights or injuries and even presume them?
7. Do I rejoice at the misfortunes of others?
8. Do I think of means of revenge?
9. Of “getting even”?
10. Am I of an argumentative disposition?
11. Have I a spirit of contradiction?
12. Am I given to ridicule of persons, places, or things?
13. Am I hard to get along with?
14. Do I carry grudges, remain “on the outs” with anyone?
15. Do I talk about the faults of others?
16. Do I reveal the faults or defects of others?
17. Do I reveal the faults of others from the wrong motive?

You shall attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation and rest from servile labor.
Have I…

1. Set time aside each day for personal prayer to God?
2. Missed Mass on Sunday or Holy Days (through own fault w/o sufficient reason)?
3. Committed a sacrilege against the Blessed Sacrament?
4. Received a sacrament while in the state of mortal sin?
5. Habitually come late to and/or leave early from Mass without a good reason?
6. Shop, labor, or do business unnecessarily on Sunday or other Holy Days of Obligation?
7. Not attend to taking my children to Mass?
8. Knowingly eat meat on a forbidden day (or not fasting on a fast day)?
9. Eat or drink within one hour of receiving Communion (other than medical need)?

You shall confess your sins (to a Priest) at least once a year.
Have I…

1. Made a good Confession of my mortal sins at least once a year?
2. Purposely omitted telling my mortal sins in my last Confession?
3. Neglected to perform the penance I was given?
4. Neglected to make reparation for any harm I have done to others?

You shall humbly receive your Creator in Holy Communion at least once during the Easter season.
Have I…

1. Neglected to fulfill my Easter duty to receive Holy Communion at least once between the First Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday?
2. Received Holy Communion while in the state of mortal sin?
3. Failed to fast for at least one hour before receiving Holy Communion?
4. Received Holy Communion more than twice in one day?

You shall observe the prescribed days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church.
Have I…

1. Neglected to do penance every Friday of the year, if not abstaining from meat?
2. Neglected to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent (if I am 14 years of age and/or older)?
3. Neglected to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (if I am between the ages of 18 and 65)?
4. Participated in diversions on days of penance (e.g., attended crawfish boils and fish fries, ballgames, movies, shopping on Ash Wednesday & Good Friday)?
5. Neglected to spend time in prayer, do spiritual and corporal works of mercy, and practice self-denial?

You shall contribute to the support of the Church.
Have I…

1. Neglected to contribute a just amount of my time, talents and money to support my parish and the work of the Church?
2. Neglected to support the Church by not trying to become a saint or by not striving to make sincere progress each day in sanctity?

You shall contribute to the support of the Church.
Have I…

1. Contributed a just amount of my time, talents and money to support my parish and the work of the Church?

You shall observe the laws of the Church concerning marriage.
Have I…

1. Been living in a valid and licit marriage according to the laws of the Catholic Church?
2. Abandoned my spouse and family by separation or divorce?
3. Kept company with someone whom I cannot marry in the Catholic Church?
4. Given scandal by living with a member of the opposite sex without the benefit of a marriage blessed by the Catholic Church?
5. Entered into marriage with more than one person at the same time?

“I am the Lord your God you shall not have strange gods before me.”

1. IDOLATRY! Placing any person, place, thing, or idea above God who merits our first place.
2. FALSE WORSHIP EXAMPLES! Money, power, sex, vanity, drinking and drugs, and the Mass-media, above God.
3. SUPERSTITION! Placing our trust in confidence in objects, charms, and numbers.
   Involvement in any occult practices: witchcraft, Satanism, black-magic / white magic, tarot cards, witch-doctors, palm-readers, astrology, séances, the Ouija board, mind-readers, trusting in the horoscope.
   Engaged in Transcendental Meditation, the New Age movement, believing in Reincarnation, believing in Buddhism, Hinduism as the authentic religion.
4. AGNOSTICISM! Doubting the possibility of God’s existence.
5. ATHEISM! outright denial of God’s existence.
6. ANGER AT GOD! Due to suffering or trials or setbacks (physical, economic, emotional) to express anger at God!
7. RELIGIOUS SECTS! Becoming involved in/joining a religious sect, i.e., the Mormons, Hari Krishna, or the Jehovah Witnesses.
8. PROTESTANT SERVICES! Substituting a Protestant service for Catholic Sunday Mass.
9. SACRILEGE! Receiving Holy Communion, Confirmation, Holy Matrimony, Holy Orders in the state of mortal sin
10. GENERAL ABSOLUTION! Participating in a “General Absolution” service without seeking out individual absolution with a priest.
11. CIVIL MARRIAGE! Simply undergoing a civil marriage/ married by a Jewish Rabbi/married by a Protestant minister. As a catholic, this is not considered a sacramental marriage.
12. DENIAL OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH! To wilfully deny the catholic faith or due to cowardice, fail to defend it!
13. FAITH! Due to laziness and negligence fail to study and cultivate my catholic faith.
14. FAITH! Jeopardize my faith by talking to other religions that confuse me and my family.
15. CHILDREN! Fail to cultivate the catholic faith in my children.
16. SACRAMENTAL LIFE OF MY CHILDREN! To delay and postpone the Baptism of my children.
17. DELAY HOLY COMMUNION! To delay year after year the preparation of my children for receiving Jesus in Holy Communion/ also that of Confirmation.
18. HOPE! To despair in God’s mercy. My sin is too serious for God to forgive me!
19. PRESUMPTION! Other side of the coin, to believe I can go on sinning and God will forgive me without true repentance.
20. PUT OFF CONFESSION IN MORTAL SIN! Sin of presumption! God never promises me a tomorrow!
21. DESECRATION OF THE EUCHARIST! My greatest reverence should be towards the Body and Blood of Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
22. IMPROPER RECEPTION OF THE EUCHARIST! Receiving Jesus in Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin.
23. NEGLECT OF EASTER DUTY! I must receive the Eucharist at least once a year!
24. INDIFFERENTISM! To maintain that all religions are really the same and it does not really matter if one is catholic or not!
25. INDIFFERENCE! (Rev. 3) Coldness, apathy, Luke warmness, “Spiritual anemia” (Pope Benedict XVI) towards God. An attitude of “whatever!!!” Who really cares about God!
26. SIMONY! Selling religious objects or buying them on E-bay.
27. PRAYER! Willfully failing to pray and not teaching one’s children the importance of prayer. Remember the words of St. Alphonsus, “He who prays will be saved; he who does not pray will be damned.”

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.”
This second Commandment refers to the Holy and Sacred character of the NAME of God. The Jewish people of the Old Testament would pronounce the name of God once a year through person of the High Priest in the temple “Yahweh” — meaning, “I am who am” . This was the name of God revealed to Moses! Below are ways that we might break this Commandment by failing to respect God’s holy name! “At the NAME of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:10-11)

1. BLASPHEMY! Calling out the Holy Name of God in anger! Words of hatred, reproach or defiance towards God.
   Angry words against God for something that happened to you.
   Blaming God for the evil in the world!
   Blaming God in anger and God for the death of someone you love.
   Curse! Using God’s name intentionally as a curse!
   Saying: “God damn you!” / “God damn it!”
   Serious slander/ calumny of a Sacred Person: the Pope, Bishops, priests, nuns who all are representatives of God.
   Making an oath in a secret society.
2. PERJURY! Lying while under oath in a court-case! Promise to tell the truth on the Bible and lying!
   Calling upon Gods’ name and lying.
   Promoting words/images/movies that profane the person of God, for example “The Davinci Code” — a movie that blasphemed the Person of Jesus!
3. CONFESSION! Telling a lie to the priest/holding back a serious sin to the priest. This would be a sacrilegious Confession.
4. PROMISES TO GOD failing to carry them out.
5. VOWS! Solemn promise to God and failure to keep them, as in the Religious Life: Poverty, Chastity and Obedience.
6. TAKING GOD’S NAME LIGHTLY! Joking around with the Name of God.
7. JOKES! Irreverent Jokes about God, Mary, the saints and the Church!
8. OWN NAME! Parents failing to give their child/children a “Christian name”. (CCC #’s,2156-2159). Giving their children a “pagan name!” As such he / she is lacking the intercession of a patron-saint!

“Remember to keep holy the Lord’s day”.

First and foremost the Lord’s Day (Sunday, the day that Jesus rose from the dead) should be respected by attendance at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. A good reading would be the Apostolic Letter of Saint Pope John Paul II “Die Domino” – Keeping holy the Lord’s day (3^rd Commandment).

Here are concrete ways that we can break this commandment!

• Missing Mass on Sunday the day of the Lord!
  Missing Holy Days of Obligation, i.e. Christmas…
  Failing in one’s Easter duty: to receive Holy Communion at least once a year! The bare minimum!
  Coming late for Holy Mass lack of order, disrespect, and bad example to the others in church as well as a disturbance!
  Talking in Mass! Rudeness! By talking to others one ignores God!
  Cell-phones in use! Leave them in the car or at home! God first!
  Text-messages. God sees and hears everything. This is pushing Him aside!
  Chewing gum! We are not cows, but human persons!
  Immodesty in dress. Church is the house of God! It profanes God’s house and is a source of temptation for others!
  Leaving early! Would you do this for the World-cup/World series/ or for an Awards-ceremony/ or interesting movie or play, would you???
  Wilful distraction! Purposely thinking of other things: lunch, sports, x-boyfriend, etc…

1. MISSING MASS! Entertaining guests from out-of – state. Idolatry! Placing of people above God — a modern “golden calf!”
2. SLEEPING in Mass! Use your own bed at home!
3. NON-PARTICIPATION! Being present in body, but not participating with your mind, heart, and soul. Being a mere spectator, as in an opera!
4. WORKING on Sunday! If necessary, it is not a sin to work on Sunday. But if not necessary, Sunday is the day of rest from hard manual work that would exhaust you the rest of the week!

“Honor your father and mother.”

The fourth commandment refers to the respect, honour, love and obedience that we should have for the persons that God has decided to choose to give us human life and existence. For this reason we owe our parents the maximum, respect, prayers, love support and obedience!

Also, of great importance in the fourth commandment, is the duty that parents have, in the promise they made on the day of their wedding, to be open to having children, but most important in educating their children in the way of the faith, fear of the Lord, and love for all that refers to God and the Church!

Reading! A very good reading — especially for children in their relationship towards their parents — would be Sirach / Ecclesiasticus 3:1-6!

The following are ways that we can often transgress the fourth commandment.

• Disobeying one’s parents / disrespect towards parents.
  Talking back to parents / willful defiance towards them.
  Hatred and rejection of parents: willful anger, animosity!
  Lying to one’s parents (also against the 8^th Commandment)
  Yelling, insulting, cursing one’s parents. Words can kill! (Also against the 5^th Commandment!)
  Pushing, hitting, punching—physical abuse of one’s parents.
  Mocking through word or gesture one’s parents.
  Sarcasm/irony — using disparaging expressions or words to belittle, or put down mother or father.
  Willfully defy the manifest will of Mom or Dad.
  Ignore parents -Turn the cold-shoulder and fail to communicate with them.

1. AGED PARENTS! Given that they are elderly and feeble to abandon them — no longer visit them, call them, support them in their old age. (Read Sirach chapter 3)!
2. HATRED/RESENTMENT/LACK OF FORGIVNESS! Despite the failure of our parents, fail to forgive them their short-comings!
3. STATE OF LIFE: SCHOOL! To be lazy and negligent in one’s studies is against the 4^th Commandment!
   Brothers and sisters fighting, bickering, arguing, insulting is also against the 4^th and 5^th commandment. Jesus commanded us: “Love one another as I have loved you.”
4. PARENTS’ OBLIGATIONS TOWARDS CHILDREN. Contraception! Fail before God to be open to having children.
   Abortion! Kill the child in the womb (Also against the 5th Commandment)
5. BAPTIZE! To delay Baptism for insignificant reasons — putting the social above the Sacramental!
6. NAME! To give the child a “pagan-name!” (Also against the 2^nd commandment)
7. PRAYER! To neglect to pray for children / as well as to neglect to teach the children to pray. Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me.”
8. DELAY SACRAMENTS! To delay the 1^st Communion of children; to delay the Confirmation of my children.
9. CONFESSION! To postpone, delay, or put off for tomorrow the Sacrament of Confession for my child / teen. Many (most children) are totally dependent upon their parents to get to Mass and Confession.
10. MASS! Missing Mass is against the 3^rd and 4^th Commandment, if parents miss Mass. They give bad example or scandal towards their children.
11. COHABITATION! Parents living in “Free-union” (Co-habitation) are giving bad example to their children! Adultery — even worse!
12. BAD WORDS! Children hear them and repeat them. Children are like human-sponges.
13. BAD-TV. PROGRAMS. / INTERNET ACCESS! Allow the devil to get into the home and wreak havoc!
14. YELL at kids! Must learn to speak in a gentle fashion!
15. STUDIES! Parents failing to supervise their children’s studies, which is the principal obligation of children and teens!
16. COURTSHIP! Parents that allow young children to have boy-friend / girl-friend at an immature age are failing their children.
17. CHILDREN COHABITATING! Parents that allow their son/daughter to live with their “Significant other” is wrong and scandalous!
18. INHERITANCE! Family members — moved by greed — fighting over inheritance and property rights! Love for money is root of all evils!

“Thou shall not kill!”

The 5^th Commandment obliges us to have the greatest respect for every human person. Created in the image and likeness of God, son of God and temple of the Holy Spirit through the Sacrament of Baptism, every human person has infinite value.

Only God has the right to give human life from the moment of conception; and only God has the right to take human life and decide on the time, manner and circumstances of death. As the book of Job reminds us, ”Naked I came forth from my mother’s womb and naked I return to the earth. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Therefore, any menace or attempt against the human person and his innate dignity is a clear transgression against the 5^th Commandment that obliges respect for all human life from start till end. We must be at the service of human life and not destructors!

Reading! One of the most renowned Encyclicals of Blessed Pope John Paul II was “Evangelium Vitam” — on Human Life, addressing the key issues related to the human person, his innate dignity and how we must defend human life in all of its stages!

Following are ways that we can be guilty of breaking the 5^th Commandment — “Thou shall not kill.”

• Murder — the taking of an innocent life.
• Abortion — the killing of an innocent baby in the womb.

1. VOTING! Did I willfully vote for a candidate / candidates that openly promote abortion? How many times?
2. PRO-CHOICE! In the past, have I embraced a “Pro-choice”, which is really an “Anti-life” moral position?
3. AFTER MORNING PILL! Taking of the pill after relations to prevent implantation in uterine wall; sophisticated form of abortion (murder)
4. INFANTICIDE! killing an innocent baby. Mutilation — damaging one’s own body, temple of the Holy Spirit
5. TORTURE! Be it physical or mental militates against the dignity of the human person by causing unmerited suffering.
6. DRUG ABUSE! Damaging ones’ body by taking drugs: cocaine, crystal, Marijuana, heroine, Speed, etc.
7. WILLFUL DRUNKENNESS! Obvious damage of one’s body and mind!
8. DRINKING AND DRIVING! Placing at risk the innocent on the road!
9. DANGEROUS DRIVING! Jeopardizing one’s health and others by reckless driving.
10. SUICIDE! Taking of ones’ own life. Only God has the right to give life and to take it away.
11. TUBAL LIGATION/VASECTOMY! Is a form or mutilation: damaging to the point of destroying one’s procreative faculties.
12. HATRED! Killing somebody in your heart — “The Cain-complex!”
13. UNWILLINGNESS TO FORGIVE!!! Hatred in one’s heart.
14. GANG ACTIVITY! Trained to hate, damage and kill others.
15. INSULTS/OFFENSIVE WORDS! Indeed we can kill through the tongue! (Read James 3 — the sins of the tongue!)
16. OVEREATING/BAD EATING! We damage our own health by bad eating habits! The sin of “Gluttony!”.
17. EUTHANASIA! The intentional taking of the life of an elderly sick person or incapacitated person by lethal injection, sometimes called “Mercy-killing” (Dr.Kevorkian).
18. EMBRIONIC EXPERIMENTATION! The willful destroying of fertilized embryos.

“You shall not commit adultery.”

This commandment obliges us to respect the proper purpose and end of human sexuality. Further more it requires respect for one’s body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. It demands self-control and constant mastery over the disordered desire for sexual pleasure. (Capital sin of lust). Either one controls the lower animal nature called by St. Paul the “Flesh” and experiences the liberty of the sons of God; or by constantly giving in to one’s lower nature becomes a slave to his own sin. (Jn. 8).

By not controlling one’s sexual urges this can wreak havoc in all aspects of life. One denigrates his own innate dignity becoming a slave to sin. The other person is not seen in his/her innate beauty but only seen as an object to be used, exploited, and discarded, like a Coke Cola bottle! Families are destroyed due to adultery; innocent children are afflicted with irreparable wounds and the society as a whole unravels! All must strive to live out the Beatitude: “Blessed are the pure of heart, they will see God.” (Mt. 5:8)

Following are the many ways that the 6^th commandment can be broken.

1. ADULTERY! Being unfaithful to one’s husband or wife; breaking one’s marital commitment.
2. DOUBLE ADULTERY two spouses married and cheating on their respective spouses.
3. FORNICATION! Also called premarital sex or sexual intercourse before being married.
4. MASTURBATION! The solitary sin or impurity with oneself. (CCC #2352) Explained clearly in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
5. HOMOSEXUALITY! Sexual relations with the same sex. Women called “Lesbianism”; men, “Gay men”. (Read Genesis 19 and the account of Sodom and Gomorrah!) In the New Testament Read Romans 1.
6. SAME-SEX UNIONS! Even though they are becoming legal in many states and countries still it is highly immoral in the eyes of God.
7. CONTRACEPTIVES! Artificial means to prevent conception. Today there are many forms: the contraceptive pill (powerful hormones), Norplant, DE Provera, Parches, spermicide, the condom, diaphragm, the IUD. Many of these contraceptive chemical devices are also abortafacient thereby causing “Micro-abortions” — meaning microscopic abortions that can only be seen under the microscope. Read Pope Paul VI’s Encyclical “Humanae Vitae” — on Human life. July 25, 1968.
8. IMMODESTY IN DRESS! Dressing in such a way to provoke others, causing indecent and sinful thoughts.
9. FRENCH-KISSING! Prolonged kissing between those not yet married. This is part of sexual foreplay only permitted between husband and wife.
10. SEXUAL CLIMAX outside the context of sexual intercourse; in other words masturbation among spouses.
11. ONANISM! Intentional withdrawal and non-vaginal ejaculation. Comes from Onan in the Old Testament who spilled the seed and was chastised by God by death.
    Flagrant immodesty in dress; rejecting the call to be true “Ambassadors of Christ”.
12. BESTIALITY sexual acts done with animals.
13. ANAL SEX or other degrading sexual practices.
14. PROSTITUTION! Buying sex; utilizing the woman as a mere object to be used and exploited to simply satisfy one’s lustful desires.
15. RAPE! Violating the integrity and dignity of the other; forced sexual intercourse.
    In-vitro fertilization / artificial insemination — sperm or egg donation and fertilizing in a Laboratory. Procreation must come about only through the loving embrace between the spouses, husband and wife. This is against the Natural Law!
16. SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD lending one’s womb for the implantation of a baby conceived artificially.
    Types of fertility testing that involve immoral acts.
17. CLONING.
18. DIVORCE! The Bible says that God hates divorce.
19. COHABITATION! Trial marriage to see if it works out, to see if both are compatible with each other.
20. INCEST! Sexual relationships between relatives.
21. POLYGAMY/POLYANDRY meaning having more than one wife; having more than one husband.
22. DESTROYING THE INNOCENCE OF ANOTHER there are many ways!
    Molestation of innocent children by touching or relations.
23. LUST IN THE HEART! If the opportunity presented itself, I would go for it! Lust is not a sin until it is given into! (Read the sin of David, II Samuel 9) Also read the chaste Susanna and the lustful elders (Daniel 13).
24. SWINGING! Also known as “wife-swapping”. Marriage is both indissoluble and exclusive!
25. HOMOSEXUALITY! Sexual relations to those of the same sex.
26. TRANSVESTISM/ CROSS-DRESSING a man dressing or acting like a woman.
27. TRANSGENDERISM! Going through an operation whereby one changes his sexual organs and identity.
28. BISEXUALITY! Preferring and accepting relations to both sexes!
29. BESTIALITY! Relations with animals.

“You shall not steal.”

PROPERTY. Every person has a right to property. However, he should respect the property of others as well as use properly his own property. There are a variety of ways that we can “steal”; let’s go through the list for the total and complete examination of our conscience.

1. STEALING. Simply taking that which belongs to another and does not belong to you.
   Failing to take care of one’s own property
   Refusing to return that which somebody lent to you — that which was borrowed.
2. BORROWED! Returning that which was borrowed but in a bad or destroyed condition.
3. RESTITUTION! If one has stolen something, then in justice, he should try to restore it directly or in an indirect manner i.e., give some money to the poor or some charity.
4. COPYING IN SCHOOL! A student that is lazy and does not study should not copy from another student that knows the answer and has done his homework. This is “intellectual stealing”.
5. WORK ETHICS AND STEALING! If one is being paid for his work and shows up late or extends his lunch break, then this too is stealing! Seeking ways to cut corners!
   At store changing the price-ticket.
6. MOVIES! Jumping in to see a second movie without paying.
7. AGE THEFT! Lying about age so as to get a lower entry price. (At Disneyland, Magic Mountain, Sea-world, or the movies)
8. LAZINESS! Being lazy at work and failing to carry out one’s work requirements.
9. DEPRIVING WORKER OF HIS JUST WAGE! On the other hand, an employer that purposely deprives his worker of a just wage is stealing — depriving the worker of what he has honestly earned by the sweat of his brow. (Gen 3)
10. VANDALISM! Destroying the property of another: tagging, breaking windows, slitting tires, damaging houses.
11. ROBBERY/ GRAND THEFT.
12. SLANDER/CALUMNY! Destroying the good name of somebody. We all have a right to our reputation and good name.
13. CHARACTER ASSASINATION — the same.
14. .PILFERING. — taking money from one’s parent’s dresser or desk without permission. “He who is faithful in the small will be faithful in the large as well.”
15. SACRILEGE! Stealing something that belongs to the church, a sacred object.
    Buying from somebody an object known to have been stolen.
    Excessive gambling. Stealing the money — in gambling — that should be utilized for the family needs.
16. LOAN SHARK! Lending money and asking in return exorbitant prices.
    Defrauding creditors. Borrowing money and not paying it back.
    Tax evasion; lying on tax returns.
17. WASTING — food, time, energy, talents — our God-given talents. (Mt 25, the Parable of the Talents)
    Bribery or taking bribes.
    Violating copyrights.
    Forgery — signing your own signature for that of another.
    Falsifying passports/ Baptismal certificate/official documents.
    Pirating computer software.
    Blackmail.
    Denying to help out the poor and needy. Remember what Jesus said: “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers that you failed to do to me.” (Mt. 25)
18. ANIMALS! Cruelty to animals; they too are God’s creation.

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.”

One of the most precious God-given gifts is that of speech. The purpose of speaking is to communicate THE TRUTH with love. Jesus said that He is the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE. St. Bonaventure gives us three rules to direct our speech: “One should open his mouth to praise God, accuse oneself and to edify one’s neighbor” – a good rule to guide our speech!

1. Lying — changing the truth.
2. Stretching the truth/ exaggeration.
3. Perjury — lying under oath.
4. Slander/calumny — destroying another’s reputation.
5. Gossip — speaking behind the back of another.
6. Negative criticism.
7. Violating confidence / revealing secrets.
8. Breaking oaths/ promises made to God.
9. Being an accomplice to another’s grave sin.
10. Silence by which lies / untruths can easily be spread.

“Thou shall not desire thy neighbour’s wife.”

Jesus goes beyond the mere exterior, but delves into the depths of the human heart. In the context of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus launches a major challenge. Adultery is not simply the mere physical act of cheating on one’s wife/husband by immoral sexual union. He goes way beyond that. Listen to His words: “You have heard it said, “You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eyes causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna.” (Mt. 5: 27-29). Not only do we have to control our exterior behavior but also the interior intentions of our hearts. God can read even the innermost recesses of the human heart and the most secret of intentions. Remember that Our Lady of Fatima said in 1917 that most souls are lost for all eternity due to sins of the flesh; those committed against the sixth and ninth commandment. Let us dig into the list of ways that we can break the ninth Commandment!

Willfully lusting after another in your heart.

1. OBJECT! Viewing a woman/ man as an object to be exploited and utilized. (Theology of the Body of Pope John Paul II)
   On purpose giving in to bad/ immoral / impure thoughts.
   Day-dreaming, as a married person, about a past boy / girlfriend.
   Once you realize and are aware of immoral thoughts against purity failure to reject them.
   Staring at immodestly dressed women.
2. WOMAN! Dressing immodestly thereby being a cause of sin for men.
3. WOMAN! Being provocative in dress, word, movement.
4. LANGUAGE! Telling dirty stories/ using dirty and vulgar language.
5. MUSIC! Listening to impure, provocative, and sensual music that stir up the passions.
6. BARS/DISCOS! Attending places where immorality and immodest dress and actions are rampant.
7. GENTLEMAN’S CLUB! Attending clubs with immodest dancing and activities.
8. TV! Viewing TV. programs that have impurity.
9. MOVIES! Viewing movies with immodest sexual scenes.
10. SCANDAL! Taking family members to view bad movies.
11. MAGAZINES! Looking at pornographic magazines.
12. POSTERS! Allowing posters to be viewed publically in one’s home/office or factory.
13. PORNOGRAPHY! In any colour, size or form… One of the biggest addictions in the modern world.
14. INTERNET PORN! So rampant today and easy to access.
15. PARENTS — allowing children free and easy access to internet with great possibility of porn sites. Computer, Smart-phone, other…
    Sexting — sending immodest personal pictures.
    Receiving — Receiving immodest photos of others.
16. ART. Purposely viewing immodest art of the human body.
17. DESIGN/DEPICTION — being involved in the production, publication and diffusion of immodest material.
18. PARENTS’ OMISSION! Parents allowing their young children / teens to have courtships that would place in danger or jeopardize their children’s purity.
19. IMMODEST bathing apparel.
    Thinking of other women/men after you have been married.
20. VOYEURISM! Spying on others in their intimacy; peeking through key-holes to see that which is private. “Peeping Tom!”
21. SEX-EDUCATION PROGRAMS! Parents willingly allowing their children to be taught the “wrong” purpose of human sexuality in the modern school system. Parents are the first teachers of their children, especially in the realm of human sexuality!
22. CURIOSITY! “Curiosity killed the cat.” Allowing one’s eyes to wander freely and having no check over the senses. Remember the sin of David! .

“You shall not desire (covet) thy neighbour’s goods.”

Jesus said, “What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his life in the process….” And “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and everything else will be given to you beside.” St. Paul warns us, “Love for money is the root of all evils.” Pope John Paul II reminds us that it is much more important being than having and that doing flows from being. A modern Psychologist nails it with this classic: “If you are what you have and you lose what you have, then who are you?” (Erich Fromm)

Giving into the capital sin of greed / avarice.

1. MATERIALISM! My god is the god of “Having.”Always wanting more and more and more…
2. COMPARISONS! Always comparing oneself and what you have to others.
3. JEALOUSY! You feel sad and depressed because somebody has something that you do not have.
4. ENVY! Worse yet, you rejoice when something bad happens to “That” person that has something you do not have.
   Keeping up with the Joneses! Feeling you must always have what the others have around you.
   Never wanting to share what you have.
   Failure to support the church.
   Intention to steal or destroy the goods of others.
   Failure to help the poor and needy. Remember Lk. 16 — The Parable of Lazarus and the Rich man. We can sin due to omission — failure to help out and give to the poor and suffering.
5. WORRY! The root cause of worry is not trusting in God’s providential care in our lives. “Seek first the Kingdom of God…”
6. SHOP UNTIL YOU DROP!
7. ACCUMULATE! Like Scrooge accumulating more and more when it is not necessary. Excess dresses, shoes, wardrobe, with the knowledge that many people are dying of hunger throughout the world right now.
8. NEVER CONTENT! Always wanting more things and of better quality.
9. SPOILING KIDS! Giving them more and more so that they never appreciate anything.

One of the most eloquent sources of inspiration related to Confession and God’s Infinite Mercy can be found in the Diary of Mercy in my soul, of St. Faustina specifically numbers, 1448. She wrote:
Write, speak of My mercy. Tell souls where they are to look for solace, that is, in the Tribunal of Mercy [the Sacrament of Reconciliation]. There the greatest miracles take place [and] are incessantly repeated. To avail oneself of this miracle, it is not necessary to go on a great pilgrimage, or to carry out some external ceremony; it suffices to come with faith to the feet of My representative and to reveal to Him one’s misery, and the miracle of Divine Mercy will be fully demonstrated. Were souls like a decaying corpse so that from a human standpoint there would be no [hope of] restoration and everything would already be lost, it is not so with God. The miracle of Divine Mercy restores that soul in full.

These encouraging words from the Diary of St. Faustina should fill us with great trust and confidence that Jesus embraces us with merciful and loving in the sacrament of Confession.

My child, when you go to confession, to this fountain of My mercy, the Blood and Water which came forth from My Heart always flows down upon your soul and ennobles it. Every time you go to confession, immerse yourself entirely in My mercy, with great trust, so that I may pour the bounty of My grace upon your soul. When you approach the confessional, know this, that I Myself am waiting there for you. I am only hidden by the priest, but I myself act in your soul. Here the misery of the soul meets the God of mercy. Tell souls that from this fount of mercy souls draw graces solely with the vessel of trust. If their trust is great, there is no limit to My generosity. The torrents of grace inundate humble souls.

If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

1. Have I failed to love as Jesus taught? Sacrificially?
2. Have I failed to act totally for the good of others?
3. Have I given only “lip service” in my words of love?
4. Have I spoken harshly? Falsely? Have I gossiped?

And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

1. Have I failed to use my gifts and talents to build up the Kingdom of God?
2. Have I failed to speak the truth in the face of society’s false beliefs about God and Man?
3. Have I acted as if I know everything?
4. Have I failed to proclaim my faith in the saving life, death and resurrection of Jesus?

If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

1. Have I been generous with my time, talent and treasure?
2. Have I been prideful in what I have done?
3. Have I given not out of love but only for show or personal gain?

Love is patient, love is kind.

1. Have I been impatient?
2. Unkind?
3. Have I failed to give my full attention to people speaking with me?

Love is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated

1. Have I coveted what others have?
2. Have I been envious of the goods and friendships others enjoy?
3. Have I been boastful? Arrogant?
4. Lacking in humility?

Love is not rude, it does not seek its own interests

1. Have I been disrespectful of others?
2. Abrupt in speaking to others? Looked down on others?
3. Have I shunned people in need?
4. Been selfish?

Love is not quick-tempered.

1. Have I lost my temper?
2. Been unjustly angry?
3. Have I failed to try to understand the point of view of others?

Love does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

1. Have I failed to forgive?
2. Have I held a grudge?
3. Have I refused to ask forgiveness out of pride or shame?
4. Have I gloated over the misfortunes of people I do not like?

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things

1. Have I failed to accept joyfully, as God’s holy will, all the challenges, heartaches, and illnesses He has given me to help me grow in reliance on Him?
2. Have I failed to trust in the Lord?
3. Have I complained out of pique?
4. Have I failed to pray for those truly enduing great hardship?

Heavenly Father, You are Love and “Love never fails” (1 Cor 13:8). You are faithful always. Despite my failings and sinfulness, You welcome me back to You with Mercy. Lord Jesus, grant me the Grace to give a good Confession. Lord, I am truly sorry for having offending You and the people in my life. Holy Spirit, with your help, I promised to sin no more and to avoid the occasions of sin. All things are possible with You, Father. Amen.

Love is patient – Have I been patient with my parents, siblings, friends, teachers, and coaches?
Love is kind – Have I been kind toward others even when I don’t feel like it?
Love is not jealous – Have I been happy for others when they succeed or receive praise?
Love is not pompous – Have I talked about myself to try to make people like me?
Love is not inflated – Do I do things for others for my own benefit or do I help others because they truly need my help?
Love is not rude – Have I said mean words to my friends, family, teachers, or other adults? Have I said “please” and “thank you” as often as possible? Have I interrupted others when they are talking?
Love does not seek its own interests – Have I been more interested helping myself than helping others?
Love is not quick-tempered – Do I get angry with my family members or friends?
Love does not brood over injury – Am I happy when others get hurt physically or emotionally?
Love does not rejoice over wrongdoing: Have I praised others for breaking rules? Have I bragged to others about disobeying my parents or teachers?

Responsibilities to God:

1. Have I prayed every day?
2. Have I prayed my morning prayers and night prayers?
3. Have I prayed with my parents and family?
4. Have I been moody and rebellious about praying and going to church on Sunday?
5. Have I asked the Holy Spirit to help me whenever I have been tempted to sin?
6. Have I asked the Holy Spirit to help me do what is right?

Responsibilities to others:

1. Have I been obedient and respectful to my parents?
2. Have I lied or been deceitful to them or to others?
3. Have I been arrogant, stubborn or rebellious?
4. Have I talked back to parents, teachers or other adults?
5. Have I pouted and been moody?
6. Have I been selfish toward my parents, brothers, and sisters, teachers, or my friends and schoolmates?
7. Have I gotten angry at them? Have I hit anyone?
8. Have I held grudges or not forgiven others?
9. Have I treated other children with respect or have I made fun of them and called them names?
10. Have I used bad language?
11. Have I stolen anything? Have I returned it?
12. Have I performed my responsibilities, such as homework and household chores?
13. Have I been helpful and affectionate toward my family?
14. Have I been kind and generous with my friends?

My relationship towards GOD
How do I pray?

1. Out of fear
2. Out of need
3. Out of desire for personal gain
4. Out of my personal relationship and respect for God
5. I don’t pray

How do I attend Mass?

1. Out of habit
2. Bitterly because I feel I have to
3. Out of fear
4. Open to the experience, when it fits my schedule
5. Regularly, with respect for the Eucharist
6. As a part of the community
7. I don’t attend Mass

How do I use God’s name?

1. To swear
2. To express anger
3. Out of respect and love

How do I treat all of God’s creation?

1. I respect other people equally regardless of race, religion, or economic status
2. I see all life as sacred even the unborn
3. I am wasteful with the earth’s resources
4. My relationship with God is separate from everything else and has no impact on how I see or treat the world around me.

My relationship towards OTHER people
How do I treat my family?

1. Help when they are in need, even when it is not convenient for me
2. Tease and push around my siblings
3. Tell my parents where I am going and whom I am hanging out with
4. Believe that family comes first
5. Fight with or ignore members of my family and make no effort to try to make peace with them
6. Forgive them when I feel they’ve hurt me.

How do I treat other people’s sexuality?

1. I use crude language and jokes
2. I use people for my own physical pleasure
3. I see sex as something to be shared by any two people who think they love each other, even outside of marriage
4. I see sex as a gift from God and something that should be saved for marriage.

How do I treat my teachers?

1. I am rude
2. I don’t do my homework
3. I am disruptive in class
4. I do all my work and show respect
5. I am bored and don’t pay attention.

How do I treat people that I don’t know?

1. Cheat or lie to get what I need
2. Honor and follow through on all the promises and commitments I have made
3. Kind and courteous
4. I don’t care because I’ll never see them again
5. Share what I have with others.

How do I treat my friends?

1. With love and respect
2. Use them to gain popularity or gifts
3. Make fun of them behind their backs
4. Accept and understand their differences
5. Forgive them when they hurt me
6. Compliment and encourage them.

My relationship towards MYSELF
How do I see myself?

1. Created in the image and likeness of God
2. I focus only on what I don’t like about myself.

How do I treat myself?

1. Misuse drugs, tobacco or alcohol
2. Disrespect my sexuality
3. Cause physical damage to my body
4. I take care of my physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

How seriously do I take my education?

1. Blow off my studies
2. Complete my assignments
3. Participate in class and school activities.

How do I make choices?

1. Because everyone is doing it
2. It’s the easiest way out of the situation
3. I want to be popular
4. My relationship with God tells me it’s the right thing to do Summary Reflection.

Now that you have reflected on your relationship toward God, toward other people, and toward yourself – ask yourself:

1. For what do I seek forgiveness?
2. How do I want God to transform me?
3. What will I confess and ask God’s forgiveness and grace to change?

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear St. Luke, I love you with all my heart. Inflame my heart with an ardent love of God and worship of the Trinity. Please intercede for me and help me in this necessity…

Mention your request here…

St. Luke, please help me to grow in grace and holiness, but above all, that I may rest with thee in eternity, help me to do God’s will each and every day to the best of my ability. Help me to hear my Father’s voice and love all with all my heart. Dear St. Luke, I love you. Thank you for your help. Amen

St. Luke, pray for us.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be to the Father.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear St. Luke, I love you with all my heart. Inflame my heart with an ardent love of God and worship of the Trinity. Please intercede for me and help me in this necessity…

Mention your request here…

St. Luke, please help me to grow in grace and holiness, but above all, that I may rest with thee in eternity, help me to do God’s will each and every day to the best of my ability. Help me to hear my Father’s voice and love all with all my heart. Dear St. Luke, I love you. Thank you for your help. Amen

St. Luke, pray for us.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be to the Father.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear St. Luke, I love you with all my heart. Inflame my heart with an ardent love of God and worship of the Trinity. Please intercede for me and help me in this necessity…

Mention your request here…

St. Luke, please help me to grow in grace and holiness, but above all, that I may rest with thee in eternity, help me to do God’s will each and every day to the best of my ability. Help me to hear my Father’s voice and love all with all my heart. Dear St. Luke, I love you. Thank you for your help. Amen

St. Luke, pray for us.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be to the Father.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear St. Luke, I love you with all my heart. Inflame my heart with an ardent love of God and worship of the Trinity. Please intercede for me and help me in this necessity…

Mention your request here…

St. Luke, please help me to grow in grace and holiness, but above all, that I may rest with thee in eternity, help me to do God’s will each and every day to the best of my ability. Help me to hear my Father’s voice and love all with all my heart. Dear St. Luke, I love you. Thank you for your help. Amen

St. Luke, pray for us.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be to the Father.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear St. Luke, I love you with all my heart. Inflame my heart with an ardent love of God and worship of the Trinity. Please intercede for me and help me in this necessity…

Mention your request here…

St. Luke, please help me to grow in grace and holiness, but above all, that I may rest with thee in eternity, help me to do God’s will each and every day to the best of my ability. Help me to hear my Father’s voice and love all with all my heart. Dear St. Luke, I love you. Thank you for your help. Amen

St. Luke, pray for us.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be to the Father.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear St. Luke, I love you with all my heart. Inflame my heart with an ardent love of God and worship of the Trinity. Please intercede for me and help me in this necessity…

Mention your request here…

St. Luke, please help me to grow in grace and holiness, but above all, that I may rest with thee in eternity, help me to do God’s will each and every day to the best of my ability. Help me to hear my Father’s voice and love all with all my heart. Dear St. Luke, I love you. Thank you for your help. Amen

St. Luke, pray for us.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be to the Father.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear St. Luke, I love you with all my heart. Inflame my heart with an ardent love of God and worship of the Trinity. Please intercede for me and help me in this necessity…

Mention your request here…

St. Luke, please help me to grow in grace and holiness, but above all, that I may rest with thee in eternity, help me to do God’s will each and every day to the best of my ability. Help me to hear my Father’s voice and love all with all my heart. Dear St. Luke, I love you. Thank you for your help. Amen

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be to the Father.

Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear St. Luke, I love you with all my heart. Inflame my heart with an ardent love of God and worship of the Trinity. Please intercede for me and help me in this necessity…

Mention your request here…

St. Luke, please help me to grow in grace and holiness, but above all, that I may rest with thee in eternity, help me to do God’s will each and every day to the best of my ability. Help me to hear my Father’s voice and love all with all my heart. Dear St. Luke, I love you. Thank you for your help. Amen

St. Luke, pray for us.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be to the Father.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear St. Luke, I love you with all my heart. Inflame my heart with an ardent love of God and worship of the Trinity. Please intercede for me and help me in this necessity…

Mention your request here…

St. Luke, please help me to grow in grace and holiness, but above all, that I may rest with thee in eternity, help me to do God’s will each and every day to the best of my ability. Help me to hear my Father’s voice and love all with all my heart. Dear St. Luke, I love you. Thank you for your help. Amen

St. Luke, pray for us.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be to the Father.

Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God infinitely Holy and glorified in your saints, who inspired the monk and hermit St. Charbel to live and die in a perfect likeness to Jesus, giving him the strength to detach from the world in order to live fully, in his hermitage, the monastic virtues of poverty, obedience and chastity, we beg you to grant us the grace to love you and serve you as he did.

(Mention your request here…)

Lord Almighty, who has demonstrated the power of the intercession of St. Charbel by many miracles and favors, grant our volunteers the grace of living a beautiful mission and returning home firm in faith, filled with fiery charity. We beseech you by his intercession. Amen

St. Charbel, pray for us.

Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…

Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God infinitely Holy and glorified in your saints, who inspired the monk and hermit St. Charbel to live and die in a perfect likeness to Jesus, giving him the strength to detach from the world in order to live fully, in his hermitage, the monastic virtues of poverty, obedience and chastity, we beg you to grant us the grace to love you and serve you as he did.

(Mention your request here…)

Lord Almighty, who has demonstrated the power of the intercession of St. Charbel by many miracles and favors, grant our volunteers the grace of living a beautiful mission and returning home firm in faith, filled with fiery charity. We beseech you by his intercession. Amen

St. Charbel, pray for us.

Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…

Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God infinitely Holy and glorified in your saints, who inspired the monk and hermit St. Charbel to live and die in a perfect likeness to Jesus, giving him the strength to detach from the world in order to live fully, in his hermitage, the monastic virtues of poverty, obedience and chastity, we beg you to grant us the grace to love you and serve you as he did.

(Mention your request here…)

Lord Almighty, who has demonstrated the power of the intercession of St. Charbel by many miracles and favors, grant our volunteers the grace of living a beautiful mission and returning home firm in faith, filled with fiery charity. We beseech you by his intercession. Amen

St. Charbel, pray for us.

Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…

Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God infinitely Holy and glorified in your saints, who inspired the monk and hermit St. Charbel to live and die in a perfect likeness to Jesus, giving him the strength to detach from the world in order to live fully, in his hermitage, the monastic virtues of poverty, obedience and chastity, we beg you to grant us the grace to love you and serve you as he did.

(Mention your request here…)

Lord Almighty, who has demonstrated the power of the intercession of St. Charbel by many miracles and favors, grant our volunteers the grace of living a beautiful mission and returning home firm in faith, filled with fiery charity. We beseech you by his intercession. Amen

St. Charbel, pray for us.

Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…

Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God infinitely Holy and glorified in your saints, who inspired the monk and hermit St. Charbel to live and die in a perfect likeness to Jesus, giving him the strength to detach from the world in order to live fully, in his hermitage, the monastic virtues of poverty, obedience and chastity, we beg you to grant us the grace to love you and serve you as he did.

(Mention your request here…)

Lord Almighty, who has demonstrated the power of the intercession of St. Charbel by many miracles and favors, grant our volunteers the grace of living a beautiful mission and returning home firm in faith, filled with fiery charity. We beseech you by his intercession. Amen

St. Charbel, pray for us.

Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…

Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God infinitely Holy and glorified in your saints, who inspired the monk and hermit St. Charbel to live and die in a perfect likeness to Jesus, giving him the strength to detach from the world in order to live fully, in his hermitage, the monastic virtues of poverty, obedience and chastity, we beg you to grant us the grace to love you and serve you as he did.

(Mention your request here…)

Lord Almighty, who has demonstrated the power of the intercession of St. Charbel by many miracles and favors, grant our volunteers the grace of living a beautiful mission and returning home firm in faith, filled with fiery charity. We beseech you by his intercession. Amen

St. Charbel, pray for us.

Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…

Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God infinitely Holy and glorified in your saints, who inspired the monk and hermit St. Charbel to live and die in a perfect likeness to Jesus, giving him the strength to detach from the world in order to live fully, in his hermitage, the monastic virtues of poverty, obedience and chastity, we beg you to grant us the grace to love you and serve you as he did.

(Mention your request here…)

Lord Almighty, who has demonstrated the power of the intercession of St. Charbel by many miracles and favors, grant our volunteers the grace of living a beautiful mission and returning home firm in faith, filled with fiery charity. We beseech you by his intercession. Amen

St. Charbel, pray for us.

Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…

Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God infinitely Holy and glorified in your saints, who inspired the monk and hermit St. Charbel to live and die in a perfect likeness to Jesus, giving him the strength to detach from the world in order to live fully, in his hermitage, the monastic virtues of poverty, obedience and chastity, we beg you to grant us the grace to love you and serve you as he did.

(Mention your request here…)

Lord Almighty, who has demonstrated the power of the intercession of St. Charbel by many miracles and favors, grant our volunteers the grace of living a beautiful mission and returning home firm in faith, filled with fiery charity. We beseech you by his intercession. Amen

St. Charbel, pray for us.

Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…

Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God infinitely Holy and glorified in your saints, who inspired the monk and hermit St. Charbel to live and die in a perfect likeness to Jesus, giving him the strength to detach from the world in order to live fully, in his hermitage, the monastic virtues of poverty, obedience and chastity, we beg you to grant us the grace to love you and serve you as he did.

(Mention your request here…)

Lord Almighty, who has demonstrated the power of the intercession of St. Charbel by many miracles and favors, grant our volunteers the grace of living a beautiful mission and returning home firm in faith, filled with fiery charity. We beseech you by his intercession. Amen

St. Charbel, pray for us.

Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…

Today bring to Me ALL MANKIND, ESPECIALLY ALL SINNERS, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. In this way you will console Me in the bitter grief into which the loss of souls plunges Me.

Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive us, do not look upon our sins but upon our trust which we place in Your infinite goodness. Receive us all into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart, and never let us escape from It. We beg this of You by Your love which unites You to the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon all mankind and especially upon poor sinners, all enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion show us Your mercy, that we may praise the omnipotence of Your mercy forever and ever.

Today bring to Me THE SOULS OF PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS, and immerse them in My unfathomable mercy. It was they who gave Me strength to endure My bitter Passion. Through them as through channels My mercy flows out upon mankind.

Most Merciful Jesus, from whom comes all that is good, increase Your grace in men and women consecrated to Your service,* that they may perform worthy works of mercy; and that all who see them may glorify the Father of Mercy who is in heaven.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the company of chosen ones in Your vineyard—upon the souls of priests and religious; and endow them with the strength of Your blessing. For the love of the Heart of Your Son in which they are enfolded, impart to them Your power and light, that they may be able to guide others in the way of salvation and with one voice sing praise to Your boundless mercy for ages without end.

Today bring to Me ALL DEVOUT AND FAITHFUL SOULS, and immerse then in the ocean of My mercy. The souls brought Me consolation on the Way of the Cross. They were that drop of consolation in the midst of an ocean of bitterness.

Most Merciful Jesus, from the treasury of Your mercy, You impart Your graces in great abundance to each and all. Receive us into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart and never let us escape from It. We beg this grace of You by that most wonderous love for the heavenly Father with which Your Heart burns so fiercely.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon faithful souls, as upon the inheritance of Your Son. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, grant them Your blessing and surround them with Your constant protection. Thus may they never fail in love or lose the treasure of the holy faith, but rather, with all the hosts of Angels and Saints, may they glorify Your boundless mercy for endless ages.

Today bring to Me THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD* AND THOSE WHO DO NOT YET KNOW ME. I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy.

Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages.

Today bring to Me THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM MY CHURCH,* and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart, that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church, My wounds heal and in this way they alleviate My Passion.

Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light to those who seek it of You. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Church. Draw them by Your light into the unity of the Church, and do not let them escape from the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart; but bring it about that they, too, come to glorify the generosity of Your mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Son’s Church, who have squandered Your blessings and misused Your graces by obstinately persisting in their errors. Do not look upon their errors, but upon the love of Your own Son and upon His bitter Passion, which He underwent for their sake, since they, too, are enclosed in His Most Compassionate Heart. Bring it about that they also may glorify Your great mercy for endless ages.

Today bring to Me THE MEEK AND HUMBLE SOULS AND THE SOULS OF LITTLE CHILDREN, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me during My bitter agony. I saw them as earthly Angels, who will keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. Only the humble soul is capable of receiving My grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence.

Most Merciful Jesus, You yourself have said, “Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart.” Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls and the souls of little children. These souls send all heaven into ecstasy and they are the heavenly Father’s favorites. They are a sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God; God Himself takes delight in their fragrance. These souls have a permanent abode in Your Most Compassionate Heart, O Jesus, and they unceasingly sing out a hymn of love and mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon meek souls, upon humble souls, and upon little children who are enfolded in the abode which is the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls bear the closest resemblance to Your Son. Their fragrance rises from the earth and reaches Your very throne. Father of mercy and of all goodness, I beg You by the love You bear these souls and by the delight You take in them: Bless the whole world, that all souls together may sing out the praises of Your mercy for endless ages.

Today bring to Me THE SOULS WHO ESPECIALLY VENERATE AND GLORIFY MY MERCY,* and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.

Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God.

Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory.

Today bring to Me THE SOULS WHO ARE DETAINED IN PURGATORY, and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. Let the torrents of My Blood cool down their scorching flames. All these souls are greatly loved by Me. They are making retribution to My justice. It is in your power to bring them relief. Draw all the indulgences from the treasury of My Church and offer them on their behalf. Oh, if you only knew the torments they suffer, you would continually offer for them the alms of the spirit and pay off their debt to My justice.

Most Merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said that You desire mercy; so I bring into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls in Purgatory, souls who are very dear to You, and yet, who must make retribution to Your justice. May the streams of Blood and Water which gushed forth from Your Heart put out the flames of Purgatory, that there, too, the power of Your mercy may be celebrated.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls suffering in Purgatory, who are enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. I beg You, by the sorrowful Passion of Jesus Your Son, and by all the bitterness with which His most sacred Soul was flooded: Manifest Your mercy to the souls who are under Your just scrutiny. Look upon them in no other way but only through the Wounds of Jesus, Your dearly beloved Son; for we firmly believe that there is no limit to Your goodness and compassion.

Today bring to Me SOULS WHO HAVE BECOME LUKEWARM,* and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out: ‘Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.’ For them, the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy.

Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart. In this fire of Your pure love, let these tepid souls, who, like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Oh Holy Spirit, by Your power, Christ was raised from the dead to save us all. By Your grace, miracles are performed in Jesus’ name. By Your love, we are protected from evil. And so, we ask with humility and a beggar’s heart for Your gift of Charity within us. The great charity of all the Saints is only made possible by Your power, Oh Divine Spirit. Increase in me, the virtue of charity that I may love as God loves with the selflessness of the Saints. Amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and kindle in them the fire of Your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Oh Holy Spirit, by Your power, Christ was raised from the dead to save us all. By Your grace, miracles are performed in Jesus’ name. By Your love, we are protected from evil. And so, we ask with humility and a beggar’s heart for Your gift of Joy within us. All of the Saints are marked with an continuous Joy in times of trial, difficulty and pain. Give us, Oh Holy Spirit, the Joy that surpasses all understanding that we may live as a witness to Your love and fidelity! Amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Oh Holy Spirit, by Your power, Christ was raised from the dead to save us all. By Your grace, miracles are performed in Jesus’ name. By Your love, we are protected from evil. And so, we ask with humility and a beggar’s heart for Your gift of Peace within us. The Saints were tempted, attacked and accused by the devil who is the destroyer of peace. When we are tempted by sin, come to our aid as our Advocate, our helper, and give us Peace that lasts through all trials! Amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Oh Holy Spirit, by Your power, Christ was raised from the dead to save us all. By Your grace, miracles are performed in Jesus’ name. By Your love, we are protected from evil. And so, we ask with humility and a beggar’s heart for Your gift of Patience within us. Oh Holy Spirit, You give plentifully to those who ask. Please give us the patience of the Saints who are now with You in heaven. Help us to endure everything with an eternal patience that is only possible with Your help. Amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Oh Holy Spirit, by Your power, Christ was raised from the dead to save us all. By Your grace, miracles are performed in Jesus’ name. By Your love, we are protected from evil. And so, we ask with humility and a beggar’s heart for Your gift of Kindness within us. Jesus approached sinners with immense kindness. Holy Spirit, please treat us though we are sinners with the same kindness and give us the ability to treat all others with that kindness as well. Amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Oh Holy Spirit, by Your power, Christ was raised from the dead to save us all. By Your grace, miracles are performed in Jesus’ name. By Your love, we are protected from evil. And so, we ask with humility and a beggar’s heart for Your gift of Faithfulness within us. You, oh Lord, are ever faithful. You are faithful until the end. Though we are weak and distracted, please give us the grace to be faithful to You as You are to us! Amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Oh Holy Spirit, by Your power, Christ was raised from the dead to save us all. By Your grace, miracles are performed in Jesus’ name. By Your love, we are protected from evil. And so, we ask with humility and a beggar’s heart for Your gift of Gentleness within us. Despite the greatness of our sins, oh Lord You treat us with Gentleness. Dear Holy Spirit, give us Your power to treat all in our lives with the Gentleness of the Saints. Amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Oh Holy Spirit, by Your power, Christ was raised from the dead to save us all. By Your grace, miracles are performed in Jesus’ name. By Your love, we are protected from evil. And so, we ask with humility and a beggar’s heart for Your gift of Self-Control within us. Your Martyrs had the overwhelming self-control to remain joyfully through suffering rejecting everything for love of You. Give us this self-control to have command over our emotions and desires that we may serve You more fully. Amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Oh Holy Spirit, by Your power, Christ was raised from the dead to save us all. By Your grace, miracles are performed in Jesus’ name. By Your love, we are protected from evil. And so, we ask with humility and a beggar’s heart for Goodness within us. We want to be like Your Saints in heaven. Holy Spirit, renew us by Your power with Your Goodness that we may bring the Good News to the world. Amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father

Prayer
Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Robert Bellarmine as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the love of You he showed from the time he was a young student.

St. Robert Bellarmine, you were a diligent student during your childhood and adolescence. As you grew in knowledge, you began on the path to holiness and serving God.

Please bring my petitions before God Who served!

Please also pray for new Catechists in our parish (St Luke the Evangelist Parish, Revesby).

St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

Prayer
Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Robert Bellarmine as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the devotion to You he showed by choosing to serve You as a priest.

St. Robert Bellarmine, you answered God’s call to the priesthood as a young man. You entered the Jesuit religious order, and you continued to serve Him as a Jesuit priest for the rest of your life.

Please continue to bring my petitions before the throne of God!

You later answered God’s call to serve His Church as an archbishop and a cardinal. You devoted your life to serving God’s Church for many years.

Pray for me, that I may be eager to answer God’s call in my life. Pray that I may do my best to serve God in whatever ways He calls me to.

Please also pray for new Catechists in our parish (St Luke the Evangelist Parish, Revesby).

St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

Prayer
Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Robert Bellarmine as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the virtue he showed in his many years of service to Your Church in the Jesuit religious order.

St. Robert Bellarmine, you were eager to serve God as a young man. You followed God’s call to enter the Jesuit religious order, and you serve Him faithfully as a Jesuit for the rest of your life.

Please bring my petitions before God with such faithfulness!

You served the Church in many capacities throughout your life, and you did a lot to help the Church through a tumultuous time.

Pray for me, that I may always seek to serve the Church as faithfully as you did. Pray that I may be more eager to devote my life to God each day.

Please also pray for new Catechists in our parish (St Luke the Evangelist Parish, Revesby).

St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

Prayer
Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Robert Bellarmine as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the love of You he showed in his holy work as a preacher. 

St. Robert Bellarmine, you entered the Jesuit religious order when you were a young man. You persevered in faithful service to God and His Church for many years.

Please persevere in bringing my petitions before the throne of God!

You became well-known for your preaching as a young priest. You spent many years of your life teaching and helping to lead others closer to God.

Pray for me, that I may always do all I can to proclaim the Gospel to those around me. Pray that I may never weary of seeking to do all I can to serve God and His Church.

Please also pray for new Catechists in our parish (St Luke the Evangelist Parish, Revesby).

St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

Prayer
Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Robert Bellarmine as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the devotion to You he showed in his years of faithful service to You and Your Church as a priest.

St. Robert Bellarmine, you followed God’s call to the priesthood when you were a young man. You entered the Jesuit religious order, and you served God with devotion for the rest of your life.
Please bring my petitions before the throne of God with such devotion!

You became well-known as a preacher and a teacher. You later served the Church as an archbishop and a cardinal, doing a lot of good for the Church during the Counter-Reformation.

Pray for me, that I may always follow God’s call in my life. Pray that I may serve God as eagerly as you did.

Please also pray for new Catechists in our parish (St Luke the Evangelist Parish, Revesby).

St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

Prayer
Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Robert Bellarmine as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the love of You he showed in devoting a lot of time and effort to writing about You.

St. Robert Bellarmine, you lived in a time when many heresies were gaining traction in the Church. You wrote an exhaustive work defending true Church teaching against these heresies, out of love for God.

Please bring my petitions before God Whom you loved so dearly!

You wrote many significant works of both instruction and devotion. You were eventually named a Doctor of the Church because of all the influential works you wrote.

Pray for me, that I may always be eager to help others grow closer to God. Pray that I may always do all I can to serve God worthily.

Please also pray for new Catechists in our parish (St Luke the Evangelist Parish, Revesby).

St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

Prayer
Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Robert Bellarmine as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the virtue he showed in doing all he could to help bring about much-needed reform within the Church.

St. Robert Bellarmine, you lived in a time when there were many areas of the Church that were in need of reform. You did all you could to help the Church through this tumultuous time.

Please do all you can to bring my petitions before the throne of God!

Your work was very important to the Church during the time of the Counter-Reformation. You defended the true teachings of the Church and fought against abuses within the Church.

Pray for me, that I may do all I can to help the Church today. Pray that I may always be eager to serve God and His Church in whatever ways He calls me to.

Please also pray for new Catechists in our parish (St Luke the Evangelist Parish, Revesby).

St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

Prayer
Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Robert Bellarmine as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the love of You he showed in working to defend the true teachings of Your Church against heresy.

St. Robert Bellarmine, there were many heresies gaining prominence in the Church during your lifetime. You persevered in defending the truth against these false teachings, out of love for God.

Please persevere in bringing my petitions before the throne of God!

You wrote an exhaustive work of apologetics, in order to defend the true teachings of the Church against these heresies. You worked diligently to help defend the truth.

Pray for me, that I may always do all I can to defend and promote the true teachings of the Church. Pray that I may grow in love and appreciation for the Church’s teachings.

Please also pray for new Catechists in our parish (St Luke the Evangelist Parish, Revesby).

St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

Prayer
Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Robert Bellarmine as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the devotion to You he showed in his lifetime of service to Your Church.

St. Robert Bellarmine, you chose to follow God’s call to the priesthood and the Jesuit religious order as a young man. Then, you continued to serve Him faithfully for the rest of your life.

Please continue to bring my petitions before the throne of God with such faithfulness!

You went on to serve the Church in many important roles during your life. Your work contributed greatly to the flourishing of the Church during the Counter-Reformation.

Pray for me, that I may always be eager to put my gifts to use serving the Church. Pray that I may grow in love for God and His Church each day

Please also pray for new Catechists in our parish (St Luke the Evangelist Parish, Revesby).

St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

Meditation
Manifold are the sufferings which these Blessed Souls must endure, but the greatest of all is the reflection that their sins in life are the cause of their present torments.

Prayer
O Jesus, my Savior, I have so often deserved to be cast into Hell; how great were my suffering if I were now cast away and obliged to think that I, myself, had caused my damnation! I thank You for the patience with which You have endured me. My God, I love You above all things and I am heartily sorry for having offended You because You are infinite goodness. I will rather die than offend You again. Grant me the grace of perseverance; have pity on me, and at the same time on those Blessed Souls suffering in Purgatory. O Mary, Mother of God, come to their assistance with your powerful intercession.

Our Father and Hail Mary

Sweet Lord Jesus have compassion on the Blessed Souls of Purgatory;
Make these Holy Souls partakers of Your happiness Divine.

Prayer to our Suffering Savior for the Souls in Purgatory
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of our sins You sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you chose to drink for us the bitter cup of Your Heavenly Father, saying: “Not my will but Thy will be done,” have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because You endured the pains of the most cruel scourging on your holy body, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the crowning of thorns as they puncture your holy head, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the pain of carrying the Cross to Calvary for us, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the pain you endured as your hands and feet were being nailed to the Cross, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the most bitter agony you endured as a crucified criminal to save us from hell, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the immense pain You endured as you breathe forth Your Blessed Soul, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.

[At this moment, ask the Holy Souls in purgatory to intercede for you. Always ask them to pray for you to have the HOLY FEAR OF GOD.]

Blessed Souls, now we have prayed for you; we entreat you, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us miserable sinners, who are in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Beseech God our heavenly Father to grant us the grace of Holy Fear – in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Out of the Depths Prayer;
(Carries a partial indulgence)
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication: If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word. My soul waits for the Lord, more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord;
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption; And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

Meditation
The second pain which causes these Holy Souls much suffering, is the time lost in life, when they might have gained merits for Heaven; and the thought that they are unable to repair this loss, because the time of life and merit is passed.

Prayer
Woe to me, unhappy being, so many years have I already spent on earth and have earned nothing but Hell! I give You thanks, O Lord, for granting me time even now to atone for my sins. My good God, I am heartily sorry for having offended You. Send me Your assistance, that I may apply the time yet remaining to me for Your love and service; have compassion on me, and, at the same time, on the Holy Souls suffering in Purgatory. O Mary, Mother of God, come to their assistance with your powerful intercession.

Our Father and Hail Mary

Sweet Lord Jesus have compassion on the Blessed Souls of Purgatory;
Make these Holy Souls partakers of Your happiness Divine.

Prayer to our Suffering Savior for the Souls in Purgatory
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of our sins You sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you chose to drink for us the bitter cup of Your Heavenly Father, saying: “Not my will but Thy will be done,” have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because You endured the pains of the most cruel scourging on your holy body, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the crowning of thorns as they puncture your holy head, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the pain of carrying the Cross to Calvary for us, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the pain you endured as your hands and feet were being nailed to the Cross, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the most bitter agony you endured as a crucified criminal to save us from hell, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the immense pain You endured as you breathe forth Your Blessed Soul, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.

[At this moment, ask the Holy Souls in purgatory to intercede for you. Always ask them to pray for you to have the HOLY FEAR OF GOD.]

Blessed Souls, now we have prayed for you; we entreat you, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us miserable sinners, who are in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Beseech God our heavenly Father to grant us the grace of Holy Fear – in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Out of the Depths Prayer
(Carries a partial indulgence)
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication: If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word. My soul waits for the Lord, more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord;
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption; And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

Meditation
Another great pain of the Holy Souls is caused by the hideous vision of their guilt, for which they now suffer. In this life the hideousness of sin is not seen as in the life to come; and this is one of the greatest sufferings in Purgatory.

Prayer
O my God! because You are infinite goodness, I love You above all things, and repent with my whole heart of my offenses against You. Grant me the grace of holy perseverance. Have compassion on me, and, at the same time on the Holy Souls suffering in Purgatory. O Mary, Mother of God, come to their assistance with your powerful intercession.

Our Father and Hail Mary

Sweet Lord Jesus have compassion on the Blessed Souls of Purgatory;
Make these Holy Souls partakers of Your happiness Divine.

Prayer to our Suffering Savior for the Souls in Purgatory
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of our sins You sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you chose to drink for us the bitter cup of Your Heavenly Father, saying: “Not my will but Thy will be done,” have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because You endured the pains of the most cruel scourging on your holy body, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the crowning of thorns as they puncture your holy head, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the pain of carrying the Cross to Calvary for us, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the pain you endured as your hands and feet were being nailed to the Cross, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the most bitter agony you endured as a crucified criminal to save us from hell, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the immense pain You endured as you breathe forth Your Blessed Soul, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.

[At this moment, ask the Holy Souls in purgatory to intercede for you. Always ask them to pray for you to have the HOLY FEAR OF GOD.]

Blessed Souls, now we have prayed for you; we entreat you, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us miserable sinners, who are in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Beseech God our heavenly Father to grant us the grace of Holy Fear – in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Out of the Depths Prayer
(Carries a partial indulgence)
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication: If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word. My soul waits for the Lord, more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord;
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption; And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

Meditation
The pain that still more afflicts these Holy Souls, the spouses of Jesus, is the thought of having, during life, displeased by their sins that God Whom they so ardently love. Some penitents have felt so much pain and sorrow in thinking of having, by their sins, offended so good a God, that they died of grief. The Souls in Purgatory understand far better than we do, the claims that God has to our love; they love Him with all their strength. Hence, at the thought of having offended Him during life, they experience pain that surpasses all other pain.

Prayer
O my God! because You are infinite goodness, I am sorry with my whole heart for having offended You. I promise to die rather than ever offend You more. Give me holy perseverance; have pity on me, and have pity on those Holy Souls that burn in the cleansing fire, and love You with all their hearts. O Mary, Mother of God, come to their assistance with your powerful intercession.

Our Father and Hail Mary

Sweet Lord Jesus have compassion on the Blessed Souls of Purgatory;
Make these Holy Souls partakers of Your happiness Divine.

Prayer to our Suffering Savior for the Souls in Purgatory
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of our sins You sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you chose to drink for us the bitter cup of Your Heavenly Father, saying: “Not my will but Thy will be done,” have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because You endured the pains of the most cruel scourging on your holy body, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the crowning of thorns as they puncture your holy head, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the pain of carrying the Cross to Calvary for us, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the pain you endured as your hands and feet were being nailed to the Cross, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the most bitter agony you endured as a crucified criminal to save us from hell, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the immense pain You endured as you breathe forth Your Blessed Soul, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.

[At this moment, ask the Holy Souls in purgatory to intercede for you. Always ask them to pray for you to have the HOLY FEAR OF GOD.]

Blessed Souls, now we have prayed for you; we entreat you, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us miserable sinners, who are in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Beseech God our heavenly Father to grant us the grace of Holy Fear – in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Out of the Depths Prayer
(Carries a partial indulgence)
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication: If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word. My soul waits for the Lord, more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord;
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption; And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

Meditation
Another great suffering is caused these Holy Souls by the ignorance of the time of their deliverance. They are certain of being one day released, yet the uncertainty of the time when their Purgatorial term will have ended, gives them great pain.

Prayer
Woe to me, unhappy being, if You, O Lord, had cast me into eternal Hell; for far from that dungeon of eternal pain there is no deliverance. I love You above all things, O infinite God, and I am sincerely sorry for having ever offended You again. Grant me the grace of holy perseverance. Have compassion on me, and, at the same time on the Holy Souls suffering in Purgatory. O Mary, Mother of God, come to their assistance with your powerful intercession.

Our Father and Hail Mary

Sweet Lord Jesus have compassion on the Blessed Souls of Purgatory;
Make these Holy Souls partakers of Your happiness Divine.

Prayer to our Suffering Savior for the Souls in Purgatory
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of our sins You sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you chose to drink for us the bitter cup of Your Heavenly Father, saying: “Not my will but Thy will be done,” have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because You endured the pains of the most cruel scourging on your holy body, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the crowning of thorns as they puncture your holy head, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the pain of carrying the Cross to Calvary for us, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the pain you endured as your hands and feet were being nailed to the Cross, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the most bitter agony you endured as a crucified criminal to save us from hell, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the immense pain You endured as you breathe forth Your Blessed Soul, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.

[At this moment, ask the Holy Souls in purgatory to intercede for you. Always ask them to pray for you to have the HOLY FEAR OF GOD.]

Blessed Souls, now we have prayed for you; we entreat you, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us miserable sinners, who are in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Beseech God our heavenly Father to grant us the grace of Holy Fear – in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Out of the Depths Prayer
(Carries a partial indulgence)
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication: If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word. My soul waits for the Lord, more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord;
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption; And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

Meditation
The Holy Souls are, indeed, comforted by the recollection of the Passion of Jesus Christ, and the Holy Sacrament of the Altar, since they know they are saved by the Passion of Jesus Christ, and have received, and still receive, so much consolation from Holy Masses and Holy Communions. Nevertheless, they are greatly pained by the recollection of their ingratitude for these two great gifts of the love of Jesus Christ.

Prayer
O my Divine Redeemer, You died for me on the Cross, and has so often united Yourself with me in Holy Communion, and I have repaid You only with ingratitude. Now, however, I love You above all things, O supreme God; and I am more grieved at my offenses against You than at any other evil. I will rather die than offend You again. Grant me the grace of holy perseverance. Have compassion on me, and, at the same time on the Holy Souls suffering in Purgatory. O Mary, Mother of God, come to their assistance with your powerful intercession.

Our Father and Hail Mary

Sweet Lord Jesus have compassion on the Blessed Souls of Purgatory;
Make these Holy Souls partakers of Your happiness Divine.

Prayer to our Suffering Savior for the Souls in Purgatory
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of our sins You sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you chose to drink for us the bitter cup of Your Heavenly Father, saying: “Not my will but Thy will be done,” have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because You endured the pains of the most cruel scourging on your holy body, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the crowning of thorns as they puncture your holy head, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the pain of carrying the Cross to Calvary for us, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the pain you endured as your hands and feet were being nailed to the Cross, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the most bitter agony you endured as a crucified criminal to save us from hell, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the immense pain You endured as you breathe forth Your Blessed Soul, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.

[At this moment, ask the Holy Souls in purgatory to intercede for you. Always ask them to pray for you to have the HOLY FEAR OF GOD.]

Blessed Souls, now we have prayed for you; we entreat you, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us miserable sinners, who are in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Beseech God our heavenly Father to grant us the grace of Holy Fear – in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Out of the Depths Prayer
(Carries a partial indulgence)
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication: If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word. My soul waits for the Lord, more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord;
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption; And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

Meditation
A further great sorrow of these Holy Souls consists in their ardent desire for the Beatific Vision. Slowly and painfully the moments of their Purgatorial imprisonment pass by; for, they love God deeply, and desire to be delivered from their sad prison in order to praise Him forever.

Prayer
O God, Father of Mercy, satisfy this their ardent desire! Send them Your Holy Angel to announce to them that You, their Father, are now reconciled with them through the suffering and death of Jesus, and that the moment of their deliverance has arrived. O Mary, Mother of God, come to their assistance with your powerful intercession.

Our Father and Hail Mary

Sweet Lord Jesus have compassion on the Blessed Souls of Purgatory;
Make these Holy Souls partakers of Your happiness Divine.

Prayer to our Suffering Savior for the Souls in Purgatory
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of our sins You sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you chose to drink for us the bitter cup of Your Heavenly Father, saying: “Not my will but Thy will be done,” have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because You endured the pains of the most cruel scourging on your holy body, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the crowning of thorns as they puncture your holy head, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the pain of carrying the Cross to Calvary for us, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the pain you endured as your hands and feet were being nailed to the Cross, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the most bitter agony you endured as a crucified criminal to save us from hell, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the immense pain You endured as you breathe forth Your Blessed Soul, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.

[At this moment, ask the Holy Souls in purgatory to intercede for you. Always ask them to pray for you to have the HOLY FEAR OF GOD.]

Blessed Souls, now we have prayed for you; we entreat you, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us miserable sinners, who are in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Beseech God our heavenly Father to grant us the grace of Holy Fear – in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Out of the Depths Prayer
(Carries a partial indulgence)
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication: If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word. My soul waits for the Lord, more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord;
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption; And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

Meditation
Another bitter sorrow of these Souls is caused by the reflection that God had distinguished them by so many graces not granted to others, and that they compelled Him, by their sins, to condemn them to these sufferings, and that they had deserved Hell, and were pardoned and saved only by the mercy of God.

Prayer
O my God! I also am one of these ungrateful beings, having received so much grace, and yet despised Your love, and deserve to be cast by You into Hell. But Your infinite goodness has spared me until now. Therefore, I now love You above all things, and I am heartily sorry for having offended You. Grant me the grace of holy perseverance. Have compassion on me, and, at the same time on the Holy Souls suffering in Purgatory. O Mary, Mother of God, come to their assistance with your powerful intercession.

em>Our Father and Hail Mary

Sweet Lord Jesus have compassion on the Blessed Souls of Purgatory;
Make these Holy Souls partakers of Your happiness Divine.

Prayer to our Suffering Savior for the Souls in Purgatory
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of our sins You sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you chose to drink for us the bitter cup of Your Heavenly Father, saying: “Not my will but Thy will be done,” have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because You endured the pains of the most cruel scourging on your holy body, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the crowning of thorns as they puncture your holy head, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the pain of carrying the Cross to Calvary for us, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the pain you endured as your hands and feet were being nailed to the Cross, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the most bitter agony you endured as a crucified criminal to save us from hell, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the immense pain You endured as you breathe forth Your Blessed Soul, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.

[At this moment, ask the Holy Souls in purgatory to intercede for you. Always ask them to pray for you to have the HOLY FEAR OF GOD.]

Blessed Souls, now we have prayed for you; we entreat you, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us miserable sinners, who are in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Beseech God our heavenly Father to grant us the grace of Holy Fear – in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Out of the Depths Prayer
(Carries a partial indulgence)
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication: If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word. My soul waits for the Lord, more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord;
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption; And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

Meditation
Great are all the sufferings of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, the fire, the grief, the darkness, the uncertainty of the time of their deliverance from prison; but the greatest of all these sorrows is this, that these Holy Souls are separated from their Divine Spouse, and deprived of His Beatific Vision.

Prayer
O my God! how was it possible that I, for so many years, have borne tranquilly the separation from You and Your holy grace! O infinite Goodness, how long-suffering have Your Yourself to me! Henceforth, I shall love You above all things. I am deeply sorry for having offended You. Grant me the grace of holy perseverance, and do not permit that I should ever again fall into sin. Have compassion on the Holy Souls suffering in Purgatory. I pray You, moderate their sufferings; shorten the time of their misery; call them soon unto You in Heaven, that they may behold You face to face, and forever love You. O Mary, Mother of God, come to their assistance with your powerful intercession, and pray for us also who are still in danger of eternal damnation.

Our Father and Hail Mary

Sweet Lord Jesus have compassion on the Blessed Souls of Purgatory;
Make these Holy Souls partakers of Your happiness Divine.

Prayer to our Suffering Savior for the Souls in Purgatory
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of our sins You sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you chose to drink for us the bitter cup of Your Heavenly Father, saying: “Not my will but Thy will be done,” have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because You endured the pains of the most cruel scourging on your holy body, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the crowning of thorns as they puncture your holy head, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because you endured the pain of carrying the Cross to Calvary for us, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the pain you endured as your hands and feet were being nailed to the Cross, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the most bitter agony you endured as a crucified criminal to save us from hell, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Sweet Lord Jesus, because of the immense pain You endured as you breathe forth Your Blessed Soul, have mercy on the Souls in purgatory.
R. Lord, have mercy.

[At this moment, ask the Holy Souls in purgatory to intercede for you. Always ask them to pray for you to have the HOLY FEAR OF GOD.]

Blessed Souls, now we have prayed for you; we entreat you, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us miserable sinners, who are in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Beseech God our heavenly Father to grant us the grace of Holy Fear – in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Out of the Depths Prayer
(Carries a partial indulgence)
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication: If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word. My soul waits for the Lord, more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord;
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption; And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.