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Here is the ending of the Benedicite to which I referred above, found on p. 1811 of the Fr. Lasance New Roman Missal:
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Let us pray
O God, Who didst enable the three holy youths to pass unscathed through the fiery furnace: grant that we Thy children may not be consumed by the flames of vice.
Prevent, we beseech Thee, O Lord, our actions by Thy holy inspirations, and carry them on by Thy gracious assistance: that every prayer and work of ours may begin always from Thee and through Thee be happily ended.
Grant unto us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the grace to quench within ourselves the fire of evil desires; even as Thou didst endow blessed Lawrence with strength to triumph over the flames that tortured him. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Calling to mind the martyrdom of St. Lawrence, which was being roasted alive over hot coals on a grid iron (which grid survives to this day for veneration of the faithful), is given at the end of a long prayer which commemorates the miraculous preservation of the three youths in the fiery furnace, Ananias, Azarias and Misael.
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I find it noteworthy that every time I have heard Protestant preachers mention this OT Scripture, they use the pagan names which these 3 youths were forced to accept by the tyrant who persecuted them, Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego. The Benedicite is a traditional Catholic prayer, used in monasteries, which has for longstanding tradition used the Hebrew names Ananias, Azarias and Misael. Like all Latin prayers the name comes from the first word or words of the prayer, "All ye works of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt Him above all forever." The Holy Ghost inspired the boys to sing this praise of God inside the burning furnace, which caused them no harm, while its intense heat spilled out and killed the workers who were attempting to add fuel to it.
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There is so much to learn from this prayer.
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The fiery passions that ravage us these days with indecent movies, fashions, women's clothing, transsɛҳuąƖs, corrupt famous people, and so on, are like the flames of the fiery furnace from which the 3 youths were spared and the roasting pit from which St. Lawrence was not spared. But God gave him the grace to overcome those flames, which is what is given to us in this modern age. We contemplate both mysteries together, the 3 youths and St. Lawrence. This is what the Church gives us for our edification and meditation.
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Note: meditation in the Catholic sense has utterly nothing to do with Eastern mysticism so-called meditation, which requires one to EMPTY one's mind of all content, not to think about such things as these two fiery furnaces with their subjects at hand.
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