Author Topic: Happy Feast Day of St. John of the Cross! (Read 1682 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** November 23, 2012, 11:48:03 PM »

Happy Feast Day of St. John of the Cross!

On the occasion of the Feast Day of St. John of the Cross, here is a beautiful prayer to the Saint and some excerpts from his sublime writings, taken from the tome Carmelite Devotions and Prayers for Special Feasts of the Liturgical Year, compiled by a Carmelite Tertiary (Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1956).

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** November 23, 2012, 11:52:04 PM »

From The Missal According to the Carmelite Rite in Latin and English for Every Day in the Year (Rome: Vatican Polyglot Press, 1953), here is the Mass for the Feast of Saint John of the Cross, proper to the Carmelites.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2012, 12:07:45 AM »

From The Missal According to the Carmelite Rite in Latin and English for Every Day in the Year (Rome: Vatican Polyglot Press, 1953), here is the Proper Preface of St. John of the Cross.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2012, 12:12:03 AM »

From the above-mentioned tome Kyrie Eleison: Two Hundred Litanies with Historico-Liturgical Introduction and Notes by Rev. Fr. Benjamin Francis Musser, O.F.M. (Westminster, MD: The Newman Bookshop, 1944), here is a rare Litany of St. John of the Cross.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2012, 12:25:25 AM »

Here is a very beautiful Novena to St. John of the Cross, taken from the tome Carmelite Devotions and Prayers for Special Feasts of the Liturgical Year, compiled by a Carmelite Tertiary (Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1956).

This Novena is especially recommended for those interior souls who wish to attain to a greater love for the Cross by means of self-abnegation, penance and a total detachment from self and all other created things.

All who wear the brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel have this great Carmelite Saint as an advocate and exemplar.