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Offline Neil Obstat

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Prayer for the Month of May
« on: May 06, 2012, 01:37:51 AM »
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  • Prayer for the Month of May

    Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, Refuge of the human race, Conqueror in all the
    battles of God, and loving Mother of men, we humbly pray to thee, confident of
    receiving mercy, grace, and abundant help in all our needs, through the
    goodness of thy maternal Heart.

    Holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God, our Mother, Mediatrix and Queen, we consecrate
    ourselves and all we have, to thine Immaculate Heart, and we recommend to thee,
    our brethren, our country, and the whole human race. Dearest Mother, please
    accept our consecration, and use it to accomplish thy designs upon the world.

    O Mother of Mercy, obtain from our Merciful God, peace for us, and for those
    who are in the darkness of error, or the shadow of death by their sins.
    Obtain peace and complete freedom for the Catholic Church, and restore all
    who have strayed to the unity of the one true fold. Stop the spreading flood of
    modern paganism, enkindle in our hearts and homes the fire of faith and love,
    the practice of the virtues of the Christian life, and a burning zeal for
    souls, so that the apostles of thy Heart, and of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
    may increase in number and in merit.

    O Mary, Throne of Grace and Mother of Fair Love, we come with confidence to
    thine Immaculate Heart, inflame us with that same divine fire which has inflamed
    thine own Heart. O Queen of all hearts, rule over us, together with the Sacred
    Heart of Jesus Christ, our King; make our hearts and homes thy shrine, and through
    us, make the Heart of Jesus triumph in all the world. Amen.
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    Prayer for the Month of May
    « Reply #1 on: May 09, 2012, 12:47:07 AM »
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  • I have a friend whose mother passed away last week. She was a great advocate of the family Rosary. She had 10 children, and her first wish whenever they got together was to pray the Rosary together. So after she passed away, the family had a wake, and a "Rosary," but without the Rosary. The deacon led the assembly in "a decade." The deacon explained to me, when I asked him, that the bereavement ministry had interviewed the family and they had decided that to avoid making the non-Catholics uncomfortable at the Rosary, they should have a decade instead.  They did not bother to include the Fatima prayer after the Glory Be. Altogether, we spent long enough at this "service" to have prayed 3 Rosaries, and most of the time was wasted on vague, mundane equivocations. If they were trying to avoid "boredom," they did not succeed.

    My friend was entirely surprised by this, as he was told there would be a Rosary.

    To offer him some consolation, I provided him with a copy of the Prayer for the Month of May, above. When he read it, I asked him how he would have liked to have the deacon read that at the wake-without-a-Rosary. He said that would have been great.

    So if any readers of this thread have a similar situation, perhaps this is your chance.

    One idea is, that when they give everyone an opportunity to come up and say a few words, reading something like this, or perhaps a Memorare or a Hail, Holy Queen, would give some consolation to the Catholics present in the absence of those kinds of prayers.
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