PRAYER FOR THE RESTORATION
         OF THE ROMAN MASS

                  By Fr. Lawrence Brey

   O LORD JESUS CHRIST, Eternal High Priest and
Immaculate Lamb of God, slain for us and for many on
the altar of Calvary, and continually offered to Thy
Heavenly Father in the clean oblation of Thy Eucharistic
Sacrifice:  grant, we beseech Thee, through the merits
and prayers of thy Saints Gregory the Great, Thomas
Acquinas and Pius V, that the holy Roman and Apostolic
Catholic Mass, ratified, expounded and perpetuated by
them respectively, may be rightly restored to the altars of
Thy Church throughout the world; that once again this
most awesome, majestic and perennial rite may offer
infinite worship and homage to the Most Blessed Trinity;
the fullest fruits and consolation and spiritual nourish-
ment to the faithful, an impregnable defense and counter-
balance against the rising tide of evil;  and a sure termi-
nation of the anguish, fear, doubts, and profantations
occasioned by its unsanctioned abandonment and
replacement.  O HOLY SAINTS of the centuries, who
sanctified and nourished your souls with the
perennial Roman Mass, and HOLY MARTYRS who
shed your blood for it, grant, we pray in desparation, that
we will no longer be bereft of it, and that we will, as you,
commit ourselves to the Mass.
   + At all costs and to the last breath of our lives,
O HOLY VIRGIN MARY, Mother of the Eucharistic Victim,
pray for us that we may bravely, prudently, diligently, and
with sound doctrine and means pursue the rectification
of the present encroachment on the Eucharistic
Sacrifice, and secure with thy powerful maternal aid the
restoration of our Roman Catholic Mass and the Reign
and order of the Kingship of Jesus Christ they Son.  
Amen.