Beautiful Prayers of Love, Praise, and Sorrow
FROM THE RACCOLTA
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THE FATIMA ANGEL PRAYERS
[EUCHARISTIC
PRAYER] [PARDON
PRAYER]
[SACRIFICE
PRAYER] [DECADE PRAYER] [ANGEL'S
PRAYER]
MOST HOLY TRINITY, I adore you! My God, My God,
I love You in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
(3 times)
MY GOD, I believe,
I adore, I trust, and I love Thee!
I ask pardon for
for those who do not believe,
do not adore, do
not trust and do not love Thee.
(3 times)
Sacrifices
A great "secret" of converting sinners is to make sacrifices for them, as well as to pray for them. Our Lady Of Fatima said: "Many souls go to Hell because there are none to sacrifice themselves and to pray for them," And the holy Cure of Ars said that the conversion of sinners "begins with prayer and ends with penance."
But whereas "penance" and "sacrifice" sound frightening to some people and we may not like these words, yet they are the key to obtaining Heaven for poor sinners. If we are frightened of penance, we can begin by making one little sacrifice per day-----perhaps eating something we do not like, or drinking water instead of pop, or making ourselves wait a half hour or so to take a drink when we are thirsty. These are little forms of "fasting". Some sacrifices we are obliged to make anyway, but we can offer them for sinners: examples of these are being patient with a trying person or turning off an immodest TV, program. These sacrifices will be presents for Our Lady, the precious coin she can use to buy back souls that are headed for Hell.
It seems that God loves to "delegate" His work, He has given it to us to be the "secondary" causes of His work, including the salvation of our "brother" and our "neighbor." And though His Blood poured out on Calvary was sufficient to save all souls, He requires that we, the living branches on Him, the Vine, ask for and even "activate" its application to those souls by our prayers and our sacrifices.
At Fatima both the Angel and Our Lady asked for sacrifices for sinners. They said, "Sacrifice yourself." This is done largely by generously making individual sacrifices.
The Angel of Fatima, too, told the three children to "Offer prayers and sacrifices constantly to the Most High . . . Make of everything you can a sacrifice, and offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and in supplication for the conversion of sinners . . . Above all, accept and bear with submission the sufferings which the Lord will send you."
If Our Lady and the Angel ask for prayers and sacrifices for the conversion of sinners, this means that they actually intend to save sinners if prayers and sacrifices are offered up. We must therefore send these up with confidence in Our Lady's intention and power to save the dying. After receiving the above-mentioned message of the Angel, the children were given to understand "how pleasing it [sacrifice] is to Him and how, on account of it, He grants the grace of conversion to sinners." It does work! This is the true recipe for saving souls, even those who are dying and have very little time left.
OUR LADY OF FATIMA
SAID: SACRIFICE YOURSELVES FOR SINNERS AND
SAY MANY TIMES,
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU MAKE SOME SACRIFICE:
O JESUS, it is for
love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners,
and in reparation
for the sins committed against
the Immaculate Heart
of Mary.
(To be said after the Glory Be at the end
of
each decade of the Rosary)
O MY JESUS, forgive
us our sins, save us from the fire of Hell,
lead all souls to
Heaven, especially those who are most in need of Thy mercy.
(Given to the three children by the Angel who
preceded Our Lady's first appearance to them.)
MOST Holy Trinity,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly.
I offer Thee the
Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity
of Jesus Christ,
present in all the tabernacles of the world,
in reparation for
the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference
by which He is offended.
And through the infinite merit
of His Most Sacred
Heart, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
I beg of Thee the
conversion of poor sinners.
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