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Take Him down, with reverent care,
He’s fragile ... costly ... dear!
Parchment written on with whips,
Penned with sharpened leaden tips,
Paragraphed in livid strips,
Then stamped with iron spear!
Take Him down ... How can I read
A message high above?
Ah! Now I see. This vellum thin
Appears a document wherein
Men have written ... hate ... and sin,
And God has written ... Love!
Then fold Him gently, guard Him well,
Envault Him in a tomb.
A covenant in Death’s disguise,
Here a five-sealed charter lies
That grants the joy of Paradise,
That ends eternal doom!
J. W. L. in Columbia
MEMORARE to Our LADY of
the PRECIOUS BLOOD
REMEMBER, O Lady of the Precious
Blood, the sorrowful Shedding of the
Blood of thy Jesus and the most bitter
tears you mingled with His Redeeming
Blood.
In the name of the Blood of the Victim
of Reparation and of your holy tears,
in the name of the seven swords
which pierced your heart, by which you
became the Co-Redemptress of the
human race and the Queen of Martyrs,
have pity on my soul and on all its
miseries; have pity on sinners and on
the innocent souls they seek to pervert;
have pity on the poor, the sick, the
infirm, on all their sufferings, both
physical and moral; have pity on the
agonizing, especially upon those who,
except for thine intercession, would
leave this world without being purified
in the Blood of the Lamb.
It is by the Blood of your Divine Son, by
His inexpressible Sufferings, by His last
plea to His Father in favor of mankind,
by His ignominious Death and by the
perpetuation of His Sacrifice on Catholic
Altars, that I beg you not to reject my
supplications, but graciously to hear
them. Amen.
CONSECRATION to MARY
MOST HOLY MARY, my Lady, to thy
faithful care and particular protection
and to the bosom of thy mercy, today
and every day, and particularly at the
hour of my death, I consecrate my
soul and my body, all my hope and
consolation, all my trials and miseries,
my life and the end of my life I commit
to thee that, through thy most holy
intercession and by thy merits, all my
actions may be directed and ordered
according to thy will and that of thy
Divine Son. Amen. (200 days indul.)
For CHILDREN before BIRTH
MARY, Immaculate Mother, I beseech
thee by the joy that thou didst experience
in the birth of Jesus, thy Divine Son, to
take under thy motherly protection all
the little ones that are to be born this
day throughout the world. Obtain for
them the grace of holy Baptism. Watch
over them always. Pray that, from the
day when they receive for the first
time the God of Love, their hearts, pure
and innocent may ever respond to the
beatings of the Eucharistic Heart of
Jesus, and attach themselves to Him
forever. Amen. (300 days indul.)