Categories: faith
Date: 08 August 2008 14:11:57
There was cake, but it doesn't travel over the internet very well, so have a chaplet, instead:
The Chaplet of St. Dominic, also called "A Cry of Anguish" because it used in times of distress. It may be prayed on a normal rosary.
On the large beads, pray the O Spem Miram:
O wonderful hope, which thou gavest to those who wept for thee, at the hour of thy death, promising, after thy departure, to be helpful to thy brethren!
R. Fulfill, O father, what thou hast said, and help us by thy prayers.
V. O thou who didst shine illustrious by so many miracles, wrought on the bodies of the sick, bring us the help of Christ to heal our sick souls.
R. Fulfill, O father, what thou hast said, and help us by thy prayers.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
R. Fulfill, O father, what thou hast said, and help us by thy prayers.
V. Pray for us blessed father Dominic.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray. O God, who hast enlightened Thy Church by the eminent virtues and preaching of blessed Dominic, Thy confessor and our father, mercifully grant that by his prayers it may never lack temporal help, and may ever increase in all spiritual good. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
On the small beads, pray:
Holy Father, cast thy mind
on the work thy hands designed;
In the Judge's presence stand
For thy poor and lowly band.
At the end, pray:
V. Pray for us, O Holy Father, St. Dominic.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
God, whose property it is always to have mercy and to spare, we humbly beseech Thee, that we, who spoil the works of Thy glory by our sins and are justly afflicted for what we have done, may, by the merits and intercession of blessed Dominic, Thy confessor and our father, be comforted in our trials, and ever obey Thy divine will. Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son. Amen.