Offering of the Sunday Holy Hour

March 30, 2008

Pope's Safety:

Offering of Sunday Holy Hour

Dear Friends in Christ,

As you know, next month Pope Benedict XVI will be visiting Washington D.C. and our City of New York. We look forward to this momentous and grace-filled event.

However, Our Lady and Our Lord have solemnly and repeatedly expressed in Their Message here at Bayside, the grave danger that exists for our latter-day Popes, especially when they travel.

And so, we are specifically offering the next four Sunday Holy Hours for the safety and protection of Our Holy Father. We, especially, invoke our patron and special guardian for the Vicar of Christ, St. Michael, to escort and inspire His Holiness throughout his sojourn in our land blessed so bountifully by Our Father in Heaven.

We also include in our intention: that the Pope’s pilgrimage will be most fruitful and result in a greater esteem and wider acceptance of holy tradition, especially an increase in our parishes of the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite: the Latin Tridentine Mass.

The Lay Order of St. Michael

Where ever you are, please join us in this urgent need of prayer and sacrifice for the Pope.

Opens Sunday Holy Hour

Prayer for Holy Father

Let us pray for our Pontiff Benedict XVI.

The Lord preserve him, and give him life, and make him to be blessed upon the earth, and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies (Roman Breviary).

Prayer

O Lord, we are the millions of believers, humbly kneeling at Thy feet and begging Thee to preserve, defend and save the Sovereign Pontiff for many years. He is the Father of the great fellowship of souls and our Father as well. On this day, as on every other day, he is praying for us also, and is offering unto Thee with holy fervor the sacred Victim of love and peace.

Wherefore, O Lord, turn Thyself toward us with eyes of pity; for we are now, as it were, forgetful of ourselves, and are praying above all for him. Do Thou unite our prayers with his and receive them into the bosom of Thine infinite mercy, as a sweet savor of active and fruitful charity, whereby the children are united in the Church to their Father. All that he asks of Thee this day, we too ask it of Thee in union with him.

Whether he weeps or rejoices, whether he hopes or offers himself as a victim of charity for his people, we desire to be united with him; nay more, we desire that the cry of our hearts should be made one with his. Of Thy great mercy grant, O Lord, that not one of us may be far from his mind and his heart in the hour that he prays and offers unto Thee the Sacrifice of Thy blessed Son. At the moment when our venerable High Priest, holding in His hands the very Body of Jesus Christ, shall say to the people over the Chalice of benediction these words: "The peace of the Lord be with you always," grant, O Lord, that Thy sweet peace may come down upon our hearts and upon all the nations with new and manifest power. Amen.

An indulgence of 500 days once a day (Leo XIII, Audience May 8, 1896; S. P. Ap., Jan. 18, 1934).

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