Pious Exercise on Fridays
Indulgence of 100 days, to all who when the church bell rings on Friday at three in the afternoon, or at any other hour fixed by custom, kneel and say five times Our Father and Hail Mary, in memory of the Passion of Our Lord, praying according to the intention of the Pope. — Benedict XIV, Dec. 13, 1740; Leo XIII, May 15, 1886.
Devotion to Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament[1]
We invoke the Immaculate Virgin, Mother of Jesus, and our tender Mother, under the title of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, because she is the Mother of the Saviour, Who lives in the Eucharist, and because it is from her that he takes the flesh and blood with which He nourishes us; because, moreover, she is the sovereign dispenser of all grace, and consequently of those graces contained in the august Sacrament; and, finally, because she was the first to practise the duties of the eucharistic life, showing us by her example how to assist becomingly at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, how to communicate worthily, and to visit the Most Blessed Sacrament frequently and with piety.
The Cardinal-Vicar has graciously granted leave to the Sons of the Venerable Pere Eymard — the Fathers of the Blessed Sacrament — to erect in their church of; San Claudio, Rome, a chapel and an altar in honor of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, and to have her picture publicly exposed to the veneration of the faithful. May this example be followed in America;
- ↑ From Emmanuel, May, 1910.
