The Raccolta (1857)/Prayers and Petitions
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PRAYERS AND PETITIONS.
By a Rescript of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, dated March 3, 1827, Pope Leo XII. granted to every faithful Christian who, with a contrite heart and with devotion, should recite the following prayers and petitions once a day -
i. THE INDULGENCE OF 300 DAYS,
ii. THE PLENARY INDULGENCE to any one who shall recite
them every day for a month, on any one of the three last days of the month when, after Confession and Communion, he shall visit some church or public oratory, and pray according to the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff.
He desired also that copies of the said prayers and petitions should be printed and distributed gratis.
THE PRAYERS AND PETITIONS.
O Father ! O Son! O Holy Ghost !
O Holy Trinity ! O Jesus ! O Mary!
O ye blessed Angels of God !
O all ye Saints of Paradise, men and women, obtain for me these graces, which I ask through the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ :
1. Ever to do the holy will of God.
2. Ever to live in union with God.
3. Never to think of any one but God.
4. To love God alone.
5. To do all for God.
6. To seek alone God's glory.
7. To sanctify myself for God alone.
8. To know well my own utter nothingness.
9. Ever to know more and more the Will of my God.
10. . . . . . .
Mary most holy, offer to the Eternal Father the most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ for my poor soul, for the holy souls in purgatory, for the wants of Holy Church, for the conversion of sinners, for all the world.
Then say three Gloria Patri in honour of the most holy Blood of Jesus Christ; one Hail Mary, in honour of the sorrows of Mary most holy; and one Requiem æternam, &c, in behalf of the holy souls in purgatory.