This is the prototype of all novenas. It commemorates the nine days between the Ascension of Our Lord and the descent of the Holy Ghost on the first Pentecost Sunday. During this time Our Lady and the twelve Apostles prayed … Continue reading
Category: Library of Prayers
Prayer to Christ the King
To help you better welcome our King at Christmas, here is a prayer by a Scotist Franciscan theologian, Père Chrysostome, O.F.M. The prayer was granted a plenary indulgence by the Supreme Apostolic Penitentiary in 1923, and we have used it … Continue reading
Recommendation to One’s Guardian Angel for a Happy Hour of Death
My good Angel: I know not when or how I shall die. It is possible I may be carried off suddenly, and that before my last sigh I may be deprived of all intelligence. Yet how many things I would … Continue reading
Prayer of Consecration to the Admirable Child Mary
Quotes Worth Contemplating for September 8 Prayer of Consecration to the Admirable Child Mary by St. John Eudes It would be well to renew this Consecration every year on the day on which it was made, and on the eighth … Continue reading
Prayer to Our Lady of Palestine
Going through Brother Francis’ books after he died in 2009 — when I initially posted this prayer on our site — I came upon an old Latin-Arabic missal. It was evidently published for Latin Rite Palestinians and, presumably, other Arabs … Continue reading
Chair of Unity Octave
Annual announcement: Today begins the traditional Chair of Unity octave, originally planned to last from the feast of Saint Peter’s Chair at Rome until the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul on January 25. Readers may use this PDF … Continue reading
Novena to Saints Peter and Paul for Saint Benedict Center’s Needs
This is somewhat last minute, but we ask friends and benefactors of Saint Benedict Center to join our Brothers and Sisters in a Novena to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul to begin today, Saturday, June 22, and terminate on … Continue reading
Prayer of a Slave
The following prayer is offered for the private devotion of our readers: Immaculate Heart of Mary, may your sorrows be my sorrows, may your joys be my joys, may your love be my love. I am your slave now and … Continue reading
Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe’s Prayer of Marian Consecration
O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire order of mercy to thee. I, N___, a repentant sinner, cast myself at thy feet humbly imploring thee … Continue reading
A Prayer to the Virgin against the Spirits of Darkness
A friend sent us a card with this prayer on it. She suggested that we recommend it to be said daily for the Synod of Bishops: Remedy against the “spirits of darkness” and the forces of hatred and fear. AUGUST Queen of … Continue reading
A Litany for Syria
The website, The Hermeneutic of Continuity has posted a Litany of Syrian Saints composed by reader of that site. It is thoroughly Catholic and can only be used privately.
Prayers for the Election of a Holy and Zealous Pope
Catholics should all pray for the Holy Father daily. During the period of sede vacante following Pope Benedict’s abdication from the Chair of Peter, we at Saint Benedict Center will be offering the following prayers in lieu of the prayers … Continue reading
Venerable Nelson Baker’s un-PC Prayer
The Servant of God, Father Nelson Baker, recently declared venerable, is a figure that will probably go down in history as one of the great American saints. In the early Church, long before the modern process of canonization, he probably … Continue reading
Prayer for the Conversion of Non-Catholics
When we say that lex orandi lex credendi est, we mean that the Church’s prayers reveal to us her doctrines, and that salutary doctrine informs our prayer life. This point can be illustrated with any and every teaching of our … Continue reading
Act of Perfect Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary
O Eternal and Incarnate Wisdom! O sweetest and most adorable Jesus! True God and true man, only Son of the Eternal Father, and of Mary, always Virgin! I adore Thee profoundly in the bosom and splendors of Thy Father during … Continue reading
