Category Archives: Prayers

St. Michael Statue

You may have noticed the new St. Michael statue in the front of the church. Thank you to the generous benefactors who donated it. During these difficult times it is important to remember the reality of spiritual warfare. The Church reads at Compline (Night Prayer) every Tuesday: “Stay sober and alert, Your opponent the devil…

St. Francis of Assisi, A Letter to the Entire Order

26Let everyone be struck with fear, let the whole world tremble, and let the heavens exult when Christ, the Son of the living God, is present on the altar in the hands of a priest! 27O wonderful loftiness and stupendous dignity! O sublime humility! O humble sublimity! The Lord of the universe, God and the…

Rosary Gems

Just as two friends, frequently in each other’s company, tend to develop similar habits, so too, by holding familiar converse with Jesus and the Blessed Virgin, by meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary and by living the same life in Holy Communion, we can become, to the extent of our lowliness, similar to them…

Supplication to the Queen of the Holy Rosary

“O Blessed Rosary of Mary, sweet chain which unites us to God, bond of love which unites us to the Angels, tower of salvation against the assaults of Hell, safe port in our universal shipwreck, we will never abandon you. You will be our comfort in our hour of death: yours our final kiss as…