Seven Days of Precious Blood Prayers for the Souls in Purgatory (Monday)

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Continuing the “Seven Days of Precious Blood Prayers for the Souls in Purgatory”

 

MONDAY

 

O Lord, God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the Precious Blood which Thy Divine Son Jesus shed in His cruel scourging deliver the souls in purgatory, and among them all, especially that soul which is nearest to its entrance into Thy glory that it may soon begin to praise Thee and bless Thee for ever. Amen.

 

Our Father…

 

Hail Mary…

 

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let Your perpetual light shine upon them.
May their soul and the souls of all the faithful departed,

through the mercy of God,

rest in peace.

Amen.

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Seven Days of Precious Blood Prayers for the Souls in Purgatory (Sunday)

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For quite a while now I have been saying as a part of my devotion to the Holy Souls in Purgatory the “Seven Days of Prayers for the Souls in Purgatory.” Since they beseech the Precious Blood of Jesus and July is dedicted to that, I will post the prayers every day this week. (If you cannot wait, just do an online search for “Seven Days of Prayers for the Souls in Purgatory”)

 

SUNDAY

 

O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the Precious Blood, which Thy Divine Son, Jesus shed in the Garden, deliver the souls in purgatory and especially that one which is the most forsaken of all, and bring it into Thy glory, where it may praise and bless Thee for ever.

 

Amen.

 

Our Father…

 

Hail Mary…

 

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let Your perpetual light shine upon them.
May their soul and the souls of all the faithful departed,

through the mercy of God,

rest in peace.

Amen.

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Litany of the Precious Blood of Jesus and How to Grow in the Precious Blood Devoton

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As I move along in the Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus, I will share with you the traditional litany of the Precious Blood (and if you scroll down past it, there’s another great resource for learning about the devotion to the Precious Blood:

 

Litany of the Precious Blood of Jesus

(for private devotion and recitation)

 

Lord, have mercy.

Lord, have mercy.

Christ, have mercy.

Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy.

Lord, have mercy.

 

 

Jesus, hear us.

Jesus, graciously hear us.

 

 

God, the Father of Heaven,

Have mercy on us.

God, the Son, Redeemer of the world,

Have mercy on us.

God, the Holy Spirit,

Have mercy on us.

Holy Trinity, One God, 

Have mercy on us.

 

 

Blood of Christ, only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, Incarnate Word of God,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, of the New and Eternal Testament,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, falling upon the earth in the Agony,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, shed profusely in the Scourging,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, flowing forth in the Crowning with Thorns,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, poured out on the Cross,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, price of our salvation,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, without which there is no forgiveness.

Save us.

Blood of Christ, Eucharistic drink and refreshment of souls,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, stream of mercy,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, victor over demons,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, courage of Martyrs,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, strength of Confessors,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, bringing forth Virgins,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, help of those in peril,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, relief of the burdened,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, solace in sorrow,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, hope of the penitent,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, consolation of the dying,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, peace and tenderness of hearts,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, pledge of eternal life,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, freeing souls from purgatory,

Save us.

Blood of Christ, most worthy of all glory and honor,

Save us.

 

 

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,

Spare us, O Lord.

 

 

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,

Graciously hear us, O Lord.

 

 

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,

Have mercy on us, O Lord.

 

 

You have redeemed us, O Lord, in your Blood.

And made us, for our God, a kingdom.

 

 

Let us pray, – Almighty and eternal God, you have appointed your only-begotten Son the Redeemer of the world, and willed to be appeased by his Blood. Grant we beg of you, that we may worthily adore this price of our salvation, and through its power be safeguarded from the evils of the present life, so that we may rejoice in its fruits forever in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

Source: EWTN

Covenant Catholic has an excellent article on the devotion, covering “Why July?” and key feast days in July connectef to the Passion, as well as saints who were particulary devotedf to the Passion and the Precious Blood and tips on growing in the devotion! Here it is: July Catholic Devotion: The Precious Blood of Jesus

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July is dedicated to the Devotion to the Precious Blood of Christ

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July is dedicated to the Precious Blood of Christ. This should be a devotion of particular interest to Catholics recovering from addiction to alcohol given that at Mass, wine is transubstantiated into His Blood. We cannot drink wine, but although because of its transubstantiation it is now essentially His Blood and not wine, it still retains the accidental properties of alcohol. 

Just the kind of devotion that we alcoholics should get into

(if you haven’t done so by now!)

The devotion highlights the significance of Christ’s Blood, shed for our redemption, and its presence in the sacraments. Devotion to the Precious Blood emphasizes the gravity of sin and the love demonstrated through Christ’s sacrifice. As recovered/recovering alcoholics, we have come face to face with the sins of our past (in AA’s Steps 4 and 5 if you are a Twelve Stepper; and the Sacrament of Confession whether you are or not) and we struggle with overcoming them in sobriety. Therefore, recovering from addictions and maintaining sobriety is participation in the redemptive sacrifice of Christ. 

Colossians 1:24 “I complete in my flesh the things that are lacking in the Passion of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the Church.”

Courtesy: Sacred Bible-Catholic Public Domain Version

 July, Month of the Precious Blood, an article courtesy of Catholic Culture, serves as a great introduction to the devotion and its antiquity.

I plan on blogging more about this over the next few weeks; the health issues that kept me from blogging about the Sacred Heart in June have diminished.

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…where I’m at…

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I know I said earlier this month that I’m going to try and ‘kick it up a notch’ regarding more posts on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Despite that good intention, I haven’t done so. There’ve been complications recently that took me away from blogging and even social media. 

My wife had been seriously ill for over a week and I’ve been doting on her. And, during all that, I slipped and fell on a puddle of water while in a greenhouse shopping for plants. I landed on my left kneee which already has been afflicted with severe osteoarthritis. It swelled up a bit. Both my wife’s illness and my tragedy 😉 required visits to the ER (wife) or Urgent Care (me)m and as a consequence, I wasn’t too interested in blogging or even getting on social media much. 

Until I get around to creating original content for this month of June and its dedication to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, you can peruse my Archive of Sacred Heart posts  or even my Sacred Heart Friday project. They should keep you busy!

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Sacred Heart Novena Reminder

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June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I will ‘kick it up a notch’ and be blogging a bit more this month on that. 

Also, the Novena to the Sacred Heart this year runs from June 3-11. 

Here are three Novenas to choose from, if you like:

USCCB Novena to the Sacred Heart

EWTN Novena to the Sacred Heart

Pray More Novenas Sacred Heart Novena

 

 

 

 

 

Archive of Sacred Heart Posts

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Pentecost Novena Reminder! Starts Friday the 15th of May

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After His Resurrection, Jesus remained with His disciples for 40 days. He Ascended into Heaven to return to the Father, and promised that He would send the Advocate (The Holy Spirit, a/k/a The Third Person of the Holy Trinity to guide us.) Pentecost was ten days after His Ascension, and after their day’s journey return to Jerusalem, the disciples gathered to pray for nine days.

Acts 1:12-14

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. When they entered the city they went to the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.
All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Thus begins the Catholic tradition of praying a novena. It is a prayer of nine day’s duration. Not 24 hours a day for nine days, although the above Scriptural passage seems to imply that they prayed that intensely. Nowadays, it is a prayer of varying duration, said once a day for nine days.

The novena is usually prayed to a saint or angel, and only in request for their intercessory powers for a particular intention. It may be more accurate and correct to say “pray though a saint” instead of “pray to a saint”, as the latter implies idolatry. When a Catholic ‘prays to a saint”, they are only asking for the saint’s powers of intercession with God. A saint has no power whatsoever to grant any request, only God can at the behest of the saint. This is quite like when Protestants and Evangelical Christians engage in prayer circles (or whatever it’s called when they contact people to pray for someone’s health or something). Only a Catholic is asking someone in Heaven to intercede for them.

In commemoration, or better yet, in emulation, of the original novena, I recommend that you start a novena. There are excellent ones here from Pray More Novenas, and EWTN has one for Novena to the Holy Spirit for the Seven Gifts.

Pray a novena to the Holy Spirit. What better “Higher Power” can one have?

NOTE: This was edited from an earlier post from the wee early days of SoberCatholic.

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St. Matthias the Apostle Novena for alcoholics reminder for next year

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Either I forgot to add it my Reminders or Calendar apps, or I ignored any notifactions about it (sort of defeats the purpose of them) but today was the Feast day of St. Matthias, the Apostle (although Ascension Thursday knocked him off the calendar.) He was the one the Eleven remaining apostles elected to replace Judas.

I blogged about him before when I discovered the he is a patron saint of alcoholics: St. Matthias Post Archive.

I ran across a novena to him, specifically referring to his patronage of us: St. Matthias Novena.  Too late for this year, but maybe you should bookmark it for next year. 

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Our Lady of Fatima Novena begins May 5th

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Just a quick reminder that the novena to Our Lady of Fatima begins on May 5th so as to end on the Feast day of May 13th (It could also have begun today, May 4th.)

If you do not have a novena to Our Lady of Fatima, here are two good ones:

Pray More Novenas

America Needs Fatima

Fatima12c seers.

Image Courtesy Novena.com

Archive of Sober Catholic Posts on Fatima

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Divine Mercy for Alcoholics Page is up!

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I published a new page for Sober Catholic, featuring resources for Divine Mercy for Alcoholics.

It is not meant to be an exhaustive resource; I write enough material to convince the typical Catholic ex-drunk (or wanna-be Catholic ex-drunk) that the Devotion to Divine Mercy is that thing they really need. It’s mostly links to resources including some of my favorite Sober Catholic posts on the devotion.

See: Divine Mercy for Alcoholics.

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