13 August 2024

O Jesus Christ, may your death be my life; may I learn to find life in your death.  May your labors be my rest, your human weakness my strength.  May your humiliation be my source of glory, your passion my delight, your sadness my joy.  May your abasement be my uplifting – in short, may your sufferings be all I possess.  For you, O my Lord, have renewed a life drifting hopelessly towards death and you destroyed death, which seemed destined to remain forever, never to be dissolved.
St. Peter Favre

Do not look here and there so much.  Turn your eyes upon God or yourself; you will never see God without goodness, or yourself free from misery; and you will find His goodness kind to your misery, and your misery the object of his mercy.
St. Francis de Sales

The intention of every man acting according to virtue is to follow the rule of reason, wherefore the intention of all the virtues is directed to the same end, so that all the virtues are connected together in the right reason of things to be done, viz. prudence.
St. Thomas Aquinas

To dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all that is painful and bitter, because Love lives only by sacrifice . . . and the more we would surrender ourselves to Love, the more we must surrender ourselves to suffering.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux

℣. Dómine, non secúdum peccáta nostre facias nobis.
℟. Neque secúndum iniquittátes nostras retribuas nobis.

℣. Adjuva nos, Deus, salutáris noster.
℟. Et propter glóriam nóminis tui, Dómine, libera nos.

℣. Dómine, ne memineris iniquitatum nostrarum antiquárum.
℟. Cito anticipent nos misericórdiæ tuæ, quia páuperes facti sumus nimis.

℣. Ora pro nobis, sancte Sebastiáne.
℟. Ut digni efficiátmur promissiónibus Christi.

℣. Dómine, exaudi oratiónem meam.
℟. Et clamor meus ad te véniat.

℣. Dominus vobiscum.
℟. Et cum spiritu tuo.

Oremus.

Exáudi nos, Deus salutáris noster: et intercedénte beáta et gloriósa Dei genitrice Maria semper vergine, et beáto Sebastiáno mártyre tuo, et omnibus Sanctis, pópulum tuum ab iracundiæ tuæ terróribus libera, et misericórdiæ tuæ fac largitáte securum.
Propitiáre, Dónine, supplicatiónibus nostris: et animárum et córporum medére languóribus: ut remissióne percépta, in tua semper benedictióne lætémur.
Da nobis, quæsumus, Dómine, piæ petitiónis efféctum: et pestiléntiam mortalitatérmque propitiátus avérte; ut mortálium corda cognóscant, et te indignánte tália flagélla prodire, et te miserante cessáre. Per Dóminum.
Amen.