Another Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Under the Same Title
The New Raccolta, 1903, no. 76Source and notes
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| Printed in | THE NEW RACCOLTA, OR, COLLECTION OF PRAYERS AND GOOD WORKS. TO WHICH THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFFS HAVE ATTACHED HOLY INDULGENCES. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING PRAYERS FOR MASS, AND VESPERS FOR SUNDAYS. |
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| Imprint | PHILADELPHIA, PETER F. CUNNINGHAM & SON, 1903 |
| Number | 76 |
| Pages | pp. 354–355 |
| Scan | leaf 363, leaf 364 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | FROM THE THIRD ITALIAN EDITION AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED BY THE SACRED CONGREGATION OF HOLY INDULGENCES. Imprimatur: ✠ JACOBUS, CARD. GIBBONS, ARCHIEP. BALTIMORENSIS. BALTIMORE, July 20, 1887. Imprimatur: ✠ PATRICK JOHN, ARCHBISHOP OF PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8, 1900. Moreover, Our Holy Father, Leo XIII., by virtue of his apostolic authority, has approved this Collection issued from the press of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda, and, therefore, it must be regarded by all as the correct and authorized collection of indulgences hitherto granted for all the faithful and for such as are in communities specially designated. Wherefore, if by chance any doubt should arise either as to sense of the grant or the conditions requisite for gaining the indulgences, it must be determined solely by this Raccolta which His Holiness has directed to be considered the complete guide. On this account he has ordered the present decree to be prepared and prefixed to the present edition. Given at Rome, at the office of the Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics, on the 23d day of July, 1898. FR. H. M. CARD. GOTTI, Prefect. L. ✠ S. † A. SABATUCCI, Archiep. Antinoen. Secretary. The Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics has approved of, as authentic, and permitted to be printed and published, this English translation of the Italian Raccolta, a book containing various prayers and pious exercises, to which the Roman Pontiffs have attached indulgences. This approbation was given after the work had been duly examined by two professors of theology of Woodstock College, who testified that they found this translation to be entirely faithful and in full accord with the Italian original, published in the year 1886 by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Given at Rome, at the Office of the Secretary of this same Sacred Congregation, April 28, 1887. FR. THOMAS MARIA CARD. ZIGLIARA, Prefect. [L. ✠ S.] ALEXANDER, BISHOP OENSIS, Secretary. DECRETUM ANNI 1886. |
| Indulgence | His Holiness, Leo XIII., by a rescript of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, June 20, 1891, granted to the faithful who shall recite the above prayer AN INDULGENCE OF TWO HUNDRED DAYS, once a day. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- the Pope and the Church, contrition, avoiding sin
Albrecht Dürer, The Virgin with a Starry Crown, 1508. Cleveland Museum of Art.
Most Powerful Virgin, loving Helper of the Christian people, what thanks do we not owe thee for the assistance thou gavest to our fathers when, threatened by the infidel Turk, they invoked thy maternal aid by the devout recital of the Rosary? From heaven thou didst behold their danger, and didst hear their pitiful pleading; the humble prayer suggested by the great Pontiff St. Pius V. was pleasing to thy ear, and thou didst hasten to succor them: Grant, dear Mother, that now again the prolonged sighs and groans of the holy Spouse of Christ may be accepted before thy throne, and, again moved with compassion for her, arise to free her from the many enemies that surround her.
Even now from every quarter of the world that prayer so dear to thee goes up to thy throne to win thy favor, as then, so in the present calamity. It is but too true that our sins hinder, or at least delay its effect. Wherefore, dearest Mother, obtain for us true sorrow for them and a firm purpose rather to suffer death than to sin again, with heartfelt grief that, through our own fault, the help of which the need is so pressing should be denied or even delayed.
Come, then, dear Mother, hearken to the prayers of the Catholic world, and break the pride of the wretches who boldly insult God, and who aim at destroying the church against which, according to the infallible word of Christ, the gates of hell shall never prevail. Let it be seen once more that when thou risest to protect it we may be certainly assured of the victory which, even if delayed, yet never fails, as we know by that faith by which we are animated and we hope, through thee, that God will mercifully grant our prayer. Amen.
His Holiness, Leo XIII., by a rescript of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, June 20, 1891, granted to the faithful who shall recite the above prayer
AN INDULGENCE OF TWO HUNDRED DAYS, once a day.