Prayer Against a Sudden and Unprovided Death
The New Raccolta, 1903Source 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 |
| Pages | pp. 533–534 |
| Scan | leaf 542, leaf 543 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 | The Sovereign Pontiff, Pius VII., by a decree of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, March 2, 1816, granted to all the faithful, every time that, with at least contrite heart and devotion, they shall make this pious exercise: AN INDULGENCE OF ONE HUNDRED DAYS. A PLENARY INDULGENCE, on the two feasts of the most Holy Cross (May 3 and Sept. 14), and on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, to all who, having said these prayers, as given above, every day for a year, shall, being truly penitent, after confession and communion, on the last two days above visit the blessed sacrament in the repository, and on the first two visit a church where the blessed sacrament is kept, and pray, for some time, for the intention of his Holiness. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- a happy death, penance and mortification
Albrecht Dürer, The Agony in the Garden, 1508. Art Institute of Chicago.
Most merciful Lord Jesus, by thy agony and bloody sweat, and by thy death, deliver me, I beseech thee, from a sudden and unprovided death. O most gentle Lord Jesus! by thy cruel and ignominious scourging and crowning with thorns, by thy cross and most bitter passion, and by thy goodness, I humbly pray thee, let me not die unprepared and pass from this life without the holy sacraments. Jesus, my best beloved, my Lord! by all thy labors and sorrows, by thy precious blood and by thy most holy wounds, and by those last words spoken on the cross by thee—“Deus meus, Deus meus, ut quid dereliquisti me?” “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”—and again, “Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum:” “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit,”—most ardently I pray thee, save me from a sudden death. Thy hands, O my Redeemer! have wholly made and formed me: ah! suffer not death to take me unawares; give me, I beseech thee, time for penance; vouchsafe that I may pass from this life happily in thy grace, that I may love thee with my whole heart, and praise and bless thee forever and forever. Amen.
Then say the Our Father and the Hail Mary, each five times, in memory of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Hail Mary, three times, to the blessed Virgin, our Lady of sorrows.
The Sovereign Pontiff, Pius VII., by a decree of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, March 2, 1816, granted to all the faithful, every time that, with at least contrite heart and devotion, they shall make this pious exercise:
AN INDULGENCE OF ONE HUNDRED DAYS.
A PLENARY INDULGENCE, on the two feasts of the most Holy Cross (May 3 and Sept. 14), and on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, to all who, having said these prayers, as given above, every day for a year, shall, being truly penitent, after confession and communion, on the last two days above visit the blessed sacrament in the repository, and on the first two visit a church where the blessed sacrament is kept, and pray, for some time, for the intention of his Holiness.