Prayer for the Return of the Separated Churches to Unity of Faith
The New Raccolta, 1903, no. 66Source 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 | 66 |
| Pages | pp. 348–349 |
| Scan | leaf 357, leaf 358 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, February 1, 1896, granted to the faithful who recite the above prayer AN INDULGENCE OF THREE HUNDRED DAYS, once a day. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- the Pope and the Church, peace
Albrecht Dürer, The Virgin with a Starry Crown, 1508. Cleveland Museum of Art.
Immaculate Virgin, thou who by a singular privilege of grace wast preserved from original sin, look compassionately upon our separated brethren, who yet are thy children, and bring them back to the centre of unity. Though wandering afar, they have preserved a most tender devotion to thee, O Mother; reward them, then, for thou art so generous, by obtaining their conversion.
Thou wert victorious over the infernal serpent from the very beginning of thy existence; renew now, since the need is so pressing, thy ancient triumphs. If our unhappy brethren are now separated from our common Father, it is the work of the enemy. Be it thine, then, to unveil his deceits and to scatter his forces, so that they may come to understand that there is no salvation for them whilst they remain disunited from the Successor of St. Peter.
Thou who, in the fulness of divine gifts, didst from the beginning glorify the power of him who wrought such great wonders in thee, glorify thy Son by bringing back the strayed sheep to his one fold, under the guidance of the universal shepherd who is his vicegerent on earth, and be it thy glory, O Blessed Virgin, as thou hast destroyed all heresies on earth, so now to extinguish all schism and to bring back peace to the world.
His Holiness, Leo XIII., by a rescript of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, February 1, 1896, granted to the faithful who recite the above prayer
AN INDULGENCE OF THREE HUNDRED DAYS, once a day.