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St. Mechtilde: if any one, of pure love to God, prays for
www.oremusapostolate.com PRAYER FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH
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another personas though he were praying for himself, his
prayer shall enlighten the heavenly Jerusalem like the
morning sun.
St. Gertrude said to our Lord on one occasion: Behold, O
Lord, I offer thee the desires and petitions of all who
have commended themselves to my unworthy prayers.
And the Lord said to her: Thou hast enkindled and
inflamed my heart with as many torches of love as are
the persons whom thou dost represent before me. Then
said the saint: Lord, teach me how to come before thee
for all the members of thy Church, and I will enkindle in
thy Heart as many torches of love as there are persons in
the whole universal Church. Our Lord answered her thus:
www.oremusapostolate.com MOST compassionate Jesus, I praise, bless, and
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You may do what you desire in these four ways: by
praising me for having created them; by giving me thanks
for the benefits I have bestowed on them, etc., as follows:
O
glorify thee with the love of my whole heart for
the creation of all those whom thou hast deigned
to form after thine own image and likeness, and I render
thee thanks for all the benefits that thou hast ever
bestowed, or shalt ever hereafter bestow, on them. In
union with thy most exceeding sorrow I pour out now
my complaint before thee, with true sorrow and
repentance for every manner in which they have ever
hindered or frustrated thy grace; and I most devoutly
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