The Curé d'Ars Prayer Group

The Curé d'Ars Prayer Group

For the bishop and priests of the Raleigh, NC Diocese.

Devotions

"Mary is in fact the embodiment, the complete personification of Hope. Both humanity and God have had their eyes fixed on her: guilty humanity in order to see the Victim that was to expiate our transgressions, come forth from her maiden-womb: and God, in the impatience of His love, expecting from this chosen woman, the Savior His Son, the great miracle of His mercy. When the first transgression had just been committed, God’s voice was heard, and chilled our first parents with terror. The wrath of God, threatening, chastisements, sufferings, tears, all were falling upon man, and were about to cast him into the most terrible despair. There is but one gleam of hope which will ever continue to grow brighter throughout the ages: it is the woman who is announced as destined to crush the enemyʼs head. Inimicitias fonam inter te et mulierem, . . . . ifsa conteret caput tuum.—Gen. 3. 15."

 Jules Denys Le Hardy du Marais, Bishop of the Church at Laval, to the Clergy and Faithful of our Diocese. January 6th, 1877.


  Prayer to Our Lady of Desolation: For the Universal Triumph of the Faith

O Mother of the Church, Mother most desolate, who didst consent to prolong for fifteen years thine exile upon earth that thou mightiest be the guide, and help and nursing Mother of the Infant Church; let thy maternal care be extended over her now as ever. Let thy great virtues and privileges be her shield and buckler. Obtain for the Church and her rulers in her many tribulations an increase of light, courage, and devotion. Let thy powerful intercession bring back to the Faith all countries and peoples who have denied thy Son, and fallen into heresy and schism.
May thy protection be extended specially over us thy Children, remembering the words that Jesus spoke from the Cross that not one may be lost, but remaining steadfast in the Faith they may persevere to the end. Build again the altars once consecrated to Jesus and to thee. And thus, O our Mother, bring us all as one fold to one Shepherd, to the honor and glory of God. Amen

Mary in sorrow and desolation, Help of the Holy Catholic Church. With the Ritual of the Confraternity of our Lady of Dolours Servites Burns, Oates, and Company, 1868

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