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Seventh Day Our Father....Hail Mary....Glory be.... St Nicholas, Patron of the Holy Souls, Pray for us O Blessed Mother of our Redeemer, remember that dark hour beneath the Cross when the dying lips of Jesus consecrated human souls to thy motherly love, and through the tender commiseration enkindled within thy heart at that moment, bear to the Eternal Throne the supplications which we offer for thy suffering children in purgatory. In humility we lift our mind to thy Divine Son. We see Him through the eyes of faith in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, or abiding in the hallowed shelter of the tabernacle, and we remember, dear Mother, that thine own pure heart was the first altar upon which he reposed here on earth. O that we could bring into His presence, a faith and love like thine. Help us, dear Mother, supplement our weak efforts, and give thy powerful aid to our supplications for the release of the suffering souls in purgatory. Through the merits of the Cross and the Blessed Sacrament, through thine own great pity for the souls of all thy children, through thine own love, and the love of Saint Nicholas of Tolentine for Jesus abiding in the adorable Sacrament of the altar, we pray for the release of the souls in purgatory this day. Glory be....Eternal Rest.... Let us pray: Grant, we beseech Thee, O Almighty God that Thy Church, which is made illustrious with the glory of the prodigies and miracles of St Nicholas, Thy Blessed Confessor, may, by his merits and intercession enjoy perpetual unity and peace. |