“ BE PERFECT AS YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS PERFECT.

PREFACE

After reading the Book “The Mystical City of God” narrated by venerable Mary of Agreda, I was so
impressed with the words of the Heavenly Queen, the Mother of God. After each vision of her life, Blessed
Mother Mary gave us the most edifying lesson on the Faith, the mysteries of God, and the spiritual life of a
soul. I love so much the wisdom she gives that I want not only to read her words but also to turn them into
prayers in order for my spiritual learning and knowledge to become my heart desires. I also want to
implore the Lord’s divine Grace and Mercy and Blessed Mother’s intercession as without the heavenly
favors, it would be impossible for me to practice all she has taught me and to acquire divine Grace for
sinners. I also want to memorize all spiritual methods and the divine commands in practicing virtues
exemplified most perfectly by her life, therefore, I simply rearranged her own words and instructions
verbatim into about fifty prayers with minimal inputs from myself. My goal is to live my spiritual life
intensely as a Christian militant and I hope that I help you to do the same.
I now give all my love, gratitude, and praise to our God and our Blessed Mother.

MOST HOLY INTERCESSION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD

Most Holy Queen and dearest Mother, please heed my sincere petition, the sole desire
of my heart concerning the most sublime act ever carried out by myself throughout my
entire earthly life. Dearest Mother, please intercede for me the grace to assist and pray
this Holy Mass most devoutly, to receive our Lord’s most precious Body and Blood in the
manner most holy, most ardent, most devout, most grateful, most humble, most contrite,
most longing, most loving, most adoring, most sweet-pleasing to God, and most
admired by all the angels and saints in the heavenly court. As vile and unworthy as my
soul and body, may I receive Him only through you, the Dispenser of all graces. Feed
your child, O Mother. Please implore the Lord our God to forgive me for defiling His
Sacred Body and Blood with my uncleanness. Ask Him to consider my sincere love and
longing to have mercy on me. May my guardian angel, all the angels and saints who are
about to adore the Lamb of God upon the Altar Table to pray for me to the Lord our God.
Amen.

PRAYER FOR FAMILY

Most Holy Family, bless our family to be holy as Your little domestic church in which
LOVE prevails. Intercede for me and my beloved spouse the divine Grace and wisdom
to teach our children about God: to know Him, to adore Him, to love Him, and to serve
Him. May we persevere in praying for our children and for one another. May we thrive in
exemplifying a life of prayers, sacrifices, services, and love. Inspire us to pray fervently
and constantly for our children especially for their spiritual purifications. Sanctify them so
that they can be pleasing to You, O Lord, less childish and more reverent, fervent and
repentant in Your Presence especially at the divine Liturgy. May their first acts of full
intellect and free will be adoration, gratitude, and love for God the Almighty and Blessed
Mother. Grant our family the blessings of priesthood and religious vocation. Amen.

VENERATION OF THE HOLY NAME MARY

MARY, the most sweet Name, the Ark of the Divinity, upon whom the Lord has
bestowed and channeled all graces to mankind, who is destined to be the Mother of all
His children through justification and spiritual rebirth. I revere and love you with the
deepest and greater love than the love of an infant to his birth mother. I now invoke your
holy name to ask you to intercede for me a constantly renewed fervor in the service of
the Lord, to imitate you most perfectly in spiritual exercises and mortifications in spite of
all my weakness and poverty. May I always be thankful, adore the Lord our God, and be
prompt in responding to His calls or inspirations as you were during your mortal life. And
if I come short of that lofty goal, help me rise immediately, in the Presence of the Lord
and yours, acknowledge my faults and confess them with my deep sorrows. Dear
Mother, help me to repeat the holy spiritual exercises and supplications over and again
with solicitous care notwithstanding my tiredness and own inclinations. Please forgive
me for my imperfections, for failing repeatedly as your chosen disciple. Obtain for me
the divine Grace in order to enable myself entirely in listening, attending to, and obeying
the Lord in all things. Most beloved Mother Mary, pray for me. Most sorrowful Mother
Mary, pray for me. Most glorious Mother Mary, pray for me, your child and the humble
sinner, now and at the hour of my death. Amen.

PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL LIFE

Mother Dearest, You are full of graces because you alone are the Most High God’s
perfect Creation, who is perfectly submissive to the divine Will, who embraces with the
greatest emphasis the contempt and disdain for the world and all its vanities. In
exchange for this indifference and scorn for the world, God has looked upon you with
the Eyes of the sweetest Love. Remind me, your humble and docile disciple, not to
throw away heavenly treasures and favors of infinite values for the cheap price of
worldly concerns. What can the world give me even when I was on top of the world as
even its summit is merely a debasement to God’s Throne and His kingdom. What would
I lose if I despise all worldly riches? They are merely shadows, vanities, deceits, fleeting
mirages. In despising it, I will gain all things and acquire the true happiness. Mother,
help me to despise all things which have no value to God. Help me to conquer my
human inclinations for earthly comforts and temptations, to reject all for the love of God
and of you, and for the desires of the heavenly graces and wonders. Bless me so that I
can remain completely free of all human bondages tied to this seductive world,
unhampered in order to enjoy fully the Presence, Communion, and sweetness of God.
Help me to realize that by accepting the rejection of the mortals, I have obtained the
conformity to God and His spiritual design. Help me to contemplate on the life of the
Lord, the life of simplicity and love for humility, meekness, silent contemplation, and
contempt for the world, as the role Model to imitate. Strengthen me in my daily efforts to
reach the highest perfections of a spiritual life by the shortest and surest way which is
the complete abandonment of all carnal desires for the love of Christ. Help me to
concern only with heavenly things. The shortest and surest way to reach the summit
union with God is to live the life of holy poverty. Mother, help me to imitate you. Give me
that fortitude. May I imitate you as you imitated your divine Son, that is, to live for God
alone, in all things even to the smallest details of my daily life. Help me to live according
to the smallest detail of the Gospel. Help me to remain uninspired by all things but
inspired beyond my human limitations to obey the command of our blessed Lord, “Be ye
perfect as My heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matt. 5:8) May I remain constantly faithful,
discerning, dedicated, mindful of this lofty goal so that the merciful Lord certainly will
fulfill my heart desires by the fullness of the fruits of His Redemption. He shall purify my
soul, make it spotless and most resembling the original design. May I become ever
anxious to fulfill this obligation of love in my daily life. May I constantly ponder on and
scrutinize the subject of the perfect life of a faithful servant. Please let no difficulty or
hardship to disturb me nor to deter me from virtuous exercises, no matter how hard it
may be. May I not be content in striving after the love of God and salvation for myself
alone, but also after enduring labors for the salvations of other souls who are most dear
to Christ, to exalt the Holy Name of your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to
complement His loving Redemptive Works, to advance His Pleasures and Glory. Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE SANCTIFYING GRACE

Dear Lord, life is short and all the living are destined to death, remind us that eternity is
without end, and that only during our life on earth, we can harvest the eternal life with
You or reap the sorrowful punishment of hell. As we know our unworthiness for certainty
and the dangers and uncertainties of the devil’s snares, help us to use our reason rightly
under the guidance of Your Spirit and constantly seek with all our might Your
Friendship. Enlighten me, urge me, and guide me, O Lord, toward the path of virtues
and righteousness. Sanctify me so that I can devoutly and totally work for Your causes.
Give me a clear conscience to approve the good and to reject evil. Call me and arouse
my soul with holy inspirations and continual promptings. On my part, I promise to
receive Your sacraments with purity and Faith, to learn Your doctrines and
commandments in my heart with my whole soul, to urge my brothers and sisters with
holy exhortations, admonitions, encouragements, and to preach the Gospel. May I
utilize both tribulations and favors to fulfill the dispositions of the divine Providence for
You had deigned to dispose all things of this life to draw all men to Yourself, as You
wish all to be saved. Help me to control or suppress the tendencies of my inferior and
sensual nature, infected with sins and with diabolic influences and worldly desires. Help
me to recognize the demons behind all fascinations,
deceits, sensible and inquisitive suggestions. Grant me the interior light to shine brightly
in order to lead my brethren in the way to holiness. Lord, my heart desire is to respond
to Your call promptly in order to receive a multitude of graces from You Who generously
increases His benevolence and assistance in proportion to the response to His first call
by a soul. Grant me Your Grace to respond courageously to Your call in order to deepen
my Faith and work more effectively to save souls for You. May my soul soars high as an
eagle each time I conquer my own passions and concupiscences. May I become more
grateful and worthy of Your Goodness by not yielding to our enemies but mortifying
myself making me more suitable and profitable to Your favors. May I realize that the
salvation or condemnation of souls rest partly upon my shoulder, the Lord’s yoke, so
that I will never resist the advances of the Almighty God but cooperate most willingly to
His Design. May I be strong, punctual, prompt, solicitous in fulfilling the pleasures of my
Lord, therefore, gratifying Him in order to make known to me more divine Light and
strength. May my soul become habituated in practicing virtues in all circumstances and
moments. Amen.

PRAYER FOR HOLY VIRTUES

Lord Jesus, for virtue of poverty, may I be poor in spirit, stripped completely of all earthly
and materialistic desires. For virtue of obedience, may my soul be immersed completely
in Your Presence, grant me the acquiescence to grace, promptness toward all divine
inspirations. For virtue of charity, may my life on earth become more spiritualized, more
angelic with serenity and purity. For holy enclosure, may I become single-minded,
single-hearted with a pure heart, holy indifferent to all human and carnal interests and
opinions, no respect to any creature besides fraternal charity. For the love of God, may I
live free of slavery to my passions and vile tendencies, may I deny all things and
pleasures for Your Love. Amen.

PRAYER OF EUCHARISTIC MINISTER OR DEACON

Dearest Mother, I consider they are the great and ineffable favors you have bestowed
upon your unworthy disciple in revealing to me the most hidden sacraments and
mysteries of God, of spiritual wisdom and exercises. They are such incomprehensive
and incomparable blessings and I can feel the workings of the divine Grace through
your maternal hand in my spirit day and night. You have inspired me and interceded for
me the desirable grace and privilege to serve the Lord as His Eucharistic minister to the
sick and to dedicate the remaining of my life as His deaconate servant to serve those
less fortunate who have no active priests to minister for them the needed holy
sacraments. I now desire to imitate you by taking the four vows of poverty, obedience,
chastity, and enclosure. I realize these four vows are the basis for religious life only but
through your intercession for the divine Grace, I will have sufficient dedication and love
of a faithful servant to apply it less vigorously to my earthly life. These four vows had
been the guiding light throughout your mortal life, may your inspirations become my
aspirations. Help me, Mother, to balance between the life of spiritual and evangelical
services and my family life, full of labors and responsibilities. But remind me never to
look back while serving God, not to mind sacrifices and hard decisions. Help me to live
for the Church, for sinners, for the Kingdom of God alone regardless of the cost and
misunderstandings. Pray for me, Mother, to fulfill entirely and perfectly all that I have
proposed to the Lord’s services. Inspire me never to look at mortals out of curiosity nor
admiration nor displeasure. May I cease to incline toward any creature, and any human
operation and tendency. Worldly affairs will cease to interest me. In all things, grant me
the grace to be utilized by the Most High, either directly by Him or indirectly through my
obedience with my free will. Mother, in order for me to achieve this lofty and uncommon
goal, please intercede for me the divine Grace so that I can see my self-worth and the
Lord’s urgent need of spiritual guardians for His people who are now wandering far and
wide without sufficient shepherds. Help me to raise myself above my own carnal
interests and tendencies, never permit me to consent to any future disorderly affections
or movement of heart and mind. May I be totally consumed in the Purifying Fire of the
Holy Spirit in purging away all my carnal passions and wants. May I become entirely
spiritualized, lifted up completely from all earthly bondages to lead an angelic life
modeled after your saints, Saint Stephen the martyr and Saint Francis of Assisi. May my
life be so purified, so single-minded that I shall see the Lord’s Face and feel His
Presence constantly. To consecrate sincerely my life to serve you and my heavenly
King, I must live as a blessed soul on this earth, reserved for God alone, without the
thorns of passions and carnal desires, one whose fruits of labors are all carried out in
the Name of his divine Master and with Him as the primary Benefactor. May it eternally
be true that His desires are my desires. My heart is saved for Him alone. My eyes shall
adore Him only. My whole being shall be occupied in loving Him and advancing His
Kingdom. I am confident that you will not leave me orphan but will bless me in every
step with solicitous compassion and love. I always love you, my Mother. Amen.

PRAYER FOR HEAVENLY THINGS

O Lord, may my happiness is derived from the consecration of my soul to Your service,
not from vile servitude to the world. Rescue me, O Lord, from the worldly bondage and
perversity of men. May I do all things in the proper fervor and purity of intention, not with
earthly or human motives, and may I tend only to the Glory of God. May I recognize
Your Voice, be prompt to Your calling. May my life be acquiescent to the divine Grace,
enclosed by the divine Love. May I sustain a constant desire of finding You, serving
You, and loving You. Amen.

PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL INTERIOR BATTLE

Dear Lord, to strengthen the imperfect and easily weakened human nature, grant me
strength to seek and perform labors in doing good works, prayers, and practicing virtues
instead of looking for rest and comforts. To keep my soul from extemporalizing with the
animal and carnal part of my nature, grant me the more powerful force of reason,
stronger will and inspired spirit to subdue the dangerous and shameful slavery to my
flesh. May I come out victorious and pleasing to You at the end of each conflict against
my interior passions. The battles are most fierce, their failure most abominable and most
abhorable beyond any comparison if the offenders are Your chosen priestly ministers
and religious, therefore, grant me the grace to face the temptations on their behalf,
endure long struggles to implore Your mercies upon our beloved priests. I pray now also
for my most needed brothers and sisters who, due to their frequent remissness in this
spiritual battle together with the most fierce demonic assaults and distractions and
temptations, have gradually rendered their souls paralyzed to the demonic attacks, their
spirits weakened in resistance, their conscience more dimmed without the divine Light,
their hearts darkened with self-satisfied convictions and pride and carnal desires. The
spiritual battle becomes an uphill steeper mountain to climb, grant them strength and
wisdom, O Lord, to get up and steadily slowly advance again on the path of
righteousness in obeying Your commandments and religious rules. One surrender or
voluntary remissness to one sin will lead to another, open the way for greater offenses
and more deadly blows from the demons, therefore, O Lord, grant us Your grace to fight
off these venial sins. Make me fully aware of the grave dangers as soon as my soul
begin a lukewarmness or descend the downward spiral toward the damnation of hell.
Help me to realize always that acts of charity, kind words, forgiveness, greater love of
God, greater sacrifices, more determined self-abandonment and detachment from all
worldly desires and passions will be my defense against the evil one. Enclose my soul
and my heart inside Your Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of our blessed Mother
where the demons cannot reach me. Shield me with Your love from the darts of the evil
ones but expose me for greater challenges if my enduring struggles and sufferings bring
You greater glory and more abundant graces for my more feeble brethren. Let them
spend more time and energy to tempt and fight me while loosening their strangle upon
more weakened souls. Dearest Mother, please pray for them. Dearest Saint Joseph, my
father and lord, please pray for us. Amen.

ACT OF FAITH

Dear Lord, may the inestimated treasure of the virtue of the divine Faith be revealed to
me, a mere mortal who is emptying all his carnal and earthly desires in exchange for
Your Gifts. May mankind be preserved in goodness by Your divine Faith; without It, men
will undoubtedly degenerate into the animals of human form. May the divine Faith opens
our eyes to see only You, You alone, to be our Lord and Creator, worthy of all praises,
and other celebrated world figures are merely mortal and sinful creatures. May all bad
Christians who once received their Faith but have not lived It be given a second chance
to enkindle the divine Faith and Light in their hearts in order for all their carnal passions
to be purged out, however painful their purification might be. Thank You, Lord, for the
precious gift of Faith. May I be with You among Your guests at the eternal Bridal
Banquet. May my continual exercise of the virtue of Faith lead me closer to You, the
Subject of all my desires and love. May the divine Faith lead me to the eternal salvation,
shine Light in the darkness, guide me through this pilgrimage, keep me away from
infidelity and sinfulness. May Faith serve as the nourishment for my spiritual growth,
enliven virtues, support my labors, stop lukewarmness, instill the fear of punishment,
grant courage and sense of invincibility against demons and sin, make belief that all
things are attainable. May the divine Faith illumine my understanding, ennoble my soul,
elevate me above my natural self to see my true self worth and human dignity in the
Eyes of God. May It allow me to live outside my sensual body in order to experience the
heavenly sweetness and divine Love. Amen.

ACT OF HOPE

O Lord, may I receive Your grace to work without ceasing to imitate Blessed Mother in
the practice of virtues. May I renew continually within myself the promise of the Most
High and, with an unshaken confidence, believe completely in the divine Truthfulness,
and ardently desire and long for them. In this firm hope, I am certain that, through the
merit of Redemption of our Lord Jesus Christ, I will arrive at the celestial Fatherland, in
companionship of all angels and saints, I will witness the immortal glory of the Face of
God. With this divine Hope, I will raise my heart above all earthly things and fix in my
mind the heavenly things so that all visible things and concerns will appear trivial and
burdensome, vile and contemptible, nothing shall I want. In my soul dwells an ardor of
hope, only possible for those who have Faith and the sincere desire to love and serve
the Lord. Without the love for Him, Faith, and freedom from worldly desires and pride,
souls will be deprived of this heavenly Hope as the treasures of their hearts can be
limited only to earthly things which can only bring about much sorrow and unhappiness.
If vain occupations take place of the divine Hope, the darkness of hopelessness will
engulf their souls. On the other hand, once the children of Faith, who now live a life
without hope and with forgetfulness and ingratitude for their redemptions, disregard all
the saving merits of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus, find contempt for the Truth
and eternal salvation, these souls will be in very grave danger of the eternal damnation.
May I weep uncontrollably for this great loss and lamentable and ignorance. May I feel
such a great sadness in my heart for these hardened heart and blindness, to beg the
Lord’s mercy and forgiveness for these hopeless souls. Amen.

ACT OF CHARITY

Dearest Lord, grant me the grace to follow and imitate blessed Virgin, our Mother, in all
virtues, especially the virtue of Charity, for this is the end and the crowning glory of all
other virtues. Mother, teach me all I need to know to copy you in my soul. First, I need to
appreciate the greatest value of charity through Faith and reason in order to forget and
despise all that is earthly and corruptible as they frequently hinder the efforts to achieve
perfect affections for the spiritual things. Selfish love and self-less love cannot coexist.
Only under Your divine Light and the guidance of the Virginal wisdom that I can ponder
and comprehend the most profound reasons and causes why God should be loved
above all things, what that love entails and how the love for our Creator should be
carried out. Lord, teach me to love You perfectly and truly by examining the effects of
that love upon my soul, my life, my actions, my thoughts, my sentiments, my willingness
to sacrifice, my sufferings, my all. Help me with the help of Your grace to meditate
continually on You especially on Your dolorous Passion and Death. May I find no
repugnance or emissness towards Your commands and counsels. To love You, I must
fear of offending You. Wound my heart deeply, O Lord, for each offense I commit
against You. Deepen my sorrows in seeing unfaithful creatures remain indifferent to
Your service and worst of all, to Your Eucharistic Presence and Omni-Presence. May I
constantly praise You aloud for Your kindness, delight in sweet memories of You. May I
grieve greatly for forgetting You for even a small part of my day. May I love what You
love, which are souls, and abhor what You abhor, which are sins. If I truly love You, I
must prove my love or I must be inspired to make You loved by all, to exert all my efforts
in evangelization, prayers, sacrifices, sufferings to win souls over to You. May my only
desire is to make Your Love known and to help all loving You. To love You, I must pray
with confidence that You see me and You hear me. I must receive Your benefit with
profound gratitude, and not wasting them but cultivating them for Your honor and glory.
To sincerely love You, I must extinguish all disorderly movements of passions which
retard or hinder loving aspirations to do good and to practice virtues. Lord, I sincerely
desire to love You with all my heart, above all things and all creatures. I want to love
You because You are my God, my Creator, my Redeemer, and my Love. I desire to love
You above all things because without loving You, I am not capable of loving my
neighbors as myself, for all holiness and charity come from You, the Supreme
Perfection. O Lord, may I love You with all understanding, without deceit, with my whole
will, with my whole strength, without reserve, without partition, undivided, with my whole
mind, without forgetfulness, with a constant awareness, without diminution, without
neglect or remissness. I love You so much, Lord. Without loving You, life is meaningless
and empty. And if my love is sincere and constant, I should love my neighbors, all Your
children, with an unconditional love for my love of You, always seeing You in them
because they are the creations from Your Hand and You have loved them as much as
You love me. No matter whether my neighbor is friendly or hostile, a benefactor or
persecutor, I can only see Your goodness in each of us. May I love all in God and for
God. Dearest Mother, alongside with your Crucified Son, our Lord and Redeemer, you
are the most perfect Love, please teach us how to love. Amen.

PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN FAMILY LIFE

Dearest Mother, you have shown us that a married life with all domestic duties and
concerns is not the hindrance for advancing in spiritual life as all things are possible to
God. Family life is not an excuse for not following perfections. Teach me to model after
your earthly life with lively faith, hope, and perfect resignation in the divine Providence.
Show me that one’s state of life has very little bearing in the desire and urgency to love
and serve God as these sentiments should not depend on different circumstances but
should be rooted in a constant will. You have taught me that the proper sentiments for a
spouse and a parent should be adding an extra urgency or solicitude to fulfill God’s
service in the face of additional obligations of a family life. May I see that the state of
matrimony and family life is not the hindrance to a holy and perfect life but rather the
vain and superfluous cares of anxieties, lack of peace and Faith deceiving a married
person into forgetting the sweetness of the Lord, lose sight of Him and His grace, and
seeking their own desires. Please intercede for me a constant serenity especially in
adversities and noises of a hectic day, to keep focus on God alone, to correspond
quickly to His Will and inspirations to faithfully carry out my devotions and prayers, to do
all things – pleasant and unpleasant – in the Name of the Lord in order to receive the
sweet divine favors and powerful accommodations always in conformity to your heart
desires. Amen.
(Feast of holy Family – 12/30/07)

THE LOVE OF GOD

My Lord and my God, my heart desire is to love You with the most perfect love, and
unconditional and selfless love, not a selfish love to gain Your favors, not a servile love
out of fear, but a filial love of a child to his Father. I love You for who You are, love You
for Your immense goodness, for Your Love of souls and of me, a wretched creature. I
love You out of a deep gratitude for Your Sacrifice, Your Cross and Death in redeeming
me, for the abundant sweetness You have showered upon me, for Your kind patience
and Your sorrows and agonies witnessing us living in sins and disobedience. Our
indifference and ingratitude are immense and unpardonable; our disaffections to You
and Your heavenly gifts are inexcusable. May I remain faithful and familiar to You, my
Lord, my God, my Father, my beloved Jesus. May I embrace You, not staying in Your
Presence at arm-length. May I be jealous for Your honor, solicitous for Your love,
thankful for Your tender mercies, deeply touched because of Your devotion on me in
particular, a sinful and feeble servant. May I love and revere You forever for Yourself
and for my brethrens’ sake. May I love You most in sufferings, sorrows, and adversities
as these sentiments remind me most of Your Passion, deepen most my contrition and
gratitude, and enkindle
most my desires to imitate You. With all my soul, all my might, all my heart, may I praise
and magnify You and Your Omnipotence for Your most perfect Creation, Blessed Virgin
Mary, and for all Your favors and riches, beyond all human comprehensions You have
ordained upon her. Dearest Mother, I love you and thank the Lord greatly for giving you
to us. Amen.

THE WILL OF GOD

Dear Lord, burning within my bosom is the desire for Your inspirations. Ardent is my
love of fulfilling Your Will. Happy are those to whom the Lord manifests His holy and
perfect Will. But more blessed are those who carry them out to the end. The pathways
for eternal life are found in the Gospel, sacraments, the laws of the Church, the writings
of the saints, the obedience to our priests. And by these, we come to know the Will of
God. Lord, grant me humility and obedience, promptness to heed and execute Your Will
to Your greatest pleasure. Lord, speak to my heart in commands or in corrections,
admonish or instruct me. Move my heart to ask, to receive, and to follow Your design.
Clearly show me Your desire, O Lord, so that my soul might be moved to fulfill it. Grant
me the necessary help for my obedience or at least look at my miserable state to have
mercy on me. Your Voice is of spirit, animal man cannot hear. May all the faculties of my
soul be purged of all earthly grossness. Your mysteries and secrets are hidden from the
world, only to be revealed to the humble, may I be humble and singularly devoted to
You. Your Sacrifice in Redemptive Works is inestimable, Your Love of saving souls is
intense and You long to communicate to souls the fire of Your Sacred Heart. May my
heart be well disposed and prepared to receive Your Love. May the divine Fire continue
to burn brightly, not extinguished due to the coldness and lukewarmness of my heart.
May my spirit be moved to prayers and actions entirely by Your quickening, and entirely
according to your greatest Will and Pleasure. Amen.

LIVING ACCORDING TO THE DIVINE DESIGN

Heavenly Father, have mercy on me and forgive me for my sins which have stirred up
Your just reproach and indignation. Grant me grace and show me the way to imitate
Blessed Mother in her humility and meekness toward her spouse Saint Joseph in
serving him and honor him. Help me to learn from her the virtue of humility which is the
basic motive to carry out all the works of God. Help me to recognize and always to
remember that You desire all Your children should live and treat each other with love
and humility, not with unnatural perversity which is inhuman and not intended by Your
original design. Grant me Your divine grace and blessed Mother’s intercession to avoid
the following three faults at all costs as they are most horrible to You, so displeasing that
You and blessed Mother have to withhold so many mercies and graces. First, may I
never despise the divine graces and sacraments, the Body and Blood of Christ to dwell
on earthy and trivial matters, never excite emotionally without righteous reason, never
stir up indignation, discord, quarrels, using hard words, or harbor inhuman vengeance
and hatred. Secondly, may I constantly focus in my spiritual well-being by self-
examination of conscience, reconciliation with others, fervent repentance, quickly
getting rid of sins and unceasing effort in rededicating my life to God. Third, may I
quickly have an open arm to welcome back my repentant brothers, forgive all their
offenses, and harbor no ill-feelings. O Lord, bless me and grant me Your Mercy and
Grace to live according to Your design and pleasure. To You, I will give thanks and
glorious praise. Dearest Mother, pray for me. Amen.

PRAYER FOR VIRTUE OF HUMILITY

Dearest Teacher, please accept me as one of your disciples in the life-time school of
humility in which we shall learn to debase ourselves in the presence of God and men.
May I be forever studious and diligent in placing a sincere love for humility as my
principal, first and last care and focus, for the fruits of holy poverty and self-esteemed
humiliation are the sweet embraces of the Lord, His favors and treasure of Light and
Truth which are hidden from the proud but confided to the lowly and single-hearted
ones. Mother, reinforce my only ambition with all my efforts, which is to humble myself in
God and in men, in estimation of self-worth and in thoughts and judgments. May I judge
no one as the Lord commands, “ Do not judge at all.” May all my external actions reflect
the deep humility of my interior soul. Please help me to feel a deep sorrow in witnessing
deceit and vain glory motivating sons of perdition with greater force than the divine Truth
and the Cross of the Lord in His derided Humanity teach and urge His elect who also
are much so fewer in number. This should be a subject of scandalous confusion and a
source of great agonies, a motivation for stronger desire to practice this virtue, when I
see the presumption and pride of worldly wisdom and learning to remain powerful and
persuasive to foolish men, more powerful in ruling the world than the simple humility of
the children of the Light. Therefore, may I feel the effects of our Lord’s Passion and your
sorrowful bloody tears deep in my soul to be greatly anxious to strive in the service of
God and our Father. And in order to be in such a blessed state, the prerequisite for my
soul is a humble heart. May I imitate the proud and worldly to equal their intensity and
aspiration in pursuing the love of God and service of men, modeling after their
watchfulness, untiring study, constant exertion, ambitious care, persistent struggles, and
in tireless striving to achieve the predetermined goals. The goals for the children of God
are the holy perfections which can only be obtained by the divine Grace together with
the humility or repentance of a slave or greatest sinner permeating completely their
souls. May I obtain a sincere humility to love God and serve mankind. Amen.

GIFTS TO GOD
Dearest Mother, you have taught us the generosity for the poor with self-imposing
sacrifice is the voluntary poverty purifying our souls from worldly desires, is a delight and
acceptable gift to God Himself. But the ceaseless offering to the Mighty God should be a
heart-felt love to Him which is gift of gold, continual prayers which are the gift of incense,
labor and mortification which are considered as the gift of myrrh to the Incarnate Savior.
Bless me, teach me, inspire me, your servant and disciple, in my constant offering of
gifts with fervent affection, promptitude, and without a single trace of negligent works.
Mother, intercede for me the grace of the holy Spirit to inflame my heart with a
perpetually burning love for God, illuminating my soul with the divine Faith and Light
which transform my incessant and humble offerings into the labor of love and gratitude.
Pray for me so that the Lord God and our Savior is always and forever the Subject of all
my praises and exaltations, the inspiration of my love so that I can serve Him most
worthily on all the remaining days of my life. Amen.

PRAYER DURING CHRISTMASS SEASON / BEFORE MASS

My dear Lord Jesus, you are my God Who had condescended to become man,
humiliated with poverty, despised, unwelcome and unknown, born in a cave, laid in a
manger, surrounded by brute animals, nursed by the poverty-stricken mother, cast off by
the foolish arrogance of the world, may my heart be disengaged, free of all earthly
affections to be ready to celebrate the mystery of Your Incarnation and Nativity with a
holy poverty, pure humility, and a fervent love of the Incarnate God. You are the Creator
of heaven and earth, Who has no need for the world, has openly abhorred and
condemned the vain loftiness and pride of the world, may I not love it or be enchanted
by it. May I forget all that are of the earth, get the worldly affairs out of sight, seek
nothing, engage nothing except what can help me to detach myself further from this
sinful world and its inhabitants. Realizing that being granted the understanding of which
only a few were chosen, I am bound to cooperate fully with the Truth. May I choose
myself humility, poverty, and indigence as the spiritual teachings on the Way to eternal
life and the powerful means to conduct my life and to subject myself drawn closer to the
love of my Creator and Redeemer. Meditating on Your earthly life, O Lord, meek in
humanity but profoundly loving in Divinity, Your simple living and dying on this earth,
may my heart be inspired by Your most tender Love in order to love You with all my
heart. May I strive to be thankful always to You, my Lord, strive to make a humble return
for Your goodness as if You had come to redeem me alone. Remember how blessed
Mother had held You as her new born child in her arms with the most tender love,
reverence, fear and respect, in adoration toward the Lord of hosts, may I treat the
greatest Sacrament of the Kindness of God with much reverence. May my heart be
moved by the divine Love full of tenderness. May I imitate and become like blessed
Mother to have the same sentiments while receiving You into my heart in the Most
Venerable Sacrament of the holy Eucharist. May I realize and believe that I have
received and possessed the same God-man Jesus Christ Who was born of her virgin
womb. Dear Lord, You have exhorted this great sinner and servant to become like
Your most beloved Mother any time I receive and possess You in sentiments and in
loving attitude, also to be contrite in spirit in accordance to my wretched nature. Grant
me the grace to purify myself in order to receive You with an angelic purity, to treat the
Most Blessed Sacrament and the Holy Mass with the most reverence due to Its
Greatness. Let my heart be moved by Your most tender Love any time I receive You or
think of You. Amen.

PRAYER FOR PRIESTS

The Most High Priest, Jesus Christ, make known the lofty priestly dignity to both priests
and lay people. Help our beloved priests to proclaim the Gospel and divine mysteries by
their righteousness and holy deeds. Help them to do Your works with tireless dedication.
May the dignity and honor of the priesthood be revered because the Most High God
Himself holds priests in such esteem. Grant them the abundance of graces and right
dispositions, and maternal protection. Exalt them and fill them with Your Fire and Spirit.
May they be venerated by God and men as Your chosen and anointed ones. May they
be like Christ on earth to all faithful. May Your wonders, graces, favors be granted
through their sacred hands. May they live up to their dignity. May their works be the
works of angels and seraphim. May their countenance be resplendent like that of Moses
after conversing with the Lord. May they be honored and revered as next to God. May
they be the mirror of holiness and divine Light. May they speak without malice and their
sanctity exhumes a sweet fragrance. May lay people be modest and humble, reverent in
their priestly presence. Grant them, Lord, the correct direction in leading their sheep and
dealing with men. Grant them humility, holy poverty, and singular devotion to God alone.
Do not allow them to be influenced by worldly pleasures, honor, or flattery. Illuminate
their mind, heart, and soul. Embrace them tightly, keep them safe, holy, sincere, pure,
lasting, humble, sanctified, pacified, fervent, God-loving. Amen.

PRAYER FOR MEMORIES OF OUR LORD’S PASSION AND DEATH

My dear Lord Jesus, may I love You, thank You, serve You with all my strength by
abandoning all my temporal desires and interests. May I be like an angel in
promptitude, be most fervent and punctual in all occasions. May I die to all earthly things
while focusing my thoughts in the Presence of God and open my heart keenly to the
inspirations of the Holy Spirit. May I eliminate in crushing manner all human inclinations
and passions, no matter how painful it is to my carnal being. May I rise to the summit of
Love to meet You by a constant and sincere longing for You and You alone. May I
meditate day and night on Your Redemptive Works in all its glorious and tender details.
May I dwell deeply in Your Passion and Death and Your present sorrows on this sinful
world to deepen my love. May my heart be pierced in realizing that even Your saints
lamentably had not meditated enough on Your sufferings. May this neglect or
shortcomings be the source of my prolonged lamentations. May my heart be broken
while witnessing men having no compassion to one another, and moreover, no gratitude
nor memories of Your Sacrifice and Cross. May bitterness and despair overwhelm their
souls after recognizing their dreadful crimes by the aid of Your divine Light. To love the
Lord with all my heart and all my soul, may I cast out every image and affection
belonging to all creatures, turn all the power of my heart and soul and will toward the
mysteries and Blessings of Redemption. May I be occupied entirely with them, ponder
and weigh on them, give thanks due to them as if I was the sole benefactor and debtor
to the graces. Amen.

PRAYER FOR HOLY POVERTY

My Lord and King, greater than all the gifts, I offer You my Love. I offer You now the
most acceptable gift of all, my voluntary poverty. May my heart be broken and touched
deeply in witnessing poverty throughout the world, the exploitation and indifference of
the rich to their poverty-stricken brethrens with whom they should share all temporal
riches with love. Lord, help me to be generous and charitable to all Your poor and less
fortunate children, especially those with the deprived spirits. Help me always to part
joyfully and most readily with all my possessions for the sake of the poor, the worthy
sacrifice offered to the Lord. And if it is possible, in addition to these worldly gifts, may I
labor and sweat in helping them. But the most precious to You are always souls, may
my ceaseless offer is love, which is gold; continual prayer, which is incense; and the
patient acceptance of labors and true mortifications, which is myrrh. I long to offer to You
all I possess with fervent affection and promptitude, without negligence and fear; for the
love of You, the love of my brothers, for reparation of their negligence, for my own
negligent works, for those not enlivened by love, for all sacrilegious and unacceptable
sacrifices in the eyes of Your Majesty. In order to make those incessant offerings, may
the divine Faith and Light continually inflame my humble heart, may the Lord God
constantly be the Subject of all my praises, exaltations, and stimulus of my love. May my
heart be bound to the divine Heart of my Lord Jesus Christ, and to the Sorrowful
Immaculate Heart of our Mother, forever and ever. Amen.

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING/ AFTER MASS

I humbly offer You thanks, O Lord, for all the benefits which I unworthily receive, out of
Your unbounding Mercy and Goodness. May I repeat the verse of Your beloved David, “
What shall I render the Lord for all the things that He has rendered to me.” (Ps.15:12) In
such sentiments, I am humiliating myself, prostrating my whole being, spiritually my
soul, consider myself an useless servant among all Your creatures, before Your divine
glory and Majesty in which I am a mere dust of nothingness. Being unworthy,
undeserving, and of ill-learning spirit, I am poorly furnished for giving thanks and making
payment. Thus, with insufficiency and filled with miseries, I offer to You, our Eternal
Father, the living Host of Your only-begotten Son Whom I now (long to ) receive and
possess within me, the most Precious Body and Blood of the living God, the most
Precious Gift Which is most pleasing to Your Eyes. May I imitate David while saying, “ I
will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the name of the Lord.” (Ps. 115:13)
Again, I am calling upon the Precious Name of the Lord, offering the Chalice of salvation
to worship, to adore, to glorify, to implore the divine Mercy, to give thanks, and to seek
Your unbounding Grace in order to bring forth Its fruits by deepening my devotions, my
prayers, my sacrifices, my love, and my service. O Most Holy Oblation!! The Lord of
Heaven and earth, the God of my soul and my heart, given to me in my possession as
the ransom for my sins and the essential food and life for my soul, may I adore You, love
You, thank You, and imitate You and our Blessed Mother in suffering and joy. Amen.

LAMENTATION ON DEGRADATION OF MEN

My Lord, I bitterly cry in seeing such a noble creature as man, made in Your likeness
and image, allowing himself to be degraded and defiled by abominable passions to the
point of shedding the innocent blood of those who can do no harm to anyone. I cry
bitterly in seeing the purest beauty of Your creations being deformed to the point of
being detested and unrecognized by You, our beloved Father and Creator. I cry bitterly
over the ruins of so many souls, the waste and loss of the Blood of Your most holy Son,
poured out for the salvation of men. May I guard against my own passions, which, after
mastering the heart, will smother it in lust or consume it with wrath whenever they meet
any opposition. Invoke in me a deep fear for this danger lest it would slowly strangle my
soul. Help me in the practices of virtues by dying to all that is passionate or pleasurable
to senses. I cannot be a fit instrument in the hands of the Lord if I do not cleanse all my
faculties, free from the images of all creatures so that they do not enter into my heart
desires. I wish that all things, except You Lord, all Your angels and saints, all heavenly
things be meaningless or non-existent to me. Mother of God, help me neither to live nor
to desire a life without the Lord. Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE HOLY INDIFFERENCE

Queen of Peace, during my sojourn on earth and during the works you have enjoined
upon me, may you bless me that my heart will never be troubled nor my spirit cast down,
bless me to be always prepared to fulfill entirely the Will of God. Mother, give me faith to
accept the unknowings of God’s Will, strength to endure greater sufferings, submission
to obey the Lord for no further reason necessary than that the Lord Creator so
commands and disposes. May I, your humble servant, look for this motive alone, learn
solely to please the Lord, without distinguishing between fortunate and unfortunate
events and without looking to my own inclinations. Grant me wisdom, O Mother, so that I
can advance according to your wish and under your maternal hand. May I imitate you in
all things to satisfy my obligation and my love toward your most beloved Son our Lord
Jesus Christ from Whom I have received both prosperities and adversities in this mortal
life. May I receive all events with unmoved countenance, equanimity, and peace of
mind. Teach me, Mother, to attend to all without any prejudice or judgmental disposition,
according to the preordained design of the Almighty God.May I fulfill all to the perfection
of His pleasure. Ask the Lord to forgive me and strengthen me to begin again anytime I
have failed. Guide me, teach me, protect me, bless me, O my beloved Mother, whom I
long to love with all my heart, whom I am always grateful for giving yourself to us to be
such a wonderful and caring mother. May I lovingly and diligently follow your footsteps
with docility like your infant child during all the days of my life. Amen.

LONGING FOR GOD

Lord, if You withdraw Your presence and intimacy from me in order for me to draw down
Your blessings, make my heart grow fonder in Your absence, make my longing more
intense, make my heart desire nothing else but You, make me fear of losing You
forever, make me work harder to please You, make me cry many tears for my sins,
make my soul seek You day and night longing for the past sweetness and favors, make
my mind to fear You and begin to wonder about the eternal life and to put my hope in
Your mercy, make me live a lifelong abhorrence of sin and search for eternal felicity
only, make me remember You constantly lest forgetfulness would deprive me Your
amiable presence forever, make all my physical needs and wants insignificant, make my
heart restless until I find You again, make me place more trust in You, make me see
Your design in my sorrows, make me believe that You are most dear and closest to my
heart when Your love seems untouchable, make my mind and heart reject all earthly
inclinations and temptations, make all things of my life become trivial except charity and
sins, make me see the world with all its vanities and foolishness, make me live in
constant and holy fear of losing eternal life, rejoice in nothing except in You until I obtain
the full possession of You. Amen.

A PRAYER FOR PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN

My dearest Lord and Mother, grant us parents Your holy inspirations and special help to
fight the spiritual battles and to protect our off-springs. Bless our holy preachers,
ministers, mentors. Preserve the holiness of our priests and religious. Bless us with the
knowledge of the mysterious effects and benefits of Your sacraments especially the
Holy Mass and holy Rosary or devotions to Blessed Mother. Help us to walk in the way
of salvation, the rocky but necessary way of righteousness. Help us to fight off
temptations and sins, to see clearly that we are engaging in constant spiritual battles in
which we must win to be with You in Heaven. Help us parents to recognize the
vulnerability of our children due to the influence of the devil. Grant our children their
spiritual purifications, bless them with sufferings if it is necessary to preserve their souls
in purity and goodness. Help our loved ones to overcome evil right at the beginning,
uproot our evil tendency with Your light and power. Strengthen our virtue of charity as
only love can thwart evil forces and frustrate their demonic designs. Help us to
memorize Your laws and commands in our hearts, engrave onto our hearts with Your
holy Name and the doctrines of the holy Gospel so that we will never fail to bring them to
mind before every action and thought of our daily life. May we labor with the same
ceaseless vigilance as our immortal enemies do, for they never sleep nor rest, in
practicing the means of justification which are the Acts of the living Faith, trustful Hope,
ardent Love, all coming from a contrite and humble heart. (Ps. 50:19) Bless us and our
children, dearest Mother Mary. Amen.

Ecco Homo

Look into His eye to see sadness and anguishing plea to console,
Look into His Heart to see thirst and longing to offer love,
Embrace Him as He extends His arms on the Cross to offer compassion,
Not only adore His Divinity but also look at His Humanity to shed your contrition.
Then,
Look into the eyes of a child to see his vulnerability and fear to offer shelter and comfort,
Look into his heart to see thirst and longing to offer love,
Hold his tiny hands to feel rejections to offer embrace,
Behold the soul of God to see his fragility to offer your plea.
I have encountered my Lord in a child.

More on blessed Mother’s Teaching

The Lord God in His sheer goodness and infinite mercy desires all creatures to be saved
and holy, denies none of His providential care, supplies all with Light so that they can all
know Him and live according to His commands. To some, He gives the grace of baptism
and Faith, He grants the supernatural gifts of knowledges, divine favors and inspirations
to acquire virtues which they cannot achieve without heavenly blessings. But Satan also
seeks the destruction of souls, and frustrates these works of the Lord. From the moment
in which the mortals begin to have the use of reason, each is followed by many watchful
and relentless demons. As soon as souls raise their thoughts and knowledges in God,
these demons seek to root out the divine seed, direct their thoughts to sensual desires
and pride, and vices, most of all, suppress in souls all the mysteries of the Redemption,
eternal life, the life of Christ, His sufferings, the greatest Sacred Mystery of the Mass,
and many other spiritual devotions. The same demons will instill into parents a base
neglectfulness and carnal love for their off-springs. They instill the clergy, religious, and
teachers to carelessness so that children find no support against evil in education, find
no spiritual training, virtues, Faith, prayers, and devotions. They shall become depraved,
spoiled, losing sight of virtues and God, acquire many bad habits, losing all innocence
and good inclinations on the way to perdition.

DO ALL THINGS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD

Mother of mercy, it is your loving desire that all will be flooded with graces and taste the
sweetness of the Lord as you did. Let me, your poorest and most afflicted child, follow
you. Offer me your protection and help, intercede for me the hidden manna which is to
do the will of the Father. May I put off all the works instilled in me by my human
weakness; and by the true Light, may I receive and discern on the works instilled in me
by you, the redemptive works, the works of your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
May I achieve the perfect beauty which the Lord seeks in me, the beauty mirrored after
the Sacrificial Lamb of God. Engrave in my heart, Mother, that the most powerful means
of perfection is the redemptive work, the works performed in the love of God and souls.
Whenever I must perform an interior or exterior work, may I contemplate beforehand
whether what I am going to say or do will correspond to the divine Will, whether it will
honor the Lord and benefit my neighbors. Help me to be certain of His desires and
imitate Him and yourself most perfectly to further His cause and to glorify His holy
Name. Let it be in me no reluctance toward the good works but only the desire to glorify
Him and imitate Him most perfectly especially in His Passion and sufferings. May I only
perform what is the most pleasing and acceptable to the eternal God. May I become
most indifferent to anything which drives me further from Him. May all earthly things
cause me only restless agonies while I am longing for God, my only Source of true
happiness. Moreover, from this day on, may I be mindful not to undertake any work, not
to speak or even think of anything without first seeking your motherly counsel, asking
your permission and guidance as my Mother and Teacher. I
give you many grateful thanks for your replies and intercessions of the divine Light.
Amen.

NOVENA TO SAINT JOSEPH

Saint Joseph, my father and lord,

The anointed and most trusted guardian of our Lord, may we place our trust in you,
The most esteemed spouse of blessed Mother, may I love and revere you as she did,
The most noble prince of heavenly Court, pray for me to be worthy of the royal
priesthood in praying the divine Mystery and in leading my family,
The glorious saint of heavenly Jerusalem, pray for me to be holy,
The most eminent in sanctity, pray for my sanctification,
The most humble and hidden, pray for me to be humble,
The most devout son of the eternal Father, pray for me to be obedient,
The most kind human being, pray for me to be gentle,
The most forgiving betrothed, pray for me to love my spouse,
The most docile and submissive, pray for me to subdue my passions,
The most angelic man, pray for me to be chaste and pure,
The most filled with wonders and praises, receive my highest veneration,
The most powerful intercessor, pray for our salvation,
The greatest Friend of God, please intercede for us,
The most neglected intercessor and saint, forgive our ignorance and irreverence,
The most persuasive in Presence of God, pray for lessening the Lord’s just Hand,
The most worthy of love among saints, receive my love and pray for our deeper
devotion,
The most excellent, fullest of privileges, may I rejoice with your blessed Spouse to
admire such a nobility,
The most helpful of all saints, come to us with all our necessities,
The most venerable but least revered, may we propagate a greater devotion toward you,
The most extraordinary man, please perform miracle on us, humble and inferior
creatures,
The tireless, most unassuming worker, teach us to value hard works and labors for the
Kingdom of God,
The most amiable perfection of great virtues, make us righteous,
The most liberal giving hand, shower down from the Throne of God marvelous favors
upon us, both now and at the hour
of our deaths. Amen.

GREAT VALUES OF REDEMPTIVE SUFFERINGS

The Almighty God and Father, You have placed the highest values onto the labors,
Passion, and Death of Your Divine Son and upon those who imitate and follow Jesus
Christ in the Way of the Cross. Knowing this, Blessed Mary had offered her Son to God,
and begged to accompany Him to death and partook all His sufferings. May I not abhor
the resemblance of Christ’s sufferings and blessed Mother’s sorrows as they are the
true and highest blessings of this mortal life. May I consider my own sufferings in all
forms to be the most precious gifts that I can offer to the Lord because of its cost. May I
not avoid labor and suffering as they are royal and secure road to eternal life. Those
whom He loves, He chastises and afflicts (Prov. 3:12) May I become more worthy of His
love by offering my redemptive sufferings. May my love for Him be deepened only by my
giftsof mortifications and prayers. To love Him, I desire to suffer more for the love of
Him. To truly love Him, how can I live in comforts and cares while witnessing my divine
Lord suffering for loving all of us. Inspired by God and because He had wished so,
blessed Mother asked her divine Son to deprive her of all interior delights to follow the
footsteps of His bitterness. How can I enjoy this earthly life of comforts when I see my
Lord and my Mother going through Calvary anew, with blood and tears, with broken
Hearts. My Jesus, to imitate Your Mother most perfectly, I implore You to grant me the
most blessed distinction of being entirely like unto You, most of all, in sufferings and
derisions of my human conditions. In this resemblance, may my life become most
spiritual and less carnal as after all, sufferings and sorrows are one of the most powerful
means of human purification. Blessed Mother was willing to forsake all, even those
desires most dear to her heart, deprived herself everything to offer them to God Whom
she loved above all things. Thus, this is not an exchange of destitute sorrows but of
intense love beyond comparison. May my sufferings be a refinement of my love to God,
a love which asks for nothing but gives everything to the One he loves. Since sins are
committed due to debased indulgences and repugnance of souls to sufferings and
sorrows, the only remedy for sinful souls is suffering itself. And if they avoid suffering
and prefer sins, the recovery of their soul is impossible since they are already weak and
afflicted by sins. May I prefer sufferings as the better medicine for my ailing soul over
pleasures. May in tribulation I earn sympathy and mercy from the just Judge. May bitter-
sweetness of sorrow and affliction dissipate the sinful temptations of the flesh, crush all
concupiscible passions, humiliate pride and haughtiness, subdue inclinations of flesh,
suppress earthly desire, make judgment clear, purify the heart and strengthen the soul,
correct the movement of heart, and most of all, draw down the divine Love and pity for
those who embrace sufferings with patience, who seek to imitate Jesus and to endure
their sufferings for the love of Christ, offer their sacrifices to obtain blessed riches for
sinners. Thus, those who fly from sufferings are insane, those who know nothing about it
is foolish. May I deem sufferings as the opportunities for blessings and praises, for
loving God with a more constant will which a feeble and faint heart will never know.
Amen.

DOVE-LIKE SINCERITY OF THE LOVE FOR BLESSED MOTHER

My Blessed Mother, among all your children, you had loved Saint John the most due to
his dove-like purity and his devotion toward you. I long for the same qualities even I am
a wretched sinner incomparable to Saint John because I long for the same love from
you, because you are my dearest mother. Have a generous maternal affection toward
me, Mother. Treat me as one of your many children and one of the least worthy servants
of the Lord as that is what I am. Be my Intercessor and Advocate after you have glanced
at my poverty, uselessness, and weakness. I will try to offer my services in return, try to
imitate the holy saint most perfectly to please you. But how can I do anything right
without your help? Give me strength, Mother, to fulfill all your commands without failing
at the least detail. Bless me as I set out three goals for my spiritual advancements
according to your wishes: labor until all self-love dies within me; suppress all effects of
the original sin until all earthly inclinations extinguish; and seek to restore dove-like
sincerity and simplicity by hating all malice. I will try to live an angelic life in order to
make myself a worthy dwelling to the holy Spirit because the condescence of the Most
High is so great, so magnificent, furnishing souls with His majesty, wonders, with Light,
graces, and understandings, more fit to an angel than to much coarser human nature.
May I be acquiescent to the divine grace in works, thoughts, and speech. May I thrive for
and cherish a continual affection and desire to please you, my most sorrowful and
beloved Mother. May I be attentive and promptly heed your counsels and commands.
May I fix my eyes and my contemplation on you besides our Lord in order to know and
execute what you plan for me. Mother, please pray for me and bless me so that all my
heart desires can be realized. Amen.

Beatitude in Honor of Blessed Mother

Blessed are those who seek the most kind and powerful intercession of our Blessed
Mother MARY.
Blessed are those who fear the judgments of the Most High God.
Blessed are those to whom the secrets of God are being revealed.
Blessed are those who long to become the beloved disciples of Christ.
Blessed are those who love Blessed Mother and receive mercy and kindness from her.
Blessed are those who recognize and venerate blessed Mother’s role in sharing the
Dolorious Passion and Death of her most beloved Son our Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed are those who obey the commands of our Lord in accepting His beloved Mother
to be their own.
Blessed are those whose purity exceeds that of an angel as it is her maternal wish.
Blessed are those, by such a purity, have become her dearest children.
Mother, have mercy on us and bless us. Amen.

THE BENEFITS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Dear Lord, may I cast myself into the sea of Your Passion and Death, direct all my being
with all my power of my heart and soul in meditating upon the ignominies and sorrows of
the Son of the Eternal Father in His Death and the Cross for men; and also in examining
my doings or lack of doings in connection with His bitter Passion. Teach me this
science, O Mother, by first detaching myself entirely of human and earthly affections and
of my own self, so as freely to follow the footsteps of Christ in destitution and poverty. In
the same thought, what a horrible crime in the eyes of the Lord, of Blessed Mother, of all
angels and saints, that we despise and neglect the frequent reception of the holy
Communion, and that we approach to receive Him without much preparation and fervent
devotion at Mass. May I imitate Blessed Mother, Your most pure and glorious Mother, in
her purifying herself to receive You, the holy of all holies, by increasing fervent acts of
love, humility, and gratitude. Show me what I must do to make myself more fit for the
Beauty of the Divinity and sacred Humanity of the most holy Son of God. There is no
excuse for me on the Judgment Day if I neglect this plenitude of gifts of the Most
Blessed Sacrament or receive these gifts poorly. May I seek and labor for this heavenly
gifts in place of worldly pleasures and deceitful life. Amen.

PRAYER FOR EUCHARISTIC DEVOTIONS

Almighty God, open our hardened and stony hearts to attain a true understanding of the
sacred Mystery and the divine and infinite Blessings of the Holy Eucharist. Remove the
scale of human rationalism from our eyes to see Your Presence with the eye of Faith in
order to possess the Eternal God in the true human Flesh and Blood. Grant us the true
union between God and man, between the divine and mortals notwithstanding our
lowliness. Bless us with all the sanctifying effect of the heavenly Manna. May we taste
the sweetness of the Omnipotent God, His power and His love so that our hearts will be
fully satisfied and desire nothing else. By the precious gift of Yourself, grant us strength
and health to counter weakness and passions which, unguarded, can succumb the life
of a soul. Grant us the privileges and blessings to receive You frequently in order to
overcome and defeat the demonic forces. Place us at the disposal of our beloved Lord
Jesus completely as we become one in Him by the holy Communion. May our heart,
soul, and body become the temple of the Eucharistic Lord so long as we follow His
commands in loving God and loving one another as Christ has loved the Church. Even
Lucifer will flee from His presence in a sinful soul like me. Inflict in my heart a deep
sorrow for my great injury I frequently cause the Lord by being forgetful in receiving Him
with due reverence. May we put fear in the devil’s heart by receiving our Lord Jesus
worthily and devoutly, also by trying to preserve ourselves in purity and holiness until the
next Holy Communion. May I live constantly with the noblest intention from one Holy
Mass to another. Help me constantly aware of the demonic snare in making us forgetful,
distracted, and indifferent to receiving the Body and Blood of Christ. Grant us multitude
of graces in order to receive Holy Communion daily, to seek all the possible means to
preserve ourselves in good dispositions from one Holy Communion to another,
conforming to the Will of God and the wishes of Blessed Mother. This is the sword we
should use to fight the spiritual battle for God. Cause us to weep, our hearts torn in
sorrow in witnessing the demons heaping afflictions upon the Church and nations due to
the lack of weapons which can only be obtained by the Eucharistic devotions especially
the holy Mass. Lord, be merciful to us. Do not enrage at us, Catholics, for our
immeasurable transgressions by not receiving Your precious Body and Blood without a
contrite and humble heart, especially after a lively and grand Faith is being handed
down to us from the Apostles or propagated through the Catholic Church. Forgive us for
an equally grave offense by neglecting to ask blessed Mother for a much needed
powerful intercession to assist at Mass and to receive holy Communion worthily. Amen.

LOVE IS SCHOOL OF SUFFERING

Mother of Love, nothing our Lord, your beloved Son, desires more than suffering and
dying to save us. Thus, I cannot ask anything in the Holy Name of Jesus without
imitating His Passion. To be embraced in His arms, I have to embrace His Cross and
not to seek immediate consolations. To live a contemplative life, I have to master a life
of mortifications, a life centering on the Calvary of the Holy Mass being prayed with the
fullness of love, contrition, adoration, and gratitude. Just as the Cross was expressed as
the fullness of the divine Love, may we celebrate Mass beyond any human formalities
and limitations, human conventions and wisdoms, human rationalism and standards, but
only with the sincere profusion of love. To reach the summit of love and perfections, I
must conquer all the peaks and valleys of human short-comings, weaknesses, and
adversities. To attend the bridal Banquet, I submit myself as a servant who only
deserves to serve, but not to be seated at the same table with his Lord. Eternal rest is
not attainable for those who unduly labor for it, like a son not imitating his Father, a
disciple not following his Master, a servant not accompanying his Lord, a child of God
who is not willing to trace the footsteps of Jesus and Mother Mary. The school of
sainthood is the school of suffering love. Love without suffering is self-love, suffering
without love is meaningless self-pity. May I deny my self-love to offer the Lord the most
sincere love. Lord, grant me Your Spirit to receive the Bread of life most worthily so that
my soul shall become inseparable from You, so that my heart shall burn brightly with the
love for only You. May I meditate on how You have lived in Your divinity and suffered in
Your sacred humanity together with blessed Mother who had shared fully the
ignominious Cross. You are the Way, the Truth, the life, and I do not want to come to the
Father except through Your derided humanity. Amen.
CRY FOR THE DREADFUL STATE OF THE CHURCH

Dearest Lord and Mother, please receive my love and gratitude to compensate for the
small return by heartless and ungrateful creatures for Your Passion and Death. May my
love console Your sorrowful Hearts grieving over the great losses of souls through their
lukewarmness, apathy, weakness, negligence, and apostasy. What a dreadful state of
carelessness in which Christians meditate on the Lord’s Passion. Without Blessed
Mother’s intercession and the merits of her most holy Son, Whom she had offered to the
Eternal Father, men would be punished for this monstrous ingratitude. May I console
you and your holy Son on His sorrows. May I rise above all earthly things and above
myself to imitate Blessed Mother, to withdraw into solitude, away from all creatures who
have become ungrateful, inhuman, and cruel. Lord, help me to shed the abundance of
tears in seeing how much it has cost You to reconcile men to Your Eternal Father, only
to see men working so hard to destroy what You had purchased with Your own Blood.
Awaken in my heart the deepest grief as there are many, under false piety, who still
condemn Christ our Lord sadly at authorative places while humility, truth, justice, and all
virtues are so oppressed and debased. Grant me Your Grace and intercession to be
among the few who still know the poverty of Christ and even fewer who still embrace it.
At the present, Faith in many Catholics are inactive or dead, the counsels of the holy
Gospel are forgotten or neglected, Its precepts trodden under foot, charity almost
extinct. Jesus offers His Face in patience and meekness only to be buffeted and
wounded. In reparation for these monstrous sins and sadness, may I pardon insults and
offenses to myself, imitate Blessed Mother to practice the very virtues which oppose to
the mentioned vices: for blasphemies, may I bless and praise the Lord; for unbelief, may
I express my life as an act of living Faith. May I accept all things with joy, in Faith and in
hope, since there is no more profitable exercise for souls than sufferings; there is
nothing closer to the Sacred Heart of our Lord than sufferings for He is always with the
poor and afflicted to give them consolations and helps. (Ps. 40:15) And there are few
greater sufferings than daily mortifications and sacrifices, daily detachments from visible
things while raising one’s heart to God. Help me, Lord Jesus and blessed Mary, in
gathering much suffering and sacrifices offering to You. Amen.

REJOICE IN GOD, MY SAVIOR

My Lord, my Redeemer, my Love, You had been born to torments, afflictions,

reproaches, crown of thorns, Crucifixion. May their very minute augments be my own
portion, my lot, my inheritance, daily encounters, and spiritual exercizes. I sincerely wish
to be persecuted, not a persecutor; oppressed, not an oppressor; suffered, not an
executioner; laden with crosses, not crosses; scandalized, not scandal giver. May I
participate in the Works of Redemption in exerting myself for the conversion and
salvation of others. blessed Virgin Mary, cooperating perfectly in this Redemptive Work,
has paid for it by her sorrows and afflictions. She has never blotted out all the details of
the Life and Death of her beloved Son out of her inmost memories. May my soul
immerse in the same immense sea of sorrows, taste her bitterness and drink her tears.
The Lord Almighty has exalted her for her faithfulness and sacrifices. He grants the
same graces and favors in smaller scales to all His predestined children, allows them to
experience the efficacy of the divine graces and aspirations toward spiritual and eternal
things, but He does not spare them of the hardships and sufferings of this mortal life.
May I hope for no worldly riches or comforts, rejoice in God my Savior in all
circumstances, never forget all the bitter-sweet memories in which a worthy sacrifice
was offered to God, advance steadily toward heavenly Kingdom and home, day by day,
little by little, putting everything behind while applying all spiritual learnings into practice.
Amen.

ACT OF CONSECRATION

My dearest Lord Jesus and my dearest Mother, today I consecrate myself as Your true
disciple by denying myself, stripping myself bare of all earthly desires. I determine to
estrange my heart from all affections toward creatures and created things, wish no
possession or acceptance for any purposes or uses. All day long I will meditate on the
Cross as it is the only true way of life as You Yourself have chosen it. I want to follow
Your bloody divine footsteps on the Way of the Cross because so few want to dispose
themselves to sufferings. I only want to love You in laborious exertions and adversities
of my flesh. May I act against my human carnal nature to gain the hidden fruits of spirit. I
desire to be a warrior for Christ against the forgetfulness of truths, against seeking
indulgences of pleasure and worldly honors, against the tendencies of flying from
injuries and striving after riches, against condemnation of poverty and dreading
mortifications. Mother, make me aware of the dangerous deceit of self-love, being half-
hearted follower of Christ, who only exerts himself so far as his fleshy comforts allow, or
one who abides the Lord’s commands according to the rules of common civility, human
morality, or social courtesy, or one who denies nothing against his own will or places all
practices of so-called virtues or self-imposed perfections in certain prudence, guidance,
or human principles instead of the love of God and of his neighbors. My Redeemer left
me many remedies against eternal ruins, may they not be wasted or neglected. My
divine Doctor grants me medicine, may I be cured of the sickness of human nature. My
good Teacher has taught me how to overcome the demons, flesh, and my self. May I be
a good, faithful student who has learnt that the ultimate victory can only be gained by the
Cross, by labor, penances, mortifications, acceptance of contempt, sacrifices, charity,
joy-giving, true love of God and for souls, by practices of Christian virtues which are the
characteristics of those who truly love Him. Amen.

LIFE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST

Dearest Mother, intercede for me the grace enabling me to seek, with all the power of
my mind during my whole life, to remember the Crucifixion of our Precious Lord. As my
beloved Mother and all-wise Teacher, please ask the Lord God by His divine power to
impress on my humble heart the knowledge and sentiment of that precious and most
holy Hour in order that it remains fixed and ever present to me as long as I live. In virtue
of this blessing from my dearest Mother, teach me and help me to keep constantly
vividly, in my memory and my soul, my Lord Who is Christ crucified so that I will never
forget the sufferings of the Cross and the doctrine of the self-sacrificial Love that He has
taught us. This is the mirror by which I must see my soul as the reflection of Christ in this
sinful world, as the image of my Crucified Lord, the source of the interior and external
beauty of a soul which is most pleasing to God. To be worthy of being a redeemed
sinner, may I be obliged to seek with all my power to imitate Him as far it is becoming
my very duty and nature inseparable from Christ’s self-sacrificial Love. And if it is
possible by your intercession for the divine grace upon this lowly and unworthy and
feeble servant, and by your own tutoring and nurturing me, I wish that from this day
forward, I live crucified with Christ, entirely as assimilated to your most perfect
exemplary and model life, and dead to this deceitful world. Amen.

DEFEAT DEVIL WITH REDEMPTIVE LIFE

God Almighty, since the close imitation and living reproduction of Jesus Christ will cause
the demons to flee from souls, I, Your most lowly servant now desire such an imitation of
the Lord, to remain pure and holy to offer the Almighty the fruits of the divine grace by
my spiritual life and supplications for my most needed brothers and sisters. I now beg
Thee for the acquiescence of grace so that my works will be sanctified and effective. I
will seek the Way of the Cross daily in order to intercede for my brethren the renewal of
Christian charity, zeal, devotions, and the remembrance of all the blessings derived from
Your Work of Redemption. To be holy and humble, I will be deemed more worthy in
begging Your grace for my brethren to resist their carnal inclinations and desires, to
restrain their love for vanity and avarice, to free themselves from Luciferian bondage.
May I always glorify our Savior by constantly thinking of His Passion and Death with all
the touching redemptive details so that I do not encourage the demons to rise up their
pride against God and the Church by my foul thoughts, speech, and acts, by my foul
ingratitude, forgetfulness, and carelessness. May the fruits of the Blood and Death of my
Redeemer to be realized to the fullest extent when I unite my sufferings and labor with
His Cross in order to repair the great damage done by my own sins and by the
ingratitude and ignorance of the others, and to minimize the devastation of wickedness,
to defeat the sons of perdition, to participate in making the world fertile again with
multiple fruits of virtues. Amen.

SPIRITUAL GROWTH WITH WORKS DONE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

O Lord, may all my actions, however small, be done for the love of God. May each of my
most insignificant works will obtain for me the divine gifts, an increase of the state of
blessedness for my soul, an increase of clearness and insight of the divine mysteries
and perfections, an increase of soundness of my mortal body, an increase of
impassibility against human corruption and demonic influence, an increase of effort,
zeal, strength to serve, an increase of sublicity to penetrate by exemplary life and
speech, an increase of apprehension and possession of the highest and most infinitely
sublime the Precious Body and Blood of Christ, an increase of tranquility and
detachment from all worldly desires or concerns, and finally the fruition of all divine gifts
in the perfecting of my human love imitating the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ
and the Immaculate Heart of blessed Mother. Amen.

THY WILL BE DONE, THY KINGDOM COMES

My Lord, my God, grant me Your most efficacious sweetness of the divine Love and
immense liberality of God whenever I am submissive to the free overflowing of divine
graces. But correct my faults with lessons in tribulation and punishment if I ignore Your
Will while preferring earthly and dangerous desires in place of true and heavenly
blessings. The inclination of Your holy and perfect Will is to bless not to afflict creatures,
to console not to cause sorrow, to reward not to chastise, to rejoice not to grieve us, but
we human mortals are slow, coarse, uneducated, uncultivated, full of evil inclinations,
barren in themselves, naturally unfit for a loving and sweet communion with the perfect
Being and highest Good. Therefore, regenerate us, O Lord, through adversities and
sufferings, refine us through the crucibles of tribulations, make us more suitable to
recognize and to be acquiescent to the divine gifts and learn to despise terrestrial and
fallacious goods where temptations and death are concealed. If I consider my own
sufferings are redemptive for souls, the measuring stick of my love for the Lord, the
powerful means to conquer the devil, the pure sign of spiritual advancement, I must
count for little all that I endure as I believe the generosity of the heavenly Father and His
goodness. I must join the militant Church with my own free will without complaints,
without retreat to fight for His cause and His holy Name. Grant me Your holy assistance,
O Lord, through my prayers for myself and for all Your children. May I consider it is my
privilege or sacred duty to deprive myself of heavenly felicity in order to gain fruits of my
labors, perseverance, sufferings for the love of the Almighty and for all I owe to His
divine goodness which has raised me up from the grave of sins. May I motivate myself
to rise up to defend the holy Church currently so disconsolate with tribulations, and none
of her children is willing to console her. May I desire to labor strenuously, ready to suffer
in prayers and supplications, in tearful lamentation from the bottom of my heart to God.
May I be willing to give up my life if it is deemed necessary. May I imitate Blessed
Mother Mary in her constant laboring on earth to lead, to plead, to direct her children.
Let it be all for the glory and honor of the Most High God, the King of all ages, and for
the most Blessed Mary our sorrowful Mother through all eternities. Amen.
PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT

My God the Holy Spirit, so great is Your love as You are Love, the Love of our Father
and of His beloved Son. Draw Your humble servant to Yourself, enclose my spirit and
soul in Your immense Light, let me share Your divine perfections, enrich me so that I
can serve You in the manner You have first designed for my lot. Come to me as You did
upon the apostles and the early heroic Christians, confer on me the same favors and
gifts as I am pledging to You to be a faithful child of the Church, of the Light and of the
Gospel so long as I live, with Your help. O my Lord, help me to prepare my soul and my
heart to receive You and Your blessings, to be always faithful, humble, sincere, pure,
and eager at heart to receive You. Make Your dwelling in me. Shine upon me so that I
will be capable of loving as there is no love for those who live in darkness. Without
radiance, there will be no love. May I be constantly in the state of grace to receive the
divine graces, the precious gifts from You which I desires so much. Teach me how to be
worthy, to be most suitable in receiving them with full effects. Hear my signs of
aspirations, O Lord. Enkindle my soul, enlighten my spirit, consume my heart and my
whole being with Your divine Fire to purge out all carnal desires and inferior debase
natures, purify me and raise me to a new existence, union, and participation with God in
worship. Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH

Dear Lord, your holy desire is always for the salvation of all Your children. That is
always Your mystery of the predestination of souls. Since the effects and benefits of our
Lord’s Redemption is overflowing and copious, sufficient of the salvation of all creatures
ever created, may Your Church be saved. Since the divine Truth of the holy Gospel was
made known to all but we have not heeded; remedy for sins given but we had rejected;
interior inspirations urged but we have shut our heart; have mercy on us as we are so
hardened at heart, deep in miseries and sins. Save us, O Lord, because we are sinners,
blinded and unguided without shepherds, unmatched against the evil ones. Instill in out
heart, first and foremost, the fear of the Lord, even by Your Justice if this is the last
resort to save our souls. Lord, grant us Your clemency and forgiveness as we are Your
children. By the sorrowful Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on
us. By the blood-mingled tears of blessed Virgin, have mercy on us. You lowly servant
realizes that we have despised Your warnings, abused Your Goodness, committed
malice and vengeance, but he begs You to multiply Your abundant graces toward few
worthy souls. Your humble servant also recognizes that without penance, there shall be
no grace; without reform no pardon; without pardon no glory; but for the sake of the few
righteous ones, withhold no mercy from us all, O Lord. But grant us Your saving grace to
Your Church so that from a few sparks, the divine Fire can be rekindled to purify the
whole Church. Amen.

EARNEST DESIRES OF A MARIAN DISCIPLE

Dearest and Most Blessed Mother, teach me to perceive all things, not through my own
senses, but through you, the human wisdom of the eternal God. Remind me to act with
prudence, deliberate considerations and counsels, not immediately reacting to
circumstances. Help me to grow spiritually so that I might conquer all animal passions
and inclinations in order to live in righteousness and with the capacity of reason, with
divine enlightenment instead of impulses of passion. May I always consider injuries and
pains of others first, not my own sufferings, and also make the latter become the source
of my love and redemptive offerings to God. May I never seek vengeance against the
others’ wrong-doings but forgiveness and complete and total submission to the Will of
God. May I use the shield of fraternal charity to defend my soul from the attack of the
devil and his worldly cohorts with concupiscence of the eyes, movement of flesh, pride
and self-interests. May I not follow the diabolic darkness as light, bitterness of passion
as sweet, deadly poison of vengeance and criticism as medicine of my soul, earthly
ignorance and blindness as wisdom. Please help me, Mother, to guard my emotions, to
slowly resolve in everything, to completely govern me on senses or sensible matters, to
take immediate counsel with you, to seek the Light from the communication with God, to
seek guidance from the Holy Spirit, to seek advices form superiors and teachers, to
consider even the advices from the youth or inferiors as more secure than my own
understanding. Most of all, help me to resist my passions in order to apply a Christian
fraternal charity in all things, often to do the opposites or bear with patience and
kindness in all circumstances, and never lose the sight of the Lord’s Passion and Death
and your own Cross, for these memories will bring out deeper repentance which in turn
bring about more fervent love in me. I love you, Mother. Pray for us. Amen.

ON REDEMPTIVE PRAYER

Dearest Mother, I pray that I will put forward sincere and utmost efforts in prayers and
petitions, in sufferings and sacrifices, for the salvation of souls, in order to imitate you
most perfectly and in order to love God in real service, not just lip service. May I be most
willing to suffer all the Lord sends me for this cause, pray and labor constantly to prevent
sins in my neighbors. May the cause of saving souls consume my soul as I equate it to
the love of God. May I not lose faith in praying but persevere in my effort. May I return to
prayer again and again regardless of my physical inclination, out of my ardent love for
my Redeemer and for you, out of ardent charity for my brethrens. The Most High God is
always moved by this kind of charity which is reserved for Him and for a sinner’s
neighbors. May I be ardently burnt with the love to save souls, to stop sins, to defeat and
frustrate the demons and their plans. The Lord does not desire the death of a sinner. (
Ez.33:11) He wills to save them all. I pray that this holy Will of the Most High be done in
all men, all things, at all times. In order to seek the Lord’s full attention and inclination
upon my petition, I must be earnest in my requests and exert all my efforts to preserve
myself, to show that after exerting my whole strength and will, I plead for His assistance,
just as a drowning man begging for a rope. I realize that temptations and passions are
always strong during my lifetime to induce me into sin but there is no merit if there is no
struggle, I beg you, Mother, to remind me the following points with acute pains, agonies,
and sorrows any time I fail you and our Lord: 1) your sorrows and tears crying for the
loss of souls and your burning desire to stop all the offenses against the Lord; 2) your
desire to receive joy from your children and disciples whom you personally teach all
mysteries and wisdoms; 3) your holy and immense desire to please your divine Son and
accomplish His holy Will; 4) your greatest disappointment on my sinning after I am so
blessed with graces and knowledge of the Truth. May I ponder all these points in my
heart, be always vividly enlivened in my soul and my mind in order to inspire myself to
do good, to serve the Lord well. May I remember well your teachings, your counsels,
your maternal care, your sorrow, your tears, the Gift of Sacrifice of you beloved Son, His
most precious Body and Blood, His bloody Passion and Sufferings, His ignominous
Death on the Cross. May I offer Him many grateful and worthy returns. Amen.

THE INTERPRETATION OF OUR FATHER PRAYER

Dear Lord, by the inspiration and intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mother, may I feel
obliged at all times to care for all Your children as all my brothers and sisters of the
same eternal Father. May I be more willing to assist in their salvations by my unceasing
prayers and supplications. May I myself, who is nourished by the Christian Faith and
benefited by Your liberal Hand, be more generous in helping my less fortunate brethren
to know and to love You, to intercede for them the same divine grace and mercy that
You have liberally bestowed upon this ungrateful creature. May I follow the law of our
Lord Jesus Christ in sharing all my temporal advantages to my unfortunate brothers.
May I seek not the life of ease, but the life of cares and true earnest labor to further Your
kingdom on earth, to ease others’ sufferings, and to save souls. May I be more
concerned with the ruin of the flock of Christ, who are deserted and wandering without
shepherds. May I be motivated in defeating our infernal enemies with no regard of my
own well-being or carnal interests. May serving You and Your glory be the constant
praises upon my lips, seen through my actions and labor. May Your cause presently
neglected be carried out with more fervent dedication. May I receive Your grace and
strength to bring souls back to Your possession. May I disregard my own interest and
preservation but rely totally on You and live for You alone. May my heart be broken
while witnessing the Truth being obscured, avarice unbridled, the Blood of Christ
trodden under foot, the fruits of Redemption held in contempt. May I plunge my whole
being and my existence into Your service while realizing that not many wish to risk their
own comfort and interest in order to save what has cost our Savior His Blood and His
life. May I make use of the holy charity and my free will, with my utmost capability for the
sake of souls and for the sake of Your and blessed Mother’s Passion. May I turn Your
agony into joy with my sacrifices. May I bring You comfort in my laboring. May I adore
my Lord and King in following Him to glean some remaining grapes and grains in His
Field of harvest. May I always hear blessed Mother’s words echoed in my soul, “ How it
is possible, my child, to have a true love for my divine Son and for me if you find
consolation and rest in your heart at the sight of the loss of souls, which He redeemed
by His Blood and I have sought with blood-mingled tears? “ May I weep instead over the
great loss of souls and the calamities threatening the Church. May I become sorrowful
to merit Your merciful inclination upon us. May my lamentation become so deep that I
find no relief except in afflictions for the sake of the Lord Whom I love above all and Who
still carries His Cross alone. May I find strength to pray without ceasing for blessed
Mother’s intercession for the salvation of my brothers. May the labors and tribulations
sent to me be not obstacles but the manifestations of His divine Will for me to help my
brothers acquiring the possession of Christ. May I persevere in holiness and purity to
recompense some the injuries caused by the others’ sins and my own. May I defend the
souls in peril in purity and Faith, for the honor and glory of God and for His heavenly
Kingdom. Dearest Mother, please bless me. Amen.

ACQUIESCENCE TO THE GRACE OF CONVERSION

O Lord, incline upon me with Your bounty to pardon this great sinner, to raise him up,
restore him in friendship and grace. In my part, I pray to cooperate and respond
perfectly to Your call. My soul the Lord wakes up and urges on by His divine inspiration
and help, may I persevere in justification by beginning and finishing my life-long
conversion totally in spirit, not in flesh. May I imitate Saint Paul in earnestly imploring
You, “ Lord, what is it Thou wish to do with me?” and, “ What shall I do for Thee?”
Rebuke me, O Lord, if I do not proclaim this sincerely with my whole heart, if I retain
occasionally some love of myself, of honor, of earthly possessions, of sensual pleasures
and comforts, of some occasions of sin. But do lift me up again, Lord, when I stumble
and fall for I am weak and feeble. May I cooperate fully to Your call, depart from all and
entirely from all my evil dispositions and self-seeking, but placing myself entirely at Your
service. With a sincerity of a contrite and humble heart, I now renounce my own free will
and deliver myself to You, O God, resolve from this moment forward to permit none of
my faculties of mind or sense to serve the animal or sensual life. May I serve You in
whatever manner or direction You please, ready to execute Your Will without delay or
question. Purge my heart of all impurities, insincerities, reluctance, and inconstancy.
Forgive me, Lord, as I fall short of Your expectation, but with Your manifold wondrous
favors, I will strive to serve You. May I completely forget the visible, apparent, and
deceitful world, and repeat very often with my heart, “ Lord, what do Thou wish to do
with me? “, resist my own desire, and seek solely the Will of God. Amen.

(Feast of Conversion of Saint Paul, 1-24-08)

THE BATTLE CRY

Dear Lord, to glorify You in battle, to preserve myself in grace, I desire blessed Mother’s
constancy and invincible fortitude with which she vanquished the demons. In realizing
that human nature is subject to contrary and opposite inclinations, prone to fatigue and
lukewarmness, I implore Your grace to practice virtues, to frustrate the evil ones, to
combat for vulnerable souls, to be victorious in long-enduring tire and labor, all for the
love of You, my Lord and Savior. I truly believe that You faithfully support my weakness
with Your grace and Strength, therefore, it is inexcusable for me to retreat. To retreat is
to betray You, to behave like an unbeliever without Faith. May I march forward on the
straight path of holy duty, humbly but forcefully, calmly and constantly, thwarting off all
diabolic astuteness and suggestions, bent of my own passions and sentiments, sensible
pleasures or displeasures, disagreeableness of mortifications and hardships. May I
have no regard for my health and life except the eternal salvation of others, so dear to
You. May I not be worldly-minded as it is very abominable in Your sight. If I am weak in
doing good but strong in evil, I had become the devil’s slave. If I disregard the laws and
commands of God, I had assisted the devil in destroying mankind, in bluffing his pride
blasphemy, and furor. I must not be tardy in the work of saving souls, or eager in sliding
toward the hellish abyss. Help me to profess a life of perfection after duly considering all
the hardships attached to such a life as sweet offerings to God. I detest in giving the
devil many victories in temptations, I despise his haughty pride, may I be faithful to You,
never betray or deny You, or cause You and our Mother any sadness. Make me strong
and fervent, O Lord, in prayers and petitions, and in tears. May I rely in the holy
Sacraments as the most powerful means to drive away the demons from myself and
from souls whom I pray for. May the Most Blessed Sacrament of the holy Eucharist,
frequently received with much veneration, devotion, and piety, be the most powerful
weapons to instill the greatest terrors and agonies on the demons in order to win souls
over Your camp. Lord, grant me the grace to magnify the hidden effect of the Body and
Blood of Your Divine Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to shine the brightest Light overcoming
the receding darkness which covers this sinful world. Queen of martyrs and saints,
please hear our sincere petition and pray for us. Amen.

PRAYER FOR PRIESHOOD

Dearest Mother, please forgive me for my monstrous abominations I have committed in

giving no or insufficient reverence to our priests who are the anointed representatives
and ministers of Jesus our Lord on earth. May I learn to treat all priests of the Most High
with utmost holy reverence, human esteem and respect. May I support them and their
ministry by my affection and prayers. I pray that their holy poverty and heaven-minded
life and conduct will be the sources of inspiration to all Christians. I pray that all worldly
riches will have no hold on their opinions and disposition, and most of all, on their
spiritual dignity which is ordained by God Himself. May I serve them whenever being
called as my true masters. I will try, Mother, to make up for our faults as far as possible
to restore the dignity of the priesthood. I will adore the hands which consecrate the
common bread and wine, which elevate the precious Body and Blood of our Redeemer.
May I always remember your words, “Great was my dignity of the Mother of God; yet I
often prostrate myself at their (priests) feet and consider it a great happiness to kiss the
ground on which they trod.” Mother, please bless our beloved priests. May each one of
them be endeared as my true father to me. Amen.
DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME

My dearest Lord Jesus and dearest Mother, throughout my life, I should gratefully
remember all the details of the Works of Redemption of our Lord Jesus Christ, His
Passion and His Death. I must envision my Redeemer agonizing and offering His
Sacrifice on the Cross. May my soul be immersed in the vast ocean of anguishes while
meditating and reliving the last Hour of the Lord’s mortal life, with all its intense
sufferings. I earnestly desire this knowledge, vivid visions and intense feelings to
comfort You, my Lord and my beloved Mother, for the monstrous forgetfulness,
indifference, and ingratitude of men on the incomprehensible benefits and effects of our
Lord’s Redemptive Sacrifice. Forgetfulness of favors and gifts is a clear proof of
contempt. Thus, I beg Your forgiveness as my soul stoops sinfully and shamefully
before You for my lack of devotion and gratitude. What can I do to repay the Love of our
heavenly Father Who has delivered His only-begotten Son to death for our sake, the
sake of unworthy and despicable sinners? I would merit an eternal damnation in hell for
this great offense alone if not for His unbounding mercy and kindness. May I piously
cherish the memory of the holiest Passion to extinguish the contempt and pride the devil
and his cohorts have while lavishing their blows upon the poor souls who, like myself,
have ignored and disregarded as significant the Sufferings and Death, the Cross and
Redemption of our Lord and Savior. May my soul plunge itself into the abyss of sorrows,
repentance, anguishes, and love to do penance for my dreadful offense and if I could, I
would beg our Savior and our most Sorrowful Mother undeservingly the grace for my
sinful and ignorant brothers to be keenly aware of their monstrous ignorance and lack of
loving devotions. Help me, a helpless creature, to stop this offense by keeping myself
pure, chaste, and more meritable to God from one holy Communion to the next. Grant
me the means and dedication for purification of my soul and body in order to implore
effectively the divine grace and also to exemplify the life of a faithful servant and of a
true Christian to my misguided or unguided neighbors. Dearest Mother, bless me to
fortify my will in the practice of virtues. Grant me the divine Light to long for nothing but
the Body and Blood of Christ as nobody but Himself is worthy and precious for men to
possess. I now ask all the angels and saints in the heavenly Court to help me in praying
the holy Mass in the most glorifying and praise-worthy manner to the Almighty God, and
to receive the preciousBread of Heaven most reverently and lovingly. I present myself
spiritually before the Throne of the Most High with head down, heart open, spirit filled,
love outpouring, my whole being completely emptied to beg Him solicitously and
remorsefully for mercy and forgiveness. Lord, have mercy on me, a wretched sinner.
Mother, intercede for me. Amen.

LIVE THE MASS:

Do This in Remembrance of Me
Receive My Eucharist in remembrance of Me.
Receive My people in memories of Me.
Feed them for memories of Me.
Clothe them for memories of Me.
Shelter them for memories of Me.
Help them for memories of Me.
Love them in memories of Me.
Forgive them in memories of Me.
Lead them in memories of Me.
Teach them in memories of Me.
Console them in memories of Me.
Saddened with them in memories of Me.
Cry for them in memories of Me.
Pray for them in memories of Me.
And remember that I love them and I now plead for them.

MEDITATION ON MOST UNFORTUNATE SOULS

Woe to those who ignore the hour of death,

Woe to those who do not meditate on the Judgment Court of the rigorous Judge,
Woe to those who are forgetful of the eternal life,
Woe to those who are deceived by the demons with absurd fallacies of atheism, of non-
existence of hell and eternal punishments,
Woe to fool who lives without the thought of death,
Woe to the blind who does not believe in the eternity of his souls,
Woe to those who have received much and paid little as their accounts must be paid in
full, as the Judge has been liberal to them,
Woe to those who will stand before Him empty-handed,
Woe to those who have been careless with their gifts and talents, they shall have to pay
in full for their indiligence and indifference. They shall have to pay in full what they owe
to their God, which is to utilize their blessings, to live their lives the best in all times and
all circumstances without any forgetfulness, intermission, or carelessness of the divine
generosities. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for my short-comings. Most holy and sorrowful
Mother, pray for us. Amen.

PRAYER FOR A HOLY DEATH

Dearest Mother, you are the Immaculate Conception, born without the effects of the
original sin, therefore, you did not have to pass through the portals of death, but you
chose to experience death at the end of your earthly life to imitate and to love your most
beloved Son most perfectly. Like you, may I satisfy the love I owe Him by choosing
death also, the carnal death to myself; death to all my earthly desires, temptations and
wants, death to my passions, my pride, my
self-love, my opinions, my self-worth, my image, my honor, my privileges and status;
death to everything, every enjoyment, every earthly joy but the love of Christ. The
punishment of the original sin is death. The medicine for controlling its poisonous effects
is mortification. Our Lord had lived His earthly life in His sacred but also most derided
humanity according to all human standards. If I wish to bear His likeness, I must live
such a life of frugality and derisions. My Lord and my Mother, grant me strength and
courage to live such a life of complete detachments. May I learn to suffer for Christ while
enjoying the heavenly delight and comfort stemming from willful sacrifices, laying down
my life for my Friend. May I live a holy life of which continuation is a holy death. I was
born with the bondage of the original sin, may I live free of that bondage, to destroy its
destructive effects by realizing that every day new desires, new temptations, and new
passions can only chain my soul with new burdens and fetters under the tyranny of my
hellish foes. May I live a carnal death so that when my physical death comes, I will be in
the perfect union with my Savior and my Mother. I invoke your holy Name Mary now for
the grace of a holy death. I beg you to bless me with a purer and simpler life, and your
Advocacy on my behalf before the tribunal of the divine Mercy and Justice. In return, I
pledge to venerate you in the special devotion to your Assumption and your Imitation of
the Lord by your holy Death. Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE GRACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Lord the Holy Spirit, engrave in my heart the following truths concerning mortal men:
labors for worldly riches while neglecting their spiritual poverty, covetousness of the
eyes while being blinded to heavenly beauties, pride of life while not to see the eternal
glory, desires of flesh while dimming the radiance of grace, transitory pleasures while
putting an end to ever-lasting happiness, sowing earthly fortunes while reaping their
misfortunes the life-after, cares for excessive carnal joys only to lament for the ruins of
their souls. Amen.

THE SOLEMNITY OF MOTHER OF GOD

Mother of God, help us to know, to love, and to serve the Lord.

Mother of heavenly Bliss, teach us to give thanks and praise.
Mother of sorrows, may we bring you joy by constantly imploring your help.
Mother of joy, help us to be sorrowful to sin.
Mother of our Advocate, be ready to guide and assist your children.
Mother of grace, intercede for us heavenly favors, teach us the great Prayer of Mass.
Mother of clemency, implore the Almighty for mercies and pardons for our sins.
Mother of glory, magnify the Lord our Creator and Savior on our behalf.
Mother of intercessory Power, protect us with your maternal love.
Mother of miracles, grant us the miracle of transformation by selfless charity.
Mother of assistance, readily heed us whenever we call your glorious and blessed name
MARY.
Mother of the Most High, may we greatly revere you simply for your most sublime and
highest Title.
Mother of the Church, favor us generously, help us liberally to conform to the teachings
of the Church and in propagation of Faith.
Mother of families, be the patroness of all our families, encourage us how to love and
pray together.
Mother of souls, bring us to the everlasting friendship and sonship with God. Amen.
MARY, MOST HOLY AND SORROWFUL MOTHER, PRAY FOR US