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From the revelations of St. Gertrude
St. Gertrude's Guardian Angel Prayer
A Prayer Which
Would Release 1,000 Souls ...
To make amends for the way I previously lived, I offer you, most loving Father, all the sufferings of your beloved Son, from that first infant cry as he lay on the hay in the manger, until that final movement when, bowing his head, with a mighty voice, Christ gave up his spirit. I think, as I make this offering, of all that he underwent, his needs as a baby, his dependence as a young child, the hardships of youth and the trials of early manhood.
To atone for all my neglect I offer, most loving Father, all that your only-begotten Son did during his life, whether in thought, word or deed.
And now, as an act of thanksgiving, I praise and worship you, Father, in deepest humility for you most loving kindness and mercy. Though I was hurrying to my eternal loss, your thoughts of me were thoughts of peace and not of affliction, and you lifted me up with so many great favors.
Finally, you drew me to yourself by your faithful promises of the good things you would give me from the hour of my death. So great are these promises that for their sake alone, even if you had given me nothing besides, my heart would sigh for you always and be filled with a lively hope.
St. Gertrude's Guardian Angel Prayer
O most holy angel of God, appointed by God to be my guardian, I give you thanks for all the benefits which you have ever bestowed on me in body and in soul. I praise and glorify you that you condescended to assist me with such patient fidelity, and to defend me against all the assaults of my enemies. Blessed be the hour in which you were assigned me for my guardian, my defender and my patron. In acknowledgement and return for all your loving ministries to me, I offer you the infinitely precious and noble heart of Jesus, and firmly purpose to obey you henceforward, and most faithfully to serve my God. Amen.
A prayer which would release 1,000 souls from Purgatory each time it is said
Our Lord told St. Gertrude the Great that the following prayer would
release 1,000 souls from Purgatory each time it is said. The prayer was later extended to
include living sinners as well. The Approval and Recommendation below does NOT include
this extension.
"ETERNAL FATHER, I OFFER THEE THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF
THY DIVINE SON, JESUS, IN UNION WITH THE MASSES SAID THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TODAY, FOR ALL
THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY, FOR SINNERS EVERYWHERE, FOR SINNERS IN THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH, Those
in my own home and within my family. Amen."
APPROVAL AND RECOMMENDATION
(sqd.) M. Cardinal Pahiarca at Lisbon, Portugal, on March 4, 1936
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