|
ALTERNATIVE
PROGRAMS AND PRAYERS
|
|
|
| |
| |
| The
fifteen decades of the Rosary require only three hours.
Another two hours will be filled with the two Masses.
This leaves three or four additional hours to be planned. |
| |
| Those
hours may include a penitential service, acts of consecration,
reading of the promises of the Sacred Hearts, Chaplet
of Mercy, etc. |
| |
|
Various
books are available for appropriate readings and
prayers. Practices of Piety, published by Two Hearts
Media, is an excellent vigil booklet widely used
in the Philippines. It is based on the nine offices
of the Sacred Hearts.
|
| |
|
One
practice particularly appropriate at each vigil
is to repeat, before the Blessed Sacrament, the
first Friday-Saturday promises of their Sacred Hearts:
|
| |
|
Promises
of the Sacred Heart
|
| |
| Jesus
Himself made the following 12 promises to St.
Margaret Mary: |
| |
|
|
|
1)
|
|
I
will give them all the graces necessary in their
state of life. |
| |
|
|
|
2)
|
|
I
will establish peace in their homes. |
| |
|
|
|
3)
|
|
I
will comfort them in all their afflictions. |
| |
|
|
|
4)
|
|
I
will be their secure refuge during life, and
above all in death. |
| |
|
|
|
5)
|
|
I
will bestow abundant blessings upon all their
undertakings. |
| |
|
|
|
6)
|
|
Sinners
will find in My Heart the source and the infinite
ocean of mercy. |
| |
|
|
|
7)
|
|
Tepid
souls shall become fervent. |
| |
|
|
|
8)
|
|
Fervent
souls shall quickly mount to high perfection. |
| |
|
|
|
9)
|
|
I
will bless every place in which an image of
My Heart shall be exposed and honored. |
| |
|
|
|
10)
|
|
I
will give to priests the gift of touching the
most hardened hearts. |
| |
|
|
|
11)
|
|
Those
who shall promote this devotion shall have their
names written in My Heart, never to be effaced. |
| |
|
|
|
12)
|
|
I
promise you in the excessive mercy of My Heart
that My all-powerful love will grant to all
those who communicate on the first Friday in
nine consecutive months, the grace of final
penitence; they shall not die in My disgrace
nor without receiving the Sacraments. My Divine
Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last
moment. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The
Five First Saturdays
|
| |
| Our
Lady said at Pontevedra: I promise to assist
at the hour of death, with the graces needed,
whoever on the First Saturday of five consecutive
months shall: |
|
|
|
|
|
1)
|
|
Confess
and receive Holy Communion; |
|
|
|
|
|
2)
|
|
Recite
five decades of the Rosary; |
|
|
|
|
|
3)
|
|
Keep
Me company for fifteen minutes while meditating
on the mysteries of the Rosary; |
|
|
|
|
|
4)
|
|
Have
the intention of making reparation to Me. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Meaning
of the Promises
|
| |
| The
first Friday promise of the Sacred Heart is that we
will die in the State of Grace. The first Saturday
promise of the immaculate Heart is that we shall not
only die in the State of Grace, but Our Lady will
"assist" (be present) with all the graces
and help necessary. (Many consider this to be a promise
of a peaceful transition.) |
| |
| Two
years after Our Lady appeared at Fatima and said,
"I will come to ask for Communions of Reparation
on the first Saturday," in a rescript in his
own hand Pope Benedict XV granted a plenary indulgence
at the hour of death, under the condition of contritely
invoking the name of Jesus, to "those who for
once in their lifetime perform some special exercises
of devotion in honor of the Blessed Virgin Immaculate,
in order to make atonement for the blasphemies whereby
the name and prerogatives of the Blessed Virgin are
reviled, ON THE FIRST SATURDAYS of eight consecutive
months." |
| |
|
It
was eighteen years after the Holy Father granted
this indulgence that Our Lady came to ask for the
five first Saturdays and to maker Her great promise
of Her assistance at the hour of death for those
who complete this devotion.
|
| |
|
OTHER
PRAYERS
|
| |
|
|
| Prayers
Taught at Fatima |
| Chaplet
of Divine Mercy |
| Prayers
From the Mass of St. John |
| Stations
of the Cross |
| Liturgical
Night Prayers |
|
|
| Psalm
76 God's Holiness and Power |
| Psalm
85 A Plea in Greatest Need |
| Jeremiah
14:9 |
| Luke
2:29-32 |
| From
February 2 Through Wednesday of Holy Week |
| Litany
of the Sacred Heart |
| Consecration
of the Human Race To The Sacred Heart of Jesus |
| Meditation
Before The Blessed Sacrament |
| Hymn...."Praise
To The Lord" |
| First
Reading...Isaiah 2:2-5 - Recitation of Psalm 61 |
| Second
Reading...Matthew 5:1-12 - Recitation of Psalm 111 |
| Priest:
Homily - Recitation of Psalm 121 - Hymn: God Is Love |
| Blessed
Sacrament Procession - Hymn: Jesus, My Lord |
| Rosary
Hymns |
| Procession
With Our Lady's Statue - Hymn: Hail, Holy Queen, Immaculate
Mary |
| Matins
- Liturgical Morning Prayers, Little Office of The
Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Psalm
95 |
| Psalm
96 |
| Psalm
97 |
| The
Lord's Prayer |
| Lector--Lesson
1: Little Office of Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Lector--Lesson
2: Little Office of Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Lector--Lesson
3: Little Office of Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Te
Deum |
| Scripture
Service in Honor of Sacred Heart: Reading from John
14-17 |
| Lauds
From Office of the Blessed Sacrament |
| Benedictus |
| Closing
Prayers |
| Prayer
To The Blessed Mother |
| Hymn:
Humbly We Adore Thee |
| World
Consecration To the Immaculate Heart of Mary |
| Litany
of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Benediction
- Hymn: Down In Adoration (Tantum Ergo Sacramentum) |
| Brief
Rosary Meditations |
| Prayer
of the Pious Union |
| Special
Vigil In Honor of God The Father |
| The
Rosary of the Father |
| Litany
of the Father |
| |
