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Catholic Prayers
Prayer after Mass
The Anima Christi, "Soul of Christ," dates from the early fourteenth century. It was a favoriteof St. Ignatius of Loyola, who placed it at the beginning of his Spiritual Exercises, and theRoman Missal printed it among the prayers of thanksgiving offered to the priest after Mass,so that priest and people…
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Prayer after Receiving Holy Communion
The moments after Holy Communion are the most precious of the day. Christ is trulypresent within us, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, for as long as the sacred species remain,which spiritual writers reckoned at about a quarter of an hour. The saints insisted on afervent thanksgiving. St. Philip Neri,…
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Prayers of the Priest while Vesting
WA S H I NG O F T H E H A N D SDa, Domine, virtutem manibus meis ad abstergendam omnem maculam; ut sine pollutione mentis etcorporis valeam tibi servire.Give virtue to my hands, O Lord, to wipe away every stain, that I may be able to serve Theewithout…
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Saints
The Most Holy Trinity / Dogma
Taught by: Council of Nicaea (325); First Council of Constantinople (381); the AthanasianCreed · Scripture: Matthew 28:19; John 14–16 The one God is three distinct Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. EachPerson is fully God, yet there are not three gods but one God, one divine nature,…
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St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Feast: October 3 · Patroness of the missions Thérèse Martin, the youngest daughter of the saintly Louis and Zélie Martin, entered theCarmelite convent of Lisieux at only fifteen, with special permission she had begged for inperson from Pope Leo XIII. She never left the cloister, never did anything that seemedremarkable,…
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St. John Vianney
Feast: August 9 · Patron of parish priests John Vianney struggled so badly with Latin that he nearly failed out of the seminary, andhis superiors ordained him only because of his evident goodness. In 1818 he was sent toArs, a small and spiritually careless French village, as its parish priest.…
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Catechism
What Is a Sacrament?
A Sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace.This short definition, learned by generations of Catholic children from the Baltimore Catechism,contains the whole of sacramental theology in seed. Each of its three parts is essential.A sacrament is an outward sign: something perceptible to the senses, which signifies…
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Emergency Baptism
Because Baptism is necessary for salvation, Our Lord made its administration as simple aspossible. In danger of death, when no priest or deacon can be had, anyone may and shouldbaptize: a parent, a nurse, a doctor, a midwife, even a person who is not Catholic or not baptized,provided he intends…
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Preparing for a Sick Call
When a Catholic is seriously ill, the priest should be called at once, while the sick person isstill conscious and able to make a good confession and to receive Holy Communion with devotion.The worst kindness a family can show is to delay "so as not to frighten him." The lastsacraments…
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