My God, grant me today five graces...

  "If you can not soar up as high as Christ sitting on His throne,

behold Him hanging on His cross. Rest in Christ's Passion and

live willingly in His holy wounds." ~ Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ

 

Angels Bearing Instruments of the Passion (detail) Rogier van der Weyden (+1464)

 

"Oh, my God, through the precious Blood of Jesus

and His five wounds,

grant me today five graces:  

the conversion of a sinner,

the conversion of an unbeliever, the salvation of someone

dying in peril of everlasting death; a vocation to the priesthood

or to the religious life; and, for some new soul, the grace

of entering into and savoring the mystery of the Eucharist."

 

Prayer of Elisabeth Leseur (+1914)

 

 

 

 

Let us especially be mindful of and in prayer for the hundreds of

Catechumens and Candidates who will fully enter the

Catholic Church and her sacramental life during the Easter Vigil.

John 10:10