The Most Reverend Monsignor Joseph Ambrosio to be Honored by the Sandu Mangehsi Society in Hawthorne, New Jersey

Dear Confratelli and Consorelle,

Our esteemed chaplain The Most Reverend Monsignor Joseph Ambrosio, who tirelessly serves as our Delegations Vicar for Priests, will be receiving the Honorary Sandu Manghesi of the Year award at the Sandu Mangehsi Society's 5th Annual Dinner Dance on Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 6:30pm.  The event will be hosted at Macaluso's (55 Fourth Avenue, Hawthorne, NJ 07506).  Vice Delegate Cav. Patrick O'Boyle has arranged for a Delegation table.  If anyone is interested in attending, please let Ms. Stephanie Gordon (sgordon@smocsg.org) know by Friday, September 6, 2019.

IHSV

Happy Feast of Santa Patrizia!

Prayer to Santa Patrizia

God our Father, enable us who honor the memory of Santa Patrizia, virgin and co-patroness of Naples, to share with her in the joy of eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen

Missa Cantata for the Feast of St. Pius X in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn

Happy Feast of St. Helen!

Prayer to St. Helen

Dear Saint Helen, Empress, we are told that many years after the Crucifixion of Jesus, you traveled to the Holy Land, searching ceaselessly for the True Cross on which Our Lord died. Legend has it that you did indeed excavate this holy relic, the image of our salvation. I venerate your memory and the burning devotion to the crucified Creator which you displayed. Help us all hold the Cross always in our hearts, remembering that Our Savior died, hanging on the cross, in expiation for all of our sins. Please, Saint Helen, pray to God for me, and help me to be reminded each time I see a cross, of the epochal sacrifice made for us, and the sweet salvation gained for us, by Jesus, Man, Son of God, and God Himself, in the divine mystery of the Holy Trinity. Amen

Happy Feast of San Rocco!

Prayer to St. Rocco

O Great St. Rocco, deliver us, we beseech you, from contagious diseases, and the contagion of sin. Obtain, for us, a purity of heart which will assist us to make good use of health, and to bear sufferings with patience. Teach us to follow your example in the practice of penance and charity, so that we may, one day enjoy the happiness of being with Christ, Our Savior, in Heaven. Amen.

Happy Feast of the Madonna del Soccorso!

Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of your! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for your prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Amen

In Memory of King Francesco I di Borbone, on the Occasion of His Birthday

The Order remembers the birthday of our late Grand Master, HM Francesco I di Borbone, King of the Two Sicilies.

Happy Feast of Sant’Ippolito!

Prayer to Sant’Ippolito

Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that the examples of Sant’Ippolito may effectually move us to reform our lives; that while we celebrate his feast, we may also imitate his actions. Look upon our weakness, almighty God, and since the burden of our own deeds weighs heavily upon us, may the glorious intercession of Sant’Ippolito protect us. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Happy Feast of Santa Filomena!

Prayer to St. Philomena

O Saint Philomena, Virgin and Martyr, whom God glorifies by so many miracles, whom the Vicar of Jesus Christ has named the Protectress of The Living Rosary and the Children of Mary, manifest, more and more plainly from the heights of Heaven, that a voice holy as thine cannot be denied and that we have the right to rely upon thine aid. Obtain for us the grace to be faithful to Jesus Christ, even to death. Amen.

Happy Feast of San Domenico di Guzmán!

Prayer to Saint Dominic

I. O glorious Saint Dominic, thou who wast a model of mortification and purity, by punishing thy innocent body with scourges, with fastings, and with watchings, and by keeping inviolate the lily of thy virginity, obtain for us the grace to practice penance with a generous heart and to keep unspotted the purity of our bodies and our hearts.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be

II. O great Saint, who, inflamed with divine love, didst find thy delight in prayer and intimate union with God; obtain for us to be faithful in our daily prayers, to love Our Lord ardently, and to observe His commandments with ever-increasing fidelity.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be

III. O glorious Saint Dominic, who, being filled with zeal for the salvation of souls, didst preach the Gospel in season and out of season and didst establish the Order of Friars Preachers to labor for the conversion of heretics and poor sinners, pray thou to God for us, that He may grant us to love all our brethren sincerely and to cooperate always, by our prayers and good works, in their sanctification and eternal salvation.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be

V. Pray for us, Saint Dominic,

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.

Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we who are weighed down by the burden of our sins may be raised up by the patronage of blessed Dominic Thy Confessor. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Happy Feast of St. Alphonsus Liguori!

Prayer to St. Alphonsus Liguori

Glorious St. Alphonsus, loving Father of the poor and sick, all your life you devoted yourself, with a heroic charity, to lighten their spiritual and bodily miseries. Full of confidence in your tender pity for the sick, since you yourself patiently borne the cross of illness, I come to you for help in my present need… (Share your request…) Loving father of the suffering, St. Alphonsus, look with compassion upon me in my suffering. Ask God to give me good health. If it is not God’s will, then give me the strength to bear my cross patiently and to offer my sufferings with my crucified Savior and his Mother of Sorrows, for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, in reparation for my sins and those of others, for the needs of this troubled world, and the Holy Souls in purgatory. Amen.