Chair of Unity Octave VI
January
23, Sixth Day of the Chair of Unity Octave - Prayers for the
conversion of Freemasons, Occult and New Age Sects
Let
us Pray.
O Lord Jesus Christ, we implore the clemency of Thy Sacred Heart on behalf of those souls, made in the image and likeness of God, but most miserably deceived by the treacherous snares of Freemasonry and other satanic sects, and going more and more astray in the way of perdition. Let not the Church, Thy Spouse, any longer be oppressed by the domination of this Luciferian cult; but, appeased by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, Thy Mother, and the prayers of the just, be mindful of Thy infinite mercy; and, in spite of their perversity, cause these very men to return to Thee, that they may bring consolation to the Church by a profound humility, a most abundant penance, making reparation for their wicked persecution against the Kingdom of God on earth, the Holy Catholic Church, and thus secure for themselves a glorious eternity; Who livest and reignest, forever, unto ages of ages. Amen. (100 days, once a day.)
Let
us Pray.
Omnipotent
and Eternal God, Who desirest that none should perish, look upon the
souls deceived by the snares of the devil that the hearts of these
who have gone astray may again be restored to health. Hear the
prayers which we offer for the willful blindness of these
unbelievers, that recognizing the light of Thy truth, which is
Christ, they may be delivered from darkness. Stretch forth Thy hand
over this nation, which has embraced the wicked errors of
Freemasonry, that our countrymen may finally acknowledge Thy power
over them; that they may know Thee as we know Thee, for there is no
God but Thee, O Lord, and no other true Religion but the One, Holy,
Catholic, and Apostolic Faith, to which we submit ourselves with our
entire being, imploring the conversion of our nation. Hear the
prayers of Thy faithful servants, that all who inhabit our country
may know that Thou only art God, Who beholdest from age to age. Amen.
- V. May the
peoples confess Thee, O God.
R. May all nations acknowledge Thee.
Let
us pray.
Almighty
and everlasting God, Whose will it is that all men should be saved
and that none should perish, look upon the souls that have wickedly
elevated themselves to the divinity, through the foul abomination of
Freemasonic thinking and philosophy, and humble their prideful
hearts, in order that they may put aside all the perverseness of
heresy, and, being truly repentant, may return to the unity of Thy
truth. Through Christ Our Lord, Who livest and reignest with Thee and
the Holy Ghost, One God, forever, unto ages of ages. Amen.
(Three
Hail Mary's)
PRAYER
FOR THE CHURCH UNITY OCTAVE
Antiphon: "That they all may be one, as Thou, Father, in Me and I in Thee; that they also may be one in Us; that the world may believe that Thou has sent Me." (John 17: 21)
V.
I say unto thee that thou art Peter
R. And upon this Rock I will build My Church.
Let
us pray. O Lord Jesus Christ, Who saidst unto Thine Apostles: Peace I
leave with you, My peace I give unto you; regard not our sins, but
the faith of Thy Church, and vouchsafe to grant unto Her that peace
and unity which are agreeable to Thy Will. Who livest and reignest
God forever and ever. Amen.R. And upon this Rock I will build My Church.
An indulgence of 300 days during the octave of prayers for the unity of the Church, from the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter in Rome to the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. A Plenary Indulgence on the usual conditions at the end of the devout exercise.
Saint Raymond of Pennafort
Born in 1175 of a noble Spanish family,
Raymond, at the age of twenty, taught philosophy in Barcelona with
marvelous success. Ten years later his rare abilities won for him the
degree of Doctor in the University of Bologna, accompanied by many
high dignities. A tender devotion to our Blessed Lady, which had
increased within him from childhood, determined him in his mature
years to renounce all his honors and to enter Her Order of Saint
Dominic.
There a vision of the Mother of Mercy
instructed him to cooperate with his penitent Saint Peter Nolasco,
and with James, King of Aragon, in founding the Order of Our Lady of
Ransom for the redemption of captives. He began this great work by
preaching a crusade against the Moors, and by rousing to penance the
Christians enslaved in both soul and body by the infidels. The king
of Aragon, a man of great qualities but governed by a ruling passion,
often took Saint Raymond with him on his voyages. On one such
occasion, when they were visiting the island of Majorca, he was told
by the Saint he must put away at once the cause of his sin. When he
delayed, Raymond asked for leave to depart, since he could not live
in company with sin. The king refused and under pain of death,
forbade his conveyance by any ship. The Saint replied to the sailors,
If a mortal king has given such a command, we will see that the
Eternal King has disposed otherwise. Full of faith, he went out on a
rock extending into the sea, and spread his cloak upon the waters.
Tying one end of it to his staff as a sail, he made the sign of the
cross and fearlessly stepped upon it. In six hours he was borne to
Barcelona where, gathering up his cloak, which was dry, he made his
way to his monastery.
The king, vanquished by this miracle,
to which many were witness, became a sincere penitent and the
disciple of the Saint until his death. In 1230, Gregory IX summoned
Raymond to Rome, made him his confessor and grand penitentiary, and
directed him to compile The Decretals, a collection of the scattered
decisions of the Popes and Councils. Having refused the archbishopric
of Tarragon, Raymond was in 1238 chosen to be the third General of
his Order, which post he again succeeded in resigning, pleading his
advanced age. His first act when set free was to resume his labors
among the infidels, and in 1256 Raymond, then eighty-one, was able to
report that ten thousand Saracens had received Baptism. He died at
the age of one hundred years, in 1275.
Little Pictorial Lives of
the Saints, a compilation based on Butler's Lives of the
Saints and other sources by John Gilmary Shea (Benziger Brothers:
New York, 1894); Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by
Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 1