"IT IS A GRAVE OFFENSE NOT TO WORK FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF HERESY WHEN THIS MONSTROUS INFECTION REQUIRES ACTION"
— Council of Vienne ♰♰♰


Friday, September 30, 2022

BergoLío's anti-doctrine disobeys God's First Commandment and rebels against the guidance of the Angel of the Lord

 



20 Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared.

21 Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him.

22 But if thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.

23 And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, whom I will destroy.

24 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.






Sancte Michael Archangele,
defende nos in proelio,
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli
esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur:
tuque, Princeps militiae coelestis,
Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos,
qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo,
divina virtute, in infernum detrude.
Amen.

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Prayer for St. Michael’s protection against any illness or evil

 

ASK FOR GOD’S ANGELIC COMMANDER TO GUARD YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FROM BOTH SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL DANGER.

St. Michael the Archangel has been widely known for his angelic protection, both physical and spiritual. Numerous Christians have invoked his heavenly aid over the centuries, and many miracles have occurred through his intercession.
He was frequently called upon during the deadly medieval plagues and most recently was invoked in Monte Gargano at the site of an ancient apparition for protection against COVID-19.
Here is a prayer from the Raccolta that asks for St. Michael’s protection against any illness or evil, recalling his role as heavenly guardian and commander.
Michael, glorious Prince chief and champion of the heavenly host, guardian of the souls of men. conqueror of the rebel angels, steward of the palace of God, under Jesus Christ our worthy captain, endowed with superhuman excellence and virtue, vouchsafe to free us all from every ill (evil), who with full confidence have recourse to you; and by your incomparable protection enable us to make progress each day in the faithful service of our God.


The Chaplet of St. Michael 

The Feast of the Dedication of the Archangel St. Michael

Friday, September 23, 2022

Bergoglio's heretical views contradict the teachings of Padre Pio

 



Padre Pio proselytized to convert various Masons, atheists, communists, Protestants, and Russian Orthodox to Catholicism.

Whereas anti-Pope Bergoglio teaches the blasphemous heresy of religious indifferentism: Bergoglio professes the heretical view that trying to convert Orthodox is a "great sin against ecumenism."



New martyr of Tradition. Obsessive Persecution of a spiritual child of Padre Pio by Bergoglio regime.



Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Novena Prayer to St. Michael

 


St. Francis de Sales: 
"Veneration of St. Michael is the greatest remedy against despising the rights of God, against insubordination, skepticism and infidelity" 




(Pray for nine consecutive days)

Saint Michael the Archangel, loyal champion of God and His Catholic people, I turn to thee with confidence and seek thy powerful intercession. For the love of God, Who hast made thee so glorious in grace and power, and for the love of the Mother of Jesus, the Queen of the Angels, be pleased to hear my prayer.

Thou knowest the value of my soul in the eyes of God. May no stain of evil ever disfigure its beauty. Help me to conquer the evil spirit who tempts me. I desire to imitate thy loyalty to God and Holy Mother Church and thy great love for God and men. And since thou art God’s messenger for the care of His people, I entrust to thee this special request: (here mention your request).

Saint Michael, since thou art, by the will of the Creator, the powerful intercessor of Christians, I have great confidence in thy prayers. I earnestly trust that if it is God’s holy will, my petition will be granted.

Pray for me, Saint Michael, and also for those I love. Protect us in all dangers of body and soul. Help us in our daily needs. Through thy powerful intercession, may we live a holy life, die a happy death and reach Heaven where we may praise and love God with thee forever. Amen.

Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory Be.

St. Michael, Guardian of souls, Vanquisher of rebel spirits, Pray for us.


The archangel Saint Michael will lead the fight against Satan during the end times


Daniel 12:1 
But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until that time. And at that time shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found written in the book. 

Monday, September 19, 2022

Bergoglio denies basic facts of the Christian faith

 


When Francis addressed priests and religious in Kazakhstan on 15 September, he denied basic facts of the Christian faith.


This was his claim: ⚠️"The faith has not been handed down from generation to generation as a set of ideas to be understood and followed, as a fixed and timeless code."💀 

Francis should study the Catechism of the Catholic Church 171. It declares that the Church preserves the faith handed down once and for all to the saints: "It is she who passes on from generation to generation the Apostles' Creed."

Friday, September 16, 2022

Bishops show Francis' statement on Holy Communion contains HERESY

 


Bishops, priests and academics correct Bergoglio's heretical statement on Holy Communion

 




(LifeSiteNews) — Four bishops, several priests, and numerous Catholic scholars have signed a statement rebuking Pope Francis for a recent statement about the reception of Holy Communion, according to which “everyone is invited to the supper of the wedding of the Lamb (Re 19:9). To be admitted to the feast all that is required is the wedding garment of faith which comes from the hearing of his Word.” The Pope wrote these words in his June 29 Apostolic Letter on the liturgy, Desiderio desideravi, but for the signatories of this new statement (see full text below), he omitted the “essential topic of repentance for sin for the worthy reception of the Eucharist.”
Read More at LifeSiteNews





Thursday, September 15, 2022

The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows originated in Cologne in the fifteenth century as a response to the Hussite Protestant heretics

 With the proper reading of the Marian feast that we celebrate today of the Liturgical Year of Dom Prospero Gueranger, Abbot of Solesmes, we can confirm once again that Mr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio Sivori is an apostate who does not profess the Catholic faith. This anti-Catholic arch-heretic disguised as a Pope is an anti-Christ, enemy of the Law of God and the worst enemy of Jesus Christ, of the Church and of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The formal feast of the Our Lady of Sorrows was originated by a provincial synod of Cologne in 1423. It was designated for the Friday after the third Sunday after Easter and had the title: Commemoratio angustiae et doloris B. Mariae V. Before the sixteenth century this feast was limited to the dioceses of North Germany, Scandinavia, and Scotland. By a Decree of 22 April 1727, Pope Benedict XIII extended it to the entire Latin Church.



The Church has always taught that the Virgin is Co-redemptrix.

Excerpt from the Liturgical Year:

O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow! Is this, then, the first cry of that sweet babe whose coming brought such pure joy to our earth? Is the standard of suffering to be so soon unfurled over the cradle of such lovely innocence? Yet the heart of mother Church has not deceived her; this feast, coming at such a time, is ever the answer to that question of the expectant human race: What shall this child be?

The Savior to come is not only the reason of Mary’s existence, he is also her exemplar in all things. It is as his Mother that the Blessed Virgin came, and therefore as the Mother of sorrows; for the God, whose future birth was the very cause of her own birth, is to be in this world a Man of sorrows and acquainted with infirmity. To whom shall I compare thee? sings the prophet of lamentationsO Virgin … great as the sea is thy destruction. On the mountain of the Sacrifice, as mother she gave her Son, as Bride she offered herself together with him; by her sufferings both as Bride and as Mother, she was the co-redemptress of the human race. This teaching and these recollections were deeply engraved on our hearts on that other feast of our Lady’s dolors which immediately preceded Holy Week.

Christ dieth now no more: and Our Lady’s sufferings are over. Nevertheless the Passion of Christ is continued in his elect, in his Church, against which hell vents the rage it cannot exercise against himself. To this Passion of Christ’s mystical Body of which she is also a Mother, Mary still contributes her compassion; how often have her venerated images attested the fact, by miraculously shedding tears! This explains the Church’s departure from liturgical custom by celebrating two feasts, in different seasons, under one title.

(...)

Oh, the greatness of our Judith among all creatures! “God,” says the pious and profound Father Faber, “vouchsafed to select the very things about him which are most incommunicable, and in a most mysteriously real way communicate them to her. See how he had already mixed her up with the eternal designs of creation, making her almost a partial cause and partial model of it. Our Lady’s cooperation in the redemption of the world gives us a fresh view of her magnificence. Neither the Immaculate Conception nor the Assumption will give us a higher idea of Mary’s exaltation than the title of co-redemptress. Her dolors were not necessary for the resurrection of the world, but in the counsels of God they were inseparable from it. They belong to the integrity of the divine plan. Are not Mary’s mysteries Jesus’ mysteries, and his mysteries hers? The truth appears to be that all the mysteries of Jesus and Mary were in God’s designs as one mystery. Jesus himself was Mary’s sorrow, seven times repeated, aggravated sevenfold. During the hours of the Passion, the offering of Jesus and the offering of Mary were tied in one. They kept pace together; they were made of the same materials; they were perfumed with kindred fragrance; they were lighted with the same fire; they were offered with kindred dispositions. The two things were one simultaneous oblation, interwoven each moment through the thickly crowded mysteries of that dread time unto the Eternal, out of two sinless Hearts, that were the Hearts of Son and Mother, for the sins of a guilty world which fell on them contrary to their merits, but according to their own free will.”





Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrow for the Conversion of Sinners


Oh! afflicted Mother, dearest Mother, what made thee stand beneath the Cross? It was love for Jesus--it was also love for sinners. Like Jesus thou didst willingly offer thyself, amid the sorrows of Calvary, for poor sinners. Oh! then by the Blood of Jesus--by thy own tears--by His sufferings and thy sorrows, look down upon sinners and bring them to thy dying Son that He may triumph in their repentance and perseverance. Especially do thou lead to Jesus and to pardon our friends and relations.


Oh! remember, dear Mother, that word of Jesus, "I thirst." For what did He thirst but for the salvation of souls? Remember how He prayed for His executioners and how He absolved the dying thief. Remember, too, sweet Mother, that it was amid the agonies of thy dying Son, and amid thy own unutterable grief, that Jesus spoke those wonderous words, "Mother, behold thy son." "Son, behold thy Mother." Oh! we then are thy children--thou art our Mother. Sinners are thy children--thou art their Mother. To thy loving heart we commend the poor sinner. Pray for us, most loving, most dear, and most sorrowful Virgin Mary. Amen


Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Bergoglian Apostate Pro-LGBT Wilton Gregory ORDERS Priest To Hand Over Sacrilegious Communion

 


Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory instructed priests in some “unofficial-yet-clearly-understood message” not to deny Communion to US President Biden, a notorious propagandist for abortion, ChurchMilitant.com has learned (September 9).

When Biden attends the Eucharist locally in Washington DC, the Secret Service and White House staff informs the local parish about his presence.

Some priests announced that they will not comply with the order but those parishes are likely not to be attended by Biden.


Apostate bishop Wilton Gregory offered a sacrilegious funeral Mass for pro-abortion journalist Cokie Roberts; apostate Pelosi gives eulogy




Saint Louis de Montfort: Our Lady protected and helped her warriors who fought for the faith against heresy to conquer impossible odds


 

“Far from me, heretics


Whom the Church has condemned


With all their fancy practices


And their sophisticated books;


Far from me, Calvinism!


Far from me, Jansenism!


I serve God with my whole heart,


It is my glory and my joy.”

― Saint Louis de Montfort



Our Lady Protects Her Warriors Fighting


the Albigensian Heresy


From the Secret of the Rosary

TIA (Tradition in Action):

It is almost impossible to do credit sufficiently to the victories that Count Simon de Montfort won against the Albigensians under the patronage of Our Lady of the Rosary. They are so famous that the world has never seen anything to match them.

Simon de montfort

Simon de Montfort valiantly fought the Albigensian heresy

One day he defeated 10,000 heretics with a force of 500 men; on another occasion he overcame 3,000 with only 30 men; finally, with 800 horsemen and 1,000 infantrymen he completely routed the army of the King of Aragon, which was a 100,000 strong, and this with the loss on his side of only one horseman and eight soldiers.

Our Lady also protected Alan de l'Anvallay, a Breton knight, from great perils. He too was fighting for the faith against the Albigensians. One day, when he found himself surrounded by enemies on all sides, Our Lady let fall a 150 rocks upon his enemies and he was delivered from their hands.

Another day, when his ship had foundered and was about to sink, this good Mother caused a 150 small hills to appear miraculously above the water and, by means of them, they reached Brittany in safety.

In thanksgiving to Our Lady for the miracles she had worked on his behalf in answer to his daily Rosary, he built a monastery at Dinan for the religious of the new Order of St. Dominic and, having become a religious himself, he died a holy death at Orleans.

Othère, also a Breton soldier from Vaucouleurs, often put whole companies of heretics or robbers to flight, wearing his Rosary on his arm and on the hilt of his sword.

Once when he had beaten his enemies, they admitted that they had seen his sword shining brightly, and another time had noticed a shield on his arm on which Our Lord, Our Lady and the Saints were depicted. This shield made him invisible and gave him the strength to attack well.

Another time he defeated 20,000 heretics with only 10 companies without losing a single man. This so impressed the general of the heretics' army that he sought out Othère, abjured his heresy and declared that he had seen him surrounded by flaming swords during the battle.

fighting

Our Lady helped her warrior to conquer over impossible odds

Excerpt from The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort
(NY: Montfort Publications, 1954) 34th rose

Monday, September 12, 2022

The Feast of the Sweet Name of Mary Celebrates the victory of the Battle of Vienna that saved Europe from the Islamic conquest


 In 1513, Rome approved the feast of the Holy Name of Mary that was celebrated in a Spanish diocese. But Pope Innocent XI extended this feast to all of Christianity after the victory of John Sobieski, King of Poland, over the Turks on September 12, 1683, outside the walls of Vienna.

Dedicated to the sweet name of Mary, this victory shows the triumph of the beauty of the Mother of God and religion over the ugliness of infidelity and paganism, but also the success of the Christian armies who entrusted themselves to the Queen of Heaven, she who presides over the combats of the Church, strong “as an army arrayed for battle”.

 SOURCE: FSSPX.NEWS

Saint Louis de Montfort warns inveterate sinners about their false and presumptuous devotion to the Virgin Mary

 “It is then very important to recognize, first of all, false devotions to our Blessed Lady, in order to avoid them…”

– Saint Louis de Montfort

True devotion to our Lady is holy, that is, it leads us to avoid sin and to imitate the virtues of Mary. – Saint Louis de Montfort






Presumptuous devotees

97. Presumptuous devotees are sinners who give full rein to their passions or their love of the world, and who, under the fair name of Christian and servant of our Lady, conceal pride, avarice, lust, drunkenness, anger, swearing, slandering, injustice and other vices. They sleep peacefully in their wicked habits, without making any great effort to correct them, believing that their devotion to our Lady gives them this sort of liberty. They convince themselves that God will forgive them, that they will not die without confession, that they will not be lost for all eternity. They take all this for granted because they say the Rosary, fast on Saturdays, are enrolled in the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary or the Scapular, or a sodality of our Lady, wear the medal or the little chain of our Lady.

When you tell them that such a devotion is only an illusion of the devil and a dangerous presumption which may well ruin them, they refuse to believe you. God is good and merciful, they reply, and he has not made us to damn us. No man is without sin. We will not die without confession, and a good act of contrition at death is all that is needed. Moreover, they say they have devotion to our Lady; that they wear the scapular; that they recite faithfully and humbly every day the seven Our Fathers and seven Hail Marys in her honor; that sometimes they even say the Rosary and the Office of our Lady, as well as fasting and performing other good works.

Blinding themselves still more, they quote stories they have heard or read – whether true or false does not bother them – which relate how people who had died in mortal sin were brought back to life again to go to confession, or how their soul was miraculously retained in their bodies until confession, because in their lifetime they said a few prayers or performed a few pious acts, in honor of our Lady. Others are supposed to have obtained from God at the moment of death, through the merciful intercession of the Blessed Virgin, sorrow and pardon for their sins, and so were saved. Accordingly, these people expect the same thing to happen to them.

98. Nothing in our Christian religion is so deserving of condemnation as this diabolical presumption. How can we truthfully claim to love and honor the Blessed Virgin when by our sins we pitilessly wound, pierce, crucify and outrage her Son? If Mary made it a rule to save by her mercy this sort of person, she would be condoning wickedness and helping to outrage and crucify her Son. Who would even dare to think of such a thing?

99. I declare that such an abuse of devotion to her is a horrible sacrilege and, next to an unworthy Communion, is the greatest and the least pardonable sin, because devotion to our Lady is the holiest and best after devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.

I admit that to be truly devoted to our Lady, it is not absolutely necessary to be so holy as to avoid all sin, although this is desirable. But at least it is necessary (note what I am going to say), (1) to be genuinely determined to avoid at least all mortal sin, which outrages the Mother as well as the Son; (2) to practise self-restraint in order to avoid sin; (3) to join her confraternities, say the Rosary and other prayers, fast on Saturdays, and so on.

100. Such means are surprisingly effective in converting even the hardened sinner. Should you be such a sinner, with one foot in the abyss, I advise you to do as I have said. But there is an essential condition. You must perform these good works solely to obtain from God, through the intercession of our Lady, the grace to regret your sins, obtain pardon for them and overcome your evil habits, and not to live complacently in the state of sin, disregarding the warning voice of conscience, the example of our Lord and the saints, and the teaching of the holy gospel.

(...)

114. I clearly foresee that raging beasts will come in fury to tear to pieces with their diabolical teeth this little book and the one the Holy Spirit made use of to write it, or they will cause it at least to lie hidden in the darkness and silence of a chest and so prevent it from seeing the light of day. They will even attack and persecute those who read it and put into practice what it contains. But no matter! So much the better! It even gives me encouragement to hope for great success at the prospect of a mighty legion of brave and valiant soldiers of Jesus and Mary, both men and women, who will fight the devil, the world, and corrupt nature in the perilous times that are sure to come.


“Let the reader understand. Let him accept this teaching who can.”


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“Far from me, heretics

Whom the Church has condemned

With all their fancy practices

And their sophisticated books;

Far from me, Calvinism!

Far from me, Jansenism!

I serve God with my whole heart,

It is my glory and my joy.”

― Saint Louis de Montfort

Saint Dominic received the Rosary from Our Lady in 1214 to defeat heresy.

Saturday, September 10, 2022

Prayer to Saint Nicholas of Tolentino for protection against all evil and danger

 

O brightly shining star of sanctity! splendour and boast of the Augustinian Order; our powerful protector, St. Nicholas, hear from heaven the prayers of your devoted clients. Teach us to imitate the example you gave here below of heroic virtue, to curb our passions and restrain our unruly appetites, that we may ever live in the light of divine grace, and escape the foul contagion of habitual sin. Procure for us a love of Jesus like that which filled your own sinless heart, and a tender devotion to Mary his Mother, that we may be more like you in childlike love of her. Fortify us in efforts to reach heaven, that we may be ever faithful to Jesus and Mary; and strengthen us by your prayers, to merit a share in the bright and endless joys you now enjoy, and that for eternity. Amen.

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, protector of the Militant and Penitent Church, pray for us

 

St. Nicholas of Tolentino

from the Liturgical Year, 1908


Today the Infant Mary smiles upon the lily offered her in her cradle by the representative of a great Order. The Hermits of St. Augustine were being grouped and organized by the Vicar of Christ, when Nicholas was admitted into their family, of which he was soon to become the thaumaturgus. When he died, in 1305, the Roman Pontiffs were beginning their exile at Avignon; and his canonization, deferred for nearly a century and a half through the troubles of the period, marked the close of the lamentable dissensions which followed that exile. Peace so long lost; peace, of which even the wisest despaired--such was the ardent prayer, the solemn adjuration of Eugenius IV, when, towards the close of his laborious pontificate, he committed the cause of the Church to the humble servant of God placed by him upon her Altars. According to the testimony of Sixtus V, the obtaining of this peace was the greatest of Nicholas' miracles; a miracle which moved the latter Pontiff to order the celebration of the Saint's feast as a double, at a time when days of that rank were much rarer on the Calendar than now.


Prayer:


Good and faithful servant, thou hast entered into the joy of thy Lord. He has broken thy bonds; and from heaven, where thou art now reigning, thou repeated to us those words which determined the sanctity of thy life on earth: Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. For the world passeth away, and the concupiscence thereof. How much a man thus forgetful of earth, can do for his fellowmen, is evinced by the gift thou didst receive of solacing all the miseries around thee, and succoring the souls in Purgatory. The successor of St. Peter was not deceived, when, in ranking thee among the Saints, he counted on thy power in heaven to bring back society from its long-continued state of disturbance to the paths of peace. May that word of the beloved disciple, which thou hast just echoed to us, sink into our souls as a seed of salvation, and there yield the fruits that it produced in thee:-- detachment from all temporal things and a longing for eternal realities; that humble simplicity of the soul's eye which makes life a peaceful journey towards God; and lastly, that purity, which made thee the friend of Angels and the favorite of Mary.


Friday, September 9, 2022

Saint Peter Claver was a true Jesuit who baptized and taught the faith to more than 300,000 slaves during his forty years in Colombia

 

Today Jorge Bergoglio with his heretical religious indifference would declare war against Saint Peter Claver.


Administering Baptism

When Peter Claver thought them (the slaves) sufficiently instructed, he appointed a day for the administration of baptism. He arranged them in tens, giving the same name to each ten that they might better remember it. He baptized the children first, then the men and boys, and lastly the women and girls. But before beginning the ceremony, he knelt down and prayed fervently for those poor souls redeemed by the blood of God, to whom he presented them all, conjuring Him to purify them. This being done he arose, his face inflamed like a seraph's, and approached those to be baptized, accompanied by an interpreter and a Christian Negro and Negress, to act as god-father and god-mother. The neophyte knelt down with his hands joined upon his breast, and the father showing him the baptismal water in a silver vase, said, "Behold this saving water, which in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, washes and purifies the soul, rendering it brilliant as the sun. Behold the fountain of grace which makes men, children of God, and gives them a right to the kingdom of His glory. To obtain this favor we must repent of our sins, renounce the devil and the maxims of the world. Will you not do this with all your heart? Do you believe in Jesus Christ? Will you enter His Church and receive baptism?"

He repeated these words two or three times; and when the Negro had answered properly, he was immediately baptized. After this, in order to distinguish him from those not baptized, he put round his neck a medal bearing the names of Jesus and Mary. "Whilst thus employed, were he informed that any one of the sick was in danger, he hastened immediately to him. It is impossible to say how many souls he snatched from the devil by this prompt and timely succor; for many died instantly after baptism. On such occasions he immediately knelt down to thank God for deigning to employ him in the salvation of those unfortunates who without this grace would have been irretrievably lost.

When the ceremony of baptism was over, he made a pathetic exhortation to the newly-baptized, reminding them of the great benefit they had just received, and of the obligations they had contracted. He then exhorted them to observe faithfully the law of Jesus Christ, whose members they had become, and to die rather than violate it by a single sin; adding, that if unfortunately they should sin, they would find a salutary remedy, a secure and ever-open resource, in contrition and confession. After this he explained to them the way in which Christians should receive the sacrament of penance. To strike them the more forcibly, to give them a greater horror of sin, and to incite them more efficaciously to the practice of virtue, he drew a picture to them, on the one hand, of a lost soul, with the eternal punishments which God has prepared for sinners, and on the other a beautified soul, resplendent in glory; "Behold," he would say to them, "what you will one day be, if you are faithful in preserving the grace of baptism."

All these exercises finished with a fervent act of contrition and love of God. Taking the crucifix which he wore upon his breast, he held it up so that all might see it, and exclaimed, "Behold how our sins have treated our great God and loving Father. See to what a plight He is reduced by our exceeding malice and His boundless love for us! Yes, it is for us that He died upon this cross;--for us that He was plunged in this abyss of ignominy and suffering!" These words were accompanied with such deep sighs and bitter tears, that the poor savages replied with sobs and cries that would have moved the hardest hearts. Finding them in the dispositions he wished, he taught them to say and repeat often these beautiful words: "O Jesus Christ, only Son of God, Thou art my Father, my Mother, my Treasure, my only Good! I love Thee with all my heart, and I am grieved beyond measure that I have offended Thee: yes, I love Thee with all my strength and with all my soul." Then, at length, looking upon them as true children of God, purified in the blood of the Lamb, he tenderly embraced them all.


He showed a heart so affectionate, and a countenance so loving and full of joy, that these poor slaves, delighted with his goodness, and animated by that new spirit which baptism gives, knew not what return to make for so much love. In order to show their consolation and joy, they raised their eyes to heaven, clapped their hands, and threw themselves on their knees at his feet, that they might kiss at least the border of his cassock. Each one uttered redoubled shouts of gladness, and in his own language and manner overwhelmed the father with a thousand blessings. Wherever they met him afterward, they always showed the same demonstrations of love and respect, and prostrating themselves on the ground called him their master, their protector, their father; never thinking that they did enough to express their gratitude. This labor alone would have sufficed to occupy several missioners; yet to Father Claver it was not the labor of every year, but of every week, and almost of everyday. At the arrival of each fresh cargo of Negroes he was obliged to recommence the same exercises, with the same care and renewed trouble; so that he often had but short intervals to devote to other labors.



Litany of St. Peter Claver



Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus Christ, hear my prayer.
Jesus Christ, graciously hear my prayer.
God the Father of heaven,
Have mercy on us God the Son, Redeemer of the world.
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God Have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, immaculate Mother of God,
Pray for us.

Saint Peter Claver, worthy son of Saint Ignatius,
Pray for the Negroes. *


St. Peter Claver, zealous disciple of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, *

St. Peter Claver, emulator of the apostle of the Indies and Japan, *

St. Peter Claver, Apostle of the Negroes, *

St. Peter Claver, who didst procure for the slaves the holy liberty of the children of God, *

St. Peter Claver, who didst sign thyself: Slave of the Negroes forever, *

St. Peter Claver, shining light of Cartagena and of America, *

St. Peter Claver, model of evangelical laborers, *

St. Peter Claver, tender father of the poor, the widows, and the orphans, *

St. Peter Claver, refuge of all the unfortunate, *

St. Peter Claver, who didst make and fulfill the heroic vow of consecrating thyself entirely to the service of slaves, *

O thou who didst make thyself all to all in order to gain all to Jesus Christ, *

O thou who wast superior to all the vicissitudes of life by thine unalterable confidence in God, *

O thou who in thine inexhaustible charity didst cure so many sicknesses and relieve so many miseries, *

O thou who didst despise the riches of the earth in order to embrace evangelical poverty, *

O thou who didst prefer to the honors of the world the ignominies of the Cross, *

O thou who didst always seek to be forgotten and to be accounted for nothing among men, *

O thou who didst glory in knowing nothing else but Jesus Crucified, *

O thou who didst incessantly reduce thy body to servitude by the most rigorous austerities, *

Prodigy of innocence and of mortification, *

Living example of humility and of abnegation, *

Model of obedience and submission, *

Courageous and intrepid apostle in the midst of obstacles and contradictions, *

Martyr by the privations, and sufferings which thou didst endure for the salvation of souls, *

Fervent adorer of Jesus in the most holy Sacrament of the Altar, *

Contemplator and faithful imitator of Jesus suffering, *

O thou for whom the name and remembrance of Mary was ever a source of graces in all thy labors, *

St. Peter Claver, honor and ornament of the Society of Jesus, *

St. Peter Claver, illustrious by the numerous miracles thou didst work, *

St. Peter Claver, charitable and zealous protector of all those who invoke thee, *



Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world:
Spare us, O Lord.

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world:
Graciously hear the intercession of Thy servant in behalf of the poor Negroes.

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world:
Have mercy on us.


Let us pray:

O God, Who in order that wretched slaves might come to the knowledge of Thy Name, didst endow St. Peter Claver, Thy confessor, with wonderful self-denial and eminent charity: grant that, by virtue of his example, many souls may be inspired with compassion for the poor Negroes and may courageously devote themselves to their conversion. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen

St. Peter Claver: Pray for us, 
O God, Who calling to the knowledge of Thy Name the Negro tribes sold into slavery, didst, in order that he might be a help to them, imbue blessed Peter with marvelous patience and charity: giving ear to his prayers, vouchsafe unto us to seek only the things which are of Jesus Christ, and thereby to love our neighbor in deed and in truth. Through the same Christ our Lord, Who with Thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth, one God, world without end. R. Amen.