NOVENA TO SAINT BONIFACE
THIRD DAY - MAY 29
Act of Contrition
Lord and God of mercies, God by nature and Man for my healing, from whom so many times I have turned away my face, only to see the terrifying asps of my sins, deaf to Your call, blind to Your wounds, and without gratitude. I regret with all my heart of having offended You with such enormous faults and bold offenses and for having wasted my life in a place of such bitterness. I know that there is insufficient hell, although it lasts forever, for me to pay for my infinite faults, repenting of which I ask a thousand pardons through Your infinite mercy, through Your five wounds, and through the merits and sorrows of Your afflicted Mother, my Lady. With Your grace and Your help, I firmly intend to amend myself. Have mercy, my God, have mercy.Introductory Prayer
Lord most high and tremendous Majesty,
that with love alone created the beauty of Your heaven with its nine choirs of spiritual inhabitants, and the beautiful machine of the world with all species of living things. I worship and adore You infinitely, and confess that You are my God, my Creator, my Conserver and Redeemer. And I offer You, as the work of Your own hand, all angels and men; in order that, seeing in each one the image of Your own majesty, You may be glorified in them all: and principally in Your glorious martyr Saint Boniface, who after having burned in the fires of lust (better to say of hell), with Your help was purified in the fire of charity like pure gold. And I ask You, through Your most precious blood, the remedy for those wretched ones who find themselves in a bad state; in order that seeing the infinite price that they cost You, You might give them help and raise them up with Your blessed hand and hear the supplications that Your beloved martyr Saint Boniface makes in Your presence for those poor ones, and by Your mercy, free me from such misery. Amen.
that with love alone created the beauty of Your heaven with its nine choirs of spiritual inhabitants, and the beautiful machine of the world with all species of living things. I worship and adore You infinitely, and confess that You are my God, my Creator, my Conserver and Redeemer. And I offer You, as the work of Your own hand, all angels and men; in order that, seeing in each one the image of Your own majesty, You may be glorified in them all: and principally in Your glorious martyr Saint Boniface, who after having burned in the fires of lust (better to say of hell), with Your help was purified in the fire of charity like pure gold. And I ask You, through Your most precious blood, the remedy for those wretched ones who find themselves in a bad state; in order that seeing the infinite price that they cost You, You might give them help and raise them up with Your blessed hand and hear the supplications that Your beloved martyr Saint Boniface makes in Your presence for those poor ones, and by Your mercy, free me from such misery. Amen.
- Pray the Chaplet of the Five Wounds or make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament.
- Pray three Salves to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Let us pray...
O repentant preacher of Divine Mercy, that in the midst of the barbarity of the tyrants, and the wicked mob of unbelievers, was the holy herald of the faith of Jesus Christ, by whose preaching five hundred and fifty of them were converted: I humbly beg you to offer to the Undivided Trinity those sighs of so much pain and those tears shed by our Divine teacher Jesus, lifted up on the cross, for the salvation of man; for all my brothers that find themselves in the misfortune of a dangerous situation, that recovered they may guard the pearl of chastity according to their state in life. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
Most high Father of mercies, whose inexhaustible treasures Your only begotten Son purchased for us by His death: place those Divine eyes (before seeing our guilt) on the most holy altar of Mount Calvary. See there the most holy victim who offered Himself on that gibbet and You will see the innocent lamb between anguish and affliction, celebrating that Holy Mass of a passion so sorrowful, just to take away the most justified anger that my sins have caused You. Notice, my God, that infinite love, with which loving You as His Father, He begs You to pardon me. See those tears, not only for the pain that He suffered, but for the tenderness with which He loves us, shed by His eyes; better to say by two heavens, that with the copious showers of those pearls irrigate the dry soil of my ingratitude. Look, loving Father, at that innocent dove of His most holy Mother, that pierced with so many swords, as many as were the pains of the Son, if not to say how many were, but will be the sins of the world; may the depths of the compassion of the Son and the Mother, which in such a sorrowful spectacle were knocking at the doors of Your mercy, move You to pity: I humbly offer to You this great abundance of infinite merits. And I offer You at the same time in the hearts of JESUS AND MARY that charity with which, loving us from all eternity, You gave us the Only Begotten of Your Understanding; and also the infinite love with which Your most holy Son was made man, shed His blood and accepted death; along with the ineffable charity with which the Holy Spirit worked the incarnation of that same Word, and which He shed and continually sheds over all Christians; with all the most excellent merits of the Queen of heaven, and the ineffable love with which You are loved and she loves us miserable sinners, along with the vast sea of so much blood which so many martyrs have shed; in order that, forgetting our ingratitude, You do not deny us Your efficacious assistance: so that helped by Your grace we may live as sons of such a Father, as brothers of Your only begotten Son, and as orphans protected by the kindness of most holy Mary, until we enjoy You in eternal glory. Amen.
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