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Litanies, Novenas, Indulgenced Prayers, Offices, and Prayers for Particular Occasions.
The Week Sanctified.
A COMMENDABLE practice of piety consists in consecrating each day of the week to some particular devotion.
Besides honoring the mystery or the saint of each day, and reciting the prayers assigned for it, you should take as the object of your endeavors and prayers the correction of the principal fault of which you accused yourself in your last confession.
Select some prayers and ejaculations, from the following part of this book, appropriate to the devotions assigned to each particular day, and say them in connection with your daily visit to the Blessed Sacrament.[1]
- ↑ In the following part we have endeavored, for the sake of method, to group and classify in seven sections, under the headings given for the sanctification of the week, namely, Sunday, the Holy Trinity: one God; Monday, the Holy Ghost and the Holy Souls; Tuesday, the Holy Angels; Wednesday, St. Joseph; Thursday, the Blessed Sacrament and the Sacred Heart; Friday, the Sacred Heart and the Passion of Our Lord and Saviour, and Saturday, the Blessed Virgin, — all the prayers and devotions appropriate to the various seasons of the whole year. The Novenas, however, will be found in a separate group. In regard to the devotions of the Sacred Heart and the Blessed Sacrament, given under Thursday, the Holy Hour and the Hour of Adoration, i.e., the former in honor of the Suffering Heart of Jesus (to render Christ homage in the extreme anguish He suffered on the night of His Passion), and the latter in honor of the Blessed Sacrament, are kept by Communities mostly on Thursday afternoon or evening, and prayers to the Sacred Heart as well as to the Blessed Sacrament are then used by the pious adorers before the Sacred Host exposed upon the altar. That is why born are included under Thursday. Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament generally unite prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus with devotions in honor of the sublime Mystery of the altar. Friday is given to the Sacred Heart as well as to the Passion, but the prayers for Sacred Heart devotions will be found, as we have said, under Thursday.
