JULY 22 SANTA MARIA MADDALENA. Prayer to be recited today

I. O model of penitents, glorious Magdalene, who barely touches grace

you immediately renounced all the pleasures of the world to consecrate yourselves to love

of Jesus Christ, obtain us, we pray you, the grace to pay us too

faithfully to all divine inspirations. Glory…

II. O model of the penitents, glorious Magdalene, who, trampling generously

all the respects of the world, appear in the dress the most modest in those same

districts in which you had led your luxury, your vanity in triumph,

obtain, please, the grace to overcome all the obstacles encountered

in the path of health, and especially the human respects, with which many times

we have betrayed our most sacred duties and our most sacred interests. Glory..

III. O model of the penitents, glorious Magdalene, who, weeping with tears

the most bitter, with the most vivid contrition of your errors, you deserved to be

by Jesus Christ himself assured of absolute forgiveness, get us,

we pray you, the grace to detest and weep incessantly

our fouls, in order to ensure their remission to the tribunal of God. Glory ..