23 AUGUST SANTA ROSA. Prayer to be recited today

 

O admirable Santa Rosa, elected by God to illustrate with the most exalted holiness of life the new Christianity of America and especially the capital of immense Peru, you who, as soon as you read the life of Saint Catherine of Siena, set out to walk on the in his footsteps and in the tender age of five years you obliged yourself with an irrevocable vow to perpetual virginity, and spontaneously shaving all your hair, you refused with language the most eloquent the most advantageous parties that were offered to you as soon as you reached your youth, impetrate to us all grace to have such a conduct to always build our neighbors, especially with a jealous custody of the virtue of purity, which is the dearest to the Lord and the most advantageous for us.

3 Glory be to the Father
S. Rosa da Lima, pray for us