JANUARY 24 SAN FRANCESCO DI SALES
PRAYERS to SAINT FRANCIS of SALES
Glorious St. Francis de Sales,
your name brings the sweetness of the most afflicted heart;
your works ooze the most chosen honey of piety;
your life was a continuous holocaust of perfect love,
full of true taste for spiritual things
and generous abandonment to the loving divine will.
Teach me the inner humility, the sweetness of the face and the imitation of all the virtues that you have been able to copy from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Amen.
O true prodigy of holiness, glorious Saint Francis, who have been able to combine the simplicity of the dove with the prudence of the snake so well, the conversation of the world with the recollection of the cloister and the austerity of the desert and full of all the gifts of the Holy Spirit you have opened to devotees a new, easy and delicious way to reach perfection with certainty, obtain from the Lord the grace to always follow your teachings, because living like you as a burning lamp can obtain the eternal joy that you enjoy blessed with the Angels and Saints . Amen.
O saint of meekness, Francis of Sales, model of evangelical virtues and living rule of holiness, for the valid patronage that you can exercise in our favor, get us to know how to combine, in your imitation, humility with zeal, gentleness with fortress, prayer and mortification with active charity. Let us live in the communion of God and brothers, in fidelity to the commitments of baptismal consecration. Amen.
TRIDUAL to SAN FRANCESCO di SALES
O sweetest Saint, that in your ardent love for God you have always conformed yours to the Divine Will of Love and said that "the character of the Daughters of the Visitation is to gaze in everything at this Divine Will and follow it", obtain grace for us to know how lovable It is always and in everything; and by believing in the Love of this Divine Will for us and in this love by hoping, we can come to love it according to your ardent desires and desires of the Heart of Jesus.
Glory to the Father ...
O sweetest and most lovable Saint, who nourished your heart with love for the Divine will and found in it the Way of peace, let us seek no other food than this Divine Will of Love; let us repeat with your heart rather than with your voice, those holy words of yours: “O most sweet Will of my God, always be done; O eternal designs of the Will of my God, I adore you, consecrate and dedicate
my will, to want eternally what you have eternally wanted.
Glory to the Father ...
O most amiable Saint, who was rightly called the holy Doctor of the Divine Will, because always, with your life and words and with your most gentle writings, you have tried to make her known and loved, and that more and more attracted to that love you have not ceased to repeat the cry of your heart: "What more can I desire in Heaven or on earth than to see this Divine Will fulfilled", makes us, by your example, not only unite with It, but become apostles of this Divine Will of Love, we yearn to see it loved and adored by all.
Glory to the Father ...
PRAYER to MARY
of St. Francis de Sales
Remember and remember, sweetest Virgin,
that You are my Mother and that I am Your son;
that You are powerful
and that I am very poor, shy and weak.
I beg you, sweetest Mother,
to guide me in all my ways,
in all my actions.
Don't tell me, beautiful Mother, that You can't,
for Your beloved Son
It has given you all power, both in heaven and on earth.
Don't tell me you're not required to do it,
for You are the Mother of all men
and especially my Mum. If You couldn't listen,
I would apologize by saying:
"It is true that she is my Mum and that she loves me as Her son,
but he has no means and possibilities to help me. "
If you weren't my mom,
I would have patience and would say:
"Has every opportunity to help me,
but alas, she is not my Mother
and therefore does not love me. "
But instead no, o sweetest Virgin,
You are my mom
and moreover you are very powerful.
How could I apologize if you didn't help me
and didn't you give me help and assistance?
See well, O Mother,
that you are forced to listen
all my requests.
For the honor and glory of your Jesus,
accept me as your child
regardless of my miseries
and my sins.
Free my soul and body
from all evil and give me all your virtues,
especially humility.
Make me a gift of all gifts, of all goods and
of all the graces you like
to the SS. Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
PRAYER in San GIUSEPPE
of St. Francis de Sales
Glorious Saint Joseph,
whose power extends
to all our needs
and you can make it easy
the most impossible things,
turn your eyes
of a good father
to your children calling on you.
In anxieties and pains
that oppress us,
we appeal to you with confidence.
Deign to take
under your paternal protection the pains
that there are causes of suffering.
THOUGHTS OF SAN FRANCESCO di SALES
"Prayer gets more from God than it asks"
"When the heart is in heaven, it cannot be disturbed by the vicissitudes of the earth."
"Blessed are the folding hearts, they will never break."
"The more miserable we are,
all the more reason we have to trust in divine goodness. "
"Love repairs all the losses of the soul."
“Faith is the celestial ray that makes us grieve God in all things
and all things in God. "
"Give yourselves to Jesus without reservation: He will give himself to you without measure."
“The distance between heaven and earth can never separate
the hearts that God has united. "
“Mary is Mother of God and obtains everything;
she is the mother of men and everything allows. "