Devotion to a saint for you: today entrust yourself to St. Louis and ask for a grace

Entrust yourself to a saint

At the dawn of each new day, or in particular periods of your life, in addition to relying on the Holy Spirit, God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, you can have recourse to a Saint so that he can intercede for your material and, above all, spiritual needs .

Glorious ... I elect you today
to my special patron:
support Hope in me,

confirm me in the Faith,
make me strong in Virtue.
Help me in the spiritual fight,
obtain all graces from God

that I need most
and the merits to achieve with you

Eternal Glory.

SAINT LOUIS GONZAGA

Castiglione delle Stiviere, Mantua, 9 March 1568 - Rome, 21 June 1591

He was among the Saints who most distinguished themselves for innocence and purity. The Church gives him the title of "young angelic" because he, in his life, resembled the Angels, in thoughts, in affections, in works. He was born into a princely family, grew up among the ease and was exposed to many temptations in the various courts he attended but, with the most rigid modesty and with the most severe penance, he was able to keep the lily of his virginity so unleavened that he never clouded it, not even with a small mole. He had not yet approached the first Communion which had already consecrated his virginity to God.

PRAYER

O lovable St. Louis, whose unbounded purity made him similar to the Angels, and his ardent love for God equaled the Seraphim of Heaven, turn a gaze of mercy upon me. You see how many enemies surround me, how many occasions threaten my soul; and how the coldness of my love for God puts me at risk of offending him at every push and of moving away from him, letting me be enticed to the fallacious pleasures of the earth. Save me, O great Saint ... I entrust myself to you. Impetratemi You ardent love for Jesus Sacrament and obtain for me grace that I always approach the Eucharistic Banquet with a pure and contrite heart, filled with living faith and profound humility. My communions then will be, as they were for you, a powerful drug of immortality, a sweet scent of the eternal kiss of God.