Pray this triduum in San Gerardo with confidence and ask for a grace
1 - O Saint Gerard, you have made of your life a very pure lily of candor and virtue; you have filled your mind and heart with pure thoughts, holy words and good works.
You saw everything in the light of God, you accepted the mortifications of superiors, the misunderstandings of the confreres, the adversities of life as a gift from God.
In your heroic journey towards holiness, Mary's maternal gaze was comforting to you. You loved her from an early age. You proclaimed her your bride when, in the youthful ardor of your twenties, you put the engagement ring on her finger. You had the joy of closing your eyes under Mary's motherly gaze.
O Saint Gerard, obtain for us with your prayer to love Jesus and Mary wholeheartedly. Let our life, like yours, be a perennial song of love for Jesus and Mary.
Glory to the Father ...
2 - O Saint Gerard, the most perfect image of Jesus crucified, the cross for you has been an inexhaustible source of glory. On the cross you saw the instrument of salvation and the victory against the snares of the devil. You searched for it with holy obstinacy, embracing it with serene resignation in the continuous contrarieties of life.
Even in the terrible slander with which the Lord wanted to prove your faithfulness, you managed to repeat: “If God wants my mortification, why should I get out of his will? So do God, because I want only what God wants ”.
You have tormented your body with vigorous vigils, fasts and penances.
Illuminate, O Saint Gerard, our mind to understand the value of the mortification of the flesh and the heart; fortifies our will to accept those humiliations that life presents to us; impetraci from the Lord who, following your example, we know how to undertake and walk the narrow path that leads to heaven. Glory to the Father ...
3 - O Saint Gerard, Jesus the Eucharist was for you the friend, the brother, the father to visit, love and receive in your heart. Your eyes have been fixed on the tabernacle, your heart. You became the inseparable friend of Jesus the Eucharist, until you spent whole nights at his feet. Ever since you were a child, you have longed for it so much that you obtained first communion from heaven from the archangel Saint Michael. In the Eucharist you found comfort in the sad days. From the Eucharist, bread of eternal life, you drew the missionary ardor to convert, if it were possible, as many sinners as there are grains of sea sand, the stars of heaven.
Glorious Saint, make us in love, like you, with Jesus, infinite love.
For your ardent love for the Eucharistic Lord, let us also know how to find in the Eucharist the necessary food that nourishes our soul, the infallible medicine that heals and strengthens our weak forces, the sure guide that, alone, can introduce us to the radiant vision of the sky. Glory to the Father ...
PLEADING
O St. Gerard, with your intercession, your graces, you have guided many hearts to God, you have become relief of the afflicted, support of the poor, help of the sick.
You who know my pain, move with pity for my suffering. You who console your devotees in tears listen to my humble prayer.
Read in my heart, see how much I suffer. Read in my soul and heal me, comfort me, console me. Gerardo, come to my aid soon! Gerardo, make me one of those who praise and thank God with you. Let me sing his mercy with those who love me and suffer for me.
What does it cost you to accept my prayer? I will not cease to invoke you until you have fully fulfilled me. It is true that I do not deserve your graces, but listen to me for the love you bring to Jesus, for the love you bring to Mary most holy. Amen.