Today's prayer: Devotion to San Giuseppe Moscati to obtain graces
Originally from Serino di Avellino, he was born in Benevento in 1880, but almost always lived in Naples, the "beautiful Partenope", as he loved to repeat as a lover of classic letters. He enrolled in medicine "only to be able to ease the pain of the suffering". As a doctor he followed the dual career outlined above. In particular, he saved some sick people during the eruption of Vesuvius in 1906; served in the hospitals assembled on the occasion of the 1911 cholera epidemic; he was director of the military department during the great war. In the last ten years of life, scientific commitment prevailed: he was an ordinary assistant in the institute of physiological chemistry; ordinary help in the assembled hospitals; free professor of physiological chemistry and medical chemistry. Eventually he was offered to become ordinary, but refused to not have to completely abandon medical practice. "My place is next to the sick man!" In this integral service to man Moscati died on April 12, 1927. An extraordinary figure of a lay Christian, he was proclaimed a saint by John Paul II in 1987 at the end of the synod of bishops "on the vocation and mission of the laity in the Church".
PRAYER TO SAN GIUSEPPE MOSCATI TO ASK FOR A GRACE
Most lovable Jesus, whom you deigned to come to earth to heal
the spiritual and bodily health of men and you were so wide
of thanks for San Giuseppe Moscati, making him a second doctor
your Heart, distinguished in its art and zealous in apostolic love,
and sanctifying it in your imitation by exercising this double,
loving charity towards your neighbor, I earnestly beg you
to want to glorify your servant on earth in the glory of the saints,
granting me grace…. I ask you, if it's for yours
greater glory and for the good of our souls. So be it.
Pater, Ave, Glory
PRAYERS obtained by paraphrasing some writings of S. Giuseppe Moscati
O God, whatever the events may be, you do not abandon anyone. The more I feel lonely, neglected, vilified, misunderstood, and the more I will feel like succumbing to drink under the weight of a serious injustice, give me the feeling of your arcane strength, which supports me, which makes me comfortable of good and manly purposes, whose might I will marvel at, when I will return serene. And this strength be you, my God!
O God, may I understand that one science is unshakable and unrolled, that revealed by you, the science of the beyond. In all my works, let me aim at Heaven and the eternity of life and soul, in order to orient myself very differently from how human considerations might suggest me. That my business is always inspired by good.
O Lord, life was called a flash in the eternal. Grant me that my humanity, through the pain of which it is pervaded, and of which you satiated yourself, that you dressed our flesh, transcends from matter, and leads me to aspire a happiness beyond the world. May I follow this tendency of consciousness, and look "to the afterlife" where earthly affections which seem prematurely broken will be reunited.
O God, infinite beauty, make me understand that every enchantment of life passes ..., that love remains eternal, the cause of every good work, which survives us, which is hope and religion, because the love is you. Even earthly love Satan tried to pollute; but you, God, purified him through death. A grand death that is not an end, but a principle of the sublime and divine, in whose presence these flowers and beauty are nothing!
O God, let me love you, infinite truth; who can show me what they really are, without pretense, without fear and without regard. And if the truth costs me persecution, let me accept it; and if the torment, that I can bear it. And if in truth I were to sacrifice myself and my life, conceide me to be strong in sacrifice.
O God, let me always realize that life is a moment; what honors, triumphs, wealth and science fall, before the realization of the cry of Genesis, of the cry thrown by you against the guilty man: you will die!
You have assured us that life does not end with death, but continues in a better world. Thanks for having promised us, after the redemption of the world, the day that will reunite us with our dear extinct, and that will bring us back to you, supreme Love!
O God, allow me to love you without measure, without measure in love, without measure in pain.
O Lord, in the life of responsibility and work, allow me to have some fixed points, which are like a glimpse of blue in a clouded sky: my Faith, my serious and constant commitment, the memory of dear friends.
O God, since it is undoubted that true perfection cannot be found except by extraneousing itself to the things of the world, let it serve you with a continuous love, and serve the souls of my brothers with prayer, by example, for a great purpose, for the only purpose which is their salvation.
O Lord allow me to understand that not science, but charity has transformed the world in some periods; and that only very few men have gone down in history for science; but that everyone can remain imperishable, a symbol of the eternity of life, in which death is only a stage, a metamorphosis for a higher ascent, if they dedicate themselves to good.