We praise You, Lord, for the gift of Father Founder
Novena before the beatification Of the Venerable Servant of God Fr. Stanislaus Papczyński, Founder of the Congregation of Marian Fathers
(addition to the Liturgy of the Hours)
Prepared by Fr. Janusz Kumala, MIC
First Day
A Man of a Living Faith
L. Come, Holy Spirit, and make us the temple of Your glory.
R. Guide us to the whole truth, that strong in faith, we may walk the way of the Gospels.
L. Let us pray:
Lord Jesus Christ, our hearts are filled with joy because of the approaching beatification of the Venerable Servant of God Fr. Stanislaus Papczyński. We beg You to send us the Holy Spirit, so that His power may so change our hearts, that with faith we accept the grace of our Founder’s beatification. May this gift renew and strengthen our Congregation and all our friends and coworkers, so that we may serve Your Church even more zealously in imitation of Mary, Your Immaculate Mother. You who live and reign forever and ever.
R. Amen.
L. Let us thank God for the gift of Father Founder’s life.
God, Almighty Father, we thank You for the example of the life of faith, which we are able to admire in Father Founder. Thanks to Your grace he perseveringly fulfilled his path of life, faithfully doing Your will. God, Giver of life and holiness, we praise You for the holy life of Fr. Stanislaus, we honor Your love by which You filled his heart. Merciful God, we thank You for the gift of faith which You have bestowed on each one of us. We implore You, that living this faith, we may follow the way which is shown us by Father Founder.
With trust we cry out to You:
R. Lord, strengthen us on the way of faith.
L. That we may in all circumstances of life entrust everything to You,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may courageously profess and defend our faith,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That our faith, like a mustard seed may grow into a large tree,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we, encouraged by the example and prayer of Mary, may perseveringly walk our pilgrimage of faith to heaven,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Let us pray for fidelity to the charism of Fr. Founder.
Gracious God, by Your holy will we received in the person of Fr. Stanislaus a model of firm faith and a Guide who will lead us on the way of faith in the community of the Church. We ask You, that we may remain faithful to him and may patiently overcome all difficulties in faith, not yielding to doubts and discouragement, but with joy and trust persevere firmly in faith. May our religious life be a clear witness, which will draw others to Your service in our Marian community. Through Christ our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. Lead us Lord, on the way of faith, hope, and love.
R. We entrust our whole life to You.
L. May our Beatified Fathers give us strength and show the way.
R. Together with Mary Immaculate, our Mother and First Christian.
L. Let us pray for the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow
Lord, let Your Name be praised, in granting through the intercession of Fr. Stanislaus the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow. We pray,
R. Hear us, O Lord.
L. United by the grace of faith, we praise You Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.
L. Immaculata Virginis Mariæ Conceptio,
R. Sit nobis salus et protectio.
Second Day
Dedicated to the Divine Providence
L. Come, Holy Spirit, and open our hearts and eyes.
R. Strengthen our trust, that we may allow ourselves to be guided by Divine Providence.
L. Let us pray:
Most gracious God, wonderful in your Providence, our hearts overflow with joy because we shall come to see our Founder honored at the altar. We thank You, Lord, for Your patience with us, weak and sinful, spiritual sons of Fr. Stanislaus and we humbly ask You, to grant that we may fruitfully live out the gift of his beatification. May the light of the Holy Spirit illumine our hearts and minds so that we may better understand the spiritual heritage of our Fr. Founder and that we may more zealously value it in our daily life, trusting in Your Providence, that guides us on the road of Marian vocation. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. Let us thank God for the gift of Father Founder’s life.
Almighty God, whose Providence directs all things, we thank You for the gift of life of Fr. Founder as a sign of Your providential works in the history of the Church and in the personal history of each one of us. We thank You for the example of his boundless trust in Your Divine Providence, in which he saw the power of Your love and mercy. Gracious God, we thank You for this, that You led Fr. Founder on a difficult vocational road and for surrounding him with tender care, granting him the grace of perseverance and complete trust in regard to the plans of Your Providence. We thank You, merciful God, for the example of life, which we may admire and follow in Fr. Stanislaus. Experiencing Your care, we cry out in trust:
R. Strengthen us on the road of life, on which Your Providence leads us.
L. That we may accept each day with gratitude as a gift of Your Providence,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may persevere with You, in faith, trust, and love, amid trials and tribulations of life.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may, in imitation of Mary, faithfully and joyfully fulfill Your eternal plans regarding our lives,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Protect us, O Lord, from all evil and lead us on Your way to heaven.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Let us pray for fidelity to the charism of Fr. Founder.
Almighty God, You present Fr. Founder as a model of trust in Your Divine Providence, which he honored and praised as the greatest treasure of his humble life. We pray You, Good Lord, that we, in accord with his example, may faithfully follow the way which Your Providence indicates. May our utmost treasure be trust in Your goodness and kindness. Grant that in our daily life we may see the actions of Your Providence which never truly errs in its dispositions. Take, O Lord, our religious community under Your care so that we may, under the wings of Your Providence, unwaveringly follow the faithful way of our vocation together with Mary, our Mother and Help. Let our trust in Your Providence draw young hearts to serve the Church within our Marian Community. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. Be praised O Divine Providence.
R. We commend to You every moment of our lives.
L. May our Beatified Fathers surround us with their protection.
R. Together with Mary Immaculate, our Mother and Advocate.
L. Let us pray for the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow
Lord, let Your Name be praised, in granting through the intercession of Fr. Stanislaus the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow. We pray,
R. Hear us, O Lord.
L. United by the grace of faith, we praise You Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.
L. Immaculata Virginis Mariæ Conceptio,
R. Sit nobis salus et protectio.
Third Day
Father Founder
L. Come, Holy Spirit, Well-spring of our vocation.
R. Bestow on us the grace of gratefulness and thanksgiving.
L. Let us pray:
Lord God, with joy we look upon our Father Founder, whose holy life the Church will acknowledge by proclaiming him blessed. We gratefully await this event which will reveal to the community of the faithful the beautiful life of our Fr. We implore you, O Merciful God, that we may know how to express our joy with a greater zeal in continuing the works of Fr. Founder, as it is in our Congregation. May the grace of beatification strengthen our community in its fidelity to the way of life, which is specified for us by our religious rules. We pray You, that Fr. Founder’s beatification will again set on fire in us the grace of our Marian vocation. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. Let us thank God for the gift of Father Founder’s life.
Lord God, You lead the Church on the paths of history and endow her with graces and charisms. In Your unfathomable wisdom You enrich the Church with the gift of the consecrated life. We thank You, Lord, for the gift of Fr. Stanislaus whom You called to found the Congregation of Marian Fathers, that by drawing inspiration from the life of the Immaculate Mother of God, it will show the world the power of Christ’s redemption. We thank You, Gracious God, for the gift of the Marian charism, by which You have enriched the Church and in Your graciousness You entrusted to us, so that with it we may live faithfully and creatively, following the way that Fr. Founder indicated.
Grateful for our encounter with Father Founder, we cry out in joy:
R. Thank you, Lord, for the gift of Marian vocation.
L. That we may perceive in the mystery of the Immaculate Conception the sign of Your mercy,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may devote all our strength to the concerns of the Church,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may untiringly proclaim the Gospel, and by our lives witness the Face of Christ,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may zealously pray for the Suffering Souls in Purgatory,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Let us pray for fidelity to the charism of Fr. Founder.
Merciful God, You called Fr. Stanislaus to found the Congregation of Marian Fathers and You sustained him in the realization of this mission. We pray You, that we may gratefully and courageously undertake the work of our Founder, and that we, still faithful to the given charism, may care above all about the spiritual growth of our Marian community, so that we may live only for Christ and the Church. May our Founder sustain us by prayer and example so that we will not be afraid of undertaking new tasks that the Church expects of us. We pray You, Lord, may the power of the Holy Spirit sustain our superiors, enlighten our formators, instruct our postulants, novices, and seminarians in the life of our Marian charism. May He renew our pastoral ministry, give comfort to our sick and suffering confreres, cheer the discouraged, strengthen those in spiritual tribulation. May He renew and strengthen in each one of us our Marian vocation. Grant, O Lord, that the witness of our Marian lifestyle inspire others to choose this way. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. “Lord, gather us from among all peoples and nations” (Bl. George).
R. “Preserve and sanctify us, whom You have called” (Bl. George).
L. May our Beatified Fathers by the radiance of their holiness show us the way.
R. Together with Mary Immaculate, our Mother and Foundress.
L. Let us pray for the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow
Lord, let Your Name be praised, in granting through the intercession of Fr. Stanislaus the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow. We pray,
R. Hear us, O Lord.
L. United by the grace of faith, we praise You Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.
L. Immaculata Virginis Mariæ Conceptio,
R. Sit nobis salus et protectio.
Fourth Day
Faithful to vocation
L. Come, Holy Spirit, our steadfast and unerring Guide.
R. Strengthen us on the path of our vocation.
L. Let us pray:
Almighty and merciful God, we rejoice that our Fr. Founder will be proclaimed blessed according to Your will. We humbly pray You, grant us the grace of re-discovering in him a Father and Guide on the way of our vocation. Grant, that we be so captivated by his way of life that it would become for us an incentive of an even greater fidelity to the grace of our vocation. May joy from his beatification make fruitful our renewed faithfulness to our daily duties. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. Let us thank God for the gift of Father Founder’s life.
Merciful God, You endow each person with the grace of a vocation, so that they may fruitfully live out the time of their earthly pilgrimage, we thank You, for desiring to give Fr. Stanislaus the gift of a Marian vocation. Thanks to Your help, he was able to accept it and to faithfully realize it, despite difficulties and obstacles. We thank You, Lord, for also calling us to the Marian community, so that by our fidelity we may attest, that the Marian way of life leads to holiness. Filled with gratitude, we cry out to You:
R. Help us to faithfully follow/ the way of a Marian vocation.
L. Forgive our unfaithfulness and preserve us from doubting Your mercy,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may give witness to Christ living among us by faithfulness to our vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may, in imitation of Mary, faithfully and unreservedly, fulfill Your holy will,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Let us pray for fidelity to the charism of Fr. Founder.
Our Lord and Father, You preserved our Fr. Founder on the way of fidelity and brought him to the glory of heaven. We beg You, protect us, so that we may not give way to temptations of the evil spirit, who seeks ways of drawing us away from You. May the power of Your grace prevent us from breaking our covenant with You, which You formed with us in the sacrament of baptism and confirmed in religious profession. Grant that by a creative fidelity to our vocation we may grow in holiness and draw near to heaven. Receive, O Lord, our atonement for all the infidelities of everyone of us, as well as of our brothers, who set aside the way of the Marian life. We humbly pray You, that we may persevere at Your side, despite our sins, thus witnessing Your mercy, praising Your goodness and growing stronger in our vocation. May the signs of our faithfulness encourage young people to enter the way of a Marian Vocation. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. O God, our Marian life is Your gift.
R. Strengthen our faithfulness to our vocation.
L. May our Beatified Fathers, by the example of their unwavering fidelity, show us the way.
R. Together with Mary Immaculate, our Mother and Foundress.
L. Let us pray for the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow
Lord, let Your Name be praised, in granting through the intercession of Fr. Stanislaus the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow. We pray,
R. Hear us, O Lord.
L. United by the grace of faith, we praise You Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.
L. Immaculata Virginis Mariæ Conceptio,
R. Sit nobis salus et protectio.
Fifth Day
Fervent in love
L. Come, Holy Spirit, singular and chaste Love.
R. Embrace us by the powerful breath of Your love.
L. Let us pray:
God, You Who are Love, our hearts are filled with joy, because in Your goodness You granted us the grace of beatification of our Fr. Founder. May the Holy Spirit prepare us for a worthy and fruitful acceptance of this gift. We pray You, that this occasion strengthen our fidelity on the way of evangelical love, which was exemplified by Fr. Stanislaus. May our friends, coworkers, and all who hold dear the Marian charism rejoice with us. Grant that we may more fully experience Your love, which You revealed to us in the life of Father Founder. May it fill our daily life. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. Let us thank God for the gift of Father Founder’s life.
God, we thank You for Father Founder, into whose heart You poured a heroic love, in order to show, how beautiful a person’s life may be, if only he will agree to accept Your gift. Thank you for the example of magnanimous readiness to forgive, zeal in serving people, patient endurance in the trials of life and joy in abiding with You as given by our Founder. Lord God, may Father Stanislaus, fervent in love, be the Father of the spiritual renewal of our Congregation, that we all together may ever more clearly show the world Your beloved Image. Filled with trust, we cry out to You:
R. Inflame in us, the fire of Your Divine love.
L. May our love be patient, active, and free of jealousy.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. May the spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation accompany us in our daily life.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. May love help us bear everything that pains and wounds.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Let us pray for fidelity to the charism of Fr. Founder.
Merciful God, we thank You for the love that bore abundant fruit in the life of our Founder. We beg You, that we may, by looking at his example, be able to open our hearts to the gift of Your love, to accept it and guard it within ourselves, so that it may produce in us the fruit of good deeds. May Your love reach everywhere through us, wherever people need it. May we be ready to carry it even to the ends of the world, if such may be Your holy will. Grant, that by a faithful and trusting love we may encourage the fainthearted, reconcile the quarreling, show Divine mercy to people wounded by sin, and proclaim Your Good News to all. Open the hearts of young people, we beg You, O Lord, so that they may experience Your love and, together with us, desire to give witness by word and life to Your love. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. God, our gracious Father, You are unfathomable in Your love.
R. Strengthen us in mutual love and unity.
L. May our Beatified Fathers, by the example of their fervent love enliven our lives.
R. Together with Mary Immaculate, our Mother and Handmaid of Love.
L. Let us pray for the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow
Lord, let Your Name be praised, in granting through the intercession of Fr. Stanislaus the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow. We pray,
R. Hear us, O Lord.
L. United by the grace of faith, we praise You Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.
L. Immaculata Virginis Mariæ Conceptio,
R.Sit nobis salus et protectio.
Sixth Day
Imitating the Immaculate
L. Come, Holy Spirit, and prepare our hearts.
R. That we may worthily receive Mary into ourselves.
L. Let us pray:
Lord Jesus Christ, filled with gratitude we await the day of beatification of our Father Founder, who during his life faithfully imitated Mary, Your Immaculate Mother. We implore You, may Your grace so dispose our hearts, that we may fruitfully experience the solemnity of the beatification of Fr. Stanislaus. May our joy develop into an even greater fidelity to Mary’s way of our Congregation. We are called to receive Mary into our very selves and to imitate her in our daily life of faith, hope, and love. We beseech You, O Lord, that the beatification of our Founder, strengthen our love for Mary and our zealous concern for the face of Mary in the Church. You, who live and reign forever and ever.
R. Amen.
L. Let us thank God for the gift of Father Founder’s life.
Merciful God, we Thank You, for having endowed our Father Founder with the grace of love for Mary, Mother of Jesus, and for giving him a unique illumination, that he would recognize and contemplate the mystery of her Immaculate Conception. We thank You for qualifying him to zealously proclaim this truth in the Church and to draw from it the inspiration to inform his spiritual life. We thank You, O God, for giving us in Father Founder a model of an authentic Marian devotion, which, above all, expresses itself in the imitation of Mary, the first and most perfect Christian. Grateful for leading us also on the Marian path of spirituality, we cry out to You:
R. Lead us, O God, by the Marian way to heaven.
L. That we, strengthened by the Holy Spirit may with trust and love, receive Mary to ourselves.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. May the mystery of the Immaculate Conception inspire our spiritual and apostolic life,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may faithfully imitate Mary in her hearing the Word of God and fulfilling it,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we, together with Mary, the first Apostle of The Divine Mercy, may zealously proclaim the Gospel of Divine Mercy to the world,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we, together with Mary, may hasten with aid for the poor and socially mistreated,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Let us pray for fidelity to the charism of Fr. Founder.
O God, Giver of all charisms in the Church, we thank You for the Marian charism that You bestowed on our Father Founder. We implore You that the power of the Holy Spirit renew our Marian style of life and inflame in us anew the desire to imitate Mary in her total commitment to Christ and the Church. May the grace of the Immaculate Conception be for us a sign, strength, and joy in the realization our Marian vocation, and urging us to an even greater concern for the dignity of persons, from the first moment of existence until natural death. We beseech You, Gracious God, that looking into the mystery of the Immaculate Conception, we may zealously proclaim to the world the beauty of a new life in Christ. Grant, O merciful God, may the witness of our life encourage young men to be enraptured by the beauty of the Immaculate and to sojourn with us on the way of Father Founder. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. Merciful God, in the sign of Mary’s Immaculate Conception we admire Your love.
R. Form our hearts in the example of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
L. May we strive on the Marian way to heaven together with our Beatified Fathers.
R. In imitation of Mary Immaculate, our Mother and Teacher.
L. Let us pray for the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow
Lord, let Your Name be praised, in granting through the intercession of Fr. Stanislaus the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow. We pray,
R. Hear us, O Lord.
L. United by the grace of faith, we praise You Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.
L. Immaculata Virginis Mariæ Conceptio,
R. Sit nobis salus et protectio.
Seventh Day
Zealous Apostle
L. Come, Holy Spirit, and inflame in us the zeal to proclaim the Good News of salvation in Christ.
R. Sanctify our words and deeds.
L. Let us pray:
Lord Jesus, Good Shepherd, we anticipate the hour of proclaiming our Father Founder Blessed, he whom You guided to holiness by the path of apostolic zeal. We beg You, grant us the grace, to receive with open hearts the riches of the holy life of Father Stanislaus. May the grace of his beatification rouse our zeal in pastoral ministry for the good of the People of God, that we, by a renewed zeal and with greater awareness of the guidance of Your Spirit may fulfill the work of evangelization everywhere, that You will send us or desire to send us in the future. May the beatification of Fr. Founder even more greatly unite our communities, so that we may fraternally give witness to Your pastoral love for people. You, who live and reign forever and ever.
R. Amen.
L. Let us thank God for the gift of Father Founder’s life.
O God, Father of peoples and nations, You concern Yourself with all people and want to lead them to the joys of heaven. We thank you for choosing our Fr. Founder as Your co-worker in the work of salvation of the world. You filled his heart with pastoral love and You set him on the roads of the world, that he may seek the lost, restore hope to the despairing, strengthen the weak, bind the wounded, assure the doubtful of Your mercy, feed the hungry with the Bread of Life, and proclaim the Good News of salvation to all. We thank you, gracious God, for the example of apostolic zeal that we may admire in Your faithful servant, our Founder; we desire to imitate him everywhere that we are sent to buildup and strengthen the Church. Guide us in all our undertakings, so that we, urged by our Founder’s charism, may faithfully and zealously fulfill our mission in the Church. Gathered around our Founder, from every corner of the world, with faith we cry out to You:
R. Renew our readiness to proclaim the Gospel in imitation of St. Paul the Apostle and our Founder.
L. Open our ears and lips, by which we may attentively listen to Your Gospel and courageously proclaim it to the modern world.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Increase our courage, that we may go there, wherever the need is greatest and wherever it is most difficult.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may always conquer evil with good, and carry the message of Divine Mercy to all.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Let us pray for fidelity to the charism of Fr. Founder.
God, Lord of life, You deigned to reveal in the life of Father Founder a model of apostolic zeal and of a fervent love of a pastor concerned with the salvation of men. We implore You, grant that, after his example we may faithfully fulfill the task of proclaiming the joyful news of salvation to people entrusted to our pastoral care. Fortify us in moments of discouragement, console us in our failures, support us in the works, which You entrust to us, and grant that we may never seek success, but rather a greater fidelity to Your will. Bestow on us wisdom and patience, that we may zealously convey the truth of the faith to children, to youth, and to adults. Help us to built trust among people, mutual kindness and readiness to forgive. Enable us to collaborate with everyone in our apostolic works, but especially with those who live by our charism. Grant, O Lord, that our zeal awakens in the hearts of young people a desire to serve along with us our brothers and sisters, so that they may the better respond to the needs of the modern world. Through Christ our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. O God, in Your love You embrace all people.
R. Grant that we may witness Your pastoral care.
L. May our Beatified Fathers support our pastoral zeal.
R. Together with Mary Immaculate, /our Mother and Educator.
L. Let us pray for the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow
Lord, let Your Name be praised, in granting through the intercession of Fr. Stanislaus the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow. We pray,
R. Hear us, O Lord.
L. United by the grace of faith, we praise You Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.
L. Immaculata Virginis Mariæ Conceptio,
R. Sit nobis salus et protectio.
Eighth Day
Advocate of Poor Souls in Purgatory
L. Come, Holy Spirit, and inflame in us a longing for heaven.
R. Strengthen us in our assisting the deceased.
L. Let us pray:
Merciful God, united in joy, we await the beatification of Father Founder on whom You bestowed a particular charism of assisting the Poor Souls in Purgatory. We implore You that the grace of his beatification will renew in us the zeal to bring help to the deceased. May our love go beyond earthly horizons and reach all those, who, even though they have completed their earthly pilgrimage, nonetheless are still growing into the fullness of love in heaven. Grant that the beatification of Fr. Founder, the Advocate for the Souls in Purgatory, strengthen our apostolate for the good of the Suffering Souls in Purgatory. Help us to understand, how we are to realize today the apostolate of helping the deceased. May it more clearly show itself as the sign of our concern for persons, called to communion with God in heaven. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. Let us thank God for the gift of Father Founder’s life.
Merciful God, we thank You for Your love, which You revealed in the life of Father Founder. We thank You for his example of selfless and sacrificial love for the Souls in Purgatory, to whom he hastened with help through his prayer and penance. We adore Your mercy, which revealed itself in the merciful love of Fr. Founder for the deceased sojourning in Purgatory. We thank You for his example of concern for the deceased and the dying reminding us of the necessity offering them help. We admire and want to imitate his trust in the power of Your mercy and his unwavering faith in eternal life. We desire to ever better assist the deceased, and for this we cry out to You:
R. Strengthen in us love and zeal in bringing help to the deceased.
L. May we surround the sick with love, and prepare the dying for a peaceful death.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. May we hasten to assist the deceased with our prayers and penance.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. May we ourselves be always ready to meet You at the hour of death.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Let us pray for fidelity to the charism of Fr. Founder.
O God, You called Father Stanislaus, to particularly nurture within the Church a concern for the deceased suffering in Purgatory, grant, we pray, that we may creatively integrate in life this charism that he left to us. O God, help us, by the example of Father Founder, to console the sick, to strengthen the dying in hope, and to remind all of Your promise of eternal life in heaven. Bestow on us kindness and compassion so that we may help the mourning. Grant that we may become messengers of hope and Your mercy for all. Open our eyes, that we may perceive the dramatic events in the world, which bring abundant harvests of death and that we may zealously pray for all who suddenly depart from this earth.
May the longing for heaven excite us, so that we zealously assist the deceased and strengthen the living in hope of seeing You face to face. We beseech You, that by new vocations to our community the circle of advocates of Souls in Purgatory may increase. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. “I beg you, my brothers, pray for the dead, for they suffer unbearable torments” (Father Founder).
R. “I promise and endlessly will make efforts to rescue them” (Marian Ritual from before 1909).
L. May our Beatified Fathers sustain our prayer for the deceased.
R. Together with Mary Immaculate, our Mother and Foundress.
L. Let us pray for the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow
Lord, let Your Name be praised, in granting through the intercession of Fr. Stanislaus the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow. We pray,
R. Hear us, O Lord.
L. United by the grace of faith, we praise You Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.
L. Immaculata Virginis Mariæ Conceptio,
R. Sit nobis salus et protectio.
Ninth Day
Guide on the road to holiness
L. Come, Holy Spirit, and awaken in us a longing for holiness.
R. That we may more profoundly recognize, “who is the hope of our vocation.”
L. Let us pray:
O God, United in the Holy Trinity, we thank You, that shortly we shall see our Father Founder in glory amidst Your chosen and saints. We implore You, may Your grace grant that ability to know how to rejoice in the gift of his beatification and of accepting it with gratitude. May the raising to the honors of the Altar of Father Stanislaus open a new and blessed period in the unfolding of our Marian community, that with an even greater zeal and responsibility we may journey on the path of evangelical holiness, to which You called us. Grant, we beg You, that our relatives, friends, co-workers, and benefactors rejoice with us. May they experience the blessed fruit of the beatification of our Founder, and may they, assisted by his example and prayer, grow in faith, hope, and love, that together, in the spirit of the Marian charism, we may attain full holiness in heaven. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. Let us thank God for the gift of Father Founder’s life.
Holy God, united by the grace of our Marian vocation, we desire to give You thanks for the most wonderful work of Your grace in the heart of our Father Founder, which produced the fruit of his holy life. We thank You for enabling him to accept Your gifts and for his humble collaboration with You in patiently striving for holiness. We thank You for this, that the radiance of his life has accompanied us throughout the entire history of our Marian community, inspired concern for a holiness of life, strengthened us in trials, and urged faithfulness. We thank You for giving us in Fr. Founder a true Guide on the path of our vocation. We want to renew today our fidelity to his spiritual instructions, that we may not remain without work in the Vineyard of the Lord, but that, by Your help, we may produce mature fruit by our holy life. Merciful God, we trust in You, and we cry out in faith:
R. May Your Holy Spirit descend upon us and renew our hearts.
L. That we may with open and obedient hearts ponder and receive Your word and put it into action,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That we may experience Your love and reveal it to the others,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That our sins not hinder us on the path to holiness but rather bring us to the font of Your mercy,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That the Holy Spirit form is us a new man in the example of Mary Immaculate,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. That our community witness unity and mutual love in the midst of the world,
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. May Mary, Immaculately Conceived, sustain us and show us the way.
R. We pray You, Lord.
L. Let us pray for fidelity to the charism of Fr. Founder.
God, Source of holiness, You deigned to gather us in the Marian community. We humbly ask You, that, strengthened by the holiness of Father Founder’s life, we may accept anew his spiritual legacy and that the coming generations of our brothers may guard and develop it. Help us to sustain faithfulness to our religious vows and to strengthen the unity of our community. May everything among us be fulfilled in love. O Lord, grant that we may perseveringly journey on the path of a new life, which we esteem in the mystery of Mary Immaculate, zealously serving the Church, proclaiming the message of God’s Mercy, be untiring in our help for the deceased and embracing with our care the sick and the dying. Increase our courage and inflame our fervor, that in the spirit of our Marian charism, we may bring the Gospel to the modern world, and be for peoples the messengers of Your love. Through Christ, our Lord.
R. Amen.
L. “Follow me with swift steps, as I myself follow Christ going before me” (Father Founder).
R. Venerable Father Founder, lead us on the Marian path of holiness.
L. May our Beatified Fathers sustain us on our way to the glory of heaven.
R. Together with Mary Immaculate, /our Mother and Patroness of the spiritual life.
L.. Let us pray for the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow
Lord, let Your Name be praised, in granting through the intercession of Fr. Stanislaus the grace of healing for Fr. Mark Garrow. We pray,
R. Hear us, O Lord.
L. United by the grace of faith, we praise You Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.
L. Immaculata Virginis Mariæ Conceptio,
R. Sit nobis salus et protectio.
