PRAYER FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF VEN. HERMANN COHEN

 

WELCOME!

FR HERMANN COHEN (FR AUGUSTINE OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT)

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(A brilliant musician, Fr Augustine (then Hermann Cohen) was invited to conduct a Festival Choir in a Catholic church in Paris. He was, like St Paul, instantly converted – during Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Fr Augustine, of Jewish descent, heard from the Host a Voice saying, “I am the Way, the Life and the Truth”. He never looked back. Like St Paul he was able to say: “Scio cui credidi – I know him in whom I trust”.)

PRAYER:

Mary Immaculate Virgin Mother, who at the grotto of Lourdes restored to health Father Augustine of the Blessed Sacrament that he might serve you faithfully in your Order of Carmel, obtain, we pray, from the Blessed Trinity the grace … (here insert your intention) through the intercession and merits of your devout servant whose joy was to suffer for Jesus and to whom it was granted in answer to his heartfelt prayer to consecrate his life in its entirety to God’s will, service and glory.

Mary, Mother of God, glorify we beseech you, this your servant who, through the redeeming power of Christ present in the Holy Eucharist, was brought to the knowledge of the Truth.

Make known we pray, this apostle who was fired with devotion to the Blessed Sacrament of your Son’s love. May he bestow upon us, priests and laity alike, his burning zeal that the Divine Presence in the Eucharist be adored, the Mass celebrated with the reverence and sincerity, holy Communion received frequently and with devotion.

Grant that forthwith throughout the world and especially among your chosen people, Israel, there may be established the Eucharistic Kingship of the Son of David, the Living Bread who came down from Heaven in the womb of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary. Amen.

“Bishop Konstant while Auxiliary Bishop in the Westminster Diocese issued the required imprimatur for this prayer.”

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A POEM ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST

I know a secret key which never fails

To open the gates of Divine Mercy.

I know a river which will carry us

Into the promised land.

I know a palm-tree which will shelter us

From the burning heat of our exile;

I know a spring whose refreshing waters slake

Our thirst in the desert of this life;

I know a star which will guide us

As the pillar of cloud guided Israel

Across the sandy ocean of our existence

To the end of our Journey.

I know a dew which God sheds from heaven

And which must sustain us for the remainder

Of the road we have to travel;

I know a tree whose wood can sweeten

The bitter waters which are our

portion to drink here below,

And make them give us a foretaste

Of the heavenly Canaan.

I know a victim whose sacrifice ascends

In an odour of sweetness to the

God of Abraham;

And this secret key, this river, this palm tree,

this heavenly dew, this holocaust, is THE EUCHARIST.

Fr Hermann Cohen