Skip to main content

PRAYER FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF VEN. HERMANN COHEN

 

WELCOME!

FR HERMANN COHEN (FR AUGUSTINE OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT)


(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.”

***

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



Comments

Popular posts from this blog

WELCOME

  Please pick your saints: January - Saints by date  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17   18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31   February - Saints by date  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17 18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29   March - Saints by date: 1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17   18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31   April - Saints by date: 1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17   18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30   May - Saints by date: 1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17   18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30   

ST JOHN BERCHMANS, RELIGIOUS - 13 AUGUST

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 13th of August WELCOME! SAINT JOHN BERCHMANS, RELIGIOUS   (Patron Saint of Altar Servers.) The eldest boy of a poor cordwainer, in a small Belgian town, John was ever a dutiful, prayerful, and studious child. Our Lord called him when but young to leave his father and his father’s house, to serve Him in the Society of Jesus.  And because he was so good a son, it cost his father much to give him up to God; but he was too good a Christian to refuse outright.  HE WAS SENT TO ROME John had hardly taken his religious vows when he was sent to the centre of Christendom, the holy city of Rome. His modesty, his purity, shone out as great virtue always does; and the young laymen who attended the lectures would come to gaze upon his beautiful and holy face, and go away the better for the sight. GREAT VIRTUE Three short years, and his last sickness found him sighing for heaven, and three days before the great feast of Mary’s Assumption in 1

ST LAURA OF CORDOBA, WIDOW AND MARTYR - 19 OCTOBER

  WELCOME! SAINT LAURA OF CORDOBA, WIDOW AND MARTYR   Laura, a widow and martyr of Cordoba in Spain, is mentioned in the Spanish martyrology of Tamajode Salazar, who refers to Luitprand, where it says the following: St Laura is said to have been of a noble family, and  according to the wishes of her parents she married an equally noble man and gave birth to two daughters.  After the death of her husband and her daughters, she went to the monastery of St Aurea, named St-Maria de Cuteclara, and after her martyrdom led the same for nine years as her successor.  After she had made wonderful progress in all virtues, she was finally summoned to renounce the faith before a Saracen judge. But since she remained steadfast, she was first beaten very cruelly and then thrown into a bath of boiling pitch, where she remained in praise of God for three hours and then flew to heaven on October 19, 864.   St Laura is of the 48 Martyrs of Cordoba. PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who