"This is the Charity of God, That We Keep His Commandments"

Part Two

by Thomas A. Droleskey

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him. In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy. (1 John 5: 1-3)

God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on top of Mount Sinai as the Chosen People were making their way through the desert to the Promised Land of Canaan. Our Lord Himself, however, entrusted those Commandments solely to the Catholic Church for their safekeeping and infallible explication as part of the Deposit of Faith. We must never consult Protestant websites for any "information" about God and His Revelation. To consult those websites is really to sin against the First Commandment as we are placing our own Faith in mortal jeopardy of being confused by misinformation.

Sadly, it is the case today that many conciliarist-leaning websites run by Catholics attempt, most dishonestly and to the detriment and the deformation of souls, to put the best "spin" on the errors and novelties of conciliarism to make them appear to be in accord with Tradition. It is essential, therefore, to us to cleave to the best explanation of the Commandments the Church has given us, that is, those contained in the Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent, from which the Baltimore Catechism itself was derived. It is never a sin against Charity to speak to the truths of the Faith and to point out how souls are being misled by the errors of conciliarism. Indeed, we have an obligation to point out errors and to eschew novelties that are from the devil and lead souls to hell for all eternity.

The Second Commandment is:

Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord Thy God in vain.

God's Name is Holy. We must only invoke His Holy Name in prayer and in serious discourse about holy things. No time needs to be spent discussing the horror of curses associated the Name of God and/or the Holy Name of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. No curses and swear words must ever pass from the mouth of any man, no less in association with God's Name or that of His Most Blessed Mother and the angels and the saints.

Saint Bernardine of Siena preached for forty years in the Fifteenth Century to eradicate blasphemy. Father Giuseppe Melchior Sarto, later to be known as Pope Saint Pius X, did so in the Nineteenth Century as a young parish priest. Father Giovanni Bosco did the same in his own pastoral work with the young. We must do our own parts to end blasphemy among the people we know.

There are many ways to do this. A friendly word of admonition to a family member is one way. A private conversation with one who persists in such sinful practices is another. One of things that is even more common that the use of swear words or curse words in association with God's Holy Name are the phrases "Oh my God"  or "Oh, God," both of which are blasphemous. We must stop that phrase dead in its tracks. All it might take to stop this bad habit is to tell a person that he is blaspheming. Most people do not realize that this is blasphemy. It is.

Other evil practices, such as the use of the Name of the Divine Redeemer as a cry of exclamation in a time of crisis or just to "turn a phrase" must also be corrected. There are radio talk show hosts who do this regularly. One must not listen to them. Ever. Two nationally-known radio personalities have egregiously foul mouths, regularly using the Name of God and the Name of the Divine Redeemer in vain in the most vile manner imaginable. Many articles have been written about these individuals. Anyone who knowingly listens to them is participating in their sins against the Second Commandment.

Sometimes the offenders are Catholics. To wit, a restaurateur on Long Island, who shall remain nameless, was quoted in Newsday on December 26, 2004, as using Our Lord's Holy Name as an exclamation following a fire in the historic restaurant he co-owns. As we know this gentleman very well, we remonstrated with him when next we saw him, which was in August of 2005. Loose language is, it appears, one of the hazards of the restaurant industry. The man is a serious Catholic. He simply got into a bad habit. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to break. We can help those who are steeped in these bad habits to break them. I know. I've had enough bad habits in my own life!

We can enable blasphemy in several ways.

The first way that we can enable blasphemy is to remain silent when it is uttered. We are thus guilty of the sin ourselves.

The second way that we can enable blasphemy is to support Hollywood in any of its forms (motion pictures, television, videos, "rock" music). Hollywood, which is controlled by Judeo-Masonic forces that hate Our Lord and His Holy Name, is at war with the Catholic Church. Could you imagine Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ plunking down ten dollars to sit in a cushioned chair to have His Holy Eyes and His Holy Ears polluted by the rot shown on a screen, including words that blaspheme Him, His Blessed Mother and His Holy Church? We have no need to participate in anything that glorifies sins against each of God's Commandments, no less productions that include blasphemies as part and parcel of the dialogue in a "script."

The devil suffered a minor setback when The Passion of the Christ was first released two years ago. His sanctuary, motion pictures, had been penetrated by something worthwhile and edifying. Not to fear, though. The devil gets his "payback" all of the time in the average motion picture produced by Hollywood, replete with blasphemies and other sins. He gets more of a payback when believing, practicing Catholics blithely go to such productions to have their immortal souls bombarded--and thus desensitized--by blasphemies, both visual and aural, and by other graphic images of sin that burn themselves into the eyes of souls forever and are very difficult to eradicate. The Da Vinci Code, an upcoming production that will be released in Our Lady's month, May, will be the ultimate "payback" of the devil for The Passion of the Christ, being a full-scale, no-holds-barred assault upon the Catholic Church. Apart from the rare exception, such as The Passion of the Christ, we must never darken the devil's den that is a movie theater, arenas that have become diabolical of their very architecture and appointments.

Pope Pius XI warned about the evils of motion pictures in Vigilanti Cura, June 29, 1936:

These considerations of Ours assume more importance from the fact that the cinema does not address its messages to individuals, but to gatherings of men, and that in conditions of time and place which are as well suited to directing men's enthusiasms towards good as towards evil; such mass enthusiasms as experience tells us may degenerate into something approaching madness.

The films are exhibited to spectators who are sitting in darkened theatres, and whose mental faculties and spiritual forces are for the most part dormant. We do not have to go far to find these theatres; they are near our houses, our churches and our schools, so that the influence they exercise and the power they wield over our daily life is very great.

Moreover stories and actions are presented, through the cinema, by men and women whose natural gifts are increased by training and embellished by every known art, in a manner which may possibly become an additional source of corruption, especially to the young. To this are added musical accompaniments, expensive settings, extravagant presentations, and novelty in its most varied and exciting form.

Wherefore especially the minds of boys and young people are affected and held by the fascination of these plays; so that the cinema exercises its greatest strength and power at the very age at which the sense of honour is implanted and develops, at which the principles of justice and goodness emerge from the mind, at which the notions of duty and all the best principles of perfection make their appearance.

But alas! this power, in the present state of affairs, is too often used for harm. Wherefore when we consider the ruin caused among youths and children, whose innocence and chastity is endangered in these theatres, We remember that severe word spoken against the corrupters of youth by Jesus Christ: "But who so shall offend one of these little ones which believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matth. xviii. 6-7).

It is therefore most necessary, in these times of ours, that these entertainments should not become schools of corruption, but that they should rather assist in the right education of man and in raising the dignity of morality.

A third way we can enable blasphemy is to support museums and other institutions that display alleged "works of art" that blaspheme Our Lord or Our Lady or any of the other saints. Several such "works" have been produced in the past few decades. One notorious "work" involved Our Crucified Lord. Another involved His Most Blessed Mother. 

Then City of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani got much credit, all of it undeserved, in the Fall of 1999 for opposing the Brooklyn Museum's showing of a blasphemous depiction of Our Lady. Giuliani, a thrice married pro-abortion and pro-perversion Catholic who continues to praised by the Archbishop of New York, Edward Cardinal Egan, said that it was wrong for Brooklyn Museum, which is run by the City of New York, to display the particular piece because taxpayer funds should not be used to display something offensive to any particular religion, in this case Catholicism. However, Giuliani missed the real issue completely: no one has any right to produce any blasphemous work, no less to display it publicly. A Catholic State would see to it that the work of "art" was confiscated and destroyed and the "artist" punished.

Isn't this censorship? You bet. Yes, Catholics believe in censorship. Leftists do, don't they? Leftists believe that believing Catholics must be censored by the civil state, claiming that we are hateful, intolerant, bigoted, if not "dangerous" to the populace. Various Canadian provinces consider criticism of perverted behavior to be a "hate crime" punishable by law. Leftists take a legitimate principle, the censorship of heresies and blasphemies and writings and arts that promote sin, and invert it and distort it to their own nefarious purposes. Leftists arrogate unto themselves the power to censor anyone who disagrees with them, believing themselves to be a veritable magisterium of thought and action.

Saint Louis IX, who was King of France in the Thirteenth Century, knew that it was one of the chief duties of the civil state to promote the Catholic Faith, especially by seeking to remove blasphemies and heresies from public view. Those who can blaspheme God and His Most Blessed Mother and the saints--and who can put into question, if not deny entirely, the truths of the Faith are ultimately much more dangerous to the welfare of the civil state than those who commit crimes against property and persons. Mind you, those who commit crimes against property and persons must be prosecuted and punished in accord with the dictates of due process of law and in a manner commensurate to the offense committed. However, those who commit crimes against God and the Holy Faith put into question the good order of souls, and the state has a fundamental obligation to stop such offenses, as Pope Leo XIII noted in Immortale Dei, November 1,1885:

So, too, the liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrance, is not in itself and advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is a fountain-head and origin of many evils. Liberty is a power perfecting man, and hence should have truth and goodness for its object. But the character of goodness and truth cannot be changed at option. These remain ever one and the same. If the mind assents to false opinions, and the will chooses and follows after what is wrong, neither can attain its native fulness, but both must fall from their native dignity into an abyss of corruption. Whatever, therefore, is opposed to virtue and truth, may not rightly be brought temptingly before the eye of man, much less sanctioned by the favor and protection of the law. A well-spent life is the only passport to heaven, whither all are bound, and on this account the state is acting against the laws and the dictates of nature whenever it permits the license of opinion to lead minds astray from truth and souls away from the practice of virtue. To exclude the Church, founded by God Himself, from the business of life, from the power of making laws, from domestic society, is a grave and fatal error. A State from which religion is banished can never be well regulated; and already perhaps more than is desirable is known of the nature and tendency of the so-called civil philosophy of life and morals. The Church of Christ is the true and sole teacher of virtue and guardian of morals. She it is who preserves in their purity the principles from which duties flow, and by setting forth most urgent reasons for virtuous life, bids us not only to turn away from wicked deeds, but even to curb all movements of the mind that are opposed to reason, even though they be not carried into action.

Pope Leo XIII elaborated in this theme in Exeunte Iam Anno, December 25, 1888:

If We look into the kind of life men lead everywhere, it would be impossible to avoid the conclusion that public and private morals differ much from the precepts of the Gospel. Too sadly, alas, do the words of the Apostle St. John apply to our age, "all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life."[1] For in truth, most men, with little care whence they come or whither they go, place all their thoughts and care upon the weak and fleeting goods of this life; contrary to nature and right reason they willingly give themselves up to those ways of which their reason tells them they should be the masters. It is a short step from the desire of luxury to the striving after the means to obtain it. Hence arises an unbridled greed for money, which blinds those whom it has led captive, and in the fulfillment of its passion hurries them madly along, often without regard for justice or injustice, and not seldom accompanied by a disgraceful contempt for the poverty of their neighbor. Thus many who live in the lap of luxury call themselves brethren of the multitude whom in their heart of hearts they despise; and in the same way with minds puffed up by pride, they take no thought to obey any law, or fear any power. They call self love liberty, and think themselves "born free like a wild ass's colt.[2] Snares and temptation to sin abound; We know that impious or immoral dramas are exhibited on the stage; that books and journals are written to jeer at virtue and ennoble crime; that the very arts, which were intended to give pleasure and proper recreation, have been made to minister to impurity. Nor can We look to the future without fear, for new seeds of evil are sown, and as it were poured into the heart of the rising generation. As for the public schools, there is no ecclesiastical authority left in them, and in the years when it is most fitting for tender minds to be trained carefully in Christian virtue, the precepts of religion are for the most part unheard. Men more advanced in age encounter a yet graver peril from evil teaching, which is of such a kind as to blind the young by misleading words, instead of filling them with the knowledge of the truth. Many nowadays seek to learn by the aid of reason alone, laying divine faith entirely aside; and, through the removal of its bright light, they stumble and fail to discern the truth, teaching for instance, that matter alone exists in the world; that men and beasts have the same origin and a like nature; there are some, indeed, who go so far as to doubt the existence of God, the Ruler and Maker of the World, or who err most grievously, like the heathens, as to the nature of God. Hence the very nature and form of virtue, justice, and duty are of necessity destroyed. Thus it is that while they hold up to admiration the high authority of reason, and unduly elevate the subtlety of the human intellect, they fall into the just punishment of pride through ignorance of what is of more importance.

When the mind has thus been poisoned, at the same time the moral character becomes deeply and essentially corrupted; and such a state can only be cured with the utmost difficulty in this class of men, because on the one hand wrong opinions vitiate their judgment of what is right, and on the other the light of Christian faith, which is the principle and basis of all justice, is extinguished.

In this way We daily see the numerous ills which afflict all classes of men. These poisonous doctrines have utterly corrupted both public and private life; rationalism, materialism, atheism, have begotten socialism, communism, nihilism-evil principles which it was not only fitting should have sprung from such parentage but were its necessary offspring. In truth, if the Catholic religion is willfully rejected, whose divine origin is made clear by such unmistakable signs, what reason is there why every form of religion should not be rejected, not upheld, by such criteria of truth? If the soul is one with the body, and if therefore no hope of a happy eternity remains when the body dies, what reason is there for men to undertake toil and suffering here in subjecting the appetites to right reason? The highest good of man will then lie in enjoying life's pleasures and life's luxuries. And since there is no one who is drawn to virtue by the impulse of his own nature, every man will naturally lay hands on all he can that he may live happily on the spoils of others. Nor is there any power mighty enough to bridle the passions, for it follows that the power of law is broken, and that all authority is loosened, if the belief in an ever-living God, Who commands what is right and forbids what is wrong is rejected. Hence the bonds of civil society will be utterly shattered when every man is driven by an unappeasable covetousness to a perpetual struggle, some striving to keep their possessions, others to obtain what they desire. This is well nigh the bent of our age.

There is, nevertheless, some consolation for Us even in looking on these evils, and We may lift up Our heart in hope. For God "created all things that they might be: and He made the nations of the earth for health." But as all this world cannot be upheld but by His providence and divinity, so also men can only be healed by His power, of Whose goodness they were called from death to life. For Jesus Christ redeemed the human race once by the shedding of His blood, but the power of so great a work and gift is for all ages; "neither is there salvation in any other."Hence they who strive by the enforcement of law to extinguish the growing flame of lawless desire, strive indeed for justice; but let them know that they will labor with no result, or next to none, as long as they obstinately reject the power of the gospel and refuse the assistance of the Church. Thus will the evil alone be cured, by changing their ways, and returning back in their public and private life to Jesus Christ and Christianity.

Now the whole essence of a Christian life is to reject the corruption of the world and to oppose constantly any indulgence in it; this is taught in the words and deeds, the laws and institutions, the life and death of Jesus Christ, "the author and finisher of faith." Hence, however strongly We are deterred by the evil disposition of nature and character, it is our duty to run to the "fight proposed to Us,"  fortified and armed with the same desire and the same arms as He who, "having joy set before him, endured the cross." Wherefore let men understand this specially, that it is most contrary to Christian duty to follow, in worldly fashion, pleasures of every kind, to be afraid of the hardships attending a virtuous life, and to deny nothing to self that soothes and delights the senses. "They that are Christ's, have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences" -- so that it follows that they who are not accustomed to suffering, and who hold not ease and pleasure in contempt belong not to Christ. By the infinite goodness of God man lived again to the hope of an immortal life, from which he had been cut off, but he cannot attain to it if he strives not to walk in the very footsteps of Christ and conform his mind to Christ's by the meditation of Christ's example. Therefore this is not a counsel but a duty, and it is the duty, not of those only who desire a more perfect life, but clearly of every man "always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus." How otherwise could the natural law, commanding man to live virtuously, be kept? For by holy baptism the sin which we contracted at birth is destroyed, but the evil and tortuous roots of sin, which sin has engrafted, and by no means removed. This part of man which is without reason -- although it cannot beat those who fight manfully by Christ's grace -- nevertheless struggles with reason for supremacy, clouds the whole soul and tyrannically bends the will from virtue with such power that we cannot escape vice or do our duty except by a daily struggle. "This holy synod teaches that in the baptized there remains concupiscence or an inclination to evil, which, being left to be fought against, cannot hurt those who do not consent to it, and manfully fight against it by the grace of Jesus Christ; for he is not crowned who does not strive lawfully." There is in this struggle a degree of strength to which only a very perfect virtue, belonging to those who, by putting to flight evil passions, has gained so high a place as to seem almost to live a heavenly life on earth. Granted; grant that few attain such excellence; even the philosophy of the ancients taught that every man should restrain his evil desires, and still more and with greater care those who from daily contact with the world have the greater temptations -- unless it be foolishly thought that where the danger is greater watchfulness is less needed, or that they who are more grievously ill need fewer medicines.

But the toil which is borne in this conflict is compensated by great blessings, beyond and above heavenly and eternal rewards, particularly in this way, that by calming the passions nature is largely restored to its pristine dignity. For man has been born under this law, that the mind should rule the body, that the appetites should be restrained by sound sense and reason; and hence it follows that putting a curb upon our masterful passions is the noblest and greatest freedom. Moreover, in the present state of society it is difficult to see what man could be expected to do without such a disposition. Will he be inclined to do well who has been accustomed to guide his actions by self-love alone? No man can be high-souled, kind, merciful, or restrained, who has not learnt self conquest and a contempt for this world when opposed to virtue. And yet it must be said that it seems to have been pre-determined by the counsel of God that there should be no salvation to men without strife and pain. Truly, though God has given to man pardon for sin, He gave it under the condition that His only begotten Son should pay the due penalty; and although Jesus Christ might have satisfied divine justice in other ways, nevertheless He preferred to satisfy by the utmost suffering and the sacrifice of His life. Thus he has imposed upon His followers this law, signed in His blood, that their life should be an endless strife with the vices of the age. What made the apostles invincible in their mission of teaching truth to the world; what strengthened the martyrs innumerable in their bloody testimony to the Christian faith, but the readiness of their soul to obey fearlessly His laws? And all who have taken heed to live a Christian life and seek virtue have trodden the same path; therefore We must walk in this way if We desire either Our own salvation or that of others. Thus it becomes necessary for every one to guard manfully against the allurements of luxury, and since on every side there is so much ostentation in the enjoyment of wealth, the soul must be fortified against the dangerous snares of riches lest straining after what are called the good things of life, which cannot satisfy and soon fade away, the soul should lose "the treasure in heaven which faileth not." Finally, this is matter of deep grief, that free-thought and evil example have so evil an influence in enervating the soul, that many are now almost ashamed of the name of Christian -- a shame which is the sign either of abandoned wickedness or the extreme of cowardice; each detestable and each of the highest injury to man. For what salvation remains for such men, or on what hope can they rely, if they cease to glory in the name of Jesus Christ, if they openly and constantly refuse to mold their lives on the precepts of the gospel? It is the common complaint that the age is barren of brave men. Bring back a Christian code of life, and thereby the minds of men will regain their firmness and constancy. But man's power by itself is not equal to the responsibility of so many duties. As We must ask God for daily bread for the sustenance of the body, so must We pray to Him for strength of soul for its nourishment in virtue. Hence that universal condition and law of life, which We have said is a perpetual battle, brings with it the necessity of prayer to God. For, as is well and wisely said by St. Augustine, pious prayer flies over the world's barriers and calls down the mercy of God from heaven. In order to conquer the emotions of lust, and the snares of the devil, lest we should be led into evil, we are commanded to seek the divine help in the words, "pray that ye enter not into temptation."How much more is this necessary, if we wish to labor for the salvation of others? Christ our Lord, the only begotten Son of God, the source of all grace and virtue, first showed by example what he taught in word: "He passed the whole night in the prayer of God," and when nigh to the sacrifice of his life, "He prayed the longer."

After condemning books that are "derogatory to Almighty God, or to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the Saints, or to the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIII laid down specific precepts in his Apostolic Constitution, Officiorum ac Munerum, January 25, 1897, concerning newspapers that blaspheme God:

Newspapers and periodicals which designedly attack religion or morality are to be held as prohibited not only by the natural law but also by the ecclesiastical law.

We must make reparation for whatever offenses we have committed against the God's Holy Name and against the Mother of God and the angels and the saints. We must make reparation for the offenses of others. And although January is the month of the Holy Name of Jesus, Passiontide is not a bad time to recite the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus, which is reprinted below. It is also good to pray the Divine Praises, also listed below, before we conclude or own private visits to the Blessed Sacrament, whether exposed solemnly or reserved in the tabernacle for our adoration and as Holy Viaticum for the dying.

Our reverence for the Holy Name of God: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost will help others to curb their own offenses against the Second Commandment. Our good example in not patronizing popular culture, which is rife with blasphemy, will do so as well. For we desire the day when all men and women everywhere will honor the Holy Name of the Divine Redeemer as their own King and the King of all of the nations of the world.

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him. In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy. (1 John 5: 1-3)

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint Isidore, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Mary Magdalene, pray for us.

Saint Philomena, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.

Saint Agnes, pray for us.

Saint Agatha, pray for us.

Saint Bridget of Sweden, pray for us.

Saint Catherine of Sweden, pray for us.

Saint John of the Cross, pray for us.

Saint Teresa of Avila, pray for us.

Saint Therese Lisieux, pray for us.

Saint Bernadette Soubirous, pray for us.

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, pray for us.

Blessed Francisco, pray for us.

Blessed Jacinta, pray for us.

Sister Lucia, pray for us.

The Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus

Kyrie, eleison

Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, eleison

Christe, eleison.
Kyrie, eleison

Kyrie, eleison.
Iesu, audi nos Iesu, audi nos.
Iesu, exaudi nos. Iesu, exaudi nos.
Pater de caelis, Deus, miserere nobis.
Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, miserere nobis.
Spiritus Sancte, Deus, miserere nobis.
Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, miserere nobis.
Iesu, Fili Dei vivi, miserere nobis.
Iesu, splendor Patris, miserere nobis.
Iesu, candor lucis aeternae, miserere nobis.
Iesu, rex gloriae, miserere nobis.
Iesu, sol iustitiae, miserere nobis.
Iesu, Fili Mariae Virginis, miserere nobis.
Iesu, amabilis, miserere nobis.
Iesu, admirabilis, miserere nobis.
Iesu, Deus fortis, miserere nobis.
Iesu, pater futuri saeculi, miserere nobis.
Iesu, magni consilii angele, miserere nobis.
Iesu potentissime, miserere nobis.
Iesu patientissime, miserere nobis.
Iesu obedientissime, miserere nobis.
Iesu, mitis et humilis corde, miserere nobis.
Iesu, amator castitatis, miserere nobis.
Iesu, amator noster, miserere nobis.
Iesu, Deus pacis, miserere nobis.
Iesu, auctor vitae, miserere nobis.
Iesu, exemplar virtutum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, zelator animarum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, Deus noster, miserere nobis.
Iesu, refugium nostrum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, pater pauperum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, thesaure fidelium, miserere nobis.
Iesu, bone pastor, miserere nobis.
Iesu, lux vera, miserere nobis.
Iesu, sapientia aeternae, miserere nobis.
Iesu, bonitas infinita, miserere nobis.
Iesu, via et vita nostra, miserere nobis.
Iesu, gaudium Angelorum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, rex Patriarcharum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, magister Apostolorum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, doctor Evangelistarum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, fortitudo Martyrum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, lumen Confessorum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, puritas Virginum, miserere nobis.
Iesu, corona Sanctorum omnium, miserere nobis.
Propitius esto, parce nobis, Iesu.
Propitius esto, exaudi nos, Iesu.
Ab omni malo, libera nos, Iesu.
Ab omni peccato, libera nos, Iesu.
Ab ira tua, libera nos, Iesu.
Ab insidias diaboli, libera nos, Iesu.
A spiritu fornicationis, libera nos, Iesu.
A morte perpetua, libera nos, Iesu.
A neglectu inspirationeum tuarum, libera nos, Iesu.
Per mysterium sanctae Incarnationis tuae, libera nos, Iesu.
Per nativitatem tuam, libera nos, Iesu.
Per infantiam tuam, libera nos, Iesu.
Per divinissimam vitam tuam, libera nos, Iesu.
Per labores tuos, libera nos, Iesu.
Per agoniam et passionem tuam, libera nos, Iesu.
Per crucem et derelictionem tuam, libera nos, Iesu.
Per languores tuos, libera nos, Iesu.
Per mortem et sepulturam tuam, libera nos, Iesu.
Per resurrectionem tuam, libera nos, Iesu.
Per ascensionem tuam, libera nos, Iesu.
Per sanctissimae Eucharistiae institutionem tuam, libera nos, Iesu.
Per gaudia tua, libera nos, Iesu.
Per gloriam tuam, libera nos, Iesu.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, parce nobis, Domine.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, exaudi nos, Iesu.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis, Iesu.
Iesu, audi nos.
Iesu, exaudi nos.

Oremus:

Domine Iesu Christe, qui dixisti: Petite et accipietis; quaerite et invenietis; pulsate et aperietur vobis; quaesumus, da nobis petentibus divinissimi tui amoris affectum, ut te tot corde, ore et opere diligamus et a tua numquam laude cessemus. 

Sancti Nominis tui, Domine, timorem pariter et amorem fac nos habere perpetuum, quia numquam tua gubernatione destituis, quos in soliditate, tuae dilectionis instituis: Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen. 

Lord, have mercy on us.

Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy on us.

Jesus, hear us.

Jesus, graciously hear us.

Jesus, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Son of the living God, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Splendor of the Father, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Brightness of eternal Light, have mercy on us.
Jesus, King of Glory, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Sun of Justice, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Son of the Virgin Mary, have mercy on us.
Jesus, most amiable, have mercy on us.
Jesus, most admirable, have mercy on us.
Jesus, the mighty God, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Father of the world to come, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Angel of Great Council, have mercy on us.
Jesus, most powerful, have mercy on us.
Jesus, most patient, have mercy on us.
Jesus, most obedient, have mercy on us.
Jesus, meek and humble of heart, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Lover of Chastity, have mercy on us.
Jesus, our Lover, have mercy on us.
Jesus, God of Peace, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Author of Life, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Model of Virtue, have mercy on us.
Jesus, zealous for souls, have mercy on us.
Jesus, our God, have mercy on us.
Jesus, our Refuge, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Father of the Poor, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Treasure of the Faithful, have mercy on us.
Jesus, good Shepherd, have mercy on us.
Jesus, true Light, have mercy on us.
Jesus, eternal Wisdom, have mercy on us.
Jesus, infinite Goodness, have mercy on us.
Jesus, our Way and our Life, have mercy on us.
Jesus, joy of the Angels, have mercy on us.
Jesus, King of the Patriarchs, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Master of the Apostles, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Teacher of the Evangelists, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Strength of Martyrs, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Light of Confessors, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Purity of Virgins, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Crown of all Saints, have mercy on us.
Be merciful, spare us O Jesus.
Be merciful, graciously hear us, O Jesus.
From all evil, deliver us, O Jesus.
From all sin, deliver us, O Jesus.
From Thy wrath, deliver us, O Jesus.
From the snares of the devil, deliver us, O Jesus.
From the spirit of fornication, deliver us, O Jesus.
From everlasting death, deliver us, O Jesus.
From the neglect of Thy inspirations, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through the mystery of Thy holy Incarnation, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Nativity, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Infancy, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy most divine Life, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Labors, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Agony and Passion, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Cross and Dereliction, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Sufferings, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Death and Burial, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Resurrection, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Ascension, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Institution of the Most Holy Eucharist, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Joys, deliver us, O Jesus.
Through Thy Glory, deliver us, O Jesus.
Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, spare us, O Jesu.
Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Jesus.
Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, have mercy on us, O Jesus.
Jesus hear us.
Jesus, graciously hear us.

Let us pray:

O Lord Jesus Christ, Thou hast said, "Ask and thou shalt receive; seek and thou shalt find; knock, and it shall be opened to thee"; mercifully attend to our supplications, and grant us the grace of Thy most divine love, that we may love Thee with all our hearts, and in all our words and actions, and never cease to praise Thee. 

Make us, O Lord, to have a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy name, for Thou never failest to govern those who Thou dost solidly establish in Thy love. Amen.

THE DIVINE PRAISES

Blessed be God.

Blessed be His Holy Name.

Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man.

Blessed be the Name of Jesus.

Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.

Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.

Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of Altar.

Blessed be the Holy Ghost, the Paraclete.

Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy.

Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.

Blessed be her glorious Assumption.

Blessed be the Name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.

Blessed be Saint Joseph, her Most Chaste Spouse.

Blessed be God in his Angels and in his Saints.