by
Thomas A Droleskey
The great Wonderworker whose feast is commemorated today, Sunday, August 11, 2013, the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, could have saved her life--and lost immortal soul in the process--if she had been willing to violate the Sixth and Ninth Commandments by entering into what would have been a bigamous and adulterous "marriage" with the fierce enemy of the Catholic Faith, Emperor Diocletian. Saint Philomena's parents, eager to save her life, urged her to do so. Saint Philomena refused. She loved God more than she loved her earthly life. She loved God more than she loved her parents. She would not place human respect, even for the powerful emperor who threatened her very life and who had her imprisoned and tortured mercilessly, above her love of the true God as He has revealed Himself to us exclusively through His Catholic Church.
Saint Philomena was unwilling to compromise on any point of the integrity of the Sixth and Ninth Commandments. She did not believe it was necessary to be "ends oriented," if you will, to save her life. She had no "grand plan" or "master strategy" of making just a "little" compromise in order to preserve her physical existence.
Why is it that so many traditionally-minded Catholics yet attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism are willing to compromise on many points involving the First Commandment as their various false "pontiffs," including Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis, have blasphemed " God openly and repeatedly by praising false religions and esteeming their symbols and by extolling their nonexistent "ability" to make "contributions" to the building of the "better" world?
How is that so many millions of saints who gave up their lives to the likes of Nero and Trajan and Decius and Diocletian in the first three centuries of the Church's existence could refuse to make even one slight nod to the nonexistent "sacrality" of false gods while the conciliar "pontiffs" have praised false religions and their false "gods" constantly? Were these saints wrong to refused to praise false religions? Were they wrong to have refused to accept the "place" of these false religions in civil society?
The refusal of our Catholic martyrs, including the dear Wonderworker, Saint Philomena, whose feast was suppressed by the first conciliar antipope, Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII, to compromise on any point of the Faith stands in sharp contrast to the constant concessions made to false religions one conciliar "pontiff" after another.
Petrine Minister Emeritus Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI praised Mount Hiei in Japan, upon which the Tendei sect of Buddhism worships their devils, as "sacred" in 2007, the same word he used in May of 2009 to describe the Mohammedan mosque of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. What I wrote in 2007 is quite appropriate to relate again, especially on this great feast day in honor of Saint Philomena:
There was a time eight years ago when I asked the editor of a conservative journal in whose pages my articles were carried, although at a very reduced rate by that point, if he planned on addressing the apostasy contained in the Joint Declaration on Justification that had been reached by Joseph Ratzinger, then the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the [Conciliar] Faith and representatives of the Lutheran "ecclesial community." The editor said, "No, some things are best left unreported." In other words, news that would make the Vatican look bad was not going to see the light of day. (By the way, a good treatment of that "Joint Declaration on Justification" has been written by His Excellency Bishop Donald Sanborn. See: Critical Analysis of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification .)
Sadly, the issuance of Summorum Pontificum has resulted in the same phenomenon in the Motu world. Matters that once would have been highlighted and discussed in great deal are being ignored as though they are of no relevance whatsoever. Joseph Ratzinger has silenced large numbers of people into believing that it is no longer necessary to defend the honor and glory of God and the integrity of the Catholic Faith if that means jeopardizing the "era of good feelings" generated by the supposedly greater access that Catholics in the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism are going to have to the modernized version of the Mass of Tradition. The mentality that led the editor of the conservative journal to "spike" any mention, no less critical mention, of the Joint Declaration on Justification eight years ago is now the same mentality of those who used to be in the vanguard of pointing out sacrileges and of calling for public acts of reparation to be made by faithful Catholics.
This positivistic mentality, which is of the essence of the naturalist farce that is the Judeo-Masonic view of civil governance and popular culture, has not appeared overnight in the the wake of Summorum Pontificum. Oh, no. This positivistic mentality had matured very well as a result of Karol Wojtyla's issuance of the Ecclesia Dei motu proprio in 1988. The situation in what used to be called the "indult" world is so bad that a "priest" in the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter told us when we saw him outside of a funeral home earlier this year that he had no responsibility to oppose error. This is an amazing abandonment of the sensus Catholicus. No responsibility to oppose error? One might as well admit that he belongs to a conciliar version of the High Anglican "Church" and be done with it than to say that such a cowardly rationalization has anything to do with the patrimony of the Catholic Church.
Nothing seems to outrage those who have permitted themselves to be put under Joseph Ratzinger's Hegelian spell. Taking off shoes in that mosque in Turkey and turning in the direction of Mecca while assuming the Mohammedan prayer posture? No big deal. Ratzinger just "had" to do it. Calling the heretical and schismatic "patriarch" of Constantinople a "pastor" in the Church of Christ? What's a few differences among equals, eh? Permitting the conciliar Vatican to hold the world premiere of a motion picture, Nativity Story, that mocked the effects of Our Lady's Immaculate Conception, which is the reason that her body did not had to suffer decay after death and was Assumed into Heaven on this very day, which include the perfect integrity of her human nature, making it a portrayal of her as "moody" and "sulky" and "disobedient" to be completely blasphemous? Oh, well, it was only a movie, right? What, I ask you, will wake Ratzinger's sycophants out of the fog of delusion in which they find themselves to realize that no amount of Catholic-sounding allocutions can redeem even one of these outrages?
Like so much else in the past twenty-eight months, however, it appears, at least at the present moment, that the outrage manifested in Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's statement to the Religious Summit Meeting on Mount Hiei, Japan, will go without anyone in the Motu world defending the honor and glory of God. Although I have commented on this a few days ago in Enemies of Souls Universally, this matter is so serious and strikes at the heart of the apostasy that courses through the veins of Joseph Ratzinger that the statement, which is pasted below, must be discussed, if ever so briefly, once again:
I am glad to greet you and all the religious leaders gathered on the occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Religious Summit Meeting on Mount Hiei. I wish also to convey my best wishes to Venerable Eshin Watanabe, and to recall your distinguished predecessor as Supreme Head of the Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Venerable Etai Yamada. It was he who, having participated in the Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi on that memorable day of 27 October 1986, initiated the “Religious Summit Meeting” on Mount Hiei in Kyoto in order to keep the flame of the spirit of Assisi burning. I am also happy that Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, is able to take part in this meeting.
From the supernatural perspective we come to understand that peace is both a gift from God and an obligation for every individual. Indeed the world’s cry for peace, echoed by families and communities throughout the globe, is at once both a prayer to God and an appeal to every brother and sister of our human family. As you assemble on the sacred Mount Hiei, representing different religions, I assure you of my spiritual closeness. May your prayers and cooperation fill you with God’s peace and strengthen your resolve to witness to the reason of peace which overcomes the irrationality of violence!
Upon you all I invoke an abundance of divine blessings of inspiration, harmony and joy.” (Letter for the Twentieth Anniversary of the Religious Summit Meeting.)
This statement stands on its own regardless of how much those in the Motu world want to ignore it. The man who believes himself to be the Vicar of Christ called a mountain upon which sits a temple dedicated to devil worship "sacred." There is no such thing as a small sacrilege. This is an offense against the First Commandment. There is nothing sacred in Buddhism. Neither peace in the soul or in the world can be produced by Buddhism, whose "meditation" requires a person to empty himself, which is an open invitation to the devil to come into his soul for a rather lengthy visit. Our souls are to be filled with Sanctifying Grace, which I can assure you is not made present by the Tendei sect of Buddhism on Mount Hiei. No one who can call a place of devil worship sacred is a friend of the Blessed Trinity or of the Catholic Faith.
Words matter. Correction. Words matter only if you attach precise meaning to them, which is the great protection that Scholasticism provides in the service of the teaching of the Catholic Faith. Ambiguity, paradox, imprecision and contradiction and direct sacrileges have nothing to do with the Deposit of Faith that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ entrusted exclusively to the Church He founded upon the Rock of Saint Peter, the Pope. Is there anyone out in the Motu world who would want to contend for a single moment that Pope Saint Pius X would have called a mountain upon which is offered worship to false gods, which is devil worship, sacred? Why must the "Cone of Silence" from Get Smart descend upon Catholics in order to get them to respond like Sergeant Hans Schultz from Hogan's Heroes (I know nooooooooooooothing!!!) when such a blasphemous statement is uttered that offends the majesty of God and places a false, diabolical religion on a level of equality with Him and His true Faith?
Although the conciliarists insist time and time again that they are not indifferentists or syncretists, their words show them to be liars. Perhaps they do not recognize this, steeped in a world of Hegelian contradiction and paradox and synthesis. The truth is what it is: calling Mount Hiei "sacred" sends the clear signal that Buddhism is pleasing to God and helpful to souls and to the cause of world peace. This is blasphemous and helps to reaffirm in the minds of Catholics the very indifferentism that they say they are not promoting.
A simple review of the words of Pope Pius IX, contained in his first encyclical letter, Qui Pluribus, November 9, 1846, reveals any impression of indifferentism is a grave matter and must be opposed most vigorously:
Also perverse is the shocking theory that it makes no difference to which religion one belongs, a theory which is greatly at variance even with reason. By means of this theory, those crafty men remove all distinction between virtue and vice, truth and error, honorable and vile action. They pretend that men can gain eternal salvation by the practice of any religion, as if there could ever be any sharing between justice and iniquity, any collaboration between light and darkness, or any agreement between Christ and Belial.
Pope Saint Pius X explained this as well in Pascendi Dominci Gregis, September 8, 1907:
How far this position is removed from that of Catholic teaching! We have already seen how its fallacies have been condemned by the Vatican Council. Later on, we shall see how these errors, combined with those which we have already mentioned, open wide the way to Atheism. Here it is well to note at once that, given this doctrine of experience united with that of symbolism, every religion, even that of paganism, must be held to be true. What is to prevent such experiences from being found in any religion? In fact, that they are so is maintained by not a few. On what grounds can Modernists deny the truth of an experience affirmed by a follower of Islam? Will they claim a monopoly of true experiences for Catholics alone? Indeed, Modernists do not deny, but actually maintain, some confusedly, others frankly, that all religions are true. That they cannot feel otherwise is obvious. For on what ground, according to their theories, could falsity be predicated of any religion whatsoever? Certainly it would be either on account of the falsity of the religious .sense or on account of the falsity of the formula pronounced by the mind. Now the religious sense, although it maybe more perfect or less perfect, is always one and the same; and the intellectual formula, in order to be true, has but to respond to the religious sense and to the believer, whatever be the intellectual capacity of the latter. In the conflict between different religions, the most that Modernists can maintain is that the Catholic has more truth because it is more vivid, and that it deserves with more reason the name of Christian because it corresponds more fully with the origins of Christianity. No one will find it unreasonable that these consequences flow from the premises. But what is most amazing is that there are Catholics and priests, who, We would fain believe, abhor such enormities, and yet act as if they fully approved of them. For they lavish such praise and bestow such public honor on the teachers of these errors as to convey the belief that their admiration is not meant merely for the persons, who are perhaps not devoid of a certain merit, but rather for the sake of the errors which these persons openly profess and which they do all in their power to propagate. (Pope Saint Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8, 1907.)
How can anyone with a modicum of the sensus Catholicus say that this is not a perfect description of the mind of Joseph Ratzinger?
Pope Pius IX also warned in Qui Pluribus, November 9, 1846, against the wiles of those, identified sixty-one years later by Pope Saint Pius X in Pascendi as Modernists, who would like to convince Catholics that our understanding of truth can be adapted to the "modern" age:
It is with no less deceit, venerable brothers, that other enemies of divine revelation, with reckless and sacrilegious effrontery, want to import the doctrine of human progress into the Catholic religion. (Pope Pius IX, Qui Pluribus, November 9, 1846.)
Pope Pius IX furthermore identified the method by which the champions of Judeo-Masonic Modernity in the civil world, those cousins of theological Modernists, were seeking to insinuate their errors into the bosom of the Church:
To this end also tend the most dark designs of men in the clothing of sheep, while inwardly ravening wolves. They humbly recommend themselves by means of a feigned and deceitful appearance of a purer piety, a stricter virtue and discipline; after taking their captives gently, they mildly bind them, and then kill them in secret. They make men fly in terror from all practice of religion, and they cut down and dismember the sheep of the Lord. To this end, finally -- to omit other dangers which are too well known to you -- tends the widespread disgusting infection from books and pamphlets which teach the lessons of sinning. These works, well-written and filled with deceit and cunning, are scattered at immense cost through every region for the destruction of the Christian people. They spread pestilential doctrines everywhere and deprave the minds especially of the imprudent, occasioning great losses for religion. (Pope Pius IX, Qui Pluribus, November 9, 1846.)
My friends, what is more pestilential than calling a mountain upon which is offered worship to the devil sacred? And while it is undoubtedly that case that most Catholics across the ecclesiastical divide will never learn of Joseph Ratzinger's offense to God in this regard, the offense is grave and it is merely representative of the larger apostasy of conciliarism itself, which involves, among many other things, an abandonment of the rights of Christ the King in civil society in order to adopt the inter-denominationalism of the Sillon, condemned by Pope Saint Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910, and the "integral humanism" of Jacques Maritain.
What is more pestilential than calling a mountain upon which is offered worship to the devil sacred?
Oh, well, any number of words and actions that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI between the time of the issuance of Summorum Pontificum on July 7, 2007, and the time of his retirement on February 28, 2013, to say nothing of the apostasies, blasphemies and sacrileges that have been committed in the past four months by Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis.
The conciliar "popes" have gone to mosques and synagogues, giving "joint blessings" with the "ministers" of non-Catholic sects. They have done quite a lot to offend the honor and glory and majesty of the Most Blessed Trinity, and anyone who denies this publicly is either willfully deluded or a liar. There is no middle ground.
Would our Wonderworker, Saint Philomena, have entered into a mosque on her own power, no less taken off her shoes so as to signify that it is a "sacred' place?
The conciliar "popes" have done so.
Would our Wonderworker, Saint Philomena, have assumed the Mohammedan prayer position so as to please leaders of this false religion?
The conciliar "popes" have done so. .
Would our Wonderworker, Saint Philomena, have entered into a synagogue and treated the false religion of Talmudic Judaism as a "valid" religion that is pleasing to God and that serves a role in "sanctifying" its adherents?
The conciliar "popes" have done so.
No saint of the Catholic Church has ever done or said the things that the conciliar "popes" have said and done in violation of the First Commandment.
No saint has made the compromises that those who are now serving as the false "pontiff's" spin-doctors are making in order to clothe an apostate in the garments of the true Faith.
Never before in the history of the Catholic Church have feast days of saints been suppressed for the alleged "lack of historical evidence," meaning, of course, that God the Holy Ghost failed the the Church in the matter of her Sacred Liturgy.
Leave it to the Modernists, rationalists to the core of their hardened hearts, to denigrate the very existence of Saint Philomena, who showed forth her miracles in great abundance in the Nineteenth Century and is still doing so to this very day. For the Modernists to be rite to have suppressed the cult of Saint Philomena, then Pope Gregory XVI was wrong to have recognized her cult on January 13, 1837, following the miraculous cure of Pauline Jaricot, the foundress of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and the Universal Living Rosary Association, at the shrine of Saint Philomena in Mugnano, Italy, on August 10, 1835.
More importantly, however, Pope Saint Pius X, the great foe of Modernism and all other forms of rationalism that denigrated the miracles attributed to many saints and even the existence of some saints, must have been wrong when he gave the following testimonies in behalf of Saint Philomena:
On June 16th, 1907, the Supreme Pontiff Pius X, receiving in audience Father Petit, from Paris, the director of the Work of Saint Philomena, exclaimed:
"Ah, Saint Philomena! It is very sad to read what has been written recently against her" (The Holy Father was referring to certain detractors of the cult of Saint Philomena who dared to maintain that our Little Saint did not even exist.) "It is incredible," continued the Holy Father, "that such things can come about without them (the detractors) looking at the great argument in favor of the saint, the Holy Curé of Ars. By her, in her name, and through her intercession, he obtained innumerable graces and continual prodigies."
To definitively affirm the cult of Saint Philomena and to give the final word, on May 21, 1912, Pope Pius raised the Venerable Arch Confraternity of Saint Philomena into the Universal Arch Confraternity with the Apostolic Brief, "Pias Fidelium Societates," in which he states very clearly:
"We decree with the present words that it shall remain always stable, valid and effective, that it receive and obtain its effects fully and completely, in this way it must be regularly judged and defined, and if it proceeds in any other way, it will be null and without value, whatever the authority might be…" (History of the Universal Arch Confraternity (Archconfraternity) of Saint Philomena. For a very good account of the life of Saint Philomena the Wonderworker that is found on the website of the Universal Living Rosary Association that, most sadly, accepts the legitimacy "canonizations" of the conciliar "pontiffs." Please see About Saint Philomena, Patroness and Protectress of the Universal Living Rosary Association.)
Nothing, of course, is stable with Modernists, who are so full of pride. Everything associated with the true Faith is "open" for "re-evaluation" and discarding, if necessary. Pope Saint Pius X himself noted this in Pascendi Dominci Gregis, September 8, 1907:
It remains for Us now to say a few words about the Modernist as reformer. From all that has preceded, it is abundantly clear how great and how eager is the passion of such men for innovation. In all Catholicism there is absolutely nothing on which it does not fasten. . .
To penetrate still deeper into the meaning of Modernism and to find a suitable remedy for so deep a sore, it behooves Us, Venerable Brethren, to investigate the causes which have engendered it and which foster its growth. That the proximate and immediate cause consists in an error of the mind cannot be open to doubt. We recognize that the remote causes may be reduced to two: curiosity and pride. Curiosity by itself, if not prudently regulated, suffices to account for all errors. Such is the opinion of Our predecessor, Gregory XVI, who wrote: "A lamentable spectacle is that presented by the aberrations of human reason when it yields to the spirit of novelty, when against the warning of the Apostle it seeks to know beyond what it is meant to know, and when relying too much on itself it thinks it can find the truth outside the Catholic Church wherein truth is found without the slightest shadow of error."
But it is pride which exercises an incomparably greater sway over the soul to blind it and lead it into error, and pride sits in Modernism as in its own house, finding sustenance everywhere in its doctrines and lurking in its every aspect. It is pride which fills Modernists with that self-assurance by which they consider themselves and pose as the rule for all. It is pride which puffs them up with that vainglory which allows them to regard themselves as the sole possessors of knowledge, and makes them say, elated and inflated with presumption, "We are not as the rest of men," and which, lest they should seem as other men, leads them to embrace and to devise novelties even of the most absurd kind. It is pride which rouses in them the spirit of disobedience and causes them to demand a compromise between authority and liberty. It is owing to their pride that they seek to be the reformers of others while they forget to reform themselves, and that they are found to be utterly wanting in respect for authority, even for the supreme authority. Truly there is no road which leads so directly and so quickly to Modernism as pride. When a Catholic layman or a priest forgets the precept of the Christian life which obliges us to renounce ourselves if we would follow Christ and neglects to tear pride from his heart, then it is he who most of all is a fully ripe subject for the errors of Modernism. (Pope Saint Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8, 1907.)
Those, such as Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis, who reject the Catholic Church's official philosophy, Scholasticism, will live their lives steeped in error after error, including the errors of rationalism, something that Pope Saint Pius X, a true friend of Saint Philomena, noted in Pascendi Dominci Gregis:
If we pass on from the moral to the intellectual causes of Modernism, the first and the chief which presents itself is ignorance. Yes, these very Modernists who seek to be esteemed as Doctors of the Church, who speak so loftily of modern philosophy and show such contempt for scholasticism, have embraced the one with all its false glamour, precisely because their ignorance of the other has left them without the means of being able to recognize confusion of thought and to refute sophistry. Their whole system, containing as it does errors so many and so great, has been born of the union between faith and false philosophy. (Pope Saint Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8, 1907.)
It is no accident that our true popes have confirmed the cultus of Saint Philomena while the false ones have disparaged her. Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII abolished her cult altogether and ordered that her shrine in Mugnano, Italy, to be closed! Saint Philomena had the last laugh, however. The corpulent heretic died before his order could be carried out, and Giovanni Montini/Paul the Sick chose not to enforce it. After all, he was focused on the "Second" Vatican Council and the planning and implementation of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service.
The false "pontiffs" have disparaged anything about the Catholic Faith that puts into question their own rationalism, which is why they can have nothing to do with "legends" that they cannot "prove" to their own Modernist satisfaction.
We must show our love and appreciation for Saint Philomena by invoking her intercession from Heaven to help us remain steadfast in our refusal to associate with those who believe in the very Modernist precepts condemned by the true and sainted pontiff who wrote that her cultus "shall remain always stable, valid and effective." I believe our last true pope to be raised the altars of Holy Mother Church as a saint. What about you?
Saint Philomena did not make even a single compromise to save her life. We cannot make a single compromise with the counterfeit church of conciliarism and its false shepherds.
Saint Philomena was privileged to have Our Lady appear to her in prison after she, Saint Philomena, had been tortured severely. Pauline Jaricot associated the Living Rosary Association with Saint Philomena, whose cult was, of course, spread also by Saint John Mary Vianney, who had a statue of her made according to how she appeared in an apparition to him. It is by keeping close to the ever sinless Blessed Virgin Mary, especially through her Most Holy Rosary, that we can obtain the graces necessary to reject conciliarism and to denounce the apostasies of the moment. She will console us as we are tortured, perhaps just spiritually and emotionally, by the difficulties of the present era of apostasy and betrayal as we pray as many Rosaries each day as our states in life permit.
Our Lady will help us to be ever ready to defend the honor and the glory of the Blessed Trinity to Whom she is Daughter, Mother, and Spouse. She will lead us to be ever mindful of making reparation for our own many sins by offering our daily penances to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, ever desirous of spending time with her at Holy Mass and in front of her Divine Son's Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament as a foretaste of the Heavenly glories that will await us if we die in a state of Sanctifying Grace as members of the Catholic Church.
There is no such thing as a small sacrilege or a small blasphemy. May we ask Saint Philomena today to give us that purity of mind and heart and soul that she had to make no compromises with the Faith so that we will flee from false shepherds and seek out the protection the true shepherds in the catacombs where no attempts are made to justify the apostasies of the moment.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and the hour of our death Amen
Vivat Christus Rex!
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
Saint Joseph, pray for us
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us
Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us
Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us
Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us
Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.
Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.
Saint Philomena, pray for us.
Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, pray for us.
See also: A Litany of Saints
Isn't time to pray a Rosary now?
Appendix
The Chaplet of Saint Philomena
From the Website of the Universal Living Rosary Association
The Rosary, also known
as the chaplet or Little Crown of Saint Philomena, is made up of red
beads to signify her martyrdom and white beads; a token of her virginity
and purity.
The Rosary is one of the simplest ways of praying to the Saint. First the creed is recited on the Crucifix or medal of St Philomena to ask for the gift of faith. Three Our Fathers on each of the white beads to thank the Blessed Trinity for the gifts given to the Holy Virgin, for in whose honor, laid down her life. The red beads are thirteen in number and signify the 13 years our martyr lived on earth and this prayer is recited on each bead:
Hail, O Holy Saint Philomena, my dear patroness. As my advocate with thy Divine Spouse, intercede for me now and at the hour of my death. Saint Philomena, beloved daughter of Jesus and of Mary, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Amen.
(This prayer may be substituted by praying thirteen Hail Mary’s each followed by: Saint Philomena, pray for us.)
At the end say:
Hail, O Illustrious Saint Philomena, who so courageously shed thy blood for Christ, I bless the Lord for all the graces He has bestowed upon thee, during thy life, especially at thy death, I praise and glorify Him for the honor and power with which He has crowned thee, and I beg thee to obtain for me from God the graces I ask through thy intercession. Amen.
Taken from: The Prayers of Saint Philomena.
