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On the Gridiron Grant to us, O Lord, we beseech Thee, to extinguish within us the flames of vice, even as Thou didst strengthen blessed Laurence to overcome his fiery torments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A Gift The Secret From the Preparation for Mass<\/strong><\/p>\n Ure igne Sancti Spiritus<\/strong><\/em> Rex virginum, amator castitatis<\/strong><\/em> While Vesting for Mass<\/strong> While putting on the alb<\/strong>: While putting on the cincture<\/strong>: Mass Orations for the Grace of Continence Collect<\/strong> Secret<\/strong> Postcommunion<\/strong> From the Thanksgiving After Mass<\/strong> Saint Joseph, father and guardian of virgins, In addition to these prayers of the Church, priests may also want to say two other invocations after Mass every day:<\/p>\n Saint Michael the Archangel, set a shield of protection about me On the Gridiron Saint Laurence is the patron saint of those who have sizzled (or may be sizzling) on the gridiron of lust. I have long appreciated the collect in honour of Saint Laurence that the Church recommends to her priests in the daily thanksgiving after Mass of the Roman Missal: Grant to us, O <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,33,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monastic","category-personal-musings","category-priesthood","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-L5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13683,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/13683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Saint Laurence is the patron saint of those who have sizzled (or may be sizzling) on the gridiron of lust. I have long appreciated the collect in honour of Saint Laurence that the Church recommends to her priests in the daily thanksgiving after Mass of the Roman Missal:<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Continence is a gift, not an achievement. One becomes chaste by grace, not by dint of stress and strain. Mother Church has known this all along. This, I suppose, is why she bids her priests pray daily for the angelic virtue. I appreciate the realism of the official prayers for chastity found in the Roman Missal. It is assumed that one is engaged in spiritual combat. Out of weakness or weariness or a combination of both, one may at times emerge from the battle scarred and bruised.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>What is the secret of chaste living? 1) You have to want it<\/span>, 2) you have to ask for it<\/span>, and 3) you may have to wait for it<\/span>. Does not Sirach say, “Humble thy heart and endure . . . and in thy humiliation keep patience” (Eccl 2:2-4)? It pleases God to bestow the gift of chastity through the hands of the All-Pure Mother of God. In this particular combat, the rosary is the mighty weapon of the weak. That being said, let’s look at the prayers for chastity given by the Church in the Roman Missal. It is recommended that most of these find a place in the daily prayer rule of the priest.<\/p>\n
\nRefine our hearts and affections, Lord,
\nin the fire of the Holy Spirit,
\nso that our bodies may be chaste and our hearts clean
\nto serve Thee according to Thy pleasure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nWith the heavenly dew of Thy blessing,
\nGod, King of virgins and Lover of stainless chastity,
\nquench the wildfire of lust in my body,
\nleaving all of me, body and soul, steadfast in purity.
\nDeaden within me the stings of desire and all lustful excitements.
\nGive me true, complete, and abiding chastity,
\nand therewith all those other gifts of Thine in which Thou truly delightest,
\nenabling me to offer daily sacrifice in praise of Thee
\nwith a chaste body and clean heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nAs he washes his hands:
\nLord, give power to my hands, washing away all stain,
\nand enabling me to serve Thee with mind and body unsoiled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nLord, purify me and cleanse my heart,
\nso that being purified in the Blood of the Lamb
\nI may come to enjoy everlasting bliss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nGird my loins with the cincture of purity, Lord,
\nquenching lustful desires and leaving me strong in chastity and self-restraint.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n<\/strong>Note: These orations disappeared<\/em> from the 1970 Missale Romanum<\/em> (!) and reappeared under Pope John Paul II in the 2002 edition.<\/p>\n
\nRefine our hearts and affections, Lord,
\nin the fire of the Holy Spirit,
\nso that our bodies may be chaste and our hearts clean
\nto serve Thee according to Thy pleasure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nLord, break the fetters of our sins,
\nand give us back the innocence Thou gavest us before,
\nso that we may offer sacrifice to Thy praise in perfect freedom and purity of heart.
\nIt was Thy grace that saved us first; let Thy forgiveness save us now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nO Lord, our Helper and protector, come to our aid;
\nlet modesty and chastity blossom anew in our hearts and bodies
\nwith all their strength and freshness;
\nand let this sacrifice that we have offered to Thy lovingkindness
\ncleanse us from all temptation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nGiven after the oration in honour of Saint Laurence is the Virginum custos et pater<\/em>, addressed to Saint Joseph:<\/p>\n
\nto whose faithful keeping Christ Jesus, innocence itself,
\nand Mary, the Virgin of virgins, were entrusted,
\nI pray and beseech thee by that twofold and most precious charge,
\nby Jesus and Mary, to save me from all uncleanness,
\nto keep my mind untainted, my heart pure, and my body chaste;
\nand to help me always to serve Jesus and Mary in perfect chastity. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nto preserve my priesthood from every taint of scandal and every assault of the Evil One.
\nSaint Joseph, pray for me and for all priests in need of thy intercession.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"