{"id":4650,"date":"2014-08-14T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2014-08-13T22:29:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T21:29:48","slug":"like-a-gentle-rain-to-soften-every-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/like-a-gentle-rain-to-soften-every-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a gentle rain to soften every heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"knock1b\"<\/a><\/strong>Readers of <\/em>Vultus Christi may want to pray the following\u00a0 very ancient litany\u00a0 of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the feast of her glorious Assumption into heaven or on August 17th, the feast of Our Lady of Knock.\u00a0 This particular litany is a fine example of the forms of prayer peculiar to the early Irish Church, and a strong proof of the veneration in which our forefathers held the Holy Mother of God. Dating from at least the middle of the 8th century, the litany consists of sixty invocations.\u00a0 The prayer at the conclusion of the litany is a consecration of Ireland to the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God.<\/em><\/p>\n

O GREAT MARY<\/strong>,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mary, greatest of Marys,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Most great of women,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Queen of the angels,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mistress of the heavens,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Woman full and replete with the grace of the Holy Spirit,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Blessed and most blessed,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mother of eternal glory,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mother of the heavenly and earthly Church,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mother of love and indulgence,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mother of the golden light,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Honor of the sky,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Harbinger of peace.
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Gate of heaven,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Golden altar,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Couch of love and mercy,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Temple of the Divinity,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Beauty of virgins,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mistress of the tribes,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Fountain of the gardens,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Cleansing of sins,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Washing of souls,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mother of orphans,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Breast of the infants,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Refuge of the wretched,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Star of the sea,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Handmaid of God,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mother of Christ,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Abode of the Godhead,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Graceful as the dove,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Serene like the moon,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Resplendent like the sun,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Undoing of Eve’s disgrace,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Regeneration of life,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Perfection of women,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Chief of the virgins,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Garden enclosed,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Fountain sealed,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mother of God,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Perpetual Virgin,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Holy Virgin,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Prudent Virgin,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Serene Virgin,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Chaste Virgin,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Temple of the Living God,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Throne of the Eternal King,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Sanctuary of the Holy Spirit,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Virgin of the root of Jesse,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Cedar of Mount Lebanon,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Cypress of Mount Sion,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Crimson rose in the land of Jacob,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Fruitful like the olive,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Blooming like the palm,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Glorious Son-bearer,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Light of Nazareth,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Glory of Jerusalem,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Beauty of the world,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Noblest born of the Christian people,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Queen of life,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Ladder of Heaven,
\npray for Ireland.<\/p>\n

V. Hear the petition of the poor.
\nR. Spurn not the wounds and the groans of the miserable.<\/p>\n

V. Let our devotion and our sighs be carried through thee to the presence of the Creator,
\nR. For we are not ourselves worthy of being heard because of our evil deserts.<\/p>\n

V. O powerful Mistress of heaven and earth,
\nR. Wipe out our trespasses and our sins.<\/p>\n

V. Destroy our wickedness and depravity.
\nR. Raise the fallen, the debilitated, and the fettered.<\/p>\n

V. Loose the condemned.
\nR. Repair through thyself the transgressions of our immorality and our vices.<\/p>\n

V. Bestow upon us through thyself the blossoms and ornaments of good actions and virtues.
\nR. Appease for us the Judge by thy prayers and thy supplications.<\/p>\n

V. Allow us not, for mercy’s sake, to be carried off from thee among the spoils of our enemies.
\nV. Allow not our souls to be condemned,but take us to thyself for ever under thy protection.<\/p>\n

We, moreover, beseech and pray thee, holy Mary, to accept today the total and irrevocable consecration of Ireland to thy maternal and immaculate Heart.\u00a0 Let the power of thy intercession envelop this island on all sides; let thy protecting mantle cover it from east to west and from north to south.\u00a0 Open thou thy grace\u2013dispensing hands over Ireland: let mercy fall upon us like a gentle rain to soften every heart hardened against thy Son and against His bride, the Church.\u00a0 By thy all-powerful supplication obtain for Ireland the sanctification of our bishops and priests, a new flowering of consecrated life, and the opening of every home to the healing love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the blessed fruit of thy womb.<\/p>\n

O thou who, in the mystery of thy glorious Assumption, comest forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array, deliver Ireland from the pernicious encroachments of the culture of death, from the deceptions of materialism, and from all of Satan’s temptations and empty promises.<\/p>\n

Immaculate Queen of Ireland, who at Knock didst deign to manifest thy unfailing intercession in a mysterious silence, visit us again in these dark days of a great hunger not for bread, but for the Word of God, and draw all who dwell in this island to the altars of the Lamb who was slain, there to be nourished with the living Bread come down from heaven, in the brightness of the one true faith that confesses, now as always, the glory of the Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

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