THE PRAYER OF SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS

THANKSGIVING AFTER MASS

Lord, Father all-powerful and ever-living God, I thank You, for
even though I am a sinner, your unprofitable servant, not
because of my worth but in the kindness of your mercy,
You have fed me with the Precious Body & Blood of Your Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ.
I pray that this Holy Communion may not bring me
condemnation and punishment but forgiveness and salvation.
May it be a helmet of faith and a shield of good will.
May it purify me from evil ways and put an end to my evil passions.
May it bring me charity and patience, humility and obedience,
and growth in the power to do good.
May it be my strong defense against all my enemies, visible and invisible, and the perfect calming of all my evil impulses,
bodily and spiritual.
May it unite me more closely to you, the One true God, and lead me
safely through death to everlasting happiness with You.
And I pray that You will lead me, a sinner, to the banquet where you,
with Your Son and holy Spirit, are true and perfect light, total fulfillment, everlasting joy, gladness without end, and perfect
happiness to your saints. grant this through Christ our Lord,
AMEN.




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St. Francis of Assisi Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace,
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong,
I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to
comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.

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Saint Francis was born in Assisi, Italy in 1182. He lived and preached a life of poverty and love of God to all men. He founded the religious Order of the Franciscans; with St. Clare, he founded the Order of the Poor Clares; and the Third Order for lay people. He died in 1226




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TENTH STATION : Jesus is crucified

TENTH STATION
Jesus is crucified

V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi.
R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.

From the Gospel according to Luke. 23:33-38

And when they came to the place which is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left. And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." And they cast lots to divide his garments. And the people stood by, watching; but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!" The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him vinegar, and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King ofthe Jews."

MEDITATION

It was merely a rocky spur, called Golgotha in Aramaic and, in Latin, Calvary, "the Skull", perhaps because of its physical appearance. On that peak rise three crosses, the crosses of men sentenced to death, two "criminals", probably anti-Roman revolutionaries, and Jesus. The last hours of Christ's earthly life begin, hours marked by the rending of his flesh, the dislocation of his bones, progressive asphyxia, interior desolation. These are hours that demonstrate the complete solidarity of the Son of God with human beings who suffer and slowly die.

A poet[33] once said: "The thief on the left and the thief on the right / felt only the nails driven into their hands. / But Christ felt the pain offered for salvation, / his side torn open, his heart run through. / It is his heart that burned. / His heart consumed by love." Truly, all around that cross there seem to echo the words of Isaiah: "He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed. He makes himself an offering for sin"[34]. The outstretched arms of that mangled body want to draw to themselves the entire horizon, embracing humanity, "as a hen gathers her brood under her wings"[35]. For this was his mission: "When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself"[36].

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Beneath that dying body files the crowd, anxious to "view" a ghastly spectacle. It is a scene of superficiality, crass curiosity, thrill-seeking. A picture in which we can also see a society like our own, which looks for stimulation and excess as if they were a kind of drug capable of arousing a sluggish soul, an unfeeling heart, a darkened mind.

Beneath that cross there is also cold hard cruelty, that of the leaders and the soldiers who in their ruthlessness are even capable of profaning suffering and death by their mockery: "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" They are unaware that their words of sarcasm and the official title above the cross -- "This is the King of the Jews" -- are full of truth. Certainly, Jesus does not come down from the cross in a sudden dramatic turnabout: he does not desire servile obedience based on miracles, but a faith that is free, a love that is authentic. And yet, in his abject humiliation and in the very powerlessness of his death, he opens the door to glory and life, and reveals himself as the true Lord and King of history and of the world.

All:

Pater noster, qui es in cælis:
sanctificetur nomen tuum;
adveniat regnum tuum;
fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cælo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;
et ne nos inducas in tentationem;
sed libera nos a malo.

Fac ut ardeat cor meum
in amando Christum Deum,
ut sibi complaceam.


[33] CHARLES PÉGUY, The Mystery of the Charity of Saint Joan of Arc (1910).
[34] Isaiah 53:5, 10.

[35] Luke 13:34.
[36] John 12:32.

*** Moment of Silence

PRESENTATION

OPENING PRAYER

FIRST STATION

SECOND STATION

THIRD STATION

FOURTH STATION

FIFTH STATION

SIXTH STATION

SEVENTH STATION

EIGHTH STATION

NINTH STATION

TENTH STATION

ELEVENTH STATION

TWELFTH STATION

THIRTEENTH STATION

FOURTEENTH STATION

BLESSING
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Our Father

Our Father, Who are in heaven,
Holy be Your Name.
Your Kingdom come.
Your Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sinned us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.


Filipino

Ama Namin
Ama namin sumasalangit ka, sambahin ang ngalan mo, mapasaamin ang kaharian mo. Sundin ang Loob mo dito sa Lupa para ng sa langit, Bigyan mo kami ng aming kakanin sa araw-araw. Patawarin mo kami sa aming mga kasalanan para ng pagpapatawad namin sa nagkakasala sa amin. At ilayo mo kami mo kami sa lahat ng masasama. Amen

Bagama't ang salitang Latin oratio dominica ay matagal ng ginagamit, ang Lord's Prayer" ay hindi naging pamiliar sa England bago mag reformation, Noong Middle Ages ang Ama namin ay palaging dinadasal sa Latin kahit na ng hindi nakapag-aral. Ito ay higit na kilala sa tawag na Pater noster. Ang pangalang "Lord's Prayer" ay inilapi rito dahil ginamit ito ni Jesu Kristo sa kanyang panalangin (bilang paghingi ng kapatawaran ng kasalanan) upang ituro ito sa kanyang mga disipulo.

Maraming pagpahayag at puntos sa kasaysayan at paggamit ng panalanging ito. Sa paggamit ng Ingles na texto na ginagamit ng mga Katoliko, ito ay hindi mula sa Rheims Testament kundi sa sipi na ipinag-utos sa England sa panahon ng paghahari ni Henry VIII, noong 1549-1552 sa pagninilay sa "Libro ng Pangkaraniwang Panalangin" ( Book of Common Prayer). Mula rito ang siping Katoliko ay nagkakaiba laman sa dalawang particular na pagkakataon: "Which art" ay ginawang moderno "who art", and "in earth" into "on earth".

Ang sipi ay malapit sa pagsasalin ni Tyndale sa Bagong Tipan (Tyndale's New Testament) ay naging katanggap-tanggap sa ordinansa ng 1541. Ang ordinansang ito ay udyok ng maraming uri ng salin o version ng Pater noster, Ave, Sumasampalataya(Creed) at iba pa. Ito ang naging pamantayan (caused) sa utos ng hari upang ang lahat ng mamamayan, vicario (vicars) at kura paroko (curates), na basahin at ituro ang nasabing version. Kaya ang nasabing version ay naging pangkalahatan sa buong bansa sa kanilang panalangin maging sa mga protestante at katoliko kahit na ang Rheims Testament, noong 1581 at King James's translators, in 1611, ay may pagkakaiba sa pagsasalin ng Mateo 6:9-13,

Ang panalanging ito na mula kay San Lukas 11:2-4 ay ibinigay ni Kristo bilang sagot sa kahilingan ng mga disipulo ay may kaunting pagkakaiba kay San Mateo 6:9-15 na kung saan ipinapakilala sa gitna ng Sermon sa Bundok, ngunit wala naman itong ibang dahilan upang sabihin na ang dalawang ito ay hindi magkatulad. Malaki ang posibilidad na itinuro ni Kristo itong panalangin nang ilang ulit. Mas malapit sa katotohanan na ang Ama namin na makikita sa "Didache" ay katulad ng kay San Mateo na ginamit ng simbahan sa kanyang liturhiya. Walang nakikitang malaking kahalagahan upang sabihin na nagopya ang mga Kristiyano sa panalangin ng mga Hudyo dahil makikita rin ang mga nasasaad dito sa ibang mga panalangin ng mga Hudyo. Dahil sa, una, maliit lamang ang pagkatulad nito at pangalawa, walang maliwanag na ebidensya na ang panalangin ng mga Hudyo ay higit na una kaysa sa turo ni Kristo

Naging pangkaraniwang gamit ito at maraming naisulat sa larangan ng usapin sa panalangin ng Ama namin, kahit na ito simple at natural. Isang malawak na komentaryo rito ay mula sa quasi-official "Catechismus ad parochos", na isinulat noong 1564 sangayon sa batas ng Council of Trent, tungkol sa Ama namin na siyang basehan ng pagsusuri sa lahat ng katolikong katesismo. Maraming puntos ang binigyan pansi tulad ng "Dito sa lupa para ng sa langit" ay hindi lamang nagngahulugan ng isang paghingi upang "mangyari ang Iyong kalooban", ito ay tumutukoy rin sa dalawang bagay na "sambahin ang ngalan Mo" at "mapasaamin ang Kaharian Mo"

Ang kahulugan ng huling kahilingang ito ay lubos na binigyan ng liwanag. Isa kasi sa problema sa pagsasalin ay ang mga salitang artos epiousios na sangayon sa Vulgate mula kay San Lukas ay isinaling "aming kakanin araw-araw", St. Jerome, sa kanyang di malaman na pagkakamali ay binago ang salitang quotidianum sa supersubstantialem ni San Mateo pero iniwan ang quotidianum kay San Lucas. Ang opinyon ng mga makabagong escholar ay ang bagong sipi ay makikita ang salin bilang araw-araw ngunit may komentaryo ito sa panggilid "aming pagkain sa susunod na araw. Habang ang Komite ng mga Amerikano (American Committee) ay nagnais magdagdag ng "aming pangangailangang pagkain". Sa katapusan, ang mas nakakaraming opinyon ay ang pagpahayag na ang huling mga salita ay dapat "iadya mo kami sa masama, ang pagbabagona ngangailangan ng "ngunit"sa halip na "at" na nagsasama sa dalwang kahilingan bilang isa. The doxolohiya "sapagkat sa iyo ang kaharian", etc., ay matatagpuan sa Griegong in textus receptus ay dagdag na lamang sa mga sumunod na salin na siyang ginamit sa salin ng ns of the "Boo of Common Prayer", is undoubtedly an interpolation.

In the liturgy of the Church the Our Father holds a very conspicuous place. Some commentators have erroneously supposed, from a passage in the writings of St. Gregory the Great (Ep., ix, 12), that he believed that the bread and wine of the Eucharist were consecrated in Apostolic times by the recitation of the Our Father alone. But while this is probably not the true meaning of the passage, St. Jerome asserted (Adv. Pelag., iii, 15) that "our Lord Himself taught His disciples that daily in the Sacrifice of His Body they should make bold to say 'Our Father' etc." St. Gregory gave the Pater its present place in the Roman Mass immediately after the Canon and before the fraction, and it was of old the custom that all the congregation should make answer in the words "Sed libera nos a malo". In the Greek liturgies a reader recites the Our Father aloud while the priest and the people repeat it silently. Again in the ritual of baptism the recitation of the Our Father has from the earliest times been a conspicuous feature, and in the Divine Office it recurs repeatedly besides being recited both at the beginning and the end.

In many monastic rules, it was enjoined that the lay brothers, who knew no Latin, instead of the Divine office should say the Lord's Prayer a certain number of times (often amounting to more than a hundred) per diem. To count these repetitions they made use of pebbles or beads strung upon a cord, and this apparatus was commonly known as a "pater-noster", a name which it retained even when such a string of beads was used to count, not Our Fathers, but Hail Marys in reciting Our Lady's Psalter, or in other words in saying the rosary.

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Theologians ussually are quoted saying that this one of the ipssisima verbum Christi, one of the very words of Christ. It is also one of the well and vastly commented by various authors from the theologians of the liberation theology to the conclave of the Opus Dei. One of the prayers that our separated brethren are also using.

Much is to be said about it from the vast resources, however, let me say my piece. The prayer clearly states that forgiveness of God is based on the conditioned of forgiving. TYes, it is ussually the hardest part that we all carry. Being unforgiver and resentful. That is not in the dictionary, but it seems to be easily understood. God give us an example of what a good giver is, yes, even our hatred has to be offered to Him as He offered his to the father so that salvation might be received by mankind.

We must also offer our hatred to God that he could lift the burden in our hearts and give us peace and serenity. The key is on us to open the grace of love, the grace of mercy, so that mercy might be received not only of other people but especially of each and everyone of us. Forgiveness is primarily for the one who forgives rather than of the one forgiven. Certainly, the Lord Jesus Christ in her merciful heart do not want us to further suffer for being unforgivable.