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| Sixth Way of Prayer (Arms Outstretched) |
Novena to Saint Dominic
Sixth Day: Devotion
How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest in which she puts her young by your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God! (Psalms 84:2-4)Dominic had a special devotion the Blessed Mother. His life, work and Order were placed under the protection of the Blessed Mother whom he invoked in every difficulty and danger. He had the custom of saying the Hail Mary before preaching and the Blessed Mother watched over him with motherly care, and gave him the habit of his Order and entrusted to him the devotion of the Rosary as a way of preaching the Gospel to those who could not read.
I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue. Come to me, all you that desire me, and be filled with my goodness. (Sirach 24: 18; John 14:6)
Pray for us, blessed father, St. Dominic, That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray, O most blessed father, St. Dominic, who loved our Lord Jesus Christ in the most perfect manner and served Mary, His Virgin Mother, with most fervent devotion, pray for us, your children, that next to God, we may at all times trust in the protection of the Queen of Heaven, so that at the hour of death we may be received by her into heaven, and ever abide under the mantle of her love. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
