THIRTY-FIRST DAY
WE MUST PERSEVERE IN OUR DEVOTION TO THE HOLY ANGELS
MONTH OF OCTOBER
Consecrated
TO THE HOLY ANGELS
IN WHICH THEIR EXCELLENCES, PREROGATIVES AND OFFICES ARE EXPOSED, ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, THE HOLY FATHERS AND DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH
By Alejo Romero, Presbyter
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PREPARATORY PRAYER
Sovereign Lord of the world, before whom all the creatures of heaven, earth and hell bend their knees reverently; look at us here prostrate in your divine presence to give you the tributes of love, adoration and respect that are due to your exalted majesty and high greatness. We come to contemplate during this month the excellences, prerogatives and offices with which you have enriched for our benefit those sublime spirits that, like burning lamps, are eternally around your throne, making your divine perfections shine. O beautiful Sun of intelligences, who fill all the empyreum with immense radiance, cast on our souls a flash of those flashes, so that, knowing the deep malice of sin, we may hate it with all our strength, and the living flame of divine love may be lit in our hearts, so that we may walk along the paths of virtue, until we reach heavenly Jerusalem, where we will join our praises to those of the angelic spirits and blessed, to glorify them for all eternity. Amen.
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THIRTY-FIRST DAY
WE MUST PERSEVERE IN OUR DEVOTION TO THE HOLY ANGELS
Meditation
POINT 1º. Consider, my soul, that having already reached the end of this most happy month consecrated to the worship of the Holy Angels, nothing will be more pleasing or more tender to our hearts, than to form the most firm purposes of honoring and imitating during our life these heavenly spirits. The picture, although poorly traced, of the angelic greatness, which has been unfolded in our sight in the course of these meditations, will undoubtedly have filled our souls with admiration and religious respect; but it is necessary that this admiration and this respect are not sterile; it is necessary that we take some fruit from all these studies, and this can be none other than a tender and sincere devotion to the holy Angels and a vehement desire to imitate in all our actions their exemplary life and virtues. For devotion we pay to the Angels the tributes of our love and recognition of their benevolence, for as many benefits as they dispense us. By the imitation of their life in the exercise of the angelic virtues of purity, humility, obedience and charity, we become similar to them in holiness, thus fulfilling the divine plan, which requires that men and angels compose no more than a single Church, a single people whose immutable law is charity, a bond of union between all intelligent beings, whose Prince is Our Lord Jesus Christ. The earth has broken the unity of this Church, of this people; and God has wanted heaven to come down to earth to restore this unity, this harmony, this universal concert. The earth is no longer an enemy of heaven, nor is heaven contrary to earth: the transit from one to the other is all full of blessed spirits, whose unofficial charity maintains perfect communication between this place of pilgrimage and our heavenly homeland.
POINT 2º. He considers that the best way to honor the Angels, especially our guardian Angels, is to imitate them, and since only what is just and perfect is imitated; imitating our Angels, we proclaim with our conduct their excellence, their goodness and their perfections. Just as they keep us from all evil and lead us down the path of heaven; so we too must keep and guide on the path of eternal salvation all those of our brothers, over whom we have any influence or are under our guardianship and care. Just as the Angels always have their eyes fixed on God, as he has told us by these words: They incessantly contemplate the face of the heavenly Father; so we too must constantly have our thoughts and our hearts turned to God. The Angels are attentive to the lips of the Lord to listen to his commands and execute them on the spot; we too must be constantly attentive to the will of God to fulfill it. Finally, let us correspond, as we are closely obliged, to all their subtleties: our Angels love us, let us love them; they do us good, let us testify to our recognition; they suggest useful advice for our salvation, let us listen to them. Faithful to their friendship, docile to their voice, attentive to do everything they do, we will lead in this valley of tears a completely angelic life, a sure pledge of eternal bliss, in which they will introduce us after death. So be it.
Angels of heaven, reach us with your powerful supplications, the grace of final perseverance.
Practice
Extended everywhere the devotion and worship of the holy Angels, today unfortunately still very forgotten among pious people.
Three Our Father and three Hail Marys with Gloria Patri are prayed and offered with the following:
ACT OF CONSECRATION
TO THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL
My most faithful Guardian Angel, whom the loving Providence of God has constituted my protector and my guide, from the first moment I saw the light for the first time until the moment when the icy breath of death closes my eyes forever to the false splendors of this world; before Jesus Christ, my kind Redeemer, of Mary Most Holy and of the saints, and in the presence of the entire heavenly court; I choose you on this day to be my special lawyer close to divine Justice and my jealous defender in the rough battles Of this life. From today I put in your hands my body with all its senses, and my soul with all its powers and faculties, so that you deign to govern them and direct them to the only and supreme infinite Good, source of all comfort and all happiness, forgive that I have not known how to correspond to the present to your tender care, but I promise you from now on, helped with the help of grace, faithfully follow all your advice, and obey the orders that God communicated to me through your ministry: welcome, therefore, kind, these resolutions of mine and continue to dispense me your favors, about All, turning away from sin and making me not live or breathe but for God in this life and then have the ineffable happiness of praising and blessing for all eternity his holy name in union with the entire Angelic Militia. Amen.
FINAL SENTENCE
TO THE QUEEN OF LOS ANGELES
Oh, Mary, the purest of virgins, who, by your great humility and heroic virtues, you deserved to be the Mother of the Redeemer of the world, and for this very reason to be constituted Queen of the universe and placed on a majestic throne, from where tender and compassionate you look at the misfortunes of humanity, to remedy them with maternal request; pity, August Mother, of our great misadventures. The world has left in us nothing but sad disappointments and bitter disappointments; in vain we have run in pursuit of the lying happiness that promises to its worshipers, because we have tasted nothing other than the bitter gall of remorse, and our eyes have shed abundant tears that our brothers have not been able to wipe. Everywhere infernal legions pursue us inciting us to evil, and we have no other shelter than to take refuge under the folds of your virginal mantle, as the chicks pursued by the sean have no other asylum than to gather under the wings of the bird that gave them the being. For this, from the bottom of our bitterness we cry out to You to send to us and for our defense the angelic spirits, of whom you are the Queen and Sovereign, so that they free us from their cunning ambushs and guide us along the right path of happiness. Amen
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Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in you.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, be my salvation.
Glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saint Michael, pray for us.
San Rafael, pray for us.
Saint Gabriel, pray for us.
Holy Guardian Angels, pray for us.
All the angels and saints of God, pray for us.
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Hail Mary Most Pure, conceived without sin.
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