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Title: General Catholic Devotions

Author: Bonaventure Hammer

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Produced by Michael Gray, Diocese of San Jose

General Catholic Devotions

COMPILED BY
REV. BONAVENTURE HAMMER, O.F.M.

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NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO
BENZIGER BROTHERS

PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE
PUBLISHERS OF BENZINGER'S MAGAZINE

Imprimi Permittitur.
FR. CHRYSOSTOMUS THEOBALD, O.F.M.,
_Minister Provincialis._
Cincinnati, Ohio, die 30, Martii, 1908.

Nihil Obstat.
REMY LAPORT, S.T.L.,
_Censor Librorum._

Imprimatur.
JOHN M. FARLEY,
Archbishop of New York.

NEW YORK, March 4, 1909.

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY BENZIGER BROTHERS.

CONTENTS

General Devotions

MORNING PRAYERS
EVENING PRAYERS
PRAYERS AT HOLY MASS
PRAYERS AFTER MASS
PRAYERS FOR CONFESSION
Before Confession
After Confession
PRAYERS FOR HOLY COMMUNION
Before Communion
After Communion
VISIT TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
PRAYER TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
PRAYERS TO JESUS SUFFERING
THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS
PRAYER TO OUR SUFFERING REDEEMER
PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
PRAYER FOR ALL THINGS NECESSARY TO SALVATION

THE FOUR APPROVED LITANIES
LITANY OF THE MOST HOLY NAME OF JESUS
LITANY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
LITANY OF LORETO, IN HONOR OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
LITANY OF ALL SAINTS

General Devotions

"The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call
upon Him in truth. He will do the will of them that fear Him, and He
will bear their prayer and save them" (_Ps._ cxliv. 18, 19).

"Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, instant in prayer" (_Rom._
xii. 12).

Morning Prayers

On awaking, sign yourself with the sign of the cross, saying:

IN THE name of the Father, and of the Son,