The Call of the Lord
Let us ponder in our hearts
the mystery of the Lord’s call
kept in the heart of Mary, Mother of the Church.
First, To the Faithful
On the large bead, a leader begins the Our Father:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name.
Rs. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ...
On each bead of the decade, a leader begins by reading the verse:
Vs. 1 Good master, what good shall I do, that I may have life everlasting? * Jesus said: If you will enter into life, keep the commandments. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 2 If you will be perfect, Jesus says to him: * Go sell what you have, and give to the poor, and come follow me. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 3 Every one that has left house, or brothers and sisters, or father and mother, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, * shall receive a hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 4 There are eunuchs who were born so, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves so for the kingdom of heaven. * He that can take it, let him take it. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 5 I am the true vine, and my Father the vinedresser. * Every branch that bears fruit, he will prune, that it may bring forth more fruit. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 6 In this is my Father glorified: * that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 7 If anyone love me, he will keep my word. * And my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our dwelling with him. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 8 And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete. * And you shall know him, because he shall abide with you, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 9 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own; * but because I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 10 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. * In the world you shall have distress, but have confidence: I have overcome the world. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished,
they were all together in one place, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished,
they were all together in one place, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Second, To the Apostles Preordained
On the large bead, a leader begins the Our Father:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name.
Rs. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ...
On each bead of the decade, a leader begins by reading the verse:
Vs. 1 Amen, amen, I say to you, he that receives whomever I send, receives me. * And he that receives me, receives him that sent me. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 2 When the Paraclete comes, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, he shall give testimony of me. * And you also shall give testimony, for you have been with me from the beginning. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 3 You shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them. * It shall be given you in that hour what to speak, for it is the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 4 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have appointed you: * that you should go, and bring forth fruit, and your fruit should remain. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 5 I will not now call you servants, for the servant knows not what his lord does. * But I have called you friends, because all things whatsoever I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 6 The Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, * he will bring to your mind all things whatsoever I shall have said to you. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 7 And when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will teach you all truth. * And the things that are to come, he shall show you. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 8 Lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: O Father, I have revealed your name to the men whom you have given me out of the world. * Yours they were, and to me you gave them. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 9 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world. * Holy Father, keep them in your name, whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we also are one. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 10 Not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me: * that they all may be one, that the world may believe that you have sent me. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished,
they were all together in one place, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
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Third,
To Simon Called Peter
On the large bead, a leader begins the Our Father:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name.
Rs. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ...
On each bead of the decade, a leader begins by reading the verse::
Vs. 1 Simon Peter, before I did call you from your boat, *
I knew you. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 2 Simon Peter fell down at Jesus' knees, saying: Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. * And Jesus says to Simon: Fear not; henceforth you shall catch men. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 3 Simon Peter said: Lord, You have the words of eternal life. * And we have believed and have known that you are the Christ, the Son of God. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 4 And the Lord said: I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; * and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 5 Simon, Simon, behold Satan has desired to have you all, * that he may sift you as wheat. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 6 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith fail not. * And you, being once converted, confirm your brethren. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 7 Lord, I am ready to go with you into prison and to death. * And he said: I say to you, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, till you three times deny that you know me. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 8 When the cock crowed, the Lord turning, looked on Peter, and he remembered the word of the Lord. * And Peter, going out, wept bitterly. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 9 Amen, amen, I say to you: When you are old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird you and lead you where you would not. * And this the Lord said to him, signifying by what death he would glorify God. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 10 When Herod stretched forth his hands to afflict some of the church, Peter was kept in prison, bound with two chains. * And prayer was made without ceasing by the church to God for him. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished,
they were all together in one place, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Fourth,
To the Apostle of the Gentiles
On the large bead, a leader begins the Our Father:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name.
Rs. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ...
On each bead of the decade, a leader begins by reading the verse:
Vs. 2 I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief. * But now the grace of our Lord has abounded exceedingly, with the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 3 By the grace of God, I am what I am. * And his grace in me has not been in vain. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 4 I have labored more abundantly than all the rest. * Yet not I, but the grace of God with me. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 5 I give him thanks, him who has strengthened me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, * that he has counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry, who before was a blasphemer. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 6 A faithful saying, and worthy of full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, * of whom I am chief. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 7 And for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might display all patience, * for a pattern to them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 8 And the Lord said to me: My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in infirmity. * Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 9 For which cause I am pleased in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. * For when I am weak, then am I powerful. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 10 To me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. * God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished,
they were all together in one place, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Fifth, To His Martyrs
On the large bead, a leader begins the Our Father:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name.
Rs. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ...
On each bead of the decade, a leader begins by reading the verse:
Vs. 1 Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. * Be, therefore, wise as serpents and simple as doves. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 2 Beware of men, for they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you. * The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 3 Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth; I came not to send peace, but the sword: * to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 4 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake. * But he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it forever. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 5 Every one that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. * But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 6 Fear none of those things which you shall suffer. * Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 7 To him that shall overcome, I will grant to sit with me in my throne, * as I also have overcome and am set down with my Father in his throne. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 8 I saw a great multitude which none could number, of all nations and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne in sight of the Lamb; * these have come out of the great tribulation, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 9 If you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that when his glory shall be revealed, you also may be glad with exceeding joy. * For you have not yet resisted unto blood in striving against sin. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. 10 We are the sons of God, and if sons, heirs also, heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with Christ, * if only we suffer with him, so that we may also be glorified with him. Hail Mary, hail Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Rs. Blessed art thou …
Vs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished,
they were all together in one place, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Rs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Vs. The Apostles were persevering with one mind in prayer, *
Rs. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Concluding Prayers After the Decades
Intercessions for the Church
Vs. Lord, have mercy.
Rs. Lord, have mercy.
Vs. Christ, have mercy.
Rs. Christ, have mercy.
Vs. Lord, have mercy.
Rs. Lord, have mercy.
Vs. Christ, hear us.
Rs. Christ, graciously hear us.
Vs. God, the Father of heaven:
Rs. Have mercy on us.
Vs. God the Son, Redeemer of the world:
Rs. Have mercy on us.
Vs. God the Holy Spirit:
Rs. Have mercy on us.
Vs. Holy Trinity, one God:
Rs. Have mercy on us.
Vs. Watch over your Church, O Lord.
Rs. O Lord, watch over our Holy Father.
Vs. Preserve your Church, O Lord.
Rs. O Lord, preserve our Holy Father.
Vs. Uphold your Church, O Lord.
Rs. O Lord, uphold our Holy Father.
Vs. Grant the pastors of your Church and its laborers
ever to renew, O Lord.
Rs. O Lord, grant your people ever to renew.
Vs. Grant religious life in the Church and the consecrated
ever to renew, O Lord.
Rs. O Lord, grant your people ever to renew.
Vs. Grant the life of the faithful in the family and in the world
ever to renew, O Lord.
Rs. O Lord, grant your people ever to renew.
Vs. Draw to the bosom of the Church
all the peoples of the world, O Lord:
Rs. And in your mercy hear the Holy Father’s intentions
for all the peoples of the world, O Lord.
Vs. Holy Mary, holy Mother of the Church, pray for her:
Rs. that she be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
The Seasonal Antiphon to the
Blessed Virgin Mary
ADVENT
Hail, guiding Star of seafarers,portal to eternal light!Ever-virgin mother of God,shine down on us in the night.
By the grace of Gabriel's Ave, overturning Eva's name,God's peace confer upon us all in our journey on the wave.
Our captive fetters unloosing, his light on our blindness pour;all our ills below expelling, blessings from above implore.
To him who took you for his own,taking from you his own flesh,offer to him, we pray, our prayers, our own Mother by his address.
Most gentle one, make us gentle; Most chaste one, make us most chaste;Peerless virgin, be our shelter against the flesh's sin and taint.
Our ways here keep immaculate,
keep our footsteps pure and sure,till we enter your Son's sweet joy with his saints forevermore.
Glory be to God the Father, glory be to God the Son, glory to the Holy Spirit,glory to the Three in One:From the heart of blessed Mary, from all saints one praise ascends: let the Church the praise reecho unto earth's remotest ends.
Vs. Pray for us, holy Mother of God: Rs. That we be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
The concluding prayer is recited by a leader of the prayers:
Lord Holy Father, as in the heart of Mary Immaculate you did prepare a fit dwelling for your Holy Spirit, grant us that by pondering all the words she kept in hers
our hearts too may be found a worthy dwelling for your Word. Through the same Christ our Lord: Rs. Amen
Vs. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: Rs. As it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
The leader invokes the final blessing:
Vs. May the Lord our God bless us, and defend us from all evil, and lead us to eternal life:
They conclude, kissing the crucifix and making the sign of the cross with it:
Rs. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
Hail, guiding Star of seafarers,
portal to eternal light!
Ever-virgin mother of God,
shine down on us in the night.
By the grace of Gabriel's Ave,
overturning Eva's name,
God's peace confer upon us all
in our journey on the wave.
Our captive fetters unloosing,
his light on our blindness pour;
all our ills below expelling,
blessings from above implore.
To him who took you for his own,
taking from you his own flesh,
offer to him, we pray, our prayers,
our own Mother by his address.
Most gentle one, make us gentle;
Most chaste one, make us most chaste;
Peerless virgin, be our shelter
against the flesh's sin and taint.
Our ways here keep immaculate,
keep our footsteps pure and sure,
till we enter your Son's sweet joy
with his saints forevermore.
Glory be to God the Father,
glory be to God the Son,
glory to the Holy Spirit,
glory to the Three in One:
From the heart of blessed Mary,
from all saints one praise ascends:
let the Church the praise reecho
unto earth's remotest ends.
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Remember, O most loving Virgin Mary,
that no one who has run to your protection,
or implored your help,
or sought your intercession,
is known ever to have been forsaken.
Enlivened by trust in this, to you I run,
O Virgin of virgins,
to you have I come, O my Mother,
before you I stand a sinner grieving.
Disdain not the words of my prayer,
O Mother of the Word of God,
but kindly give ear and graciously hear,
O most loving Virgin and Mother.
Vs. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God:
Rs. that we be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
The concluding prayer is recited by a leader:
Lord holy Father,
as you willed that when your only begotten Son was
to be exalted on the cross, his Mother stand near,
her heart pierced with grief for his pierced with a lance:
grant us that by pondering in our hearts
those two wounded for our healing,
we may become worthy to share
in the healing of his resurrection.
Through the same Christ our Lord,
Rs. Amen.
Vs. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
Rs. As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
The leader invokes the final blessing:
Vs. May the Lord our God bless us,
and defend us from all evil,
and lead us to eternal life:
They conclude, kissing the crucifix and making the sign of the cross with it: