President: In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Community: Amen
The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all
And also with your Spirit
As we are gathered here at this Sacred Basilica of St Thomas the Apostle, let us raise our hearts in prayer to the Triune God. Gracious Father, you sent St Thomas to our country as a witness to Christ. May he strengthen our faith in Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Saviour
President: Loving Jesus, you empowered St Thomas to make a personal confession of faith : "My Lord and My God!" May we who accept him as our patron, be living witness to the Gospel. Abiding Spirit, you filled St Thomas with the inner courage to lay down his life for Christ. May we who venerate him here be moved to present Jesus Christ to our brothers and sisters.
Community: Amen
President: Loving Father, we come to you as your children with deep confidence in your providential care. Answer our prayers and be with us as we move along in the journey of life. We make this prayer through our Lord Jesus Christ your son who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever
Community: Amen
Community: We thank you Lord for the gift of St Thomas the Apostle for our country for proclaiming the good news that Jesus is Our Lord and Saviour for dying as a Martyr for faith for his sacred tomb in this Basilica for the favours and graces we receive through his powerful intercession.
O Lord God! We thank and praise you for sending St Thomas the Apostle, in your divine providence to India, for proclaiming the good news that Jesus is our Lord and Saviour. He not only confessed Jesus as his Lord and Saviour, he also sealed his faith with his blood and became the first Martyr of the Indian Church. We glorify you Lord, for inspiring us through the courageous witness of St Thomas.
May St Thomas, our patron obtain for us, through his powerful intercession, the grace to bear witness to you in the challenges of our life. May his constant intercession fulfill the needs of all those who are gathered here in faith and devotion. We pray in a special way through the powerful intercession of the Apostle, that all of us may be filled with the gifts of the Spirit to proclaim the Good News and to experience in our lives. We make this prayer in the precious name of Jesus who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.
Father, look kindly on your people who have come to your presence with their pains and sufferings. We have come to you with trust and confidence in your mercy. Oftentimes we feel feeble, fragile and frustrated.
Through the powerful intercession of St.Thomas our apostle, grant us the inner courage to face the realities of life. Give us a new hope and courage to carry our daily crosses, aware that they are fruitful for our life and salvation. Amen
Hail, Queen of Heaven, the ocean Star,
Guide of the wanderer here below,
Thrown on life's surge, we claim thy care:
Save us from peril and from woe.
Mother of Christ, star of the sea,
Pray for the wanderer, pray for me.
All: We fly to your patronage, Holy Mother of God despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.
Priest: Holy Mary
All: Pray for us
Priest: Holy Mother of God
All: Pray for us
Priest: Holy Virgin of Virgins
All: Pray for us
Priest: Our Lady of Mylapore
All: Pray for us
Priest: Mother of Christ
All: Pray for us
Priest: Mother of Divine Grace
All: Pray for us
Priest: Mother most lovable
All: Pray for us
Priest: Our Lady of Mylapore
All: Pray for us
Priest: Health of the sick
All: Pray for us
Priest: Refuge of the sinners
All: Pray for us
Priest: Comforter of the afflicted
All: Pray for us
Priest: Our Lady of Mylapore
All: Pray for us
Priest: Our Lady of Mylapore
All: Pray of us who have recourse to you
Priest: Let us pray
O God, Our Father, through the Holy Spirit you prepared the body and soul of the glorious virgin Mother Mary, to be a fit dwelling place for your Son. As we recall her Motherly protection, grant that through her intercession, we may be preserved from all evils and given health of soul and body. This we ask through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen
Priest: Our Lady of Mylapore, powerful with God, obtain for us these graces
All: The strength to triumph over temptation, the readiness to accept the will of God, a perfect love for Jesus Christ and a holy death, so that we may live with you and your Son for ever.
Priest: Our Lady of Mylapore
All: Pray of us
Mary our Mother, numerous clients continually surround your holy image, all imploring your mercy. All bless you as the assured help of the miserable; all feel the benefit of your maternal protection. With confidence then, do we present ourselves before you in our misery. Dear Mother, many are the evils to which we are exposed; numerous are our wants, trials and sorrows often depress us; reverses of fortune and privations, often grave, bring misery into our homes; everywhere we meet the cross.
Have pity, compassionate Mother, on us and our families. At this moment we bring to you our special necessity from which we suffer (mention it…..pause……) Help us, O Mother, in our distress; deliver us from all ills; or, if it be the will of God that we should endure, make us suffer with love and patience.
Grant us, unworthy as we are, O Lady, the faith and devotion which our forefathers in this city showed towards you, when they lovingly call you, Our Lady of Mylapore…..
Amen.
Priest: Let us now praise Our Mother and commit ourselves to Her Motherly protection
All: Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.
To you do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears
Turn then, most gracious advocate,
your eyes of mercy toward us,
and after this exile,
show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
Priest: Pray for us, Our Lady of Mylapore
All: That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ
Priest: Let us pray
O Lord Jesus Christ who gave us your Mother Mary, as a Mother ready at every moment to help us; grant, that we who call on her help may always enjoy the fruit of your redemption. This we ask through you who live and reign for ever and ever.
Amen.
Priest: The Lord Jesus Christ be with you that, He may defend you, within you that He may sustain you, before you that He may lead you, behind you that He may bless you. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Amen.
O Glorious Saint, Devasahayam,
We come to you in humility as we see your greatness and experience your power of intercession.
You dedicated your life to propogate the Kingdom of God, while leaving behind worldy pleasures of wealth, status, name, fame and glory.
You faithfully put into practise the values of the Gospel and endeavored to promote equality and fraternity among all people in earth.
Even when your faith was tested, you stood strong and gave in patiently and willing to suffer persecutions for three long years.
As we discern your strong faith, we believe in your patronage and pray that you acquire for us a living faith, an unwavering hope and love of God.
Help us to be pure and chaste; make us obedient to our elders. Strengthen us to help the poor, the downtrodden, the sick and those facing trials and difficulties.
Enkindle the fire of faith among those that are lukewarm and bless them with the unending grace of the Lord.
Assist us always to overcome our trials and temptations. Grant that we may always live a true Christian life and finally be victorious in the battle of faith.
May we bear true witness to Christ and may we die upholding the good news brought forth by him. And on the day of judgement, may we unite with you and the other Saints and live for all eternity in God's Kingdom to praise him forever and ever. Amen.
O glorious Saint Devesahayam! Pray for us!
O wonderful St Anthony, glorious on account of the fame of your miracles and through the condescension of Jesus in coming in the form of a little child to rest in your arms, obtain for us of His bounty the grace which we ardently desire from the depths of our hearts (state your intention).
You who were so compassionate towards miserable sinners, regard not the unworthiness of those who pray to you, but the glory of God that it may once again be magnified by the granting of the particular request (state your intention) which we now ask for with persevering earnestness. Amen.
O St Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, we place in thee all my interests and desires. O St Joseph, do assist us by thy powerful intercession and obtain for us all spiritual blessings through thy foster Son, Jesus Christ Our Lord, so that, having engaged here below thy heavenly power, we may offer thee our thangsgiving and homage to the most loving of fathers.
O St Joseph, we never weary contemplating thou and Jesus asleep in thine arms, we dare not approach while He reposes near thy heart. Press him in our name and kiss His fine Head for us and ask Him to return the kiss when we draw our dying breath.
St Joseph, patron of departing souls, pray for us. Amen.
O, Miraculous Infant Jesus / we prostrate before your image / and beseech you / to cast a merciful look on our troubled hearts / Let you tender Heart / so inclined to pity / be softened by our prayers / and grant us that Grace / for which we ardently implore you
Take from us all afflictions and despair / all trials and misfortunes / with which we are laded / for your Sacred Infancy's sake / hear our prayers / and send us consolation and aid / that we praise you / with the Father and the Holy Spirit / for evere and ever / Amen.
O most Holy Heart of Jesus, fountain of every Blessing, we adore Thee, we love Thee and with a lovely sorrow for our sins, we offer Thee this poor heart of ours. Make us humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to Thy will. Grant, good Jesus that we may live in Thee and for Thee. Protect us in the midst of danger; comfort us in our afflictions; give us health of body, assistance in our temporal needs, Thy Blessing on all that we do andthe Grace of a holy death. Within Thy Heart we place our every care. In every need let us come to Thee with humble trust saying, 'Heart of Jesus help us'. Amen.
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