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Summary
- The Anima Christi, with its line “Passion of Christ, strengthen me,” dates from the first half of the fourteenth century, although it is often credited to St Ignatius Loyola.
- “Lord, I am not worthy,” said before Communion, adapts the centurion’s words in Matthew 8:8, with “my soul” in place of “my servant.”
- The 1888 Manual of Prayers gives “A Prayer in Suffering,” a one-line prayer in pain and a collect “In any Tribulation”; Lasance’s Catholic Girl’s Guide gives a prayer to St Raphael, “physician of God.”
- Short prayers cover strength for one day, healing of the body, pain, surgery, the heart and mind, courage, a sick loved one, confession and slow recovery.
- The Catechism says the first grace of the Anointing of the Sick is “strengthening, peace and courage” (paragraph 1520).
- St Peregrine’s patronage of cancer patients is popular devotion; the World Day of the Sick falls on 11 February, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Psalm 27:14; 147:3; Matthew 8:8; 9:21; 2 Corinthians 12:9; James 5:14–15). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), Project Gutenberg eBook no. 1581 (Tobias 3:25; 12:15). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1581
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Ordinary of the Mass, pp. 102–103; Occasional Prayers, “In any Tribulation,” p. 166; Devotions for the Sick, “A Prayer in Suffering” and Ejaculation, pp. 466–467. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- Lasance, F. X. The Catholic Girl’s Guide. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1906. “Prayer to St. Raphael, Archangel,” p. 601. https://archive.org/details/catholicgirlsgui00lasa
- Frisbee, Samuel. “Anima Christi.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01515a.htm
- “Order of Servites” (St Peregrine Laziosi). The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13736a.htm
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Paragraphs 1514–1516, https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_two/section_two/chapter_two/article_5/ii_who_receives_and_who_administers_this_sacrament.html; paragraphs 1520–1521, https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P4N.HTM
- John Paul II. Message for the First World Day of the Sick, 1993. https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/messages/sick/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_21101992_world-day-of-the-sick-1993.html
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