Canonization Prayer for Blessed Frederic Ozanam
O God, Who put the love of the poor into the
hearts of Frederic Ozanam and his companions, and inspired them to found a
Society for the relief of the spiritual and corporal miseries of those in want,
bless this work of charity and zeal, and should it be in accordance with Your designs
that Your pious servant Blessed Frederic Ozanam should be glorified by the
Church, we beseech You to manifest by heavenly favors the power he enjoys in
Your sight. Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
Prayer for the Seriously Ill and the Cause of Ozanam
O God, our Father, You alone have the power to
bestow those precious gifts of Yours
which we rightly call miracles. If it be Your Will, be pleased to grant such a
gift in behalf of those persons for whom the prayers of the Society have been
requested and for [INSERT NAME]. We humbly ask that You grant this favor to
glorify the Blessed Frederic Ozanam that it may serve to have him canonized by
Our Holy Mother the Church. We make this prayer through Our Lord Jesus Christ,
Your Son. Amen.
Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart
Lord Jesus, Who, seeing the cold indifference of the world and
in order to revive charity amongst all people, has unveiled before them Your
Sacred Heart and revealed the infinite riches of Your Divine Love, behold us
prostrate before You, we who form only one Family, by the bond of fraternal
charity, scattered, it is true, throughout the world, but united under the
standard of St. Vincent de Paul, and forming only one body and one soul in the common
spirit of the apostolate of charity; we dedicate and consecrate to Your Divine
Person and to Your Sacred Heart this our Council (or Conference), and all the
members who compose it, the poor whom we visit in Your name, the youth and
children to whom we respond in order to maintain them in Your service; in a word,
all those of whom we have the care, and all the works we have undertaken in
various places for Your Glory. Quite unworthy though we are, we beseech You to
receive this offering in the odor of sweetness; inflame us with that fire which
from the depths of Your Heart You desire to see burning more and more each day,
in order that, filled with the tenderness of Your Heart, we may learn to
despise things here below, to love and help our neighbor, by word and example,
and that, among the vicissitudes of this world, we may fix our hearts on the
riches and happiness that shall never end. Amen.