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  • ADORATION
  • ABOUT
      • Welcome
      • Merger
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      • Join Our Parish
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      • Safe Environment
      • Beaver Valley FInance & Giving
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      • Baptism
      • Confirmation
      • Eucharist
      • Holy Matrimony
      • Reconciliation
      • Anointing of the Sick
      • Funerals
  • LIFELONG FORMATION
      • About Lifelong Formation
      • Formation for Those with Special Needs
      • Early Childhood
      • Elementary Grades
      • Faith Formation at Home
      • Little Flowers
      • EDGE Middle School
      • LIFETEEN High School (FP)
      • YOUNGLIFE High School (BV)
      • Young Adults
      • Homeschool
      • RCIA
      • Parish Library
      • Waivers
  • COMMUNITY
    • Ministries A-M
      • Archives Committee
      • Babysitting
      • Bereavement
      • Cancer Caring
      • Career Connections
      • Catholic Men's Fellowship
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      • Dementia Support Group
      • Environment Committee
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      • Prayer Walk
      • Respect Life
      • Senior Plus
      • Separated & Divorced Support
      • Single Adult Ministry
      • Six Steps to Sanity
      • Small Groups
      • Special Needs
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      • St. Vincent de Paul Society
      • Wedding Committee
      • Women in Gods Spirit (WINGS)
      • Worship Committee
    • Outreach
      • Outreach Volunteer Opportunities
    • FUNDRAISING
      • Golf Outing
      • Fish Fry
      • Relief for the Ukraine
      • Trivia Night
  • RESOURCES
      • Evangelion (Sunday Bulletin)
      • Good Samaritan Live 24/7
      • Grotto Chapel Live 24/7
      • Good Samaritan Recorded Videos
      • Saints John & Paul Videos
      • Saints John & Paul Facebook Page
      • Beaver Valley Facebook Page
      • Good Samaritan Archives Facebook Group
      • Online Forms
      • Events & Programs
    • COMMUNITY
      • Ministries A-M
        • Archives Committee
        • Babysitting
        • Bereavement
        • Cancer Caring
        • Career Connections
        • Catholic Men's Fellowship
        • Christian Mothers/Ladies' Guild
        • Dementia Support Group
        • Environment Committee
        • Family Ministry
        • Fellowship
        • Flame of Love Devotion
        • Greeters
        • Holy Name Society
        • Ladies of Charity
        • Liturgical Ministries
        • Marriage Enrichment Ministry
        • Marian Medjugorje Prayer Group
      • Ministries M-Z
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        • Single Adult Ministry
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  • MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS

    Mary, Help of Christians (formerly the Legion of Mary) is a world-wide organization of lay persons united to sanctify themselves through prayer and works. The group recites the rosary every Wednesday morning after the 9:00 AM Mass at Saints John & Paul. This prayer service group dedicated to Mary meets Monday mornings from 10:00-11:30 AM. The meetings, required daily Catena prayer, and the works that Mary, Help of Christians does result in a deeper spiritual life as shared with each other at meetings.

    Contact Paul Szoszorek at sz986@zoominternet.net or (724) 934-0417

  • Prayers

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    Opening Prayers

    (Make the Sign of the Cross)
    In the name of the Father, etc.

    Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of Your love.
    v. Send forth Your Spirit, O Lord, and they shall be created.
    R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

    Let us pray.

    God our Father, pour out the gifts of Your Holy Spirit on the world. You sent the Spirit on Your Church to begin the teaching of the gospel: now let the Spirit continue to work in the world through the hearts of all who believe. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

    v. You, O Lord, will open my lips.
    R. And my tongue shall announce Your praise.
    v. Incline unto my aid, O God.
    R. O Lord, make haste to help me.
    v. Glory be to the Father, etc.
    R. As it was in the beginning, etc.

    Then follow five decades of the Rosary with the Hail, Holy Queen.

    Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy; hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To you we cry, poor banished children of Eve, to you we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, O most gracious advocate, your eyes of mercy towards us, and after this our exile, show us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

    v. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
    R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

    Let us pray.
    O God, Whose only-begotten Son, by His life, death and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation; grant, we beseech You, that meditating upon these mysteries in the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain, and obtain what they promise. Through the same Christ our Lord.
    Amen.

    v. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
    R. Have mercy on us.
    v. Immaculate Heart of Mary
    R. Pray for us.
    v. St. Joseph
    R. Pray for us.
    v. St John the Evangelist
    R. Pray for us.
    v. St. Louis-Marie deMontfort
    R. Pray for us.

    Make the Sign of the Cross)
    In the name of the Father, etc.


    The Catena Legionis

    Antiphon. Who is she that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array?

    (Make the Sign of the Cross)
    v. My soul glorifies the Lord.*
    R. My spirit rejoices in God, my Saviour.
    v. He looks on His servant in her lowliness;*
    henceforth all ages will call me blessed.

    R. The Almighty works marvels for me.*
    Holy His name!
    v. His mercy is from age to age,*
    on those who fear Him.

    R. He puts forth His arm in strength*
    and scatters the proud-hearted.
    v. He casts the mighty from their thrones*
    and raises the lowly.

    R. He fills the starving with good things,*
    sends the rich away empty.

    v. He protects Israel His servant,*
    remembering His mercy,
    R. The mercy promised to our fathers,*
    to Abraham and his sons for ever.

    v. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit..
    R. As it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

    Antiphon. Who is she that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array?

    v. O Mary, conceived without sin.
    R. Pray for us who have recourse to you.

    Let us pray.
    O Lord Jesus Christ, our mediator with the Father, Who has been Pleased to appoint the Most Blessed Virgin, Your mother, to be our mother also, and our mediatrix with You, mercifully grant that whoever comes to You seeking Your favours may rejoice to receive all of them through her. Amen.


    Concluding Prayers

    Make the Sign of the Cross)
    In the name of the Father, etc.

    We fly to your patronage, O holy Mother of God; despise not our prayers in our necessities, but ever deliver us from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin.

    v. Mary Immaculate, Mediatrix of all Graces
    or Invocation appropriate to Praesidium)
    R. Pray for us.
    v. St. Michael and St. Gabriel
    R. Pray for us.
    v. All you heavenly Powers, Mary’s Legion of Angels
    R. Pray for us.
    v. St. John the Baptist
    R. Pray for us.
    v. Saints Peter and Paul
    R. Pray for us.

    Confer, O Lord, on us, who serve beneath the standard of Mary, that fullness of faith in You and trust in her, to which it is given to conquer the world. Grant us a lively faith, animated by charity, which will enable us to perform all our actions from the motive of pure love of You, and ever to see You and serve You in our neighbor; a faith, firm and immovable as a rock, through which we shall rest tranquil and steadfast amid the crosses, toils and disappointments of life; a courageous faith which will inspire us to undertake and carry out without hesitation great things for your glory and for the salvation of souls; a faith which will be our Legion’s Pillar of Fire – to lead us forth united – to kindle everywhere the fires of divine love – to enlighten those who are in darkness and in the shadow of death – to inflame those who are lukewarm – to bring back life to those who are dead in sin; and which will guide our own feet in the way of peace; so that – the battle of life over – our Legion may reassemble, without the loss of any one, in the kingdom of Your love and glory. Amen.

    May the souls of our departed legionaries and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.

    Make the Sign of the Cross)
    In the name of the Father, etc.


    About the daily recitation of the Catena

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