Saint Paul, whom I have chosen as my special patron, pray for me that I, too, may one day glorify the Blessed Trinity in heaven. Obtain for me your lively faith, that I may consider all persons, things, and events in the light of almighty God. Pray, that I may be generous in making sacrifices of temporal things to promote my eternal interests, as you so wisely did.
Set me on fire with a love for Jesus, that I may thirst for His sacraments and burn with zeal for the spread of His kingdom. By your powerful intercession, help me in the performance of my duties to God, myself and all the world.
Win for me the virtue of purity and a great confidence in the Blessed Virgin. Protect me this day, and every day of my life. Keep me from mortal sin. Obtain for me the grace of a happy death. Amen
Responsory of St. Paul
All ye who groan beneath
A load of ills oppress’d,
Entreat St. Paul, and he will pray
The Lord to give you rest.
O victim dear to Heaven!
O Paul, Thou teacher true!
Thou love and joy of Christendom,
To Thee for help we sue.
Pierced by the flame of love,
Descending from on high,
‘Twas Thine to preach the faith which once
Thou soughtest to destroy.
O victim dear to Heaven!
O Paul, Thou teacher true!
Thou love and joy of Christendom,
To Thee for help we sue.
Nor toil, nor threatened death,
Nor tempest, scourge, nor chain,
Could from the assembly of the saints
Thy loving heart detain.
O victim dear to Heaven!
O Paul, Thou teacher true!
Thou love and joy of Christendom,
To thee for help we sue.
Oh, by that quenchless love
Which burnt in Thee of yore,
Take pity on our miseries,
Our fainting hope restore.
O victim dear to Heaven!
O Paul, Thou teacher true!
Thou love and joy of Christendom,
To Thee for help we sue.
True champion of the Lord,
Crush Thou the schemes of hell,
And with adoring multitudes
Thy sacred temples fill.
O victim dear to Heaven!
O Paul, Thou teacher true!
Thou love and joy of Christendom,
To Thee for help we sue.
Through Thy prevailing prayer
May charity abound;
Sweet charity, which knows no ill,
Which nothing can confound.
O victim dear to Heaven!
O Paul, Thou teacher true!
Thou love and joy of Christendom,
To Thee for help we sue.
To earth’s remotest shores
May one same faith extend;
And Thy epistles through all climes
Their blessed perfume send.
O victim dear to Heaven!
O Paul, Thou teacher true!
Thou love and joy of Christendom,
To Thee for help we sue.
Grant us the will and power
To serve Thee, God of might,
Lest, wavering still and unprepared,
We sink in depths of night.
O victim dear to Heaven!
O Paul, Thou teacher true!
Thou love and joy of Christendom,
To Thee for help we sue.
Praise to the Father be;
Praise to the Son who rose;
Praise to the Spirit Paraclete;
While age on ages flows.
O victim dear to Heaven!
O Paul, Thou teacher true!
Thou love and joy of Christendom,
To Thee for help we sue.
Ant. He is my Vessel of Election, to carry my Name among the gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
V. Pray for us, O blessed Apostle Paul.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray:
Almighty and eternal God, Who in Thy divine compassion didst direct Thy blessed Apostle Paul what to do that he might be filled with Thy Holy Spirit; grant that we may be so counselled by his teaching, and aided by the suffrage of his merits, that, serving Thee in fear and trembling, we may be filled with the consolation of t6hy heavenly gifts. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
(Indulgence 100 days)
Prayer for Patience
O glorious St. Paul, who from a persecutor of Christianity, didst become a most ardent Apostle of zeal; and who to make known the Savior Jesus Christ unto the ends of the world didst suffer with joy imprisonment, scourgings, stonings, shipwrecks and persecutions of every kind, and in the end didst shed thy blood to the last drop, obtain for us the grace to receive, as favors of the Divine mercy, infirmities, tribulations, and misfortunes of the present life, so that the vicissitudes of this our exile will not render us cold in the service of God, but will render us always more faithful and more fervent.
V. Pray for us, Saint Paul the Apostle,
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Amen.
Let us pray.
O God, Who hast taught the multitude of the Gentiles by the preaching of blessed Paul the Aoostle: grant unto us, we beseech Thee, that we who keep his memory sacred, may feel the might of his intercession before Thee. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Saint Paul Raccolta Prayers
Thou art the Vessel of election, Saint Paul the Apostle, the Preacher of truth in the whole world.
V. Pray for us, Saint Paul the Apostle,
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray.
Almighty and everlasting God, Who, of Thy Divine mercy, didst instruct Thy blessed Apostle Paul what he should do that he might be filled with the Holy Ghost; by his admonitions directing us and his merits interceding for us, grant that we may serve Thee in fear and trembling and so be filled with the comfort of Thy heavenly gifts. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Tu es vas electiónis, sancte Paule Apóstole, prædicátor
veritátis in univérso mundo.
V. Ora pro nobis, sancte Paule Apóstole,
R. Ut digni efficiámur promissiónibus Christi.
Oremus.
Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui beáto Apóstolo tuo Paulo quid fáceret, ut implerétur Spíritu Sancto, divína miseratióne præcepisti; eius dirigéntibus mónitis et suffragántibus méritis concéde, ut serviéntes tibi in timóre et tremóre, cæléstium donórum consolatióne repleámur. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum. Amen.
Litany of St. Paul
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.*
Queen, conceived without sin,*
St. Paul, vessel of election,*
Apostle of the Gentiles,*
St. Paul, who was rapt to the third heaven,*
St. Paul, who heard things not given to man to utter,*
St. Paul, who knew nothing but Christ, and Him crucified.*
St. Paul, whose love for Christ was stronger than death,*
St. Paul, who wished to be dissolved and be with Christ,*
St. Paul, whose zeal knew no bounds,*
St. Paul, who made thyself all to all, to gain all to Christ,*
St. Paul, who called thyself prisoner of Christ for us,*
St. Paul, who was jealous of us, with the jealousy of God,*
St. Paul, who gloried in the Cross of Christ,*
St. Paul, who bore in thy body the mortification of Christ,*
St. Paul, who exclaimed: “With Christ I am nailed to the cross!”*
That we may awake and sin no more,*
That we may not receive the grace of God in vain,*
That we walk in newness of life,*
That we may work out our salvation with fear and trembling,*
That we may put on the armor of God,*
That we may stand against the deceits of the wicked one,*
That we may stand fast to the last,*
That we may press forward to the mark,*
That we may win the crown,*
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Lord,
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.
Let us pray:
O glorious Apostle and martyr of Christ, chosen by Him to call us to the light of the Gospel, and the knowledge of the true and living God, obtain for us a perfect faith, firm hope, and ardent charity, that bearing always in our flesh the mortification of Christ, we may walk before God with simplicity, meekness, and humility, and thus press towards the mark–“the glorious city whose builder and maker is God.”
O blessed Apostle, be our guide, whilst we travel through the dark and stormy night of life, till this corruptible put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. Amen