Around the Web: A Prayer to Venerate Any Saint

PROMISE ATTACHED TO THE FOLLOWING PRAYER: "When you wish to honor any particular saint and give Me thanks for all the graces I have bestowed on that saint, I increase grace in your soul through the merits of that saint. When you commit the end of your life to any of the saints by special prayers, I appoint those saints to be your advocates and to provide whatever you need at that hour." — Our Lord to St. Gertrude

Eternal Father, I wish to honor St. (Name), and I give you thanks for all the graces You have bestowed upon him (her). I ask You to please increase grace in my soul through the merits of this saint, and I commit the end of my life to him (her) by this special prayer, so that by virtue of Your goodness and promise, St. (Name) might be my advocate and provide whatever is needed at that hour. Amen.

Reprinted from the Shrine Church of the Holy Innocents (128 W 37th St.) in New York City