OUR LADY OF RANSOM Triduum September 21-23 Feast September 24th Ask Our Lady of Mercy to ransom sinners from the captivity of Satan, and to free the souls in purgatory. Mary you are favored more than all other women on earth, for in the presence of our God you have aided us in our weakness. Rule over us, you and your Son, because you have freed us from the hands of our enemies. Hail Mary...... Prayer: O God, Who through the most glorious Mother of Your Son were pleased to give new children to Your Church for the deliverance of Christ's faithful from the power of the heathen; grant, we beg You, that we who affectionately honor her as the Foundress of so great a work, may by her merits and intercession, be delivered from all sin and bondage of hell. Through the same Christ Our Lord, Amen. The Blessed Virgin appeared in 1218 in separate visions to St. Peter Nolasco, St. Raymund of Penafort, and James, king of Aragon, asking them to found a religious order dedicated to freeing Christian captives from the barbarous Saracens or Moors, who at that time held a great part of Spain. On August 10, 1218, King James established the royal, military and religious Order of our Lady of Ransom (first known as the Order of St. Eulalia, now known as the Mercedarian Order), with the members granted the privilege of wearing his own arms on their breast. Most of the members were knights, and while the clerics recited the divine office in the commanderies, they guarded the coasts and delivered prisoners. This pious work spread everywhere and produced heroes of charity who collected alms for the ransom of Christians, and often gave themselves up in exchange for Christian prisoners. Father in Heaven through the mystical wounds of Your Son Jesus have mercy on the souls who visit my web pages. Whoever visits this site is automatically prayed for night and day as long as I live God knows who you are and He will apply your petitions. My motto is I will not let the devil have my family, or any family. My soul or any soul, if I can prevent it, through prayer, sacrifice and pain and despair. I will fight the devil tooth and nail, till I take my last breath and then fight him from heaven for souls here on earth
Cool, I attended Mass (Latin Rite) in the chapel of Our Lady of Ransom on September 24th this weekend, the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom, with the Canons Regular in West Virginia.
