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Traditionally prayed after Mass, this powerful prayer to St Michael invokes the protection of the archangel against the devil.

Pray with childlike confidence to your Heavenly Mother, knowing that she cares not just for your spiritual needs but your material needs, with this prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour for financial help.

Pray this novena prayer each day of a nine-day novena to St Thérèse of Lisieux.

Stabat mater dolorosa – “The mournful mother was standing”. This is the opening line of the extraordinary hymn attributed to the 13th-century Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi, which is still a popular Lenten devotion. Find the words of the original Latin and the popular English translation in this blog.

In the Vatican offices is an icon of Mary with her finger pressed to her lips called Our Lady of Silence. One of the elements of this devotion is five mysteries of the rosary dedicated to the silence of Jesus and Mary.

Pray the Collect for the solemnity of the Assumption