Virtues of the Month: 
January's Virtue ~
​Love

"The things that we love tell us what we are."
​    --St. Thomas Aquinas
​Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke thy most powerful name, which is the safeguard of the living and the salvation of the dying. O Purest Mary! O Sweetest Mary! Let thy name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, O blessed Lady, to help me whenever I call on thee; for, in all my temptations, in all my needs, I shall never cease to call on thee, ever repeating they sacred name, Mary, Mary. O what consolation, what sweetness, what confidence, what emotion fill my soul when I utter thy sacred name, or even only think of thee! I thank the Lord for having given thee, for my good, so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering thy name. Let my love for thee prompt me ever to hail thee, Mother of Perpetual Help.
His Holiness, Pope Pius IX, by a rescript of the S. Congr. of Rites, May 17, 1866, granted to all the faithful, who, with at least contrite heart and devotion, shall say this prayer:
AN INDULGENCE OF ONE HUNDRED DAYS, once a day.