Thursday, March 24, 2011

St. Charbel Chaplet

History:
From: My Treasury of Chaplets Seventh, Enlarged Edition by Patricia S. Quintiliani.

Medals/Beads:
The chaplet is made up of five sets of beads, three red, one white and one blue. Five black beads, divide the sets. A medal of the saint connects the beads, with a single white bead following the medal and preceding the five sets.  The red beads are for the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, the virtues by which religious share in the Passion of Christ.  The white beads represent the Holy Eucharist, and the blue beads love and devotion to Our Blessed Mother.
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Method:
On the first white bead:
Father of Truth, behold Your Son, a sacrifice pleasing to You. Accept this offering of Him who died for me; behold His blood shed on Golgotha for my salvation. It pleads for me. For His sake, accept my offering. Many are my sins, but greater is Your mercy. When placed on a scale, Your mercy prevails over the weight of the mountains known only to You. Consider the sin and consider the atonement; the atonement is greater and exceeds the sin. Your beloved Son sustained the nails and the lance because of my sins so in His sufferings You are satisfied and I live. 
On each black bead:
Our Father
On the first three red beads:
Hail Mary - in honor of Saint Charbel's fidelity to the vow of poverty.
On the second set of red beads:
Hail Mary - in honor of Saint Charbel's fidelity to the vow of chastity.
On the third set of red beads:
Hail Mary - in honor of Saint Charbel's fidelity to the vow of obedience.
On the three white beads:
Hail Mary - in honor of Saint Charbel's love for the Eucharist.
On the three blue beads:
Hail Mary - in honor of Saint Charbel's devotion to Our Blessed Mother.
Conclude with:
Prayer to Obtain Graces
Lord, infinitely holy and glorified in Your saints, You have inspired Charbel, the saint monk, to lead the perfect life of a hermit. We thank You for granting him the blessing and the strength to detach himself from the world so that the heroism of the monastic virtues of poverty, chastity, and obedience might triumph in his hermitage. We beseech You to grant us the grace of loving and serving You, following his example. Almighty God, who have manifested the power of Saint Charbel's intercession through his countless miracles and favors, grant us this grace (here mention your intention) which we request from You through his intercession. Amen.

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