320. Prayer

i. 100 Days, once a day. ii. Plenary, once on any Feast of St Peter and St Paul, or on one of the nine days preceding or eight days following such feast. I, II, III, IV. N.B.— The visit must be made to a church or altar dedi- cated to these Saints, and there the prayer must be recited. (See Instructions, p. 1.) 319 Leo XIII, March 20, 1886. 320 Pius VI, Mem. July 28, 1778; Pius IX, June 18, 1876, 288 VARIOUS SAINTS ' Y BLESSED Apostles Peter and Paul, I elect you this day for my special protectors and advocates with Gop. In all humility I rejoice with thee, blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, be- cause thou art the rock whereon Gop hath built his Church; and I rejoice with thee, too, blessed Paul, because thou wast chosen of Gop for a vessel of election and a preacher of the truth throughout the world. Obtain for me, I beseech you both, a lively faith, firm hope, and perfect charity, entire detachment from myself, contempt of the world, patience in adversity, humility in prosperity, attention in prayer, purity of heart, right intention in my works, diligence in the fulfil- ment of all the duties of my state of life, constancy in my good resolutions, resignation to the holy will of Gop, perseverance in Divine grace unto death; that, having overcome, by your joint inter- cession and your glorious merits, the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, I may be made worthy to appear before the face of the chief and eternal Shepherd of Souls, Jesus Curist our Lorp, to enjoy Him and to love Him forall eternity, who with the FATHER and the Hoty Guost, liveth and reigneth ever, world without end. Amen