Prayer from Saint Vincent Ferrer

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PRAYER
for a Happy Death

I came across this beautiful prayer in church the other day, and thought I would share it with you. St. Vincent Ferrar is the patron Saint of Builders. He lived in the early 1300′s. He evangelized nearly every province of Spain, and preached in France, Italy, Germany, Flanders, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Quite extraordinary, when you consider the automobile had not been invented yet!

Lord Jesus Christ, Who willest that no man should perish, and to Whom supplication is never made without the hope of mercy, for Thou saidst with Thine Own holy and blessed lips: “All things whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, shall be done unto you”; I ask of Thee, O Lord, for Thy holy Name’s sake, to grant me at the hour of my death full consciousness and the power of speech, sincere contrition for my sins, true faith, firm hope and perfect charity, that I may be able to say unto Thee with a clean heart: Into Thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit: Thou hast redeemed me, O God of truth, Who art blessed for ever and ever. Amen (St. Vincent Ferrer).

The artwork illustrating this post is of the Angel of the Annunciation, painted by Giovanni Bellini it is a detail of his masterwork, St. Vincent Ferrar Polyptych, with St. Christopher, St. Vincent Ferrar, and St. Sebastian. This detail is in the upper section. Other sections detail the Dead Christ Between Two Angels, in the predella, Miracles of St. Vincent Ferrar. c. 1464-68. Tempera on panel. Church of SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy.