Prayer before Mass

If you are like Ol' Mick, you are constrained to

assist at the Lil' Licit Liturgy and so you arrive for Mass early to prepare yourself and to dispose your own self to be open to receiving the immeasurable grace to be derived from the Holocaust.

Of course, in most modern Catholic Churches, that means one will have to concentrate on becoming deaf to the conversations of your pew pals who will be telling one another about the latest sale at Super Target or the current health of a husband whose colon is on the fritz and has been acting-up.

Well, this is just the way it is as the Lil' Licit Liturgy has dethroned Theocentrism and replaced it with Anthropocentrism and so it is a bit wrong to expect your pew pals to act differently than they act.

So, concentrate and pray and prepare your own self for the Holocaust/The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

 PRAYER BEFORE MASS

ETERNAL FATHER,  I unite myself with the intentions and affections of Our Lady of Sorrows on Calvary, and I offer Thee the sacrifice which Thy beloved Son, Jesus made of Himself on the Cross, and now renews on this holy altar: 

To adore Thee and give Thee the honor which is due to Thee, confessing Thy supreme dominion over all things, and the absolute dependence of everything upon Thee, who art our one and last end.

To thank Thee for innumerable benefits received.

To appease Thy justice, irritated against us by so many sins, and to make satisfaction for them.

To implore grace and mercy for myself, for....for all afflicted and sorrowing, for poor sinners, for all the world, and for the holy souls in purgatory.