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This Prayer Book comes to you by the kindness of David W. Sayre, Iowa U.S.A., who mailed it to me gratis - PAX VOBISCUM.

This Prayer Book is divided into Seven Parts or Chapters:

PART I BASIC PRAYERS

• The Daily Offering
• Prayer to St. Francis
• Renewal of Baptismal Promises
• Prayer to Jesus in the Eucharist
• Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Prayer for Life
• Prayer for the Sick
• Prayer before Communion
• Act of Contrition
• Prayer to Our Lady
• Prayer to Jesus Crucified
• Prayer to the Holy Spirit
• A Rosary Prayer
• Prayer for Personal Forgiveness
• Prayer to Our Lady Assumed into Heaven
• The Our Father
• The Hail Mary
• The Glory Be to the Father
• The Creed
• The Angelus
• The Universal Prayer

PART II GENERAL CATHOLIC KNOWLEDGE

• Including: Catholic Facts and General Knowledge
• The Ten Commandments
• The Chief Commandments and Laws of the Church
• Four Sins which Cry to Heaven for Vengeance
• Six Sins Against the Holy Spirit
• Nine ways to be an Accessory to another's Sins
• Capital Sins, or Chief Sources of Sin
• Seven Corporal Works of Mercy
• Prayer and the Sacraments

PART III THE LITANY OF THE SAINTS

PART IV DEVOTION TO MARY

An Essay: Understanding Catholic Devotion to Mary, excerpts from NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION by Thomas Merton

PART V THE ROSARY

• Basics of the Rosary
• Mysteries
• - Hail Holy Queen
• - Hail Mary
• - O My Jesus
• 15 Promises of Mary to Christians who recite
• Why Say the "daily" Rosary?
• - The Angelus
• Step by Step: How to pray the Rosary!
• Rosary Prayers - general in order...
• - The Apostle's Creed
• - The Our Father
• - The Hail Mary
• - The Glory Be ..
• - The Decade ...
• - Decade Prayer For Priests
• - Salve Regina ..
• - Prayer After Rosary ..
• - Fatima Prayer
• - Alternate Fatima Prayer
• - St. Michael
• - Memorare
• Meditations on Joyful Mysteries
• - Annunciation
• - Visitation
• - Nativity of Jesus
• - Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
• - Jesus is found in the Temple
• Meditations on Sorrowful Mysteries
• - Agony in Gethsemene
• - Jesus is scourged at the pillar
• - Jesus is crowned with Thorns
• - Jesus is made to carry his Cross
• - The Crucifixion of Our Lord
• Meditations on Glorious Mysteries
• - The Resurrection
• - The Ascension
• - The Descent
• - The Assumption of Our Lady
• - Mary is crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth

PART VI THE SACRAMENTS

• General Knowledge on the Seven Sacraments
• Baptism
• Confirmation
• Eucharist (The Mass)
• Penance (Reconciliation - Confession)
• Anointing of the Sick (Extreme Unction)
• Order (Priesthood)
• Matrimony
• Also Church Teaching on:
• Indulgences
• The Last Things

PART VII SPEAK LORD

SPEAK LORD: YOUR SERVANT LISTENS

• a thought provoking tract dealing with personal intercession ...
• Chaplet of Saint Michael
• Stations of the Cross - Short version

You can e-mail David W. Sayre in Iowa at: