Prayer to St Catherine of Siena for Purity.
Prayer to St Catherine of Siena for Purity.
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By that especial love which thou, O great saint, borest to the virtue of purity, consecrating thyself at eight years of age to the Lord by an irrevocable vow, and afterwards by rejecting the most honorable offers of marriage: obtain for us, we pray thee, the grace to be always pure in mind and heart, and to detest and abhor everything which could offend in the smallest degree against a virtue so sublime that it raises men to the rank of angels, and makes them most beloved by God.
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Glory be...