PROPER TO THE ORDER OF PREACHERS
The priest, vested in surplice and white stole, says:
Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R. Who hath made heaven and earth.
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come unto Thee.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Almighty and most merciful God, Who out of the wondrous love whereby Thou hast loved us, that Thou mightest deliver us from the power of the devil, didst will that Thine only begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, should come down upon earth, and at the message of an angel take flesh from the most sacred womb of Our Lady, Blessed Mary, and undergo the death of the Cross, and the third day rise gloriously from the dead: we implore Thine abounding mercy that Thou wouldst bless ✠and sanctify ✠these rosaries, dedicated by Thy faithful Church to the honor and praise of the same Mother of Thy Son, and wouldst so abundantly pour forth upon them the power of the Holy ✠Ghost that whosoever shall carry them about their persons, and shall reverently keep them in their homes, and shall devoutly pray unto Thee, contemplating, according to the institutes of this holy Society, the divine mysteries thereupon, may abound in sound and lasting devotion, and may be sharers and partakers in all the graces, privileges, and indulgences which have been granted to the same Society by the Holy Apostolic See; may at all times and in all places be delivered from every foe, visible and invisible, in this present world, and may finally at the hour of death, full of all good works, be found worthy to be presented unto Thee by the same most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God. Through the same Our Lord Jesus Christ, etc. R. Amen.
The priest then sprinkles the rosaries with holy water.
