The Divine Praises

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Eucharist in Fruit Wreath - by HEEM, Jan Davidsz. de - from Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

The "Divine Praises" are a series of praises beginning with "Blessed Be God." Their origin is uncertain but the Encyclopedia of Catholicism, (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1995) says that they might have been compiled by Louis Felici c. 1779 for atonement reasons against blasphemy and profanity. It was added at the end of the Mass. Pope Pius VII attached indulgences to them in 1801. For some reason they were attached to Benediction, which was done in the United States at the end of a high Mass.

 

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The Divine Praises

Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man.
Blessed be the name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy.
Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in His angels and in His Saints.

May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time.

Amen

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