To the Reader
This collection of prayers is an effort to apply the scientific method to the Truths of our Roman Catholic Faith, to obtain more grace to better serve God, drawing particularly on that gigantic source of God's Infinite Goodness and Mercy - a source virtually untapped - PROPHETIC REVELATIONS.
"When it's a question of prophetic revelations the Pope is the SOLE judge!"
Pope Leo X (5Th Council of Lateran 1513)
Dedication
The Blessed Virgin said: "You love Me and make others love Me." This revised edition of the Pieta Prayers is dedicated to Thee Dear Lady of Ephesus as an act of love to honor thine Assumption. "I am all thine my Queen and Mother and all that I have is Thine."
Purpose
Scripture says: "Pray without ceasing." St. Paul of the Cross wrote: "We enter on the broad road of perdition when we neglect prayer." Dr. Alexis Carrel wrote: "If you make a habit of prayer, your life will be profoundly altered." As a scientist he turned to prayer as man's highest activity; that conversation with God to be an art of all arts.
May this Pieta Collection of Prayers serve as a spiritual tool for souls who wish to increase their daily prayer life.