Man of the Beatitudes

Today is the feast day of our patron saint Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati

"With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Eucharistic table as often as you can. Feed on this bread of angels whence you will draw all the energy you need to fight inner battles. Because true happiness, dear friends, does not consist in the pleasures of the world or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we have only if we are pure in heart and mind."

~Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati

 

CANONIZATION PRAYER

"O merciful God,
Who through the perils of the world
deigned to preserve by Your grace
Your servant Pier Giorgio Frassati
pure of heart and ardent of charity,
listen, we ask You, to our prayers and,
if it is in Your designs that he be glorified by the Church,
show us Your will,
granting us the graces we ask of You,
through his intercession,
by the merits of Jesus Christ,
Our Lord. Amen."

IMPRIMATUR, 1932
+Maurillo, Archbishop of Turin

 

 

*Source: http://www.frassatiusa.org/