A Complete Catholic Prayer Companion for Daily Holiness, Confession, Communion, Mass, and Devotion

My Prayer-Book: Happiness in Goodness by Rev. F. X. Lasance is a rich traditional Catholic prayer book filled with reflections, counsels, prayers, and devotions meant to guide the soul toward peace, virtue, and union with God. Centered on the idea that true happiness is found in goodness, this volume offers both spiritual reading and practical prayers for daily life, Holy Mass, Confession, Holy Communion, Eucharistic devotion, Marian devotion, the saints, the Holy Souls, and preparation for a holy death.

This is the kind of book a Catholic can return to again and again: for morning and evening prayer, examination of conscience, preparation for the sacraments, visits to the Blessed Sacrament, litanies, novenas, and meditations on living a holy and joyful life. It is especially well suited for Catholics who love traditional devotional books and want one volume that combines instruction, reflection, and prayer.

Table of Contents

• Joy in the Lord — Self-Conquest; Self-Control — The Beatitudes

• Introduction

• Table of Movable Feasts

• Holy-Days of Obligation

• Church Law of Abstinence and Fast

Part I: Reflections

• The Quest of Happiness: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart”

• Charity: The Greatest Thing in the World

• Fraternal Charity

• The Spectrum of Charity

• Be Interesting

• Be of Good Cheer

• Don’t Worry

• One Little Secret of a Happy Life

• Contentment

• Holy Indifference: Self-Immolation

• The Saved and Lost

• Lord, Are There Few Saved?

• Forgive Us Our Trespasses as We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us

• Kindness

• Thoughts from Father Faber on Kindness

• Seek the Things Above

• What Is It That Secures Happiness in a Home?

• The Power of a Smile

• A New Virtue

• Faith and Humor

• Peace Is Happiness

• Happiness in Suffering

• Spirit of Charity

• The Highest Pleasures

• Don’t Go to Heaven Alone!

• Let Us Go About Doing Good

• The Love of God

• Character

• A Young Man and His Beads

• What Flowers Indicate

• Pictures in a Home

• Be at Peace

• Trust in God

• Be Affable Always

• Enthusiasm

• In the Home

• Promote Happiness in Your Homes

• A Sunshiny Disposition

• The Blessing of Pain and Grief

• The Path of Sorrow

• True Comforters

• Peace

• Heart and Face

• The Test of Power of Character

• Faults of Those We Love

• Little Kindnesses

• The Power of Silence

• The Virtue of Our Lady

• The Gentle Saint

• St. Joseph, the Patron of Those Who Love the Sacred Heart of Jesus

• The Guardian Angels

• Exercise Your Charity in Behalf of the Poor Souls in Purgatory

• By Prayer and Almsdeeds

• It Is Sure to Come

• Keep Your Eye on Heaven

• Use Your Gentlest Voice at Home

• Do It Now

• Frankness, Prudence, Simplicity

• By Trying We Learn

• For His Glory

• Guard of Chastity

• Holy Communion

• Christ in the Eucharist

• Salute Your Lord in the Blessed Sacrament

• What Mass Is

• Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament

• Visits to Jesus in the Tabernacle

• Daily Attendance at Mass

• Practical Suggestions for Fostering Devotion to the Most Blessed Sacrament

• The Sacred Heart

• A Good Old Custom of the Servants of God

• The Habit of Prayer

• Morning Prayer

• Evening Prayer

• Mental Prayer

• Prayers for Meditation

• Vocal Prayer

• Ejaculatory Prayers

• The Apostleship of Prayer

• Continual Prayer

• Presence of God

• Happiness in Goodness

• Why Deny Myself? — Worth While Now

• Sanctify the Day

• Sanctify the Week

• Sanctify the Month

• Saints of the Months

• Gems of the Months

• Reflections on the Gems of the Months and Their Significance

• Self-Improvement

• A Good Scrap-Book

• Read the Lives of the Saints

• Be Careful in the Choice of Your Books and Magazines

• The Imitation of Christ

• The Advantages of a Rule of Life

• A Rule of Life

• Death

• Heaven

Part II: Prayers and Devotions

Morning Prayer

• Aspirations

• Act of Adoration and Thanksgiving

• Act of Faith

• Act of Hope

• Act of Love

• Act of Supplication

• Act of Contrition

• Act of Consecration

• Indulgenced Aspirations and Prayers

• Morning Offering of the Apostleship of Prayer

Evening Prayer

• Aspirations

• Act of Adoration

• Instructions for Examination of Conscience

• Act of Contrition

• Act of Love

• Indulgenced Aspirations

• The Memorare

• Indulgenced Ejaculations

• The De Profundis

Prayers During the Day

• Before and After Meals

• Act of Faith

• Act of Hope

• Act of Love

• The Angelus

• The Regina Coeli

• The Salve Regina

• The Sub Tuum Praesidium

• The Lord’s Prayer

• The Hail Mary

• The Apostles’ Creed

• Prayer Before Meditation, Study, or Spiritual Reading

• Prayer to the Holy Ghost

• Prayer After Meditation

• Anima Christi

• St. Thomas Aquinas’ Prayer Before a Crucifix

• Indulgences for Reading the Holy Bible

• Indulgence for Mental Prayer

• Prayer Before Any Good Work

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

• Mass of the Catechumens

• To Our Great Ends of Mass

• Important Counsels

• Prayers at Holy Mass

• Mass in Honor of the Passion of Our Lord and the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady

• The Ordinary of the Mass, with the Proper Parts from the Mass to Beg the Grace of a Happy Death

• Eucharistic Rosary, Suitable for Holy Mass and the Hour of Adoration

Devotions for Confession

• Before Confession

• Examination of Conscience

• After the Examination

• Considerations to Excite True Contrition

• Act of Contrition

• Thanksgiving After Confession

Devotions for Communion

• Holy Mass on Communion Days

• Indulgenced Prayer Before a Crucifix

• Prayer Prepared on Holy Communion

• Various Exercises for Communion

• Acts, Prayers, and Reflections for Communion

• Litany for Holy Communion

• Another Exercise of Devotion for Communion

• Third Exercise of Devotion for Communion

• Prayers After Communion

• Act of Petition

Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

• Prayers at Benediction

• O Salutaris Hostia

• Tantum Ergo Sacramentum

• Act of Blessing

• Act of Reparation for Profane Language

• Te Deum Laudamus

The Stations of the Cross

• Preparatory Prayer

• Prayers Before and After Each Station

• Stabat Mater, English and Latin

• Indulgences

Litanies

• Litany of the Most Holy Name of Jesus

• Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

• Litany of the Blessed Virgin

• Litany of the Saints

• Litany of the Blessed Sacrament

• Litany of the Passion

• Litany of St. Joseph

Other Devotions

The Holy Trinity, One God

• Prayers at Beginning and End of Year

• Canticle of the Seraphim

• Prayer for Sunday to the Blessed Trinity

• Aspiration

The Holy Ghost

• Hymn to the Holy Ghost

• Sequence of the Holy Ghost

• Novena to the Holy Ghost

• Prayer to the Holy Spirit for the Church

• Short Indulgenced Prayer to the Holy Ghost

• Prayer for the Feast of Pentecost

• Prayer to the Holy Ghost

• Offering to the Holy Ghost

Our Divine Lord

• Act of Adoration, Thanksgiving, Reparation, and Supplication

• Prayer for a Visit to the Blessed Sacrament

• Prayer of St. Alphonsus Liguori for a Visit to the Blessed Sacrament

• Pious Ejaculations

• Act of Faith

• Act of Hope and Confidence in God

• Act of Charity

• Indulgenced Acts of Adoration and Thanksgiving

• Tantum Ergo

• Act of Reparation to the Blessed Sacrament

• Morning Prayer to the Blessed Sacrament

• Evening Prayer to the Blessed Sacrament

• Petition for the Holy Souls in Purgatory

• Spiritual Communion

• Another Prayer for Spiritual Communion

• Petitions

• Prayers to the Eucharistic Jesus

• Indulgenced Devotions to the Blessed Sacrament

• Indulgenced Chaplet of the Sacred Heart

• Offering to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

• Form of Consecration to the Sacred Heart

• Consecration and Reparation to the Sacred Heart

• Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart on First Friday and Other Occasions

• Promoters’ Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart

• Rosary of the Sacred Heart

• Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

• Seven Offerings of the Precious Blood of Jesus

• Prayer: “O Most Compassionate Jesus”

• Prayer: “Divine Jesus”

• Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

• Novena in Honor of the Holy Name of Jesus

• Indulgenced Invocations

• Prayer to the Infant Jesus Before an Image of St. Anthony of Padua

• Thirty-Three Visits in Honor of the Sacred Humanity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

• Prayer in Honor of the Holy Name of Jesus

The Blessed Virgin

• Dedication to Mary

• Prayer to the Blessed Virgin

• Three Offerings in Honor of the Blessed Virgin

• Memorare of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

• Act of Consecration to the Holy Heart of Mary

• Prayer in Honor of Our Sorrowful Mother

• Prayer of St. Alphonsus Liguori

• Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

• Consecration to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

• Novena to Our Lady of Good Counsel

• Prayer to Our Lady of Good Counsel

• Indulgenced Novena to the Blessed Virgin

• Novena to Mary for Any Special Occasion

• A Visit to Our Lady of Sorrows

• Prayer Exercise in Honor of Our Lady of Dolors

• Novena in Honor of the Dolors of Mary

• Novena in Honor of the Immaculate Conception

• Hymn, Versicle, and Prayer in Honor of Mary

• Anthem, Versicle, and Prayer in Honor of Mary

• The Rosary Mysteries

• Pious Recommendation to the Blessed Virgin

• Indulgences for the Month of May

• St. Aloysius’ Act of Consecration

• Prayer to Our Lady of May

• Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes

• Invocations

• Indulgenced Acts of Consecration to the Blessed Virgin

• Prayer for the Blessed Virgin Sodality

• Canticle of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• Hymn: Ave Maris Stella

• Four Great Anthems of the Blessed Virgin

• Indulgenced Ejaculations in Honor of Our Lady

The Holy Angels

• Prayer to the Guardian Angel

• Little Office of the Holy Angels

• Antiphon to the Archangel Michael

• Prayer to St. Raphael, Archangel

• Prayer to the Archangel Gabriel

St. Joseph

• Devotions of the Seven Sundays to St. Joseph

• The Seven Sorrows and Seven Joys of St. Joseph

• Prayer to St. Joseph for the October Devotions

• Another Version, as Recited in the United States

• Novena to St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin

• Prayer in Honor of St. Joseph for the Agonizing

• Act of Consecration to St. Joseph

• Prayer to St. Joseph in Any Great Necessity

• Prayer for a Novena to St. Joseph

• Thirty Days’ Prayer to St. Joseph

The Faithful Departed

• Reflections

• Short Indulgenced Prayer for Souls in Purgatory

• The Month of November

• Prayers for Every Day in the Week for the Dead

Miscellaneous Prayers

• Prayer to St. Anne

• Prayer to Any Virgin-Saint

• Prayer to Any Woman-Saint

• Prayer for Youth for Divine Guidance

• “Lead, Kindly Light”

• “To-Day”

• Prayer for Church and Civil Authorities

• A Universal Prayer for All Things Necessary to Salvation

• Aspirations to St. Anthony of Padua

• Indulgenced Responsory in Honor of St. Anthony

• The Novena of Grace

• Prayer to St. Francis Xavier

• Prayer for Infidels

• Hymn of Love

• Prayer to the Holy Family

• Indulgenced Prayer for a Christian Family

• Prayers for Travelers

• Prayer in Honor of St. Teresa, Little Flower

• Petitions to St. Anne

• Indulgenced Prayer to St. Joachim

• Indulgenced Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

• Prayer for a Happy Death

• Prayer for a Deceased Person

• Litany and Prayers for a Happy Death

• Prayer for the Faithful in Their Agony

• Act of Resignation and Prayer for a Happy Death

• Prayer to Mary for a Happy Death

• Ejaculations in Preparation for a Good Death

• Ejaculations of Confidence in God

• Ejaculations of Desire for Paradise

• Ejaculations in Kissing the Crucifix

• Indulgenced Ejaculations

• The Seven Penitential Psalms, Latin and English

• The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• Books That Have Had Most Powerful and Lasting Influence on Our Life

• Daily Spiritual Food

• Mass Devotions Before Mass

• Vespers for Sundays

• Index