I invoked you, precursor, day and night: Help me, O divine Baptist, to me who in your person I won an advocate with the Creator, from whom I was torn in punishment. You the most beautiful infant of the desert, precursor, and the authentic friend of the Creator, oh wise one, deliver me by your prayers of all harmful friendship (…). John, you who baptized the Lord, corrects by your intercession the incorrigible that I am, and tear me away(…) from the fire that burns eternally. (…) Young shoot that delights the desert, precursor of Christ, uproot the negligence which constantly regrows in me, and deign to make me produce fruits of penance . It is a sterile breast that wears you, very illustrious fruit, you who made many hearts fertile without fruit; But with faith I shout towards you: “O Baptiste, remove my useless thoughts! »» Angel of God, in a divine way an angel announces in advance to your father your birth: with him, remember us on the day of judgment, maywe then find mercy, holy precursor. In his cunning, the bad enemy, without truce, chases me; unravel, oh all immaculate, all his pitfalls and deceptions, and guide me to do the divine will of the master, Mother of God.
Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team
