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Prayers and Novenas

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PRAYER TO OUR MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP

Mother of Perpetual Help, with the greatest confidence we kneel before you. We implore your help in the problems of our daily life. Trials and sorrows often depress us, reverses of fortune and painful privations bring misery into our lives; everywhere we meet the cross. Have pity on us, compassionate Mother. Take care of our needs, free us from our sufferings or if it be the will of God that we should suffer still longer Grant that we may endure all with love and patience. These graces we ask, trusting not in our merits but in your Love and power, O Mother of Perpetual Help.

Amen.

MY NOVENA ROSE PRAYER TO ST. THERESE

Little Therese of the Child Jesus, please pick for me a rose from the heavenly gardens and send it to me as a massage of love.

O little flower of Jesus, ask God today to grant the favour I now place with the confidence in your hand. (Mention specific request)

St. Therese, help me to always believe as you did, in God’s great love for me, so that I might imitate your “Little Way” each day.

Amen.

PRAYER TO ST. GERARD

Most Blessed Trinity, I, Your child, thank You for all the gifts and privileges which You granted to St. Gerard, especially for those virtues with which You adorned him on earth and the glory which You now impart to him in heaven. Accomplish Your work, Oh Lord, for the greater glory of Your kingdom on earth. Through his merits, in union with those of Jesus and Mary, grant me the grace for which I ask…. (Mention your request)

And you, my powerful intercessor, St. Gerard, always so ready to help those who have recourse to you, pray also for me. Prostrate yourself before the throne of Divine Mercy and Please do not leave it without being heard. To you I confide this important and urgent affair…. Graciously take my cause in hand and do not let me end this novena without having experienced in some way the effects of your intercession.

Amen

The Redemptorists

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The Redemptorists are a worldwide missionary congregation of priests and brothers, dedicated to Christ the Redeemer who strive to imitate the virtues and examples of Jesus Christ, consecrating themselves especially to the preaching of the word of God to the poor.

St. Thérèse

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St. Thérèse has been a highly influential model of sanctity for Catholics and for others because of the “simplicity and practicality of her approach to the spiritual life”.

St. Thérèse felt an early call to religious life, and overcoming various obstacles, in 1888 at the early age of 15, became a nun and joined two of her elder sisters in the cloistered Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. Her feast day is 1^st of October (3^rd October in the extraordinary form). St. Thérèse is well known throughout the world, with the Basilica of Lisieux being the second-largest place of pilgrimage in France after Lourdes. St. Therese’s ‘Little way’ is a glowing beacon to all of us who feel we can do nothing. It is the little things, we are reminded, that keeps God’s kingdom growing infinitely.

Read more about St. Theresa.

The Murals

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Four enormous murals created by Richard Don Gabriel, (one of Sri Lanka’s most talented pioneering artists of the 43 Group), crown this elegant place of worship. Completed in the early 1960s, the vibrancy of the work remains intact to this day, untarnished by time. The work of art has a Sri Lankan flavour and culture ingrained in to it without over-riding the murals of their inherent aesthetic value.

St. Therese is depicted in a state of glory, attended by cherubs playing tambourines, dancing the “Leekeli” (a traditional dance with wooden sticks) and blowing “Horanewas” (A traditional Sri Lankan wind instrument, used to mark a moment of triumph). Above this mural is another colourful illustration, portraying the presentation of the Rosary to Saint Dominic, the founder of the Order of Dominicans.

The main body of the Church showcases richly colourful illustrations of the fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary along with other works of art such as the Dominican Saints, St. Albert the Great and the Doctors of the Church.

Church History

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Built and founded by the Dominican Fathers, St. Theresa’s Church began in a small way, a true reflection of the little ways of our patron saint St. Therese. Holy Mass was offered on Sundays in a small shed, and after mass Fr. Frendo had coaxed the people to buy a brick to build the church. The benevolent and the affluent had contributed generously for the purpose. A marble brick adorns the wall at the entrance to the church bearing testimony to those who supported magnanimously.

When the Dominicans were compelled to leave Sri Lanka, impressed by the preaching’s of the Redemptorists, they had requested the late Cardinal Cooray to hand the church to the Redemptorist priests and thus in 1965 the parish was handed over to the Redemptorist Congregation Fr. Marcus Manatunga as appointed as St. Theresa’s first Redemptorist Parish Priest.