This prayer to St. Paul is listed in the
Raccolta as having an indulgence of 300 days. I have highly recommended the propagation of good books and the destruction of evil books. As I posted before, evil books that attack the Faith need to be destroyed and we should do what we can to help destroy materials offered by the pro-abortion and anti-catholic organizations. This was taught clearly by St. Pius X who wrote in his catechism: "A Christian to whom a Bible has been offered by a Protestant or an agent of the Protestants should reject it with disgust, because it is forbidden by the Church. If it was accepted by inadvertence, it must be burnt as soon as possible or handed in to the Parish Priest" (Catechism of Pius X).
Prayer for the Printing of Good Books
O glorious Apostle of the Gentiles, Saint
Paul, who with such zeal didst busy thyself in destroying at Ephesus
those
books which thou knewest well would have perverted the minds of the
faithful:
turn upon us thy gracious eyes also at this present day. Thou seest how
an unbelieving and licentious press is attempting to rob our hearts of
the precious treasure of faith and spotless morals. Enlighten, we
beseech
Thee, O holy Apostle, the minds of so many perverted writers, that they
may cease once for all to do harm to souls with their evil doctrines
and
lying insinuations; move their hearts to hate the evil that they have
done
and are doing to the chosen flock of Jesus Christ. For us, too, obtain
the grace of being ever docile to the voice of the Supreme Pontiff,
that
so we may never allow ourselves to indulge in the reading of bad books,
but may seek instead to read and, so far as it is given to us, to
diffuse
those books which by their salutary doctrine shall assist all of us to
promote the greater glory of God, the exaltation of His Church and the
salvation of souls. Amen.
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