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So I was in my parish’s shrine shop today and I stumbled across this booklet called “Pieta.” It contains 72 pages of devotions that come from private revelation. Each one either has the approval of a pope, an imprimatur, or it used to be listed in the old book of Indulgences (called the Racalta (sp?) I think)–so basically they’re all approved.

There’s some familiar ones (Divine Mercy, Chaplet of St. Michael, Scapular stuff, 15 Prayers of St. Bridget, etc.), but there are also ones I have never heard of like a devotion to the Sacred Letter found in the Holy Sepulcher or a prayer called the Golden Arrow to name a couple.

The best part of all–it only cost $2.00!

Has anyone else seen such a booklet before. It’s really awesome.😃
 
Catholic Dude:
I found this and online is it the same thing?
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Well, that’s the first 27 pages of the booklet I have. Very interesting stuff–especially the numbering in the Letter.
 
I also have that book, it has been around for quite some time and is pretty popular.

However, a small word or caution:

Here is a thread on the St. Bridgit prayers, which are in the book. Evidently the promises pose some problems. forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=59650&highlight=bridgit

As far as the “True Letter” goes – It seems there might be some confusing aspects of it (if not dubious).
  1. I’m not sure what it means when it says that Our Lord spoke to St. Bridgit and St. Elizabeth. They were not alive at the same time.
  2. This part:
Those people, who brawl against my religion and cast slurs on this Sacred Letter, shall be forsaken by me.
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On the contrary, those people who shall carry a copy of this letter with them shall be free from death by drowning and from sudden death. They shall be free from all contagious diseases and lightning; they shall not die without confession, and shall be free from their enemies and from the hand of wrongful authority, and from all their slanderers and false witnesses.
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raises some concern. Those who cast slurs on this private revelation will be forsaken?

Hmmmmm :hmmm:
 
We have a repleca of the Peita in the back of our church at my home parish. About the same time that Scott Hahn had a revelation of The Blessed Virgin Mary as the New Ark of the Covenant and what the Ark of the Old Testament was forshadowing I also had the same private revelation. Then a short time later I had a revelation that as the old ark was also the mercy seat so also was The Blessed Virgin Mary. In the Old Testament the high priest would offer blood sacrifice for the people and then rest in the mercy seat when his work was done for the cleansing of the people and how appropriate it is that when the eternal HIGH PRIEST JESUS was finished with his work of salvation for the whole world he was laid in the arms of the mercy seat, The Blessed Virgin Mary, who is a perfect example for us to become a place for the mercy of God to come to rest as we recieve HIS BODY, SOUL and DEVINITY in HOLY COMMUION offered to us for our salvation from the finished work of the Great High Priest, who is the Altar, Priest and Sacrifice. God BLess
 
The Pieta booklet was discussed on Catholic Answers not too long ago. You can probably contact someone there and get the whole story. It is not recommended. The promised indulgences have not been approved.

Deacon Tony
 
Deacon Tony560:
The Pieta booklet was discussed on Catholic Answers not too long ago. You can probably contact someone there and get the whole story. It is not recommended. The promised indulgences have not been approved.

Deacon Tony
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Are some of the promises not approved or just the indulgences. Are indulgences in the old volume (called Reccalta I think) still in effect or are just the ones on the Enchidiron (sp?) from the 1960s? The only things that have indulgences listed for them are traditional prayers that I was already familiar with (some are still in the Enchidirion (sp?))

I looked at the link provided by a poster above, and I noticed that the problem there was that it was sold by a traditionalist group. This one is not published by them, and in fact, it quotes Paul VI and John XXIII a few times–something I doubt any radical traditonalist would do.
 
If you contact Catholic Answers, you will get the right information. During the radio program, they made it clear that this book contained material that was not recognised by the church. This book has been around for ages and everyone just took it for granted that it was OK.

Deacon Tony
 
Deacon Tony560:
If you contact Catholic Answers, you will get the right information. During the radio program, they made it clear that this book contained material that was not recognised by the church. This book has been around for ages and everyone just took it for granted that it was OK.

Deacon Tony
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Yeah, well, I know some of the promises are no good. The main reason I got it was I wanted something with the St. Michael Chaplet in it and the rest was just bonus material. Any promise guaranteeing salvation and salvation for relatives is of course no good.
 
When I was going though a deeper conversion in college I prayed the prayers from the Pieta prayer booklet extensively. I believe the prayer bore fruit in my life, just as any prayer would, but there are problems with the booklet. Please use CAUTION when using this book. The prayers themselves are useful and good, but for the scrupulous this booklet is quite damaging. After small prayers it will casually say “say 600 times a day”. For the scrupulous (such as myself) this could be taken as a solemn command. To attempt to say all the prayers would take many hours a day, and for the scrupulous not finishing them could cause great anxiety. There is also inconsistencies such as the number of times Jesus was beaten. Two “revelations” in the Pieta booklet disagree on details like that. If you can take it with a grain of salt, that is fine, but things like this can cause a great deal of pain to some people. If someone out there is ambitious enough, perhaps they could edit the booklet heavily and re-publish it. Just my two cents.
-Dave
 
Genesis315 said:
So I was in my parish’s shrine shop today and I stumbled across this booklet called “Pieta.” It contains 72 pages of devotions that come from private revelation. Each one either has the approval of a pope, an imprimatur, or it used to be listed in the old book of Indulgences (called the Racalta (sp?) I think)–so basically they’re all approved.

There’s some familiar ones (Divine Mercy, Chaplet of St. Michael, Scapular stuff, 15 Prayers of St. Bridget, etc.), but there are also ones I have never heard of like a devotion to the Sacred Letter found in the Holy Sepulcher or a prayer called the Golden Arrow to name a couple.

The best part of all–it only cost $2.00!

Has anyone else seen such a booklet before. It’s really awesome.😃
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How do you pronounce that word Pieta’?:confused:
 
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