Rosary of Sister Pierre Claver Zoungoula

Updated : Sat 13 Nov 2021 AM (UTC +1)

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                  (To be recited with the ordinary rosary)
“This rosary was revealed in Brazzaville by Sister Pierre Claver Zoungoula to a persecuted believer in search of liberation, deliverance, healing and peace.
Those who say it with devotion and faith will see its wonders and benefits for themselves, their children, their families, and all for whom they will pray. "

It is recited with an ordinary rosary in front of 7 candles arranged in a semicircle and in front of the effigy of Sister Pierre claver Zoungoula, surmounted by a crucifix at face level in the seated position, at the bottom of the crucifix one places the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The order of the candles following the alignment is as follows:
7                 6                5                1                2                3                4
The candles are lit in the following order:

1                2                3                4                5                6                7
They are turned off in the reverse order:
7                6                5                4                3                2                1

Before praying it is better to prepare your prayer intentions, according to the following indicative order, this is what Zoungoula calls being ready for prayer (kukubama):
a) what you would like us to do for:
- your children; your husband ; the sick whom you see suffering, your benefactors, the lost ones whom you wish to see return to God, your fraternity, your (Catholic) Church, etc.
b) what you would like us to do for yourself:
- talk about the faults you want to abandon; pray for your health, for your business, for your work, for your studies.
- what do you need today? Do you have a project now? Which ? Do you have the means to achieve them? What do you miss ?
- what makes you sad? What offended you? What hurt you in your self-esteem, what humiliated you. Think about it completely, soon you will be able to forget. As a reward, you will receive the consoling blessing of God.
c) think about what has comforted your heart and what made you smile since the last prayer. Perhaps you have experienced pleasant surprises: letters, a sign of affection; perhaps you have overcome a difficulty; maybe you got out of a situation that seemed hopeless. All of this is the result of my intercession. Just say thank you: thank you my God!
d) Wouldn't you like to promise not to expose yourself to such and such a sin, to renounce such and such thing that has caused you harm, etc. Will you again become gentle, kind and complacent with such and such a person whom you have so far considered an enemy because they let something slip?

After at least five minutes of silence, you are now ready for prayer!

                    In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
                                                Invocation : 
       - God, come to my help!
       - Lord, help us
Let us give glory to the Father Almighty, to His Son Jesus Christ the Lord, to the Spirit that dwells in our hearts, to the God who is, who was, and who is coming for ever and ever. Amen.

Lord You have said in all things give thanks. Thus we give thanks to the Holy Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, to the Blessed Virgin Mary, to the Angels and Archangels, to the Blessed in Heaven, to the Holy Bishops and Doctors, Priests and Religious men and women of the Universal Church and of Our Church, for your many graces and blessings upon us: upon ourselves, our spouses, our children and our families; upon our Church, our country, and upon all mankind.

Still today, we raise our prayer to the face of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, to the face of the Holy Trinity, through the intercession of Sister Pierre Claver ZOUNGOULA, our patroness, together with her companions from the Cellar: Sister Césarine, Sister Alexandrine, Sister Anne Marie KALOUKA, Sister Calvary, Sister Saint Jean, Sister Saint Jacques, Sister Jeanne MPOLO.

We make this prayer in communion of heart and spirit, and with the assistance : 
- of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ;
- of Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel, Saint Raphael, of our guardian angels, all the archangels and angels of Heaven ;
- of Saint Abraham, Saint Moses, Saint David, Saint Isaiah, Saint Elijah, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Joseph, of all the holy patriarchs and holy prophets;
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Saint Andrew, Saint John and Saint James, Saint Luke, Saint Mark, Saint Mary Magdalene, all the holy apostles and disciples of the Lord;
- Saint Stephen, Saint Paul Miki, Saint Polycarp of Smyrna, Saint Charles Lwanga, Saint Kisito, Saint Andrew Kaggwa and all the martyrs of Uganda, Saint Thomas More and Saint John Fisher, Saint Thomas Becket, Saint Teresa Benedict of the Cross, Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicity, Saint John of Brebeuf and Saint Isaac Jogues, all the Holy Martyrs;
- Saint Agnes, Saint Agatha, Saint Lucia, Saint Cecilia, Saint Maria Goretti, Blessed Anuarity, of all the holy virgins and martyrs;
- Saint Scholastica, Saint Bernadette Soubirous, Saint Clare, Saint Rose of Lima, Saint Therese of the Infant Jesus, Saint Therese of Avila, of all the holy virgins;
- Saint Augustine, Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Pius X, Saint Alfonso Maria de Liguori, Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Saint John of the Cross, all the Holy Bishops and Doctors of the Church;
- Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Francis Xavier, Saint Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint John Mary Vianney, Saint John Bosco, Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Saint Peter Claver, Saint Padre Pio, Saint Josephine Bakhita, Saint Cyril, Saint Benedict, Saint Rita of Cascia, Saint Bernard, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francoise Romaine, all the holy priests, religious men and women;
- Saint Anne and Saint Joachim the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Monique, Saint Louis of Gonzaga, Saint Martha, Saint Margaret, of all the saints of God.

 - We also ask for the presence and assistance of all the priestly and religious souls and deceased lay saints of the Church of the Congo (...) and of the missionaries in the Congo (...), of all the righteous who are on earth and of all the faithful souls who are in this place.
As well as all the dead saints of our respective paternal and maternal families, as we are gathered here in prayer.
Thank you for being with us, keep us, protect us and remove from us and from our bosom and from all around us anything that does not confess the name of God.
Ø 1 minute of silence
Ø Thank you song
Ø Confession, 
Ø Kyrie
Ø Psalm 51 (50)
1.    1. Have mercy on me, O God, in thy goodness: according to thy great mercy blot out my transgressions; 
2.    Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 
3.    For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 
4.    I have sinned against thee only, and have done that which is evil in thine eyes, that thou mayest be just in thy judgment, and blameless in thy judgment. 
5.    Behold, I was born in iniquity, and my mother conceived me in sin. 
6.    But thou wilt desire the truth to be in thy heart: therefore bring wisdom into me. 
7.    Cleanse me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 
8.    Declare unto me gladness and joy, and the bones which thou hast broken shall rejoice. 
9.    Look away from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 
10.    Create in me, O God, a clean heart; Renew in me a willing spirit. 
11.    Cast me not away from thy presence; Take not thy holy spirit from me. 
12.    12. Give me the joy of thy salvation, And let a willing spirit sustain me. 
13.    I will teach thy ways to them that transgress them, And sinners shall return to thee. 
14.    Deliver me, O God, the God of my salvation, from bloodshed; and my tongue shall praise thy mercy. 
15.    Open my lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall declare thy praise. 
16.    If thou hadst wanted sacrifices, I would have offered them unto thee: but thou hast no pleasure in burnt offerings. 
17.    17 Sacrifices that are acceptable to God are a broken spirit: thou, O God, shalt not despise a broken and contrite heart. 
18.    18. Pour out thy goodness by thy grace upon Zion, (re)build the walls of Jerusalem. 
19.    19. Then shalt thou accept sacrifices of righteousness, burnt offerings, and all manner of sacrifices: then shall bulls be offered upon thine altar. 
Gloria.................
Ø Psalm 66(65):
May God have mercy on us and bless us!
May he make his face shine among us,
So that on earth your path is known,
And among all the heathens, your salvation.
May the peoples give you thanks, God!
May the peoples give you thanks, all together!
Let the nations sing for joy,
For you rule the peoples with righteousness,
And on earth you lead the nations.
May the peoples give you thanks, God!
May the peoples give you thanks, all together!
The earth has given its harvest:
God, our God, blesses us.
May God bless us,
And that the whole earth 
Fear it! 
Gloria............
Ø Invocation of the Holy Spirit:
                                                   VENI CREATOR
Come, Holy Spirit, into our hearts and send a ray of your light from heaven.
Come into us, Father of the poor, come, givers of gifts, come, light of our hearts.
Sovereign Comforter, most gentle guest of our souls, softening freshness.
In labour, you are rest, in fever, freshness, in tears, comfort.
O blessed light, come and fill the hearts of all your faithful to the depths. 
Without your divine power, there is nothing in any man, nothing that is perverted.
Wash what is unclean, bathe what is dry, heal what is wounded.
Soften what is stiff, warm what is cold, straighten what is crooked.
To all who have faith and trust in you, give your seven sacred gifts.
Give merit and virtue, give final salvation, give eternal joy. Amen.

- LITANIES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son, Come into us!
Spirit of the Lord who fills the whole universe, Come into us!
Holy Spirit of whom Jesus was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary, Come into us!
Spirit of Wisdom and Intelligence, Come into us!
Spirit of Counsel and Strength, Come into us!
Spirit of Science and Piety, Come into us!
Spirit of Fear of the Lord, Come into us!
Spirit of Faith, Hope and Love, Come into us!
Spirit of Humility and Mercy, Come into us!
Spirit of Justice, Holiness and Truth, Come into us!
Holy Spirit of Comfort, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who pours charity into our hearts, Come into us!
Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who inspires us with goodness and true prayer, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who turns us away from evil, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who protects us from the devil, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who delivers us from temptation, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who fills us with joy, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who makes us pure, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who makes us your temple, Come into us!
Holy Spirit that we can resist, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who makes us attentive to the inspirations of the angels, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who arouses peace and love, Come into us!
Holy Spirit who is our only strength, Come into us!
Holy Spirit, gift of the Father and the Son, Come into us!
Holy Spirit whom we adore, Come into us!
Lord, send us your Spirit,
So that it renews the face of the earth!
Let us pray: Very good Father, through Jesus you promised that whoever would ask for your Holy Spirit with the trust of a child, he would not be disappointed (Luke 11,13). On the basis of these words, we already dare to thank you for the Sacred Gift that you want to give us. In union with this divine Spirit, we want to offer you this prayer session and our lives, like your Son Jesus on the Cross of Salvation. Amen

Ø Song to the Holy Spirit 
Ø Reading of the speech of the day according to the Ordo
Ø Commentary on this word (in relation to the family, society and yourself...)

Ø Beginning of the Rosary
Before beginning the Rosary, let us gather for a few moments and put all our needs and intentions (listed in the order indicated above) before Sister Pierre Claver Zoungoula, so that she may obtain for us through her intercession with God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit the graces we need:
We ask (or I ask) :.........
                                                   . . . . . . . .
At last the prayers can continue to be said.
- PRAYER OF ALL FRATERNITIES (PRAYER OF THE BELIEVING for others)
Lord our refuge and our strength,
You who inspire all true prayer,
Listen to your children's pleas.
Without your help there is nothing in us that is innocent.
Please let the example of our patron saints (for the grouped names say: saints of the church) awaken your love in us, so that we may live it everywhere in our works and in our lives with our brothers and sisters.
Yes, Heavenly Father and Almighty God increase faith, hope and charity in us, so that by the power of the Gospel, the word that transfigures the world, our fraternities (for the grouped names say and others say: our Church and its apostolic movements) may be environments of true witnesses who carry out their tasks as baptised people and thus work with the spirit for the coming of the reign of your Son in our hearts, homes and country. Amen!

1.    The CREDO (I believe in God)
2.      One (1) Our Father
     Three (3) Hail Mary
     One (1) Glory be to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit...
- First tenth edition: FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
"Picked in the African bush by a passing missionary, this poor little flower seemed to bloom only in the sad shadows of slavery. When she came into the world, her mother, without knowing why, gave her the name Zoungoula; it is probable that in pronouncing it she found harmonies that only her mother's heart could perceive. In any case, with the name Zoungoula the child grows like a perennial plant in the great sun of the good Lord. The sun of the Congo is hot, and soon her small body, for want of clothing, takes on the black colour of her race.
But the poor child is the daughter of a slave: she is therefore only a thing in the hands of her master! One fine day, a debt must be paid, and Zoungoula is given in payment. Her mother's tears don't do anything about it; you don't even pay any attention to hers. Loaded with a few objects, she is obliged to follow her new master. She had no idea that she was taking the road to freedom.
Around 1894, the Catholic missionaries had just pitched their tent at the first rapid of the Oubanghi, in the middle of the Bondjos, a wild and anthropophagous tribe.
As soon as they were settled, the missionaries began to travel around, to get to know these new tribes, and everywhere they saw a frightening slavery, an active trade in children destined to satisfy their ferocious appetites. It was by wrenching some of these children from their miserable lot that Zoungoula fell to the missionary. God had taken him to Himself, and He brought him with Him along paths secretly traced by His providential hand. »
Lessons to be learnt: Being chosen by God, let us let ourselves go along the paths secretly traced out by his providential hand.
Prayer intentions: -------------------------------------------------
§ One (1) Our Father
§ Ten (10) Hail Mary
§ One (1) Glory be to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.....
Lord, for the sake of Zoungoula your servant, hear us!

- Second Dozen: ACCEPTANCE OF CHRISTIAN TRUTHS
Some time later, a boat would take the little girl to the Sisters of Brazzaville, where, with new mothers, she would also find the way to salvation. She was about 9 years old.
Like the others, she received in her heart the first truths of the Christian religion. Her gentle, docile character is a ready-made ground; faith is kindled in her soul, she simply believes these truths that others are still to be discussed, and it is a great joy for her to finally see the day arrive when baptism makes her a child of God. From that moment on, love of God and love of neighbour will grow in her heart, and if she offers herself one day as a sacrifice to God in the religious life, the day is not far off when she will die in the service of her neighbour. While she prepares for the beautiful day of her First Communion and Confirmation, she is placed in the children's infirmary to assist the Sister in her daily labours. The charity that God has kindled in her already inspires her in a thousand ways to relieve, in her little companions, those miseries so sad usually found in the dark. She washes them with the greatest care, brings them to the sun to warm them. In the evening, she takes them back to the infirmary, arranges their mats and makes them small pillows to ease their suffering: a mother could not have done better. The black man, by nature, does not like to care for the sick, and most of the time he leaves them abandoned and in a state of utter uncleanliness. 
Lessons to be learnt: By faith and by our baptism let us become children of God. While the love of God and neighbour dwells in us
Prayer intentions: -------------------------------------------------
§ One (1) Our Father
§ Ten (10) Hail Mary
§ One (1) Glory be to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.....
Lord, for the sake of Zoungoula your servant, hear us!

- Third dizainier : THE NOVICIAT
God did not want to leave this devotion without reward, and he deposited in Zoungoula's heart the seed of the religious vocation. It was to be the second of a small but humble work, but one which she had just consolidated by her edifying death.
Shy and gentle, she asked to be admitted to the novitiate; for three years this plant, once wild, would bend under difficulties, accept all trials, humble herself and never murmur. It took a great deal of courage for her to abandon her last habits as a child of the bush, to get rid of her more or less pagan ideas; but she allowed herself to be stripped of everything that reminded her of her former life and to put on the finery of the brides of Christ. In the meantime, from the children's infirmary she went to the native hospital, where the most repulsive infirmities were treated on a daily basis. Here she is in the midst of the most diverse contagious diseases: scabies, smallpox, yellow sickness, gangrenous ulcers and, above all, sleeping sickness.
Lessons to be learnt: to place oneself with courage, humility and in silence at the service of God and of others
Prayer intentions: -------------------------------------------------
§ One (1) Our Father
§ Ten (10) Hail Mary
§ One (1) Glory be to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.....
Lord, for the sake of Zoungoula your servant, hear us!

- Fourth Dozen: DEDICATION FOR THE SICK
Led by the spirit of God, she works to alleviate the sufferings of these poor bodies and renders them the most repugnant services; but she also does not forget that in these bodies there is a soul for which Our Lord died, and every day she spends whole hours instructing these souls, igniting in these insensitive hearts the love of the Creator. How many of them she has prepared by her patience, by her insistence and above all by her prayers! The missionary found the ground ready and open to receive the divine seed and the generating water. She was always the same in the midst of her sick people, ignoring her devotion, not caring about the danger she ran every day, only asking to sacrifice herself for the salvation of these poor souls.   
She did not know what she was exposing herself to by caring for such sick people, but she had already said to Our Lord in the depths of her heart: "I will be your humble servant, always, in everything, until the end. "And it was from this motto that she drew the devotion she lavished on her patients for the rest of her life.
Lessons to be learned: To relieve with dedication the suffering of others.
Prayer intentions: -------------------------------------------------
§ One (1) Our Father
§ Ten (10) Hail Mary
§ One (1) Glory be to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.....
Lord, for the sake of Zoungoula your servant, hear us!

- Fifth Dozenth: THE ENTRY OF ZOUNGOULA INTO ETERNITY
The great day of her religious profession arrived for her: she gave herself to God as she had just given herself to the sick, but we can say that her sacrifice was complete. During the three years she has left to live, she will never look back; the indigenous world, pagan or Christian, will never inspire her with regret. She gave herself to Jesus and never thought it was possible to take back her life.
This flower, grown in the shade of the cloister, had only to blossom for its entry into eternity, and the ground in which it will blossom will be the ground of sacrifice, the ground that produces saints.
Sister St. Peter Claver (that is the name she received on the day of her profession) was therefore devoted to the care of the sick; by dint of breathing these mephitic exhalations, by dint of living in the midst of these nameless miseries, she contracted this strange sleeping sickness which is nowadays so devastating in a large part of Africa; but she continued her task until her strength failed her.
Throughout her illness she, unlike many such patients, retains all her lucidity of mind, and shows, by her gentleness and resignation, that she generously accepts the sacrifice. Her strength diminishes every day, she feels it, the drowsiness begins, but as long as she has any strength left, she will drag herself to the court of penance, and from there to the holy table. She purifies her soul from its last stains, and by these last appearances at the divine banquet she wants to prepare herself for the final struggle that is about to take place.
Finally, at the end of her strength, on the eve of going to bed for ever, held up by her companions who breathe every word to her, she wants to offer herself to her divine Spouse in a last act of love, in a more complete manner, by the taking of perpetual vows.

This is the flower in full bloom and worthy of heaven. While her poor body passes from long sleeps to short awakenings, her soul, more and more subject to God's will, yearns with joy for that moment when it will see its Creator. She willingly intercedes with God for her companions, for those who have served as her mother, for those who have loved her here below, and without any jolt she passes from this life to eternity.
The Father of the family had just picked the first flower in his Oubangui flowerbeds.
Lessons to be learnt: To blossom to enter eternity
Prayer intentions: -------------------------------------------------
§ One (1) Our Father
§ Ten (10) Hail Mary
§ One (1) Glory be to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.....
Lord, for the sake of Zoungoula your servant, hear us!
FINAL PRAYERS :
- PRAYER TO SISTER PIERRE CLAVER ZOUNGOULA
O sister Zoungoula, 
You who had responded to God's call, when everything was to discourage you, 
We ask you to be our guide and adviser on this road to eternal happiness.
Your love for God has gone as far as the consecration of your life to the service of your fellow men,
Inities - we too have this love so that we don't look for ourselves in everything we do for God.
Obtain - us to grow in faith, hope and charity, so that we may be Witnesses of Christ. Amen!
- LITANIES OF SISTER PIERRE CLAVER ZOUNGOULA
Lord, have mercy
O Christ, have mercy
Lord, have mercy

Christ, listen to us!
Christ, hear us!

God the Father, from Heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit, Comforter, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God, Have mercy on us
Holy Mary, pray for us! 
Sister Pierre Claver Zoungoula, pray for us! 
- Sister Zoungoula, Perennial plant in the great sun of God, pray for us! 
- Sister Zoungoula, Chosen by God, pray for us! 
- Sister Zoungoula, Full of faith, gentleness and docility, pray for us! 
- Sister Zoungoula, Inhabitant of the love of God and neighbour, pray for us! 
- Sister Zoungoula, Dead in the service of our neighbour and of poor souls, pray for us! 
- Sister Zoungoula, Relief of the sick, pray for us! 
- Sister Zoungoula, Expression of the charity of Christ, pray for us! 
- Sister Zoungoula, Rewarded by God for your devotion to alleviate the sufferings of the sick, pray for us! 
- Sister Zoungoula, Humble, courageous and silent, pray for us! 
- Sister Zoungoula, Spouse of Christ, pray for us! 

Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, Forgive us Lord.
Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, Hear us Lord.
Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us Lord.

     Let us pray: O God who brought Zoungoula out of slavery and turned her into a blossoming flower worthy of Heaven, Grant us now through his intercession the graces and blessings of our prayer intentions and the virtues we so badly need to serve devoutly, in silence and humility, our suffering brothers and sisters. Amen
Lord, for the sake of Zoungoula your servant, hear us!
- Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in you!
- Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pray for us!
- O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you!
- All the angels and saints, Intercede for us!

Ø HYMN TO SISTER ZOUNGOULA
O Sister Zoungoula, our dear patroness,
Be our protector forever.
O black flower beloved of Almighty God,
Obtain humility from the Lord.
1- For the love of our God,
You gave your life for your brothers. 
You kept them sleepy sick,
you gave your life for your brothers.
2- Your example inspires us on the life of Christ
on the cross, calm and gentle in suffering,
obedient unto death.

Ø End of the rosary and prayer
Our prayer is over, we thank all those who assisted us. We love you, we bless you. Keep us, protect us. Amen.

                                  In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

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