![]() ![]() The original intention was to provide British agents and policymakers in the Gulf, India and London with 'a convenient and portable handbook to the places and interests with which they are likely to be concerned'. " The Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia was compiled by officials of the British Government of India during the decade after Lord Curzon's Vice-regal tour of the Gulf in 1903. He was later found lying on the floor, dead, at the age of forty-three, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound." 2 and the Gazetteer will amply justify the amount of time and labour spent on it´." 1 "On the morning of Sunday 8 February 1914, John Gordon Lorimer, the officiating British Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, retired to his dressing room to ascertain the exact calibre of his automatic pistol as he wished to order cartridges from Bombay. The Government of India acceded to his requests with a far-sightedness for which historians should be grateful, noting that Lorimer´s ´zeal and industry have enabled him to accumulate a mass of fresh information. For the next ten years, aided by a small group of equally dedicated researchers, he worked systematically through the government archives in Bombay and Calcutta, carried out field trips and surveys in the Gulf and repeatedly petitioned the Government of India to extend his appointment in order to allow him to complete the work thoroughly. Lorimer was a conscientious worker with an obsessive appetite for detail. In November 1903 he was placed on special duty for a period of six months to compile the Gulf handbook. May we humbly ask his will.John Gordon Lorimer, was an official of the Indian Civil Service, most of whose career had been on the North West Frontier. Help us not to become bitter if God has not rewarded us as we think we deserve. Glorious St Rita, you did everything God asked of you, but he didn’t give you your heart’s desire. Relying then upon thy merits before the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we pray thee obtain for us our request. We ask you to intercede anywhere in our lives where there is discord and hatred, and for all families affected by animosity. Glorious St Rita, you brokered peace between your husband’s family and the family of his murderer. Help all mothers, fathers and guardians of difficult children and teenagers to pray for them, and to entrust them to God’s providence and mercy. Glorious St Rita, you wanted the best for your sons even if it meant their death. We pray for all those fleeing from or experiencing domestic violence. Glorious St Rita, you lived for many years with a difficult husband at a time when there was no escape. Pray for us, O holy Saint Rita, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. ![]() We honor thy perfect union with the Divine Will, thy heroic sufferings during thy married life, the consolation thou didst experience at the conversion of thy husband, the sacrifice of thy children rather than see them grievously offend God, thy miraculous entrance into the convent, thy severe penances and thrice daily bloody scourgings, thy suffering caused by the wound thou didst receive from the thorn of thy Crucified Saviour, thy divine love which consumed thy heart, that remarkable devotion to the Blessed Sacrament on which alone thou didst exist for four years, the happiness with which thou didst part from thy trials to join thy Divine Spouse, the perfect example thou gavest to people of every state of life. We pray especially for (add your intention). We pray for those whose hopes have been frustrated. Glorious St Rita, you wanted to enter the convent but your parents arranged a marriage for you. Saint Rita, so humble, so pure, so mortified, so patient and of compassionate love for thy Crucified Jesus that thou couldst obtain from him whatsoever thou askest, on account of which all confidently have recourse to thee, expecting, if not always relief, at least comfort be propitious to our petition, showing thy power with God on behalf of thy suppliant be lavish to us, as thou hast been in so many wonderful cases, for the greater glory of God, for the spreading of thine own devotion, and for the consolation of those who trust in thee. O Holy Patroness of those in need, Saint Rita, whose pleadings before thy Divine Lord are almost irresistible, who for thy lavishness in granting favors hast been called the Advocate of the hopeless and even of the Impossible. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. □ Pray the St Rita of Cascia Novena - Powerful Prayer for Impossible Causes with the Pray app
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