A Prayer For All Children and Those In Harm's Way

THE SOUL LEADING
Be this soul on Thine arm, O Christ,
Thou King of the City of Heaven.
Amen.
Since Thou, O Christ, it was who bought'st this soul,
Be its peace on Thine own keeping.
Amen.
And may the strong Michael, high king of the angels,
Be preparing the path before this soul, O God.
Amen.
Oh! the strong Michael in peace with thee, soul,
And preparing for thee the way to the kingdom of the Son
of God.
Amen.

From The Carmina Gadelica

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Prayer to Be Preserved From Dangers

Francis John Bartholomew, a Passionist monk of SS. John and Paul at Rome, a most holy man, who had frequent revelations, once saying Mass, thought of the scourges about to fall on the world - wars, famine, pestilence, etc., when the following prayer was revealed to him, and he was told that whosoever recited it with devotion, would be preserved from all dangers with which the whole world would be visited.

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O Jesus, Divine Redeemer, be merciful to us and to the whole world. Amen.

O Powerful God! O Holy God! O Immortal God! have pity on us, and all who are in the whole world. Amen.

Pardon and mercy, O my Jesus, during these present dangers. Pour on us Thy most Precious Blood. Amen.

O Eternal Father, be merciful to us. By the Blood of Jesus Christ, Thy holy Son, be merciful to us, we beseech Thee. Amen. Amen. Amen.

O God, be appeased by the supplications we address to Thee, and through the intercession of the ever Blessed Virgin Mary, the glorious Saint Joseph, and all the Saints, defend us from all dangers, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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Monks and Mammon

A CEO with NO annual salary, millions in profit, and all the money going for good works. Fabulous!!

I Am the Light of the World

Christ Our Lord, this night bless all pilgrims, sinners, wayfarers, those who love us, those who hate us and all that is. Light our path to do what is of the Light.

"O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small."

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Good Morning, Rise and Shine

I'm headed for church to pray for the whole kit and kaboodle, the good, the bad & the ugly...as the prayer goes ..."for those who hate us and those who love us..."

Have a good day.

DJY

Aligning The Will With God ~ Prayer

We all have known people who always want to pray for us, but in reality, they always want to foist their personal idea of what we should be or do upon us and have the authority of the Almighty as a blanket sanction for bossing and bullying others. This is quite common and gives prayer, indeed it given religion itself a bad name. This sort of "prayer" is nothing short of a kind of black magic or voodoo in which the personal will of the practitioner is spiritually sent out to capture or enforce a certain reality upon others irregardless of what the Holy Ghost has to say about the matter. The recent movie and book fad of The Secret is 100% cut from the cloth of this sort of misapprehension of the power of prayer. I read the darn thing and watched the movie, and then put it away, shaking my head and musing on the eternal gullibility of the human species to ideas promising wealth, utopia, love and happiness upon demand, all through "positive thinking" or "mind control" of whatever black magic nostrum du jour is popular. Ick.

From Vultus Christi, by Father Mark. Be sure to click on over & read it all. Here's a sample:

QUOTE If I pray to have some power over persons, things, or the course of events, my prayer is futile; it is, in some way, an anti-prayer. Prayer is the struggle to let go of every desire to have power over others, over things, and over the course of events. Prayer is adoration of the Divine Will in all its manifestations. UNQUOTE