Our Blessed Mother, Intercessory Prayer Our ministry is consecrated to Our Blessed Mother. We believe that she is the perfect model of motherhood. Each of our Catholic mothers groups is asked to pray for the intentions of their own group, but also the intentions of all groups in our ministry...
social supportwell-beingThis article examines intercessory prayer, specifically, petitions to the divine as they are performed in Mass and in prayer groups at a Catholic convent in the midwestern United States. It demonstrates that these petitions function on multiple levels. Petitions are designed ...
Jesus himself warned us not to offend small children, because their guardian angels have guaranteed intercessory access to the Father: “See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven” (...
Miraculous Medal Prayer Prayer to the Holy Spirit The Angelus Regina Coeli Spiritual Communion Prayer Prayer Before Mass (by Saint Thomas Aquinas) Prayer After Communion (by Saint Thomas Aquinas) Anima Christi Intercessory Prayer After Communion Prayer After Mass (by Saint Ignatius of Loyola) First ...
(Acts 5:1-11;1 Cor. 5:5;11:30). No intercessory prayer will be effective for those who have committed such deliberate high-handed sin…The contrast to the phrase ‘there is sin leading to death’ with ‘there is sin not leading to death’ signifies that the writer distinguishes between...
Regarding St. Maximilian and retaining the memory of his death, perhaps he should be the patron saint of death row inmates. Even though he committed no crime deserving of death (just like Jesus!), those on death row need all the intercessory help they can get so that they can receive the...
“Prayer to St. Anthony for Lost Things” are not forms of worship to a god but simple requests for intercessory prayer. Protestant Christians ask their friends on earth to pray for them, but Catholic, Armenian, Copt, and Orthodox Christians also ask their friends in heaven, the saints, to...
“The Mass and Real Presence are parts of one; the veneration of Saints and their relics are part of one; their intercessory power, and the Purgatorial State, and again the Mass and that State are correlative…. You must accept the whole or reject the whole; rejection does but enfeeble,...
The mass consists of two principal rites: theliturgy of the Wordand theliturgy of the Eucharist. The first includes readings fromscripture, the homily (sermon), and intercessoryprayer. The second includes the offering and the presentation of bread and wine at thealtar, theirconsecrationby thepries...
Indeed, the canonization of saints requires the verification of miracles attributable to the intercessory power of certain deceased “servants of God”. How these holy persons acquired their charisms is left as a great unanswered question, because “by the grace of God” is a response that only ...