Guardian Angel Prayer Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen. Prayer of Surrender Lord Jesus Christ, take all my freedom, my understanding, and my will. All that I have and che...
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit. Healing Prayer of Isaiah 53 Precious Lord...
Cast out fear by loving and hugging each other. I took heart to this bold display of courage. One of the darkest times of his life was wrapped in a message of love. Just as the advent candle is lit each week, reminding us of Jesus’ light, this father crowds out the darkness with ...
We see in it also an answer to prayer, and an act of the power of God. It has once more saved the head and centre of Christianity from outrage and sacrilege ; and they who gave their lives in the defence of Christianity may be numbered with the martyrs. But over that field of ...
This physical salvation is sought either by prayer, sacrifice, and certain other ceremonies rendered to the spirit of the fetish or to no calized‚Ä¢spirits, or by the u e1′ charm or amulets. These charms may be material, i.e. fetishes; vocal, e.g. utterances of cabbalistic ...
Movies like 1973's The Exorcist highlight the use of holy water, prayer, and even reason to drive out a nefarious force, all as the epic battle between good and evil plays out in front of viewers’ eyes. But … is that accurate? 对大多数人来说,“驱魔”这个词可能让人联想到天主教...
“For both to prophesy and to cast out devils, and to do great acts upon the earth is certainly a sublime and an admirable thing; but one does not attain the kingdom of heaven although he is found in all these things, unless he walks in the observance of the right and just way. Th...
Exorcisms are a frequent fascination for the film industry, and it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. But the idea of purging evil—whatever its form—has roots that straddle the line between A.D. and B.C.
“St. Francis Borgia says that prayer introduces the love of God into the soul, but mortification prepares a place for it, by banishing from the heart earthly affections – the most powerful obstacles to charity… ‘Prayer without mortification,’ says Father Balthasar Alvarez, ‘is either an ...
"Humanity has not accepted my motherly request to return to the Lord along the road of conversion of the heart and of the life, of prayer and of penance. Thus, it has known the terrible years of the Second World War, which brought about tens of millions of deaths. "Wars have ...