In learning how to say the Rosary we are learning how to “imitate what they [the mysteries] contain and obtain what they promise,” as we say in the final prayer below. We pray for strength and wisdom and for the graces the Rosary can give us and others. (By the way, if the word...
the novena should include praying the rosary each day. Additionally, she requested each mystery or decade of the Rosary end with the prayer: ‘O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most...
And those who have the power to sate those passions will rule you as well. Parents (rightly) use access to pleasures to control their children (e.g., "No TV for you tonight, young man!"), and pimps use heroin to keep "their" women compliant and on the streets; now think of how ...
pray constant Novenas for this cause or that -- but if you don't have charity, you have nothing. I Corinthians 13:1-2 spells this out as plainly as it could be put: "If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass...
1Place the beads in your dominant hand Place the beads in your dominant hand. 2Hold the cross Hold the cross and say your first prayer. After the first prayer has been said, move on to the invitatory bead. 3Hold the invitatory bead section ...
novena Palm Sunday Passion of the Lord Patience Pentecost Pope Benedict XVI Praise prayer Precious Blood of Jesus Presentation at the Temple Priesthood Pro-Life Purgatory Rosary sacraments Sacred Heart of Jesus Saints Scripture Second Coming of Christ ...
Asking over and over and over again is not having much Faith in power of the spoken word to God. You ask once and from there on out you are sitting in gratitude and thanksgiving.
God always seeks to draw good out of everything, and He can draw good even out of evil, if we let Him. An excellent example of how God draws good out of evil is the Passion and Death of Jesus Himself. The Gospel of John says that at the last supper Satan entered Judas and he th...
Timothy, have had to deal with certain ailments in their lives and are good to call on for healing such illnesses. St Timothy is good to call on for digestive issues, so burning a candle and doing a novena (a 9 day prayer sequence) to ask for his intercession is one way to work ...
Anise: While Paul was away at the conference, I started a novena to St. Joseph. When he returned, we went for a walk, and he revealed to me that he had serious questions about his church. The sermons were shallow, and he often felt embarrassed at the sheer rubbish that was coming fr...