Hey I forgot about this thread. You never answered me. What apparitions do you accept? Which ones have you found personally beneficial?
That really isn't relevant to your claim in 158 and my denial of it, but if you insist, I do happen to believe that Mary appeared at Fatima (with the provisio that the recordings of her words by the children seem to have suffered from corrupted memory at some points, e.g., the prediction of the end of WWI) and also at Knock and I extend a pious and provisional belief to Akita, Lourdes, the apparition of Christ to St. Thomas: "You have written well of Me", and others, excepting however La Salette which I find rather dubious due to later history of the same. But I reject all those rejected by the Church and also Medjugorje which is a total fraud as Michael Davies has proven. As for prayers (how exactly is this relevant??) I use Our Lady of Fatima's addition to the Rosary but no others come to mind.