RE: Can they say a Prayer centered on Christ Jesus apart from mentiong someone departed?
It never ceases to amaze me the level of theological ignorance and lack of intellectual rigor displayed by some folks who claim the mantle of Christian. Someone somewhere tells them that Catholics only pray to Mary and they lap it up like a bee on a nectar farm.
http://www.mycatholicsource.com/mcs/pr/prayers_and_hymns_Jesus.htm
RE: Can they say a Prayer centered on Christ Jesus apart from mentiong someone departed?
For your mercies’ sake, O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul: “I am your salvation.” So speak that I may hear, O Lord; my heart is listening; open it that it may hear you, and say to my soul: “I am your salvation.” After hearing this word, may I come in haste to take hold of you. Hide not your face from me. Let me see your face even if I die, lest I die with longing to see it. The house of my soul is too small to receive you; let it be enlarged by uou. It is all in ruins; do you repair it. There are thing in it - I confess and I know - that must offend your sight. But who shall cleanse it? Or to what others besides you shall I cry out? From my secret sins cleanse me, O Lord, and from those of others spare your servant.
Amen.
Saint Augustine of Hippo