Prayer
To Your
Guardian
Angel
| 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, Rule and guide. Amen.
- from the Catechism of the Catholic Church; 336. |
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Posted on 09/01/2012 7:05:48 AM PDT by Mad Dawg
Clearly we need to seek, to beg God's help in the coming election. I invite all to join in a "Novena" -- a LONG one -- with just such an intention.
If you start on 9/11 (!) and pray for 56 days, you end the day before election day.
If you start on 9/13 and pray for 54 days... you do the math. :-)
I am asking us to consider ADDING something to our daily prayers. I know you all are busy and I suspect many of you spend a good deal of time in prayer anyway. I do not seek to bind burdens on anyone's back. Though prayer sometimes involves teeth-gritting, that should not be the main theme! The main themes should always be hope, joy, and gratitude, IMHO.
But the prayer of a just man avails much, and we are justified in Jesus! So let us pray! Please consider adding ONE thing -- an act of charity and mercy, a little extra time in prayer and/or with Scripture, maybe a little fast -- or a even little extra physical exercise! But add just one thing to the Glory of our loving God and with a petition that He do HIS will in the coming election.
[Boring technical stuff for non-Catholics. The term "novena" refers to a period of prayer. It derives from, so to speak, riffing on the nine days of prayer between the Ascension and the Pentecost. Hence the name, which pretty much means "niney-thing" -- Mad Dawg translation.
[ Not so long ago, in our tradition, somebody was instructed to pray a novena of 6 novenas -- 3 of petition and 3 of thanksgiving. Good stuff ensued. Thus arose the 54 day novena. With JPII's change of the Rosary, a figure divisible by four is tidier for those who pray the Rosary. Hence my suggestion of 56 days.]
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Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. |
"O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor? Or who has given a gift to Him that He might be repaid? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory for ever. Amen."
- Romans 11:33-36.
Amen and prayers going up for you.
Thank you and thank all for your prayers.
I think I may actually write this speech out. (I usually work from an outline in my head, but I have set myself a complicated rhetorical task, weaving together the “Days of Awe,” and harvest time.) IF I do, I will post it.
Rosary done for today (always a long day on Wednesdays). Thanks again for this thread, Mad Dawg....will send prayers your way for the speech. The Holy Spirit will give you both words and passion (though I suspect you already have the passion for such a talk).
;-)
Please do
I hope you DO share this with us. :-)
(Rosary done for today.)
On this memorial of the Martyrs of Korea I have a kind of bi-polar thing going on. Maybe multi-polar?
I’m SO grateful, to the point of awe, at the wonderful way God grows his body. “For the blood is the life,” and through blood willingly given life is spread.
I’m so terrified that God will ask the same of me. And ashamed that all he challenges me with is insomnia and the cold first winds of the complaints of age. And my response is, uh, what we technically call “mitching and boaning.”
But finally I come to “the Psalmist” who says that unless God builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. And the same Psalmist asks God to prosper the work of our hands.
Lord,
Give me the grace to step away from my fear, sloth, and despair. Make me one of your hands, and then prosper YOUR handiwork in me.
Then your name will be magnified in all the earth and from the mouths of infants will issue praise.
Through him into whose body I am grafted by blood and grace, even IHS XP, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God in glory everlasting.
Prayer
To Your
Guardian
Angel
| 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, Rule and guide. Amen.
- from the Catechism of the Catholic Church; 336. |
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Troo dat!
Done for today. Have a blessed weekend all!
On a lighter note ...
Today is the feast of St. Matthew, tax-collector and evangelist.
If our Lord can call a tax-collecter to holiness, there’s hope for the rest of us.
Just sayin’.
Amen
Gang,
I’ve hit the part of the battle where it’s a matter of taking one step at a time. I’m not complaining exactly, but just saying I’m a little short of breath here.
So let’s take the next step. One more appeal for our blessed Mother’s prayers, one more pleading of our Lord’s Passion. If we just take the next step ...
I’m taking the step with you Mad Dawg and all my brothers and sisters in Christ. HE will give us the grace to step up...again ....and again. HIS WLL be done!
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