Why do Catholics start and end their prayers with" in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit," in contrast to “in Jesus name we pray” which is what we Baptists usually say. (or something similar.)
We prayer through Jesus name because Jesus is our mediator.
John 14:13-14
13Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do.
Not that I find anything at all wrong with it, I was just wondering why you pray in the name of the Trinity?
Thanks,
RyanL’s Wife
Fathers of the Early Church say?
Tertullian (DeCorona (the Crown) Chapter 3. Ca 240); At the beginning and the course of any work, on coming in and going out when we dress, when we go to bed, and everything we do, we make the
Sign of the Cross on the forehead."
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
INSTRUCTIONS TO CATECHUMENS
[Translated by Rev. W. R. W. Stephens, M.A., Prebendary of Chichester, and Rector of Woolbeding, Sussex. Assisted by Rev. T. P. Brandram, M.A., Rector of Rumboldswhyke, Chichester.]
FIRST INSTRUCTION.
This shall be a staff to thee, this thine armor, this an impregnable fortress, and accompany this word with the
sign of the cross on thy forehead.
ST. GREGORY OF NYSSA
AGAINST EUNOMIUS
[Translated by the Rev. William Moore, M.A., Rector of Appleton, Late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.] Book XI
and if among these
customs is the sign of the cross(9),
ST. ATHANASIUS
LIFE OF ANTONY [Translated by Rev. H. Ellershaw, M.A.]
And having said this he called upon Christ, and signed the sufferers two or three times with the sign of the Cross. And immediately the men stood up whole, and in their right mind, and forthwith gave thanks unto the Lord. And the philosophers, as they are called, wondered, and were astonished exceedingly at the understanding of the man and at the sign which had been wrought.
ST. AUGUSTINE
LETTERS LETTER CLVIII. (A.D. 414.)
[Translated by The Rev. J. G. Cunningham, M.A., Vicar of St. Mark’s West Hackney; and sometime clerical secretary of the Bishop of London’s Fund.]
At the last, when dissolution was just coming upon him, he began to** make the sign of the cross on his forehead,** and in finishing this his hand was moving down to his mouth, which also he wished to mark with the same sign,
ST. AUGUSTINE
TEN HOMILIES ON THE FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN TRANSLATED BY REV. H. BROWNE, M.A., CANON OF WALTHAM AND PRINCIPAL OF THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN COLLEGE, REVISED, WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES, BY REV. JOSEPH H. MYERS, D.D.
HOMILY V.
Let them
all sign themselves with the sign of the cross of Christ; let them all respond, Amen; let all sing Alleluia; let all be baptized, let all come to church
ST. AUGUSTINE
LECTURES OR TRACTATES ON THE
GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN
TRACTATE CXVIII. CHAPTER XIX. 23, 24.
what else is the sign of Christ but the cross of Christ? For unless that
sign be applied, whether it be to the foreheads of believers, or to the very water out of which they are regenerated, or to the oil with which they receive the anointing chrism, or to the sacrifice that nourishes them, none of them is properly administered.
ST. JEROME
THE LIFE OF SAINT HILARION
He understood that the demons were disporting themselves, and falling on his knees he **made the sign of the cross on his forehead. **
**St Cyril Bishop of Jerusalem (**d. 386) writes (Catech 13; “let us
make the sign of the cross with trust in its power. it is the great means of protection, a sign for believers and a dread to evil spirits.”-
St Cyril Bishop of Jerusalem
PROCATECHESIS, OR, PROLOGUE TO THE CATECHETICAL LECTURES OF OUR HOLY FATHER, CYRIL, ARCHBISHOP OF JERUSALEM.
LECTURE IV
ON THE TEN(1) POINTS OF DOCTRINE.
COLOSSIANS ii. 8.
14. Let us, therefore, not be ashamed of the
Cross of Christ; but though another hide it, do thou **openly seal it upon thy forehead, **that the devils may behold the royal sign and flee trembling far away(2). **Make then this sign **at eating and drinking, at sitting, at lying down, at rising up, at speaking, at walking: in a word, at every act(3).
i wonder why is they believe in the trinity?
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be Adored, Glorified, Loved & Preserved throughout the world, now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, please pray for me. Saint Jude, Worker of Miracles, please pray for me. Saint Jude, Helper of the Hopeless, please pray for me. Amen