Dear Lord,

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So many of us here on CAF have so many pressing needs, anxieties, concerns that weigh on us and press in on all sides.

We gather together as a prayer community and pray for each other. Help us to carry our crosses; guide us with Your love; strengthen us in our desires to serve You better by serving each other.

We may not know each other in real life. We most likely would pass each other by on the street without realizing we were passing an internet friend.

But we love each other. We pray for each other. May You touch our hearts to know that we are not alone. That others care and are praying for us.

All Glory and honor is Yours, God.

Glory be to the Father
And to the Son
And to the Holy Spirit.

Amen
 
That’s lovely! Amen!
It reminded me also of my own kind of prayer thing I wrote a few years ago.
It apples to those who as you say we pass in the street, but also to those whom we pass by here in CAF

Worlds passing by

You pass me by. I catch your eye for an instant.
If introduced, we exchange light courtesies?
Perhaps our communication shall never grow deeper
and we may on earth never feel close?
Perhaps not meet again?

For we are strangers. Or that vague thing, acquaintances,
or friends who never guess how little each really knows the other.
Or for a brief while we have in deep fraternity recognised each other
until, perhaps, darkness closes over the moment
and we are again strangers!

In me, you see, perhaps–another of many persons—
ordinary, irrelevant or for the moment, useful or demanding?
I, observing you may feel the same?
Yet I know you for a world,
a universe within!

To God, you are precious, unique, and beloved!
beheld through Jesus crucified and risen…you, like me, God’s child!
How profoundly we should care!
Yet we are often afraid and untrusting
even with our own best loved.

I feel for you a gentleness that you cannot suspect–
though through circumstance or mutual limitation,
there may exist no effective human link between us.
I turn to God confused, and plead to love and serve you.

“Behold this person, Lord, created in image of Your Son
and intended for harmonious union with me in You–
as with numerous other souls, worlds–mysterious, complex, rich.
Beautiful. Yet wounded in the reality and knowledge of his frailty.

In him/her–all beauty, all gift and good–
concealed within, without revealed–is You.
Receive then as Yours that gift-of-Your-life-and-love in this person
offered to You as my prayer for him in faith.

Accept him at my hands through the Person of Christ
in Whom You are Father and all humankind is brother, sister.
Draw this person nearer for Your love for him in me,
in this, the moment of my caring!”
Still strangers, we are thus in secret united, through Your love and prayer our God.

You know, and Your knowledge of our kinship embraces me
As Your compassion and grace flows into the being for whom I pray.
“For this renewing surge of healing and creation
in the soul of my sister or my brother,
I thank You, Lord our God and Father!”
 
Marie5890 said:
So many of us here on CAF have so many pressing needs, anxieties, concerns that weigh on us and press in on all sides.

We gather together as a prayer community and pray for each other. Help us to carry our crosses; guide us with Your love; strengthen us in our desires to serve You better by serving each other.

We may not know each other in real life. We most likely would pass each other by on the street without realizing we were passing an internet friend.

But we love each other. We pray for each other. May You touch our hearts to know that we are not alone. That others care and are praying for us.

All Glory and honor is Yours, God.

Glory be to the Father
And to the Son
And to the Holy Spirit.

Amen
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Amen.
 
Hail Mary, full of grace.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
Hail Mary, full of grace.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
Holy Mother Mary please intercede for us and may God hear our prayers

Hail Mary, full of grace.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
Dear Lord, look down on all of us CAF members, bless us, protect us and lead us to your everlasting light, an Our Father, Hail Mary, a Glory Be and a Fatima Prayer.
 
Hail Mary, full of grace.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee;
blessed art thou amongst women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
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