Ejaculatory prayers

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FatherOfTwelve said:
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An ejaculatory prayer is a short prayer, usually just one sentence, which can be said at any time.

My favorites are the prayer revealed by our Lord to Sister Consolata Betrone: “Jesus, Mary, I love You! Save souls!”;

And a prayer taught by the angel at Fatima to the three children: “My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love Thee! I beg pardon for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not trust and do not love Thee.”
 
louisak said:
An ejaculatory prayer is a short prayer, usually just one sentence, which can be said at any time.

My favorites are the prayer revealed by our Lord to Sister Consolata Betrone: “Jesus, Mary, I love You! Save souls!”;

And a prayer taught by the angel at Fatima to the three children: “My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love Thee! I beg pardon for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not trust and do not love Thee.”
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The book “Jesus appeals to the world” shows us a beautiful way to live in the continuous act of love - A little way for all souls.

JESUS, MARY,I LOVE YOU! SAVE SOULS!
Sr. Consolata, pray for us
 
Well, a priest taught me this in confession when I’m plagued with my intrusive thoughts and doubts “Jesus Christ, Son of the Almighty God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Sometimes I find myself saying “My soul belongs to God.” throughout the day over and over…
 
the one i seem to say several times each day is "Oh Dear Lord, please forgive me for what i just said (or just did, or just thought).😊
 
“Blessed be the name of the Lord” whenever His name is taken in vain.

Too bad Catholics nowadays don’t even know what “ejaculatory prayers” are. Another fatality chalked up to the Spirit of Vatican II. Add that loss to “Forty Hours Devotions, Rogation Days, Septuagesima, Ember Days, and Introits/Graduals/Proper Antiphons”, and you see the slow dissolving of Catholic customs that have helped form centuries of Catholic culture.
 
Windmill said:
“Blessed be the name of the Lord” whenever His name is taken in vain.

Too bad Catholics nowadays don’t even know what “ejaculatory prayers” are. Another fatality chalked up to the Spirit of Vatican II. Add that loss to “Forty Hours Devotions, Rogation Days, Septuagesima, Ember Days, and Introits/Graduals/Proper Antiphons”, and you see the slow dissolving of Catholic customs that have helped form centuries of Catholic culture.
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I think it’s more a case of not knowing the term “ejaculatory prayer”. That doesn’t mean that most Catholics nowadays don’t have any or don’t do them, we just maybe didn’t know that was the official term for them. Do try your best to not be too condescending to “today’s” Catholics. Some of us weren’t around pre-Vatican. 🤷

I too say “Blessed be Your name, oh Lord” whenever I hear someone take His name in vain.
 
I often say “O Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee” and “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.” I also find myself saying “I love God” at times as well.
Ophelia23 said:
I too say “Blessed be Your name, oh Lord” whenever I hear someone take His name in vain.
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I should start doing this when I hear His Name taken in vain. 🙂
 
When driving down the street, I use a variation of St. Faustina’s prayers - " Oh blood and water which gushed from the Heart of Jesus, as a font of mercy for us, I turst in you - for that soul- (whomever I see walking on the side walk.)
 
Nimzovik said:
When driving down the street, I use a variation of St. Faustina’s prayers - " Oh blood and water which gushed from the Heart of Jesus, as a font of mercy for us, I turst in you - for that soul- (whomever I see walking on the side walk.)
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Oooh I like this!! I often use that same prayer when I hear of someone passing. But literally just passing them on the street—I’ll have to employ it more often! 👍
 
My favorite is “Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart unto Thine.”

I also remember a few other ones from an ancient prayer book (printed in the '40s). I discovered it when I was as a child and I couldn’t understand the meaning of “300 days each time, Leo XIII” or “100 days once a day, Pius IX” - the old indulgences usually attached to most ejaculatory prayers.
What I remember from that prayer book:
“Sweetest Jesus, be not my Judge, but my Saviour.”
“Blessed and praised every moment be the most holy and Divine Sacrament.”
“O Jesus, my God, I love Thee above all things.”
“O Mary, thou didst enter the world without stain, do thou obtain for me from God that I may leave it without sin.”

I also like a Rosary for the Poor Souls that consists entirely of such ejaculatory prayers. I have it on a file, but I don’t remember the link to the original source (surely a Trad. site), so here it is, with the obsolete indulgences included:

THE ROSARY FOR THE POOR SOULS

On the Cross: De Profundis or Pater and Ave.

On the Large Beads: V. Eternal rest give to them, O Lord. R. And let perpetual light shine upon them.

Act of Faith: My God, I believe in Thee, because Thou art Truth itself.

Act of Hope: My God, I hope in Thee because Thou art infinitely good.

Act of Charity: My God, I love Thee with my whole heart and above all things, because Thou art infinitely perfect.

(7 years and 7 quartines each time. Benedict XIV., Jan 28, 1756. Plenary, once a month, if said every day. Benedict XIII., Jan. 15, 1728.)
(Plenary, In articulo mortis—at the point of death—if frequently used during life. Benedict XIV., Jan 28, 1756.)

On the Small Beads: Sweet Heart of Jesus, be my love.

(300 days once a day. Leo XIII., May 21, . 1892.)

Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation.

(300 days each time. Pius IX., Sept. 30, 1852. Plenary, once a month.)

At the end: Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine.

(300 days eaclt time. Pius IX., Pro Ma. Jan. 25, 1868; Pius X., Sept. 15, 1905.)

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, pray for us.

(100 days each time. Pius X., Br. July 9, 1904.)

St. Joseph, model and patron of those who love the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

(100 days once a day. Leo XIII., Dec. 19, 1891.)
 
Ophelia23 said:
I think it’s more a case of not knowing the term “ejaculatory prayer”. That doesn’t mean that most Catholics nowadays don’t have any or don’t do them, we just maybe didn’t know that was the official term for them. Do try your best to not be too condescending to “today’s” Catholics. Some of us weren’t around pre-Vatican. 🤷

I too say “Blessed be Your name, oh Lord” whenever I hear someone take His name in vain.
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I don’t mean to be condescending at all. I was born in '74, so I was not around when all the changes and excisions to Catholic life were made.

My sadness is for the lost Catholic culture which my children (and myself included) will never really know. Those things that our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc… knew all their lives as “living a Catholic life” are now gone, and we are foolish to think they will magically reappear when you now have a whole generation who has not known anything other than mainstream, post-concilliar Catholic life. These customs and practices listed above are but the tip of the iceberg, and these customs enshrined doctrines of our faith and made them concrete in the lives of Catholics - not just theories or ideas, but realities. When those customs were swept away, was it any surprise that the dogmas were easily torn down as well.

I do my best to teach my kids the Faith, and to try to re-inject traditional teaching, practices, and reverences into our local parish life (e.g.: I started a men’s Gregorian chant group in our deanery to sing Latin chants and renaissance polyphony at Masses, and I try to help out with altar servers and Perpetual adoration), but there are just so many things that only 50 years ago, every Catholic would know of that today’s Catholics would never have even heard of.

It’s not arrogance - it’s genuine lament. But God is still with His Church and His Vicar.
 
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