Favorite Prayers

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Does anyone have any favorite prayers or saints they like to pray to?

Lately, I’ve been feeling especially connected to our Blessed Mother Mary, and have been praying with her a lot!

Does anyone have any “go to” prayers?
 
Grant me grace, O merciful God,
to desire ardently all that is pleasing to You,
to examine it prudently,
to acknowledge it truthfully, and
to accomplish it perfectly,
for the praise and glory of Your Name.
Amen.
(St. Thomas Aquinas)
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Thomas incorporates his understanding so meaningfully into his prayers. He is asking for Grace (infusion of Faith, Hope, and Charity) from his merciful God. For what purpose? To know what his true Friend God would find pleasing (which you try to find out about anyone you love). Then, when he knows what will please his Love, he asks to fully understand it, to accept it, and to do it. The result, he has pleased his Love, his Friend, God. And he will sing praises at having understood and given himself to his Love, his Friend, his God.
 
Of course! The Rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy are tops on my list. Throughout the day I find myself praying the Acts which the Sisters taught me back in grade school: The Act of Faith, the Act of Hope, the Act of Love, and (too often) the Act of Contrition. The Memorare is another favorite, as is the Morning Offering. At times of quiet prayer, I say the Jesus Prayer, and it comes to mind often throughout the day as well .
 
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Prayer

You are wisdom, uncreated and eternal,
the supreme first cause, above all being,
sovereign Godhead, sovereign goodness,
watching unseen the God-inspired wisdom of Christian people.
Raise us, we pray, that we may totally respond to the supreme, unknown, ultimate,
and splendid height of your words, mysterious and inspired.
There all God’s secret matters lie covered and hidden
under darkness both profound and brilliant, silent and wise.
You make what is ultimate and beyond brightness secretly to shine in all that is most dark.
In your way, ever unseen and intangible, you fill to the full with most beautiful splendor
those souls who close their eyes that they may see.
And I, please,
with love that goes on beyond mind to all that is beyond mind,
seek to gain such for myself through this prayer.
Amen.

St. Denis, From The Cloud of Unknowing, 14th century**
 
Two favorites:

Psalm 73 (a few of the later verses)

21 And so when my heart grew embittered
and when I was cut to the quick,
22 I was stupid and did not understand,
no better than a beast in your sight.

23 Yet I was always in your presence;
you were holding me by my right hand.
24 **You will guide me by your counsel
and so you will lead me to glory.
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25 What else have I in heaven but you?
Apart from you I want nothing on earth.
26 My body and my heart faint for joy;
God is my possession for ever.

27 All those who abandon you shall perish;
you will destroy all those who are faithless.
28 To be near God is my happiness.
I have made the Lord God my refuge.

Prayer to Mary Undoer of Knots

Virgin Mary, Mother of fair love, Mother who never refuses to come to the aid of a child in need, Mother whose hands never cease to serve your beloved children because they are moved by the divine love and immense mercy that exists in your heart, cast your compassionate eyes upon me and see the snarl of knots that exist in my life.
You know very well how desperate I am, my pain and how I am bound by these knots.
Mary, Mother to whom God entrusted the undoing of the knots in the lives of his children, I entrust into your hands the ribbon of my life.
No one, not even the evil one himself, can take it away from your precious care. In your hands there is no knot that cannot be undone.
Powerful Mother, by your grace and intercessory power with Your Son and My Liberator, Jesus, take into your hands today this knot…I beg you to undo it for the glory of God, once for all, You are my hope.
O my Lady, you are the only consolation God gives me, the fortification of my feeble strength, the enrichment of my destitution and with Christ the freedom from my chains.
Hear my plea.
Keep me, guide me, protect me, o safe refuge!

Mary, Undoer of Knots, pray for me
 
I used this Pray before serving

Almighty and ever-living God,
I approach the sacrament
of Your only-begotten Son
Our Lord Jesus Christ,
I come sick to the doctor of life,
unclean to the fountain of mercy,
blind to the radiance of eternal light,
and poor and needy to the Lord
of heaven and earth.
Lord, in your great generosity,
heal my sickness,
wash away my defilement,
enlighten my blindness, enrich my poverty,
and clothe my nakedness.
May I receive the bread of angels,
the King of kings and Lord of lords,
with humble reverence,
with the purity and faith,
the repentance and love,
and the determined purpose
that will help to bring me to salvation.
May I receive the sacrament
of the Lord’s Body and Blood,
and its reality and power.

Kind God,
may I receive the Body
of Your only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
born from the womb of the Virgin Mary,
and so be received into His mystical body
and numbered among His members.

Loving Father,
as on my earthly pilgrimage
I now receive Your beloved Son
under the veil of a sacrament,
may I one day see him face to face in glory,
who lives and reigns with You for ever.

Amen.
  • Saint Thomas Aquinas
 
I’ve always thought the “Hail Mary” was a beautiful prayer. I would have to say this one, and the “Oh My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy,” and “Hail Holy Queen.”
 
Crown_of_Stars said:
I’ve always thought the “Hail Mary” was a beautiful prayer. I would have to say this one, and the “Oh My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy,” and “Hail Holy Queen.”
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Oh yes! I love the Fatima prayer and the Hail Mary both so much!!! :extrahappy:

They’re both so beautiful, and can be squeezed in when there’s just a few seconds before my next class comes in… Thanks be to God!!

Gertie
 
eatpraylove11 said:
Does anyone have any favorite prayers or saints they like to pray to?

Lately, I’ve been feeling especially connected to our Blessed Mother Mary, and have been praying with her a lot!

Does anyone have any “go to” prayers?
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Prayer to the Shoulder Wound of Jesus

It is related in the annals of Clairvaux that St. Bernard asked Our Lord which was His greatest unrecorded suffering and Our Lord answered: “I had on My Shoulder, while I bore My Cross on the Way of Sorrows, a grievous Wound, which was more painful than the others and which is not recorded by men. Honor this Wound with thy devotion and I will grant thee whatsoever thou dost ask through Its virtue and merit. And in regard to all those who shall venerate this Wound, I will remit to them all their venial sins and will no longer remember their mortal sins.”

The Prayer
O Loving Jesus, meek Lamb of God, I a miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of Thy Shoulder on which Thou didst bear Thy heavy Cross, which so tore Thy Flesh and laid bare Thy Bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any other Wound of Thy Most Blessed Body. I adore Thee, O Jesus most sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee and give Thee thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross to be merciful to me, a sinner, to forgive me all my mortal and venial sins, and to lead me on towards Heaven along the Way of Thy Cross. Amen.

Imprimatur: Thomas D. Beven, Bishop of Springfield, Ma.

Pope Eugenius III, at the earnest request of St. Bernard, has granted three thousand years Indulgence to all who with a contrite heart, recite the Lord’s Prayer and Hail Mary 3 times, in honor of the Wound on the Shoulder of Our Blessed Redeemer.
brizek.com/prayer/pieta.htm#shwound
 
The Memorare

Remember,
O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known that any one who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help or sought thy intercession,
was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence,
I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins my Mother;
to thee do I come,
before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful;
O Mother of thy Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy clemency hear and answer me.
Amen
 
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The Memorare

Remember,
O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known that any one who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help or sought thy intercession,
was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence,
I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins my Mother;
to thee do I come,
before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful;
O Mother of thy Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy clemency hear and answer me.
Amen
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This is one of my favorites too!
 
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