Pray to whom?

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I don’t know whether or not anyone here know the answer to this. Jesus always prayed to the Father. Now with the establishment of the Church the Holy spirit watches over things. When we pray should it be to the Father or Holy Spirit? Maybe one and not the other depending on the circumstances? 🤷 I personally like the Marian going philosophy of going to Mary who goes to Jesus and he goes to the Father.
 
Christian prayer is replete with examples of praying to all three Persons.

Most prayers at Mass and Divine Office (Collects, Secrets, Postcommunions) are addressed to the Father through Christ. And of course, the Lord’s prayer.

Some, however address Christ directly (some Collects, devotional prayers during the Stations of the Cross).

And there are classic prayers directly to the Holy Spirit (Come, Creator Spirit; Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful; Come Holy Spirit, and send your radiant light from heaven")

And of course one can address all three simultaneously: Glory be to the Father, etc.

The three Persons are God, and it is therefore appropriate to direct prayers to any of the Persons, because what is directed to One is directed to all Three.
 
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I don’t know whether or not anyone here know the answer to this. Jesus always prayed to the Father. Now with the establishment of the Church the Holy spirit watches over things. When we pray should it be to the Father or Holy Spirit? Maybe one and not the other depending on the circumstances? 🤷 I personally like the Marian going philosophy of going to Mary who goes to Jesus and he goes to the Father.
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If you pray to the Father,you are praying to the Son ,and visa versa… because they are one in the Trinity.
 
The three persons are the savior and the redeemer and everything that each of the other 2 is, I have read. It’s the protestants that seem to think they’re functions of one God. They’re one Godhead. What exactly is a “Godhead”? Is it a “shared nature”? Is that the way Thomism puts it?

Bill

I really like the opening prayer they used at the Vatican II council. I guess it was from a prayer book. Is this prayer book online?
 
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