Prayer for a cranky old man

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Yesterday my daughter and I were returning from enrolling her at college for her freshman year, it was a stressful day. We’d stopped at a restaurant for a glass of tea when she opened the door for an elderly man who immediately began to berate her for charging through the door without looking to see if anyone was coming out the other side. We both tried to tell him that she was holding the door for him not charging through but he was adamant that she would have knocked him over. I saw it happen and she’d opened the door slowly because she didn’t want him to fall as he was reaching for the door. It was a double door and he was going out what would have been the left side for him and the right side for her, so she should have been able to expect him to use the other door if he didn’t want help. She ended up in tears because she has never been impolite to an elderly person in her life and was taught to be kind and hold the door for anybody who needed it. She was embarrassed in public by a bitter man who apparently wanted to teach her a lesson.

I ask you to please pray with me for this man and everyone who lets their anger fly without considering how their words hurt young people. I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have said such things to an adult.

Dear Lord, please help those people who are so hurt and bitter by their life experiences that they cannot recognize the help offered to them by others. Also help those who have had their good works rebuffed harshly that they don’t loose heart and become discouraged but persevere and pray for those who don’t know how to accept kindness.
In Jesus’ name we pray,
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and deliver us from evil. Amen.
 
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Yesterday my daughter and I were returning from enrolling her at college for her freshman year, it was a stressful day. We’d stopped at a restaurant for a glass of tea when she opened the door for an elderly man who immediately began to berate her for charging through the door without looking to see if anyone was coming out the other side. We both tried to tell him that she was holding the door for him not charging through but he was adamant that she would have knocked him over. I saw it happen and she’d opened the door slowly because she didn’t want him to fall as he was reaching for the door. It was a double door and he was going out what would have been the left side for him and the right side for her, so she should have been able to expect him to use the other door if he didn’t want help. She ended up in tears because she has never been impolite to an elderly person in her life and was taught to be kind and hold the door for anybody who needed it. She was embarrassed in public by a bitter man who apparently wanted to teach her a lesson.

I ask you to please pray with me for this man and everyone who lets their anger fly without considering how their words hurt young people. I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have said such things to an adult.

Dear Lord, please help those people who are so hurt and bitter by their life experiences that they cannot recognize the help offered to them by others. Also help those who have had their good works rebuffed harshly that they don’t loose heart and become discouraged but persevere and pray for those who don’t know how to accept kindness.
In Jesus’ name we pray,
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and deliver us from evil. Amen.
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Praying for his intentions.
 
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

Amen.
 
Praying for your intentions. I see this often with my own children. Children are often either chastised for rudeness or competely over looked. I have seen it and my kids have felt bad about it when it has happened. I talk to them and we always say a prayer for the person. I try to point out that they need our prayers and then I try to be extra kind to them for being so thoughtful.

Our Father who art in heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us
Lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
Amen.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
 
Praying. Your daughter sounds like a good person, hope she gets over it soon.
 
Thank you so much, yes she is getting over it, it was hard because she misses her grandpa so much so she goes out of her way to help the elderly. She is concentrating on her county fair projects and getting ready for college in the fall.

Thanks to everyone who prays with me for this man in particular, his wife looked embarrassed at his tirade, and for everyone who does this as a matter of course. Every once in a while we all misunderstand a situation or the motives of someone who performs a kindness but even after she and I explained her actions, he insisted she was trying to knock him down.
 
Dear St. Therese, my Patroness,
in imitation of thy example
teach me to regard all trials and disappointments
as special graces sent by God
to elevate my thoughts and aspirations
above those things that end with time.
Let not the coldness of the world
nor the indifference of creatures embitter me,
but serve only to increase my Love for Jesus,
the One Friend who changes not.
May Love of Jesus inspire every thought,
word and deed of my life,
becoming so wholehearted and intense,
that when earth grows dark and sorrows gather,
all grief will appear as nothing
in the burning Love of my Heart for Him.

Amen

Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
 
I offer this prayer on behalf of the man who berated your daughter.
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Prayer for the Conversion of Sinners.

Lord Jesus Christ, most merciful Savior of the world, we humbly beseech You, by Your most Sacred Heart, that all the sheep who stray out of Your fold may be converted to You, the Shepherd and Bishop of their souls, who lives and reigns with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end.
Amen

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Thank you all for praying with me, wild thing, I have added your St. Therese prayer to my file of prayers!
 
Praying for this man and all those who react in this way. Also praying for all necessary graces for your daughter.

O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fountain of Mercy for us, I trust in You!
 
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