Promised to share these powerful prayers

[flosoup]

Hello
I collected these prayers from my local newspaper and on the bottom of each it tells me to promise publication, so I have decided to share these prayers with you. I have copied them exactly as I found them.

Precious Mother of Jesus, Mother of Divine Grace, you who can find a way when there is no way please hear my prayer and grant my request.
(Say daily 6 times and promise publication)

Novena to St Clare: Ask St Clare for 3 favours, 1 business 2 impossible. Publish on the 9th day. Powerful Novena.Say 9 Hail Marys for 9 days with a lighted candle.
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised, adored and glorified, now and forever throughout the whole world. Amen.
Your request will be granted no matter how impossible it seems

Thank you

 

[MarcusAndreas]

This is very superstitious. Your prayer will be granted only if you promise to publish them?

 

[svid]

Hmm… seems kinda chain-letterish. These sorts of “formulas” make me uneasy, but if it gets you to pray, that’s a start.

 

[flosoup]

I can assure you that it is not a chain letter. These sort of prayers are regularly published in my local newspaper. And yes it may seem superstitious but then so are a lot of catholic practices here in Ireland. Better to share a prayer that works for someone than not to share at all I believe

 

[puzzleannie]

Hello
I collected these prayers from my local newspaper and on the bottom of each it tells me to promise publication, so…
(Say daily 6 times and promise publication)

…
Your request will be granted no matter how impossible it seems

Thank you

and the authority behind these so-called promises is whom? the editor of your local paper?

 

[flosoup]

Sorry you misunderstand.

These are in a section that is unedited. People pay to publish the prayers that help them and share this with others. Simple as that. In fact I have seen local parish priests post in the same section.

Does it really matter where they came from, why does everyone have to be so sceptical. If someone found solace from these sorts of prayers well then has this not strenghtened their faith and love of God and surely this is a good thing!

 

[MarcusAndreas]

CCC 2111

Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.

There is nothing wrong with the prayers themselves, it’s the magical way they are being presented.