Question of what we pray for?

[MS_SURVEYOR]

My wife’s uncle who is a deacon in the Baptist Church, in a conversion last night, after I told him I just got through praying, asked me,

“What Do You Pray For?”.

For some reason that kind of took me by surprise!

I pray to the Holy Spirit. To THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS. The Novena in Honor of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. Various other Novenas at different times. The CHAPLET OF SAINT GERTRUDE. The Daily Rosary. The DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET. And many other prayers. Most of them to Mary as I ware a Brown Scapular and Miraculous Medal.

But I’ve never thought about what I pray for? I really didn’t have a good answer? Why would someone ask anyone that question? How would a Baptist understand that I pray through Mary to Jesus, and the Holy Spirit giving thanks and praise for the salvation of my soul. And for the relief of suffering for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. And for MERCY for the World. Along for the forgiveness of my sins. But that’s what I told him.

What do you pray for?

 

[midori]

To accomplish my purpose in life.

I don’t think God creates useless people. But he certainly creates people who fail at whatever they are supposed to accomplish during their time on earth. I don’t want to be one of those people… I want to bring good to others, both living and in Purgatory, during my time here; for others to see Jesus in me and to bring the light of Jesus into others’ lives; to be the hands of Christ and help others; to love; to have the desire to not be so willful and self-centered; to have the persistence and fortitude and energy and will to accomplish what it is expected of me in the time that I have.

And, of course, you pray for world peace and all the normal stuff, too.

 

[Blenderx]

I think the question should be more “Why do you pray?” It isn’t about a ‘what’, is it? but, a ‘Who’. I pray, ultimately, to enter more deeply into friendship and union with my God and Savior. So, what do good friends talk about? Everything and anything, no? Little by little, day by day, repeated again and again, I turn over everything to Him: through my own feeble efforts, and through the intercession and help of our ‘mutual friends’, the saints. My family, my possessions, my health, my thoughts, hopes, and desires, my work, my worries, my struggles, my sins, my virtues, the Church, and even the whole world and every soul in it. His mercy consumes it all. And then I simply rest in Him. Who needs words or petitions then? Love, gratitude, adoration and the Cross always embraced. I pray so that I can disappear in Him like a drop of water into the fire. What a destiny!

I’m probably not making any sense, lol.

 

[svid2]

The poor souls, the various requests posted on CAF, world morality and conversion, family, friends (and ‘unfriends’), unbelievers, lukewarm believers, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, and to be a good servant of our Lady so as to please our Lord. Most importantly I pray for help to be a saint (uncanonized).

I also give thanks for life, love, truth, the Word, the Church, the Mass, the Sacraments, the Clergy and any recent blessings and graces.

Not all of these at once!