Specific prayers to pray?

[grneyes]

The other day, I posted a prayer intention on the other forum. I notice that many people post replies which consist only of:

1. The Our Father
   and
2. The Hail Mary

Are these very powerful prayers when said together and at random times throughout our day, when we don’t have more concentrated time to pray, for a specific intention?

So, if I’m praying for my son’s salvation, each day, is it very powerful to repeat ‘just’ these 2 prayers, for him? An example, when I’m homeschooling my little ones and I have a few minute (or seconds) break- it’s powerful to just repeat these 2 prayers?

I’ve always felt like I am a horrible pray-er. I have always felt like prayer doesn’t matter unless you’re alone, in quiet, down on your knees, saying very long and significant prayers and taking a certain amount of time.

Thanks! I hope I didn’t babble.

 

[pianistclare]

The other day, I posted a prayer intention on the other forum. I notice that many people post replies which consist only of:

1. The Our Father
   and
2. The Hail Mary

Are these very powerful prayers when said together and at random times throughout our day, when we don’t have more concentrated time to pray, for a specific intention?

So, if I’m praying for my son’s salvation, each day, is it very powerful to repeat ‘just’ these 2 prayers, for him? An example, when I’m homeschooling my little ones and I have a few minute (or seconds) break- it’s powerful to just repeat these 2 prayers?

I’ve always felt like I am a horrible pray-er. I have always felt like prayer doesn’t matter unless you’re alone, in quiet, down on your knees, saying very long and significant prayers and taking a certain amount of time.

Thanks! I hope I didn’t babble.

It’s the fervency of the prayer. Even “Jesus, have mercy on us…grant us our salvation” said well is hugely effective.
I would suggest this to you as well however:
Frequent worthy reception of Holy Communion offered for your son, and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament whenever you possible can, is very effective.
The people on CAF are so good about praying for those intentions.
Be at peace, pray fervently, and remember that with God, all things are possible.
I wish you a blessed Advent, and peace of mind.
Clare

 

[PaulfromIowa]

The Lord’s Prayer comes directly from Christ and the Hail Mary comes from the Gospel. They are very rightly the most common Christian prayers.

 

[tawny]

Remember, prayer is talking to God. Praying for the intentions of you & your son.

 

[sudy]

The Lord’s Prayer comes directly from Christ and the Hail Mary comes from the Gospel. They are very rightly the most common Christian prayers.

This!

Remember, prayer is talking to God. Praying for the intentions of you & your son.

And this!

Prayer is asking for something… prayer is gratitude… it can be different things at different times.

As Paul says above, The Lord’s Prayer is what Jesus taught is… pretty sure you can’t beat that one The Hail Mary is asking for intercession from Our Lord’s Mother… also our heavenly Mother. God knows what we want and need… he’s listening.

All sincere prayer is powerful Put your trust in God.

 

[styrgwillidar]

Please keep in mind the purpose of prayer, vice the form or the words…

2562 Where does prayer come from? Whether prayer is expressed in words or gestures, it is the whole man who prays. But in naming the source of prayer, Scripture speaks sometimes of the soul or the spirit, but most often of the heart (more than a thousand times). According to Scripture, it is the heart that prays.** If our heart is far from God, the words of prayer are in vain.**

2559 “Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.”2 But when we pray, do we speak from the height of our pride and will, or “out of the depths” of a humble and contrite heart?3 He who humbles himself will be exalted;4 humility is the foundation of prayer. Only when we humbly acknowledge that “we do not know how to pray as we ought,”5 are we ready to receive freely the gift of prayer. “Man is a beggar before God.”

By focusing on the mechanics of prayer, or starting to ascribe powers to prayer as if they are incantations, or compulsions we can lay on God-- as if specific words have power, than I think the following applies:

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.41

The power of your prayer comes from the desire in your heart to be one with God, to desire His will be done vice your own, even if it is contrary to your desires. Remember, Christ Himself did not receive everything He sought through prayer, but was provided what He needed.

Luke, 22 41-43
After withdrawing about a stone’s throw from them and kneeling, he prayed,a saying, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done.” **And to strengthen him an angel from heaven appeared to him. **