Using Jesus's words in new prayers

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I’m continuing to write a Catholic tale of the End Times and have a question about creating new prayers. One of the characters prays for another having a seizure as follows:

Father, just as you lifted your perfect Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, into Heaven, I beseech you now in his name to lift this curse from Alessandro. Hear me, Father, and show us your perfect mercy, just as Jesus showed mercy to the lame, the sick, the blind, the possessed, even the dead. Remove this cup from Alessandro. Yet, not my will but yours be done. Amen.”

Obviously, the last two lines before Amen are from Jesus’s prayer in Gethsemane. Is this an acceptable practice to borrow from Jesus’s words (and from other Bible verses) and change them for use in new prayers?

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It’s one of the most common ways Christians have written prayers for 2000 years. Go for it.
 
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I’m continuing to write a Catholic tale of the End Times and have a question about creating new prayers. One of the characters prays for another having a seizure as follows:

Father, just as you lifted your perfect Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, into Heaven, I beseech you now in his name to lift this curse from Alessandro. Hear me, Father, and show us your perfect mercy, just as Jesus showed mercy to the lame, the sick, the blind, the possessed, even the dead. Remove this cup from Alessandro. Yet, not my will but yours be done. Amen.”

Obviously, the last two lines before Amen are from Jesus’s prayer in Gethsemane. Is this an acceptable practice to borrow from Jesus’s words (and from other Bible verses) and change them for use in new prayers?

Thanks
Norm
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Except that I’m gonna have a hard time reading that because he’s having a seizure. I don’t believe a father would pray like that over a son having a seizure. Maybe on his deathbed after a lingering illness, sure. But for this, a more likely prayer would be:

“NOOO! DEAR GOD, PLEASE HELP MY SON! SAVE ALESSANDRO! PLEEAAASE! DON’T LET HIM DIE!!!”

Believability, if you want your writing to be engaging.

Of course, you didn’t provide context so maybe such a prayer is called for (e.g. this is not the first seizure, he knows the next seizure might kill him, etc.).
 
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It’s one boy (Connor) praying for another (Alessandro). If it helps, they don’t get along, but Connor is the type to set their differences aside.
 
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