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what is your favourite ejaculatory prayer (or prayers)…?

did you compose it yourself?

why is it your favourite?

and how often do you say it?

hi i am just asking because i was reading about st alphonsus and various other saint who prayed in this way…and by repeating these prayers through out the day whether they was working, resting, eating, etc they could prayer without ceasing…

so i am trying to do this and pray in this way too…and i thought it might be encouraging for me and for others on the forum who may want to pray in this way too if we share our favourite ones…

ANGELIC PEACE
 
Blessed be the name of the Lord! (r: for ever and ever. Amen).

I use that to make reparation when I hear blasphemies (which sadly is quite often :().
 
“Jesus, I adore you in this tabernacle and all the tabernacles of the world - especially where you are least loved and least adored.”

I say this when passing a church or adoration chapel. I didn’t make it up. I read it somewhere but don’t remember where. :confused:
 
Lord have mercy - Christ have mercy

Especially when I’m afraid or sad.😦

~Liza
 
When I hear someone say something awful, blasphemous, doing something innappropriate

“Forgive them O Lord for they know not what they do”

and I OFTEN find myself saying"

“Thy will be done”

Which is easier said than done at times.
 
I usually call them “aspirations,” because they’re like breathing. I connect them to various activities.

When I remember…

Going up or down the stairs - “Lord, You must increase and I must decrease.” (from John the Baptist)

When I hear a siren - “Lord have mercy.”

When I enter a church and use holy water - “Lord, if You will, You can make me clean.” (leper’s prayer)

When I leave the church and use holy water - “Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.” (from the Te Deum)

When someone takes God’s name in vain - “Blessed be God. Blessed be His Holy Name.” (Divine Praises)

At 3:00 - “For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.” (Divine Mercy Chaplet)

Betsy
 
For use often and anytime during the day. It’s especially useful when things are not going great.

Almighty Father, thank you for this glorious day;
For all the blessings you’ve bestowed on us;
and the opportunity to serve you.

I don’t put an amen on it as I think of it as an open ended thing.
Sometimes I’l add:

Through Jesus ministry you taught us.
Through his suffering death and resurection
You showed us the way to you through perfect faith.
Father help us me to perfect my faith,
To better know You, love You, to trust You, and to serve you.

This is a great thread.👍

James
 
my favourite ones (besides the ones in my signature)
are

mother mary pray for us
jesus have mercy on me and on all mankind until the end of the world
jesus bless mankind and the church

i have several because i make them up on the spur of the moment…it is an easy way of praying all the time to pray like this …it keep you continually in touch with god between morning and night prayers…

i am fasinated by this type of prayer because i have read that the saints used this method of prayer

since “researching” praying in this way and using ejaculatory prayers…i have found that many other saints as well as st alphonsus liguori prayed in this way…
i have read that these type of prayers are spontaneous and that they delight god and that they strike the heart of god like an arrow of love…

st jaon cassian, st francis de sales, st philip neri and other saints also prayed like this

here is some quotes from the saints that i have come across on ejaculaoty prayers

“Aspire to God,” says St. Francis of Sales, “with short but frequent outpourings of the heart.”

“It is an old Custom with the servants of God always to have some little prayers ready and to be darting them up to heaven frequently during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the filth of this world. He who adopts this plan will get great fruit with little pains.” ST. PHILIP NERI.

“So, when you don’t know how to go on, when it feels as if your fire is dying out and you can’t throw fragrant logs on it, throw on the branches and twigs of short vocal prayers, of ejaculations, to keep feeding the blaze. And you will have used the time well.” St. Josemaria Escriva,

“Ejaculatory prayers do not hinder your work, just as the beating of your heart does not impede the movements of the body.” St. Josemaría Escrivá.

“In dryness persevere in prayer and make use of ejaculatory prayers, especially acts of resignation to the Will of God.” Paul of the Cross.

" As a student at the Jesuit College of Clermont in Paris, when he was about eighteen or nineteen years old, [St. Francis de Sales] suffered from severe depression that cast a long and distressing shadow over his student life for about six weeks and almost led him to despair of his salvation.
St. Jane de Chantal, his closest friend, tells us in her testimony at the first process of his canonization that during this struggle or trial, he was not able to sleep or eat. This is how strongly it affected him.
To deal with this struggle, Francis resorted to spiritual aspirations or ejaculatory prayers drawn principally from the Psalms, which we are told, he wrote down from memory, in order to calm his fears and, “so to speak, pierce the heart of God…”

St. Vincent Ferrer wrote: “Interrupt your application [study] by short but fervent and ejaculatory prayers; never begin or end your study but by prayer. Science is a gift of the Father of lights; do not therefore consider it as barely the work of your own mind or industry.”

ANGELIC PEACE
 
Got this one from my mom. When she was in grade School they would say it in between each class or subject.

Oh my God,
I will continue to perform,
All my actions,
For the Love of Thee
Amen.

A perfect little prayer for anytime during the day.

James
 
Here is mine.

Lord Jesus, crucified for my sins of selfishness and excess, scourged for my thoughts, actions, desires, and lusts after impurities, crown with thorns for my sins of omission and mocked for my sins of pride, have mercy on me and be with me now and at the hour of my temptation and at the hour of my death. Amen.

I composed it myself 🙂

I always say it whenever I’m tempted. By the time I’m done saying it the temptation is gone.
 
I have taught my children the following prayer if they are ever in danger of death, such as on the battle field, or in a plane going down, or the scene of an accident.
Code:
 "Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on me, a
   sinner."
I think this prayer is supposed to have an indulgence attached to it if said in the last few moments and is accompanied by perfect
contrition. If anyone knows better, please correct me.

Lucy
 
there is some really great prayers being posted on this thread…

as i mentioned before i am trying to say small ones (a few words long) through out the day…

my latest one was jesus mercy, mary help

divine heart of jesus, convert sinners, assist and save the dying, release the holy souls in purgatory

ANGELIC PEACE
 
When I enter a church and use holy water - “Lord, if You will, You can make me clean.” (leper’s prayer)

When I leave the church and use holy water - “Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.” (from the Te Deum)
When I bless myself with holy water I say the Psalm verse - ‘Lord, wash away my iniquities and cleanse me of my sins’
 
When I’m frightened - “Keep me safe, O God; You are my hope.” (it’s from a psalm; I don’t know which)

Betsy
 
Jesus, Son of David, have Mercy on me. Lord, that I might see, Lord that I might see.

O Jesus who for Love of me didst bear Your cross to Calvary, in Your Sweet Mercy, please grant to me to suffer and to die for Thee.

All for Thee, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, O My Saviour, all for Thee.

Barb
 
My Lord and my God.
I say it when I enter a church, in front of the Blessed Sacrament.
 
I adore you o Christ and I love You…

and the prayers taught to the children at Fatima
 
O Jesus who for Love of me didst bear Your cross to Calvary, in Your Sweet Mercy, please grant to me to suffer and to die for Thee.

Barb

Oh, wow, to actually ask for martyrdom. Be careful what you ask for; He often honors our requests. 😃
 
O Jesus who for Love of me didst bear Your cross to Calvary, in Your Sweet Mercy, please grant to me to suffer and to die for Thee.

Barb
Oh, wow, to actually ask for martyrdom. Be careful what you ask for; He often honors our requests. 😃

…:bigyikes:…

The same aspiration is prayed here as we walk between the Stations of The Cross…

Blessings - Barb
 
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