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You’re tired of being nit-picked, verbally criticized, misunderstood, and dealing with other people’s inconsiderate remarks and overall ill-will…

What prayer or novena keeps you from just throwing in the towel and staying away from those who don’t know any better?
 
In cases like these it’s fun to look up those psalms where the psalmist is asking God to wreak vengeance on his enemies, trouble is, most of those psalms end up with the psalmist expressing contrition for his own sins.
 
My spiritual director gave me this prayer years ago. He recommended personalizing it by adding petitions reflecting the aspects of humility that I need most. (I won’t share those; that would be like going to Confession in public! :o )

Litany of Humility
(Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val)

O Jesus, meek and humble of heart, hear me.

From the desire of being esteemed, ***deliver me, Jesus. ***
From the desire of being loved, …
From the desire of being extolled, …
From the desire of being honored, …
From the desire of being praised, …
From the desire of being preferred to others, …
From the desire of being consulted, …
From the desire of being approved, …

From the fear of being humiliated, ***deliver me, Jesus. ***
From the fear of being despised, …
From the fear of suffering rebukes, …
From the fear of being calumniated, …
From the fear of being forgotten, …
From the fear of being ridiculed, …
From the fear of being wronged, …
From the fear of being suspected, …

That others may be loved more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I, …
That in the opinion of the world, others may increase, and I may decrease, …
That others may be chosen and I set aside, …
That others may be praised and I unnoticed, …
That others may be preferred to me in everything, …
That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should …
 
puzzleannie said:
In cases like these it’s fun to look up those psalms where the psalmist is asking God to wreak vengeance on his enemies, trouble is, most of those psalms end up with the psalmist expressing contrition for his own sins.
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Not really experiencing anything related to enemies or wanting vengeance so much as my own inner emotional fatigue with the world lately. But the psalms are a good place to go for wisdom at times such as these… thank you puzzleannie for your thoughtful reply…

Bless you,
Margaret 🙂
 
Margaret33 said:
You’re tired of being nit-picked, verbally criticized, misunderstood, and dealing with other people’s inconsiderate remarks and overall ill-will…

What prayer or novena keeps you from just throwing in the towel and staying away from those who don’t know any better?
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I would just meditate on these words from the Beatitudes (Matt 5) -

"11 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.

12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
 
So beautiful, PhilotheaZ, brought tears to my eyes, thank you for posting this!

Think for me, it’s less about the desire to be preferred in any way, than a desire for strength. Strength to overlook and continue on when weary of the cumulative ‘little things’ that start to weigh us all down from time to time… know what I mean?

Strength to not let ‘slights’ accumulate, however thoughtless and unnoticed by others they may be, stop internalizing what I need to overlook, strength to know when to fight back and when to keep ‘letting it go’, and strength to stop lamenting the unkindness of a world I have always wished were more inclined towards everyday kindness and love for one another… but only exists in my imagination…

Does this make any sense? I guess when all is said and done, I’m on a temporary quest for prayers that are about asking for Strength. 🙂
 
LilyM said:
I would just meditate on these words from the Beatitudes (Matt 5) -

"11 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.

12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
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Thank you LilyM… Truly well received 🙂
 
Maybe the Act of Hope: Oh God, I hope with complete trust that you will give me, through the merits of Jesus Christ, all the necessary grace in this world, and everlasting life in the world to come, for this is what you have promised and you always keep your promises.

or the Act of Charity: Oh God, I love you with my whole heart above all things, because you are infinately good; and for your sake I love my neighbor as I love myself.

or the Prayer of St. Augustine: Breathe in me, Holy Spirit, that all my thoughts may be holy. Draw my heart, Holy Spirit, that I may love only what is holy. Strengthen me, Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy. Guard me, Holy Spirit, that I may always be holy.

or of St. Ignatius of Layola: Teach us dear Lord, to serve as you deserve: to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds;to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do your will.

if not, I’ve got others! 🙂
 
Prayer of St Hillary of PoitersFather, keep us from vain strife of words – grant to us constant profession of the Truth! Preserve us in a true and undefiled Faith so that we may hold fast to that which we professed when we were baptized in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit – that we may have Thee for our Father, that we may abide in Thy Son and in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.
 
Rawb & Steadfast Love… Thank you both very much…

Bless You 🙂
Margaret
 
“Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, a sinner.”

Usually when I get upset, I get self-righteous, so I just go to this nice little prayer. Plus it takes my focus of people and puts it on the Lord. If I am at home praying, I might also go to the Psalms, as another poster mentioned.
 
Kevin42 said:
“Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, a sinner.”

Usually when I get upset, I get self-righteous, so I just go to this nice little prayer. Plus it takes my focus of people and puts it on the Lord. If I am at home praying, I might also go to the Psalms, as another poster mentioned.
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I use this one a lot! Works for me, too.
 
Joyce Kilmer, who wrote the well known poem, Trees (I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree…) also wrote a poem called Prayer of a Soldier in France.

It starts out,
My shoulders ache beneath my pack
(Lie easier cross upon His back.)
I march with feet that burn and smart
(Tread, holy feet, upon my heart.)

The last verse is:
Lord, Thou didst suffer more for me
Than all the hosts of land or sea.
So let me offer back again
This millionth of Thy gift. Amen

That last verse can stand alone as a lovely prayer - short and to the point - to offer when things are tough.
 
Margaret33 said:
You’re tired of being nit-picked, verbally criticized, misunderstood, and dealing with other people’s inconsiderate remarks and overall ill-will…

What prayer or novena keeps you from just throwing in the towel and staying away from those who don’t know any better?
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The Novena to the Choir Of Angels

Say nine times “Glory to The father, and to the Son, and to The Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.”

Now say this at least nine times a day. (I have a chaplet of 81 beads, 9x9)

Or just say the prayer over and over. Like the Orthodox prayer ropes with the Jesus prayer. Works for me.👍
 
Andruschak said:
The Novena to the Choir Of Angels

Say nine times “Glory to The father, and to the Son, and to The Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.”

Now say this at least nine times a day. (I have a chaplet of 81 beads, 9x9)

Or just say the prayer over and over. Like the Orthodox prayer ropes with the Jesus prayer. Works for me.👍
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Nice 🙂 Still listening… enjoying the posts, thank you all!

Margaret
 
Andruschak said:
The Novena to the Choir Of Angels

Say nine times “Glory to The father, and to the Son, and to The Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.”

Now say this at least nine times a day. (I have a chaplet of 81 beads, 9x9)

Or just say the prayer over and over. Like the Orthodox prayer ropes with the Jesus prayer. Works for me.👍
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Permission to post this in my novena thread with your name?
 
Andruschak said:
Um…I picked this up from a paperback book of chaplets. I’ll post the name and author when I get home after midnight
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MY TREASURY OF CHAPLETS by Patricia S. Quintiliani. The "Novena In Honor Of The Nine Choirs Of Angeles " is on page 237of the 8th edition.
 
Recently, by my father’s advice, I pray to be in truth by being with Jesus, when making pronouncements or saying things people don’t like or disagree with.
 
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