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Rejoice Always! Pray Constantly! 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17 |
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Prayer ascends and mercy descends. High as are the heavens and low
as is the earth, God hears the voice of man. ~ St. Augustine And when you have fulfilled in turn the duty of praise and of humility, then ask for what you ought to ask for; not for riches, not for the glory of this earth, not for health of body: for He made you and your health is in His care, and He knows which state is profitable to each one, to be healthy or to be infirm. He will provide for your body's needs. ~ St. Basil the Great God is so good and merciful, that to obtain Heaven it is sufficient to ask it of Him from our hearts. ~ St. Benedict Joseph Labre It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger. ~ St. Ephraem the Syrian God wishes to be asked, He wishes to be forced, He wishes, in a certain manner, to be overcome by our prayer. ~ St. Gregory the Great It is essential to begin the practice of prayer with a firm resolution of persevering in it. ~ St. Teresa of Avila You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. ~ St. James the ApoStle What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips? ~ St. John ChrysoStom When you perceive that God is chastening you, fly not to his enemies...but to his friends, the martyrs, the saints, and those who were pleasing to him, and who have great power in God. ~ St. John ChrysoStom It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life. ~ St. John ChrysoStom O my Divine Savior, Only he will receive, will find, and will enter who perseveres in asking, seeking and knocking. ~ St. Louis de Montfort Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood. ~ St. Louis de Montfort The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs.. ~ St. Louis de Montfort The whole world is asleep, and God, so full of goodness, so great, so worthy of all praise, no one is thinking of Him! See nature praises Him, and man...who ought to praise Him, sleeps! Let us go and wake up the universe...and sing praises! ~ St. Mariam Baouardy Don't draw back, and
worse still, don't stop going up the Calvary of life. Jesus will extend His
hand to steady you. The thought of the sustaining grace of God and the prize
that Jesus has reserved for you will be a sweet comfort. To purposely allow one's mind to
wander in prayer is sinful and hinders the prayer from having fruit.
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Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will
hear your prayer...Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's
heart. You must speak to Jesus with not only your lips but with your heart.
In fact on certain occasions you should speak to Him only with your heart.
~ St. Padre Pio To pray for those who are in mortal sin is the best
kind of almsgiving. For the love of God, always remember such souls when you
pray. It is impossible for a person who prays regularly to remain in serious sin; because the two are incompatible, one or the other will have to be given up. ~ St. Teresa of Avila Persevere in your community prayers. ~ St. Ignatius of Antioch Before prayer, endeavor to
realize whose Presence you are approaching, and to whom you are about to
speak. We can never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God,
before whom the angles tremble. Never address your
words to God while you are thinking of something else. I have many distractions, but as soon as I am aware of them, I pray
for those people, the thought of whom is diverting my attention. In this way
they reap the benefit of my disrtactions. But above all it's the Gospels that occupy my mind when I'm at prayer; my poor soul has so many needs, and yet this is the one thing needful. I'm always finding fresh lights there; hidden meanings which had meant nothing to me hitherto. ~ St. Therese of Lisieux Prayer ought to be humble, fervent,
resigned, persevering, and accompanied with great reverence. One should
consider that he stands in the presence of a God, and speaks with a Lord
before whom the angels tremble from awe and fear. When I consider Jesus' love on the one hand and my own ingratitude
on the other, I should like to tell him that if I cannot correspond to his
love he should stop loving me; only in this way do I feel less guilty. But
this is too terrifying a thing for me, and hence it makes me invariably pray
Jesus to continue to love me and to help me himself if I do not succeed in
loving him as much as he deserves. When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer ~ St. Louis de Montfort |