Category: Prayers
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Praying as Jesus Prays
October 5, 2022 – Wednesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/100522.cfm) We cannot help that sometimes our way of praying sounds like a demand to God. This could happen especially when we feel desperate. Though we believe that asking or begging God’s grace is certainly a way of […]
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Prayer: A Relationship
February 23, 2021 – Tuesday of the First Week of Lent Fr. Gibo Dandoy, CSsR Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022321.cfm) I often wonder why many Catholics, when asked to lead in prayer, during some social gatherings and family events, would often decline. Even those who are regular mass-goers would do the same. They reason […]
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MISA DE AGUINALDO 2020
The Aguinaldo Masses are in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to be celebrated nine (9) days before Christmas for the perseverance of the nation in faith. In the spirit of the season, one may lawfully use in these Masses the Weekday Lectionary. The GLORIA is sung in these Masses and white vestment is used […]
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A FAMILY PRAYER FOR OUR BELOVED DEAD
The whole month of November, and particularly, November 2 – All Souls’ Day, is a traditional time for visiting the graves of our beloved dead (from the ORDO 2020). It has been our long tradition to visit and pray for the dead. Others would even spend the whole day or even the whole night at […]
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PRAYER OF BLESSING FOR FATHERS
By Jom Baring, CSsR OUR MOST LOVING FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU FOR THE GIFT OF OUR EARTHLY FATHERS, GRANDFATHERS AND THOSE WHO BECAME FATHERS TO US IN MANY WAYS. WE ASK YOU TO BLESS + THE FATHERS IN EVERY HOME AND IN EVERY COMMUNITY. THROUGH YOUR WISDOM, GRANT TO THEM THE GIFT OF […]
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Jesus prays for me today, and so I pray for others too
Jesus is about to leave physically in the world. But it does not mean that Jesus will abandon his friends. In fact, Jesus prays for his friends. “I pray for them,” said Jesus. This means that Jesus remembers his friends in his thoughts. BEING IN THE THOUGHTS OF JESUS ALSO MEANS THAT JESUS MAKES HIS PERSON PRESENT IN THE LIFE OF HIS FRIENDS. IT IS A PROMISE OF FAITHFULNESS AND OF CONSTANT PRESENCE OF GOD IN OUR LIFE, IN EACH OF US. Today, Jesus reminds us too, that he prays for us and with us. Jesus joins us in our prayer. The Lord is there every time we pray. The Lord makes himself ever present the moment we also dispose ourselves in prayer. We can say this confidently, Jesus prays with me because he remembers me and he is with me.
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Total surrender to God and putting our life in Him
Jesus’ last words are very powerful and compelling, I asked myself, why despite his agony, the humiliation he experienced, and unbearable pain on the cross, Jesus never blamed his Father. He instead uttered these words like a perfect prayer from the depths of his heart “Father into your hands, I commend my spirit.” Oftentimes, when we are faced with problems and difficulties, when we are carrying heavy crosses, our human tendency is that we lose track of our faith. We rely much on our human capacities and strengths. We become too focused on our suffering and pain, on what we can do to the extent that our energies are depleted, and we become exhausted. We start to complain, self-pity, regret, become anxious about what the future holds, and perhaps blame others, or even blame God. Jesus has given us a glorious example of total surrendering to God.
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FORGIVENESS: A RADICAL LOVE
We look back to the scene where Jesus uttered these words, Jesus at this hour was on the brink of death, nailed to the Cross with the Roman soldiers at his feet. As he addressed these men, we could picture how exhausting the scene was. By this time, these Roman soldiers had been executing many criminals and had seen death day after day. They are reduced to mere functionaries. They have no choice and freedom to do what is just and right at that moment as they were only following orders. Familiarity with violence and brutality causes these soldiers to be numb and deaf with their emotions. Their society has allowed them to be stripped of their dignity as human persons gifted with freedom and compassion. It is in this human frailty and desperate condition where Jesus uttered to them, “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing?”
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A Family Prayer in Visiting the Beloved Dead
(This prayer may be used by families visiting their beloved dead in the cemetery. Anybody can lead this prayer as long as he/she can read and lead well the family.) (An appropriate song may be sung.) The prayer begins. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. […]
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 