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Truthseeker
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| First Name: | Laura | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | lapsed and returned CATHOLIC!!!!!! |
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Posted: Tue Feb 13th, 2007 11:03 pm |
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I have decided to offer every prayer, every Mass, every sin I'm sorry for on behalf of my husband, because it is my way of showing genuine love when I don't feel it. But then, during the actual moments that I offer up, I want to add my kids, because I want them to love God, too. And I add you guys, because I know how you yearn to love God and work His pupose here on earth. I add my fellow miscarriage survivors, that God might heal their hearts. Then, I add the pregnant people, whom I hate, but don't really. Then, I add the priests who need our prayers. I include my parents and family members, because I love them, too. I usually include the friends that I neglect and the ones who don't agree with me theologically. I try to remember the souls in purgatory. And, somewhere in there, because I'm selfish and the most desparately needy one of all, I add myself.......
When do I lose the intent in my intentions? I mean, I know God can cover all my intentions with His Grace, but I really want to have a purpose of intent, not just a blanket intention that covers everybody, with kind of no meaning...I don't know if that makes sense, but the more I ask God to bless one person, the more I feel compelled to ask for others, too, because I want more than just one person I know to have God's Graces. Does God accept all these intentions as actual acts of love for each person or as a generic "prayer for all"?
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CajunRick
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| Location: | Houma, Louisiana USA |
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Posted: Tue Feb 13th, 2007 11:11 pm |
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Truthseeker wrote: I have decided to offer every prayer, every Mass, every sin I'm sorry for on behalf of my husband, because it is my way of showing genuine love when I don't feel it. But then, during the actual moments that I offer up, I want to add my kids, because I want them to love God, too. And I add you guys, because I know how you yearn to love God and work His pupose here on earth. I add my fellow miscarriage survivors, that God might heal their hearts. Then, I add the pregnant people, whom I hate, but don't really. Then, I add the priests who need our prayers. I include my parents and family members, because I love them, too. I usually include the friends that I neglect and the ones who don't agree with me theologically. I try to remember the souls in purgatory. And, somewhere in there, because I'm selfish and the most desparately needy one of all, I add myself.......
When do I lose the intent in my intentions?
Never. Trust God to sort out the rest.
When I pray, I always add the intention of those I have promised to pray for. God knows who they are, and that's good enough for me.
Last edited on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 11:13 pm by CajunRick
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Tue Feb 13th, 2007 11:30 pm |
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I recall an old priest’s words: When the list gets too long, you divide it up. Pray specifically for one group each day, and the rest you include in more general terms. In the course of a week, everyone gets his turn in a mention, but they are all prayed for one way or another each day.
Like Rick, I don’t try to keep track of everybody I pray for by name. That would be impossible just because the list is so long. But there are categories of people. So I remember those who have asked for my prayers and those who need my prayers, whether they have asked for them or not, etc. Again, I mention people I don’t know — those who are persecuted for their faith, those who are addicted, those who are enslaved to sin, etc., just like that.
But through it all, if your overriding intention is for your husband, then you mention him by name, and perhaps one or another reason or intention with regard to him, each time you pray, no matter where, no matter when.
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mrsbmoo
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| Location: | Virginia USA |
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| First Name: | Becky | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | former Methodist. RCA, Presbyterian, Holiness, Wesleyan... Catholic as of June ... |
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Posted: Tue Feb 13th, 2007 11:42 pm |
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| A Sunday school teacher once gave my 11 yr old daughter's class a bolt with a nut on it and told the kids, everytime you pray for yourself turn the nut clockwise, everytime you pray for yourself turn the bolt counterclockwise. That way you have a balance. You shouldn't feel guilty praying for yourself.
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JillD
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Posted: Wed Feb 14th, 2007 01:34 am |
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| So an "intention" in Catholicism is what they call a "prayer request" in Protestantism?
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Wed Feb 14th, 2007 08:55 am |
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JillD wrote:
So an "intention" in Catholicism is what they call a "prayer request" in Protestantism?
Yes, because that is the motive or intention of the person praying. It’s just a difference in terminology.
David
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