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Pancho
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Do saints form a part of your prayer life? If so, in what way?
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we wailed, and you did not mourn.’"
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Hilda of Whitby
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I use the Glenstal Abbey prayer book, and each day has a saint listed--"Saint XXX, pray for us".
I also send blessings and thanks to St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Francis, and Julian of Norwich, and to other people whom I consider to be saints (Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Etty Hillesum). I say special prayers to St. Therese, St. Francis and Julian of Norwich on their feast days. I have icons of St. Francis and Julian and a prayer card with a photo of St. Therese on a little dresser that I use as a shrine.
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Adam.
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I have a daily mini-Litany of the Saints that I'll use after communion.
Our Lady of Sorrows, (pray for us)
SS. Peter and Paul, (etc.)
St. Joseph,
St. Ephrem of Syria, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Catherine of Sienna,
[Saint of the Day]
Bl. Basile Moreau, St. Andre Bessette,
All you holy women and men.
In my office, I have Holy Family icons to my left (a 'generic' St. Joseph, a crucifixion, Our Lady of Guadalupe) and other saints to my right (St. Patrick, St. Andre, complete with relic, St. Peter being rescued from the sea by Jesus).
I recently went on short pilgrimage to the relics of St. Marcellus on his feast day.
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LeRoc
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I have participated in devotions of St. Anthony and St. George.
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CuppaT
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Years ago I had asked a friend to recommend a book for me to read. She gave me Spiritual Counsels, by Father John of Kronstadt. A few months later she phoned and asked me how it was going. I squirmed. I told her I didn't know; he rather repeated himself a lot. So she told me to pray to him every time I sat down to read the book, and ask him to help me understand what he was going to teach me. Well, I didn't like that one bit! I replied that I had gotten used to praying to Mary in church (sort of), but that was the extent of things and I couldn't do anything like that. She said just try. So, I did, fumblingly, and humbly, but very sincerely wanting to learn. The most amazing things began to happen. That book opened up. And if I had a question in church, or about a Scripture passage over the next few months, it would be answered in the very next reading. Honestly, it got so that I was rather scared to pray again and open the book! I finished it with tears, and learned only afterward that Father John was a Saint, and where Kronstadt was, and who he was.
Months later I was in a friends house during prayers, having just driven there through tornado winds to pick up children, and an icon on the wall kept staring at me, more so than others, if you know what I mean. "You know me", he seemed to smile. I asked a teenager afterward who it was, and she shrugged, "St. John somebody. Probably Maxamovich." "No," I said, "That is St. John of Kronstadt."
St. John was my first spiritual father, and he taught me how to pray to the Saints (and how to read books). Now I have countless other Saint friends, Godly men and women who have gone before us into Heaven and who are willing to pray for us, if we get to know them.
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Lyda*Rose
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Praying to saints hasn't been part of my tradition, but I have found myself drawn to St. Martin de Porres. He is such a kindly, generous, loving man that I occasionally ask him to pray for me.
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fullgospel
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Yes our Lady of course but just hail mary or Rosary.
St. John Southworth a lot i just say
"St. JS pray for us / me"
St. John xx111 also a lot.
Julian of Norwich
St Antony of Padua
St Teresa of L
and her of Carmel.
The OT Trinity icon and Xt the Teacher icon.
Also invoke the Sacred Heart inwardly.
Others, of course, as and when.
Saint of the day invoked.
also mind / pray goes off in the silence to the blessed dead and it is more like being with them than intercession and then their saintlikeness touches me. Both my nan, my gran and adults from childhood. And since.
S School teachers, ministers...........
blessed company.
my partner and i say the our father, hail mary, glory be x 2; and also morning and evening collects. Also childlike prayer for safety during sleep !
Jesus of course
'our life is hid with Christ in God.'
[ 17. November 2014, 22:05: Message edited by: fullgospel ]
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ArachnidinElmet
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quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Praying to saints hasn't been part of my tradition, but I have found myself drawn to St. Martin de Porres. He is such a kindly, generous, loving man that I occasionally ask him to pray for me.
When my church was amalgamated with our neighbours a couple of years ago the new parish was named after St Martin de Porres. The more I find out about the man, the happier I am with the decision. He's always depicted with a broom signifying humble and hard work, and often a cat and mouse drinking from the same saucer.
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Pancho
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Saints are such a natural part of my prayer life. From the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe to a number of people who haven't been canonized but who I think were saintly in this life I invoke them everyday in my morning prayers, my evening prayers, and in different circumstances.
It's hard to know where to start. St. Francis of Assisi is special to me even though I tend to forget him sometimes. After the Virgin Mary he was the first saint to have made an impression on me when I was little. There are others I frequently invoke or in whom I'm interested. For example, in the past few years I've become drawn to St. Benedict Joseph Labre and in my piles of books there is a biography of St. Hildegarde of Bingen that I want to read soon.
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we wailed, and you did not mourn.’"
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fullgospel
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Good to read your post.
I too am drawn to Hildegarde and also Mother Julian of Norwich.
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