Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Prayer to the Virgin Mary, Queen of the Angels

1. Mary, My good mother,
   Free me from mortal sin during this day through the power that the eternal Father has given you.
2. Mary, My good mother,
   Free me from mortal sin this day through the wisdom that your Son has given you.
3. Mary, My good mother,
   Free me from mortal sin during this day through the love that the Holy Spirit has given you. Amen.

To the Queen of Apostles

I thank you, merciful Jesus for having given us Mary as our Mother. And I thank you, O Mary, for having given to mankind the Divine Master, Jesus the Way, the Truth and the Life, and for having accepted us all as your children on Calvary.

Your mission is united to that of Jesus, who “came to seek those who were lost.” Therefore oppresses by my sins, faults and negligence, I take refuge in you, O Mother, as my supreme hope. To turn your eyes of mercy toward me. Bestow your most maternal care upon this your most needy child.

I place all my trust in you for pardon, conversion and sanctity. For a new class among your children, that of the neediest in who sin abounded. This will be the class that will most move you to pity. Receive my poor soul into this class. Work a great wonder by changing a great sinner into an apostle. It will be an unheard-of wonder and a new glory for your Son, Jesus, and for you, his and my Mother.

I hope to receive everything from your heart, O Mother, Teacher and Queen of Apostles.
Amen.

A great prayer to be featured on a Christian Magazine.

Sign of the Cross

The great tradition of Catholics to be proud of the “Sign of the Cross” was mocked and teased today by some anti-Catholics Medias because of their ignorance about the biblical and historical basis of this spiritual tradition.

We sign the cross on our forehead, decorate our churches with cross and administer sacraments with same sign.
The Biblical Basis from Christian Magazine:
When we make the sign of the cross, we proclaim the message of salvation purchased by Jesus through the cross. The Bible clearly states:
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing …
But to us who are being saved, is THE POWER OF GOD” (I cor. 1:17-18)

The Bible teaches us…
To be proud of it as…
The message of the CROSS is the POWER OF GOD.

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me… and I to the world. (Gal. 6:14)

Cross symbolizes our day today sufferings without which there is no crown for Christians.

Cyril of Jerusalem wrote in AD 386:
"Let us therefore not be ashamed of the cross of Christ; but though another hide it, do thou openly zeal it upon thy fore head, that devils may beheld the royal sign and flee trembling far away. Make then this sign at eating and drinking, at sitting, at lying down, at rising up, at speaking, at walking: in a word, at every act."

Ephrem of Syria testifies in AD 373:
"Make all your actions with the sign of the life giving Cross. Do not go out from "the doors of your house till you have signed yourself with the cross. Do not neglect that sign whether in eating and drinking or going to sleep, or in the home or going on a journey. There is no habit to be compared with it. Let it be a protecting wall around all your conduct, and teach it to your children that they earnestly learn the custom."

The Lord bless thee and keep thee.
Show His face to thee.
Turn His countenance to thee and give thee PEACE.
The Lord Bless thee.

- St. Francis of Assisi

Healing Prayer

Heavenly Father, I thank you for loving me. I thank you for sending your son, our Lord Jesus Christ to the world to save and set me free. I trust in your power and grace that sustain and restore me.

Loving father, touch me now with your healing hands, for I believe that your will is for me to be well in mind, body, soul and spirit. Cover me with the most Precious Blood of your son our Lord Jesus Christ from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. Cast out anything that should not be in me. Root out any unhealthy and abnormal cells and multiply my healthy cells. Open any blocked arteries or veins and rebuild and replenish any damaged areas. Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection by the power of Jesus' precious blood. Let the fire of your healing love pass through my entire body to heal and to make new any diseased areas so that my body will function the way you created it to function. Touch also my mind and my emotion, even the deepest recesses of my heart. Saturate my entire being with your presence, love, joy and peace and draw me ever closer to you every moment of my life.

And Father fill me with your Holy Spirit and empower me to do your works so that my life will bring glory and honor to your holy name.

I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

The healing prayer is very powerful especially if a person is sincere, as the bible say - "...The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful." – (James 5:16)

I came across a Christian Magazine site when I've read a sad story about a lady who is going to have a surgery, I thought this prayer will help.

The 4 H of Peace

Everybody wants to live a peaceful life. Who wouldn’t? A Christian Magazine site asked.
For a peaceful life,
Don’t forget these four H’s:
*HONESTY – yes, honesty is still and always the best policy. Being honest can set you free, no tense. As Abraham Lincoln saying – “No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” Do not put yourself to a place where you fall over your own bluff. An honest person is a person at peace. A person who pretends is tense.

*HUMILITY – a person finds peace and contentment when HE HAS NO AIRS about him when he knows and accepts himself, does not think that he is superior or more significant than others and does not pretend to be something or someone else.

*HARD WORK – there is no substitute for hard work. You know how empty it feels to be all form and no substance. Are you hard working or hardly working? Put your heart and soul into your task.

*HOLINESS – follow God’s ways and you will have peace. Turn away from God and you will never find peace.

*And one more H – HUMOR! – don’t tale yourself too seriously. Learn to hug yourself, works and all. Smile, laugh and with childlike confidence trust in our loving Father, who has a terrific sense of humor.

“Clothe yourself with humility in your dealings with one another” – (1 Peter 5:5)

The Lord’s Prayer

"…The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" (James 5:16).

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours,
Now and for ever. Amen

The Lord’s Prayer also known as “Our Father” prayer is prayed by millions of Christians all over the world. This prayer is also sung during the Eucharistic celebration. I saw this article from a Christian Magazine. The prayer starts by praising and worship, the time where we need to honor the Lord and on top of all other names, we are the Lord’s children. To let us remember his faithfulness and to spend time with Him in prayer. The prayer then moves on that when we align ourselves listening with God’s will, we can know His desires. That God’s kingdom or rule will become the rule on earth. Only then, we turn to ask our Lord for our own needs and the needs of others, and that He would forgive us with all the wrong things we have done to others. We ask the Lord for the grace to stand solid in the face of temptation, resist all enemy schemes, guidance and protection through our journey. Finally we turn back to Him and worship His name, proclaiming who God really is as the Almighty ruler.