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Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.
Always pray. It's the most powerful cure against fears, worries, and anxieties. So, before you worry about anything today, take a moment and read the Bible in Philippians 4,6-7 and then pray.
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Nothing is as valuable as prayer: it makes the impossible possible and the difficult easy.
God is always able!
📌Remember, you are praying to the One, compassionate Almighty God who created heaven and earth.
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The desire of your heart is itself your prayer. And if the desire is constant, so is your prayer as well. The Apostle Paul had a purpose in saying; “Pray without ceasing.” [1 Th 5,17]
Keep praying, and never give up. Saint Monica, the mother of Saint Augustine, prayed approximately for 17 years for her son’s conversion. A bishop comforted her with these words: “The child of such tears will never perish”. And that persevering prayer bore fruit, for Saint Augustine not only converted, but went on to become a bishop and a Doctor of the Church!
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we can be sure that there is no such thing as superfluous or useless prayers; no prayer is wasted. And prayers are answered, even if the answer is sometimes mysterious, for God is Love and infinite Mercy.
Our prayers —as Pope Benedict XVI teaches in the source of this quote— reach the heart of God, because He is merciful and He is not indifferent to our entreaties. Blessed be God! 🙌
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Contemplative prayer in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.
Prayer does not have to be complicated. As Saint Teresa of Jesus teaches, prayer should be a conversation between friends—spending time alone with God, knowing that He loves us ❤️.
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With a friend, we can speak and share our deepest secrets. With Jesus too, we can always have a conversation. (...) Prayer enables us to share with him every aspect of our lives and to rest confidently in his embrace. At the same time, it gives us a share in his own life and love.
There is no better place to have an intimate conversation with Jesus—our God and Savior—than by visiting Him in the Blessed Sacrament (spending a “holy hour” devoted to prayer in the presence of the Holy Eucharist, where Jesus Christ is truly present in His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity).
Many people turn to remedies like linden tea to calm their nerves, ignoring that visiting Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament heals the soul.
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listen to him and may you enjoy a consistent and sincere relationship with him. With trust, tell him about your hopes and your aspirations, your sorrows too and those of the people you see who are in need of consolation and hope.
We must not forget to pray for the people we see who are in need of consolation and hope 🙏.
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The family that prays together, stays together.
This phrase was adopted and popularized by Venerable Father Patrick Peyton, who promoted the practice of praying the Rosary as a family.
Scientific studies have concluded that families who pray together are more closely knit, happier, and live better lives.
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Far be it from us either to use much speaking in prayer, or to refrain from prolonged prayer, if fervent attention of the soul continue. To use much speaking in prayer is to employ a superfluity of words in asking a necessary thing; but to prolong prayer is to have the heart throbbing with continued pious emotion towards Him to whom we pray. For in most cases prayer consists more in groaning than in speaking, in tears rather than in words. But He sets our tears in His sight, and our groaning is not hidden from Him who made all things by the word, and does not need human words.
A wonderful phrase to encourage us to keep persistently knocking at the Lord’s door through our prayers. It is very comforting to know that God cares about us, and that when we pray, He sets our tears in His sight 😭.
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“Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you” (Lk 11:9). With these words, Jesus invites us to turn with trust to the Father for all our needs. (...) “To ask,” in fact, is to recognize, through poverty, that everything is a gift from the Lord and to give thanks for it.
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Often when confronting evil we have the feeling that we are powerless, but our prayers themselves are the first and most effective response we can give and they strengthen our daily commitment to spread goodness. God’s might makes our weakness fruitful (cf. Rom 8:26-27).
In reality we are not powerless against the evils of this world (such as war and anti-life and anti-family ideologies). We can confront evil through prayer, fasting, and —as the wise advice of Saint Paul in Romans 12,21— overcoming evil with good.
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He who does not pray, the devil devours.
He who does not fast, becomes the devil's breakfast.
And he who does not read the Bible, believes everything the devil says.
This is the translation of a very wise, popular Spanish saying! ✨
• The warning about the devil devouring is found in 1 Peter 5,8.
• The need for fasting and prayer is found in Matthew 17,21.
• Discernment through Scripture is found in 1 John 4,1 and Acts 17,11.
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Don't wait and pray until you need something.
Pray and thank God every day for the small blessings!
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Yes, we are happy for the gift of faith; it is our most precious possession, which no one can take from us! Let us thank the Lord for this daily, in prayer and by a consistent Christian life.
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Thank God ahead of time.
Blessed Solanus also wrote this powerful statement of faith, gratitude and surrender:
“Shake off the excessive worry - and instead exercise a little confidence in God’s merciful providence - by first promising some little sacrifice in thanksgiving if things go favorably. Then to show your confidence in His goodness, start thanking Him now for what He may see best to do”.