293 Oblation Prayer. I offer to you, Oh Lord, everything that I am, my life, my aspirations, my joys and my pains. Purify and strengthen me in my offering. Make me worthy to serve you. Inspire me to touch others and bring them under your wing. I surrender myself to your Divine Will.
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293B Dasal ng Pag-alay. Alay ko sa iyo, Panginoon, ang buhay ko, bawat himutok, bawat hininga, bawat galak at luha, hinagpis at pawis. Linisin mo ang aking diwa. Bigyan mo ako ng lakas. Gawing mong marapat ang aking paglingkod sa iyo. Ikaw ang aking gabay sa paglingkod sa kapwa at paghatid sa kanila sa iyong piling. Sinusuko ko ang aking diwa sa iyong Diwa dahil mahal kita.
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Posters = 293 293B a15 615C 494 547 531 487 278 525 524 430 222 240B 347 329 571 320v3 320v4 320v5 320v6 327.
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a15 Pain as Prayer. When you offer your pain as a prayer, it is no longer pain but prayer. It yields inner peace and inner strength that consumes the pain. Offer your pain-prayer for the forgiveness of all our sins.
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615C Orphan’s Prayer. In my utter pain, I never spoke to the Lord. I angry at him for abandoning me. Thee, I realized, it was I who abandoned him. He was there all the while beside me. I just refused to see him in my pain. Then, at the garden this morning, for the first time, I prayed to him. He was just waiting for me to pray to him before he would help me. I felt his warm embrace instantly. We have to ask him before he extends his extends his hand.
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494 Water Prayer. Lord, you are Living Water, source of our strength, source of life itself. Quench our thirst in the midst of our deepening drought.
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547 Predeparture Prayer. We are all in the predeparture area. There is so little time. Make haste to give and forgive, to relate and reciprocate, to love and share.
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531 St. Ignatius Oblation Prayer. Take, Lord, and receive all that I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours. Do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me. Amen.
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487 A Winter Prayer. In the winter of my despair, what kiips me going is the hope of spring and the thought that you, Lord, are my Light at every moment of my darkness, my warmth from the freezing cold. Stay beside me always.
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278 A Whispered Prayer. With just a whispered prayer, we can turn the Lord’s wrath into mercy. With even just hesitant remorse, he forgives even the most heinuous crimes. With just a wordless wishful thought, which is for him a prayer, he aborts cataclysms and pandemics. For he is the Lord of both punishment and forgiveness. His mercy overflows as rivers in a deluge. Sister Raquel Reodica, RVM.
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525 Pain as Prayer. Every Friday, the hand wounds of Jesus on the cross would appear on St. Padre Pio’s hands (stigmata). He offered his excruciating pain to atone for our sins. We should do the same – offer our pains to atone for the sins of Mankind. Pain is a powerful form of prayer and forgiveness. A million of us can stop the global pandemic.
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524 “Our prayers are timeless. For the Lord, the past does not exist. The future does not exist. Everything is an eternal present”, said Saint Padre Pio. The Lord forgives us even before we commit a sin and even before we ask for forgiveness. St. Padre Pio, pray for us.
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430 Another way to pray. If you pray for others, you pray for yourself five fold. As you walk along the streets or if you are on a bus, pray for anyone you see – passersby, beggars, rich or poor, young or old. Just say, “Lord, please bless and take care of him/her/them.” You will notice that when you do, you will feel a sense of inner peace and well being, for sharing your moments quietly with others. Especially important during the pandemic. Try it. Make it a habit.
222. Lord, as You increase, I decrease. (One of the most compelling portraits of Jesus by Filipino artist Rudolf Gonzalez.)
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240B Prayer of St. Ignatius. Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous. Teach me to serve you as you deserve. To teach and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to ask for reward. Save that of knowing, I am doing your most holy will. Amen.
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347. Gandhi’s prayer. In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. (Sa pagdarasal, mas mabuti pang may puso na walang salita, kaysa sa salitang walang puso.
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320v3 – Prayer vs the pandemic, version 3
320v4 – prayer versus the pandemic version 4
320v5 – prayer versus the pandemic version 5
320v6 – prayer versus the pandemic version 6
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327 Buddhist Heart Prayer – Prajna Paramitra PUtra. Christianity adapts a Buddhist prayer. The Wisdom of Buddha is the Wisdom of Jesus. There is no conflict. Learning about Buddha makes one a better Christian. Here is a Christian view of the Buddhist Heart Prayer.
You have to achieve emptiness in order to be filled. That is why Jesus teaches us that penance is a powerful form of prayer. When penance or pain is offered to the Lord, it is no longer pain but prayer. Giving your last clothing to the poor is a prayer Jesus so easily hears.
Attachment destroys true Wisdom and Love. Once you are no longer attached to material things, your spirit is free to know and to love. Poverty and pain are forms of emptiness that lead to spirituality. Attachment brings greed, fear of loss, insatiable desire for more, and unfulfilled false expectations that consumes. Non-attachment brins peace, which is needed before you can love.
Love is a mystery. One simply experiences it to understand it. Buddha says you achieve total Wisdom instantly by loving. Love is the greatest Wisdom. Thus, Jesus teaches us to love our neighbors, to give bread in return for stone hurled at us.
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FOR THOSE WHO NEED HEALING, spiritual or physical (depression, anxiety, loneliness, terminal cancer, covid, diabetes, etc.) – say an online healing prayer with one or both healers below. Terminal patients have been healed in cyberspace. All you need is to have faith and to ask the Lord –
1) Father Fernando Suarez – www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UP3LHBgtIc.
2) Sr. Raquel Reodica, RVM – www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAZcwNimBSg
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