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Offline sebo3e

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Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
« on: March 20, 2020, 05:26:06 PM »
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    • Yeah i whould really appreicate to teach me please about praying to saints i hope someone can help me because i dont actually know how do i do it right i did already but not shure if i am doing things right how do i start praying to saint since i already choosed one confirmed?

    I have actually trouble with praying to since many times when i start pray i get stuck like serval seconds dont know what to say the continue i whould appreciate if enyone know what to do? hope someone can pray for me in this trouble

    Also alst question since i have confirmed saint can i pray to more ones since i have already my personal? is it possible to pray to other patron saints and how many times can we do that i am lost because i just started to learn about catholcism since i was lost for so long but found since 2 years ago i repented from my old ways that s why
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    Re: Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
    « Reply #1 on: March 20, 2020, 05:53:58 PM »
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    • Dear Sebo,

    Who is your confirmation saint.?

    Remember, praying to your saint is just like talking to your friend.
    You can use any words you like, or you can read or learn the words of a prayer somebody else has made up.
    It really is very easy as long as you don"t worry about it.
    Remember the saint understands even if you are not speaking his or her language. 

    You can pray to as many saints as you like.
    It is good to learn as much as you can about the lives of the saints. 

    God bless you.

    Nadir 
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    Re: Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
    « Reply #2 on: March 20, 2020, 08:20:30 PM »
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    • Quote from: Nadir on March 20, 2020, 05:53:58 PM
    Dear Sebo,

    Who is your confirmation saint.?

    Remember, praying to your saint is just like talking to your friend.
    You can use any words you like, or you can read or learn the words of a prayer somebody else has made up.
    It really is very easy as long as you don"t worry about it.
    Remember the saint understands even if you are not speaking his or her language.

    You can pray to as many saints as you like.
    It is good to learn as much as you can about the lives of the saints.

    God bless you.

    Nadir
    Well i choosed Blessed virgin Mary since in my home country Croatia even our church is named by her name that s why its special its part of our culture and so on also thank you for the comment
    We also have in Croatia saint named Blazeni Alozije Stepinac have you hearted of him? example whu cuss alot he warned people about cussing in our Croatian homeland you can look on google about it
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    Re: Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
    « Reply #3 on: March 20, 2020, 10:14:15 PM »
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    • That's wonderful that you have chosen the Blessed Virgin Mary, because when you are talking to her it is even better than talking to your friend - you are talking to your Mother. I am very happy for you.

    Thank you for telling me about your Croation saint, Blazeni Alozije Stepinac. I will look for him. I guess he may have been a bishop?
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    Re: Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
    « Reply #4 on: March 20, 2020, 10:49:16 PM »
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    • Today's Saint


     

    St. Benedict, Abbot
    by Fr. Prosper Gueranger


    Forty days after the white dove of Cassino had mounted to heaven, Benedict, her glorious Brother, ascended by a bright path to the blissful abode, where they were to be united for ever. Both of them reached the heavenly country during that portion of the year, which corresponds with the holy Season of Lent. It frequently happens, however, that St. Scholastica's feast is kept before Lent has begun; whereas St . Benedict's day, the twenty-first of March, always comes during the Season of penance. God, Who is the Sovereign Master of time, willed that the Faithful, whilst practising their exercises of penance, should always have before their eyes a Saint, whose example and intercession should inspire them with courage.

    With what profound veneration ought we not to celebrate the Festival of this wonderful Saint, who, as St. Gregory says, " was filled with the spirit of all the Just!" If we consider his virtues, we find nothing superior in the annals of perfection presented to our admiration by the Church. Love of God and man, humility, the gift of prayer, dominion over the passions, form him into a master-piece of the grace of the Holy Ghost. Miracles seem to constitute his life: he cures the sick, commands the elements, casts out devils, and raises the dead to life. The spirit of prophecy unfolds futurity to him; and the most intimate thoughts of men are not too distant for the eye of his mind to scan. These superhuman qualifications are heightened by a sweet majesty, a serene gravity, and a tender charity, which shine in every page of his wonderful Life; and it is one of his holiest children who wrote it, St. Gregory the Great. It is this holy Pope and Doctor, who had the honour of telling posterity all the wonders which God vouchsafed to work in his servant Benedict.

    Yes, posterity had a right to know the life and virtues of a man, whose salutary influence upon the Church and society has been so observable during the ages of the Christian era. To describe the influence exercised by the spirit of St. Benedict, we should have to transcribe the annals of all the nations of the Western Church, from the 7th century down to our own times. Benedict is the Father of Europe. By his Benedictines, numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sands of the sea-shore, he rescued the last remnants of Roman vigour from the total annihilation threatened by the invasion of Barbarians; he presided over the establishment of the public and private laws of those nations, which grew out of the ruins of the Roman Empire; he carried the Gospel and civilization into England, Germany, and the Northern countries, including Sclavonia; he taught agriculture; he put an end to slavery; and to conclude, he saved the precious deposit of the arts and sciences from the tempest which would have swept them from the world, and would have left mankind a prey to a gloomy and fatal ignorance.

    And Benedict did all this by that little book, which we call his "Rule." This admirable code of Christian perfection and prudence disciplined the countless legions of Religious, by whom the Holy Patriarch achieved all these prodigies. During the ages which preceded the promulgation of this "Rule," so wonderful in its simple eloquence, the Monastic Life, in the Western Church, had produced some few saintly men; but there was nothing to justify the hope, that this kind of life would become, even more than it had been in the East, the principal means of the Christian regeneration and civilization of so many nations. This "Rule" once written, and all others gradually give place to it, as the stars are eclipsed when the sun has risen. The West was peopled with Monasteries; and from these Monasteries flowed upon Europe all those blessings, which have made it the privileged quarter of the globe.

    An incredible number of Saints, both men and women, who look up to Benedict as their Father, purify and sanctify the world, which had not yet emerged from the state of semi-barbarism. A long series of Popes, who had once been Novices in the Benedictine Cloister, preside over the destinies of this new world, and form for it a new legislation, which, being based exclusively on the moral law, is to avert the threatening prevalence of brutal despotism. Bishops innumerable, trained in the same School of Benedict, consolidate this moral legislation in the provinces and cities over which they are appointed. The Apostles of twenty barbarous nations confront their fierce and savage tribes, and, with the Gospel in one hand, and the "Rule" of their Holy Father in the other, lead them into the fold of Christ. For many centuries, the learned men, the Doctors of the Church, and the instructors of youth, belong, almost exclusively, to the Order of the great Patriarch, who, by the labours of his children, pours forth on the people the purest beauty of light and truth. This choir of heroes in every virtue, of Popes, of Bishops, of Apostles, of holy Doctors, proclaiming themselves as his Disciples, and joining with the universal Church in glorifying that God, Whose holiness and power shine forth so brightly in the life and actions of Benedict, what a corona, what an aureola of glory for one Saint to have!

    Let us now read the sketch of his life, as given us in the Liturgy.
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    Benedict was born of a noble family at Nursia. He was sent to Rome, that he might receive a liberal education; but not long after, he withdrew to a place called Subiaco, and there hid himself in a very deep cave, that he might give himself entirely to Jesus Christ. He passed three years in that retirement, unknown to all save to a Monk, by name Romanus, who supplied him with the necessaries of life. The devil having one day excited him to a violent temptation of impurity, he rolled himself amidst prickly brambles, and extinguished within himself the desire of carnal pleasure by the pain he thus endured. The fame of his sanctity, however, became known beyond the Iimits of his hiding-place, and certain monks put themselves under his guidance. He sharply rebuked them for their wicked lives; which rebuke so irritated them, that they resolved to put poison in his drink. Having made the sign of the Cross over the cup as they proffered it to him, it broke, and he, leaving that monastery, returned to his solitude.

    But whereas many daily came to him, beseeching him to take them as his disciples, he built twelve monasteries, and drew up the most admirable rules for their government. He afterwards went to Monte Cassino, where he destroyed an image of Apollo, which was still adored in those parts; and having pulled down the altar and burnt the groves, he built a chapel, in that same place, in honour of St. Martin, and another in honour of St. John. He instructed the inhabitants in the Christian religion. Day by day did Benedict advance in the grace of God, and he also foretold, in a spirit of prophecy, what was to take place. Totila, the King of the Goths, having heard of this, and being anxious to know if it were the truth, went to visit him; but first sent his sword-bearer, who was to pretend that he was the king, and who, for this end, was dressed in royal robes and accompanied by attendants. As soon as Benedict saw him, he said: "Put, off, my son, put off this dress, for it is not thine." But he foretold to Totila, that he would reach Rome, cross the sea, and die at the end of nine years.

    Several months before he departed from this life, he foretold to his disciples the day on which he should die. Six days previous to his death, he ordered them to open the sepulchre wherein he wished to be buried. On the sixth day, he desired to be carried to the Church, and there having received the Eucharist, with his eyes raised in prayer towards heaven, and held up by his disciples, he breathed forth his soul. Two monks saw it ascending to heaven, adorned with a most precious robe, and surrounded by shining lights. They also saw a most beautiful and venerable man, who stood above the saint's head, and they heard him thus speak: "This is the way, whereby Benedict, the beloved of the Lord, ascended to heaven."

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    The above source is a great place to learn and pray to the saints and learn the faith.

    Look at your Missal each day to read and pray to the Saint of the Day.

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    Offline sebo3e

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    Re: Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
    « Reply #5 on: March 21, 2020, 11:45:48 AM »
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    • Quote from: Nadir on March 20, 2020, 10:14:15 PM
    That's wonderful that you have chosen the Blessed Virgin Mary, because when you are talking to her it is even better than talking to your friend - you are talking to your Mother. I am very happy for you.

    Thank you for telling me about your Croation saint, Blazeni Alozije Stepinac. I will look for him. I guess he may have been a bishop?

    Thank you my freind i appreciate it and sorry for long reply to also here s the link http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/Jєωs.html

    some history about hime and i am not shure actually about bishop part since i know just little what i readed and saw on tv but we can always learn more by reading history about it like this link
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    Re: Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
    « Reply #6 on: March 22, 2020, 11:33:29 PM »
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    • We could start by saying the Ave Maria;

     

    In Latin it is;

     Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecuм.
    Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
    et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
    Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
    ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
    nunc et in hora mortis nostrae,
    Amen.

    In English it is:

    Hail Mary full of grace
    The Lord is with thee
    Blessed art thou among women
    Blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus
    Holy Mary 
    Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.   
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    Re: Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
    « Reply #7 on: March 22, 2020, 11:34:36 PM »
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    • You could pray to any saint by saying; Saint (name of saint) pray for us. 
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    Re: Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
    « Reply #8 on: May 31, 2020, 12:41:02 PM »
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    • Today is a great day to pray to Our Lady . Not only is it the Birthday of there Church. it also the greatest Marian feast the Queenship. Invoke her under this title.
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    Re: Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
    « Reply #9 on: July 04, 2020, 07:44:41 AM »
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    • I sometimes pray to the holy parents of some great saints i.e Padre pio and St Vianney. As they helped form them into saints and they probably don't get too many prayers.
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    Re: Greetings can enyone help me with praying to saints?
    « Reply #10 on: July 04, 2020, 10:28:42 PM »
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    • Quote from: xavierpope on July 04, 2020, 07:44:41 AM
    I sometimes pray to the holy parents of some great saints i.e Padre pio and St Vianney. As they helped form them into saints and they probably don't get too many prayers.
    The parents of St Terese of Lisieux are recognized as saints today. What St Teresa of Avila said about her father makes me think the same about him also. 
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