Author Topic: Question about prayer requests (Read 1154 times)

poche · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2014, 10:43:45 PM »

Quote from: MariaCatherine

OK, thanks. But what kind of prayer requests do you appreciate receiving, and does more information about the situation or intention make you pray better? Does anyone here receive several requests every week for prayers for people they don't know, and just skim the messages to determine how many prayers are requested, and then offer that many? Would a person who does this, and wonders if it's right, be scrupling, or would they be lazy or uncharitable?

IYO.

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I pray for whatever the person feels that they need prayers for. Sometimes I say AMGD which is Latin initials for Ad majorum Gloriam Dei or in Englis All for the greater glory of God.

Nadir · « **Reply #6 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:27:14 AM »

There are some more recent requests that I remember, and I find it helps me to remember if I know the intention as well as the person I am praying for. But also there are many people I have promised to pray for, so many that I cannot keep them in my head, so I pray "for all those I have promnised to pray for and for those who have asked for our prayers." (they are not always the same people, but there is some lapover there. That way every one is covered and God does not forget!

Sigismund · « **Reply #7 on:** April 02, 2014, 10:13:40 PM »

I never rally gave any thought to the possibility that knowing more about a situation might make my prayers better. God knows everything that needs to be known, in any event.

Stella · « **Reply #8 on:** April 03, 2014, 04:44:56 AM »

I pack a loaded Rosary, and heap on the intentions at the beginning. They are called "blanket prayers," as they cover a myriad of intentions. Here is one:

"for everyone who has written to me or emailed, at home or at work, in the last year, that they will enter the Catholic Church, confess their sins, and die in the state of grace."