Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Prayer For Holiness
Dear Mother, allow Your holiness to permeate my mind, my heart and my soul, to be followed by Your Son's holiness, equally permeating my mind, my heart and my soul, so that I am able to experience for a moment the Love joining Mother and Child, and to realize that I want nothing more, caring about none of the things that trouble me, leaving behind all my demons and rising above them, so that the moment of holiness can grow to an eternity united to the Love that unites Mother and Child, that perfect abiding Love. Amen.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Occasions For Prayer
When one is under pressure, stressed out, impatient or upset and wants to berate, or when a family member has done something wrong or has broken something inadvertently and one is about to castigate, or when one is being yelled at and wishes to yell back, these are all occasions for prayer, along with countless other occasions that can drive us to anger.
When one is so blinded by rage that one seems to have lost control and the faculty to reason, the prayers that are helpful are prayers of the rosary. Say the Hail Mary, for instance [1]. Start with one, then another, and another, until one can breathe calmly and feel one's blood pressure returning to normal, then imagine oneself standing firm at the entrance of one's being, as if one's being is a house with steps that lead to the front door that opens up to the insides of one's mind, body and soul, and direct these or similar words of sternness toward the Enemy that is walking up the last few steps in order to enter: Stay away, Satan! You are not welcomed here.
I find this to be a good strategy to prevent explosive episodes which are always unnecessary and unproductive, which always need mending afterward. I believe that the peace that is never broken is far more secure than the peace that was once shattered and put back together.
[1] Sometimes the wrath can be so overwhelming, so much so that the mind is entirely consumed by it, even saying the entire rosary is not enough to expel the demons within. In that case, pick up the Bible and start reading, and meditate on the actions and words of Christ, to distract the mind so consumed to switch its focus from pure evil to pure good, so that a wedge can go into the darkness and replace it gradually but completely with light.
When one is so blinded by rage that one seems to have lost control and the faculty to reason, the prayers that are helpful are prayers of the rosary. Say the Hail Mary, for instance [1]. Start with one, then another, and another, until one can breathe calmly and feel one's blood pressure returning to normal, then imagine oneself standing firm at the entrance of one's being, as if one's being is a house with steps that lead to the front door that opens up to the insides of one's mind, body and soul, and direct these or similar words of sternness toward the Enemy that is walking up the last few steps in order to enter: Stay away, Satan! You are not welcomed here.
I find this to be a good strategy to prevent explosive episodes which are always unnecessary and unproductive, which always need mending afterward. I believe that the peace that is never broken is far more secure than the peace that was once shattered and put back together.
[1] Sometimes the wrath can be so overwhelming, so much so that the mind is entirely consumed by it, even saying the entire rosary is not enough to expel the demons within. In that case, pick up the Bible and start reading, and meditate on the actions and words of Christ, to distract the mind so consumed to switch its focus from pure evil to pure good, so that a wedge can go into the darkness and replace it gradually but completely with light.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Good Friday, April 22, 2011
Kneeling at St. Dominic's Church in San Francisco before a huge cross flanked by two smaller ones on either side, praying: Cleanse my sins. Starting today, may my years begin and end with Good Friday.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Prayer for the Truth
Dear Lord, please allow me to see the truth and give me the strength to remain calm when witnessing its betrayal.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
A Year Later
2010 was a most difficult year. Coming face to face with the realities of elderly parents, two incompetent siblings who cared little and did even less, I had to concentrate all parts of my intellect, emotion, health and spirituality to design and execute a plan to ensure that my parents lead a healthy and happy life in their senior years. Even with the investment of my entire being, selfish only to the extent that I needed sleep, exercise and meals to sustain myself, I was unable to meet fully my parents' expectations. They want nothing short of perfection, a quality I had neither owned at birth nor have yet acquired.
The execution of my plan was made easier with the assistance of my other sibling, without whom the work would have been almost impossible. If I had thought I could have done it all as if I were the only child (I did think and say it during a moment of anger and frustration), I was truly too spent to actually accomplish it alone.
To be able to arrive healthfully and fairly happily on this day in 2011, I have the Virgin Mary, her incessant prayers and intercession, and her son Jesus to thank.
The execution of my plan was made easier with the assistance of my other sibling, without whom the work would have been almost impossible. If I had thought I could have done it all as if I were the only child (I did think and say it during a moment of anger and frustration), I was truly too spent to actually accomplish it alone.
To be able to arrive healthfully and fairly happily on this day in 2011, I have the Virgin Mary, her incessant prayers and intercession, and her son Jesus to thank.
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