Prayer faith and vision plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brewThe magical spell to your dreams coming true.

Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ we share with them in the communion of saints. They are still our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we celebrate the Eucharist they are there with us along with the angels and archangels. Why then should we not pray for and with them The reason the Reformers and their successors did their best to outlaw praying for the dead was because that had been so bound up with the notion of purgatory and the need to get people out of it as soon as possible. Once we rule out purgatory I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead and every reason why we should - not that they will get out of purgatory but that they will be refreshed and filled with Gods joy and peace. Love passes into prayer we still love them why not hold them in that love before God

Be still and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is all concepts you have learned about the world all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false or good or bad of every thought it judges worthy and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world forget this course and come with wholly empty hands unto your God.

Ill pray for you.Thats very kind of you.I cant spare you a whole rosary you know. Just a decade. Ive got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week.

Prayer will never do our work for us what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

Every morning I was renewed though. Air and light healed me over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them.

I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

This I would like to be- braver and bolder Just a bit wiser because I am older Just a bit kinder to those I may meet Just a bit manlier taking defeat This for the New Year my wish and my plea- Lord make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit finer More of a smiler and less of a whiner Just a bit quicker to stretch out my hand Helping another whos struggling to stand This is my prayer for the New Year to be Lord make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit fairer Just a bit better and just a bit squarer Not quite so ready to censure and blame Quicker to help every man in the game Not quite so eager mens failings to see Lord make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit truer Less of the wisher and more of the doer Broader and bigger more willing to give Living and helping my neighbor to live This for the New Year my prayer and my plea- Lord make a regular man out of me.

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire is mistaken in thinking that he prays.