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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 70672 [post_author] => 3 [post_date] => 2024-09-14 07:20:00 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-09-14 07:20:00 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat with Jesus and his disciples. The Pharisees saw this and said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” He heard this and said, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. Go and learn the meaning of the words, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.”&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Matthew 9:10-17</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Background</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow was started because I had fallen away, but returned to my faith through the discovery of contemplative prayer. Christ reached out to me through the Church’s spirituality and He changed my heart and my life completely. That’s why we started Hallow - to try to help people, especially those who have fallen away, to pray and to encounter Christ.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">When we were first building Hallow, we built it just for ourselves. Contemplative and meditative prayer brought me back to the faith, and we wanted to create a tool to help us continue growing deeper in a relationship with God. But some of our friends and family soon started using the app and we had to figure out what we wanted Hallow to be. So, as with all serious decisions, we prayed about it.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">My co-founder and I both ended up praying about the same passage: the Parable of the Ten Talents (Mt 25:14-30). And we realized something from that passage that we hadn’t really thought about before: how much risk the men must have had to take on in order to double their talents. How they must have made big, bold bets - bets that very well could have not worked out. And from that time in prayer we realized that was what God was asking us to do with this app - to take some big swings, to take risks, in order to try to reach out to those who have fallen away.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We realized Hallow isn’t something that’s necessary. It isn’t like a church or a doctor. I use the app every day, multiple times a day, but if it’s not around tomorrow, I’ll be fine. I’ll still be able to pray the Rosary, meditate with the Daily Readings, and go to Mass. You do not need an app to pray.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">But what we do have is a unique opportunity to take some big swings and reach out to those hardest to reach, and through the grace of God, introduce them to His Love.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And so we landed on structuring Hallow as a startup (specifically a <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/why-we-made-hallow-a-public-benefit-corp/">Public Benefit Corporation</a>) - an organization that we knew was almost certain to fail, but that had a small chance of reaching out to those who were in their darkest moments and introducing them to the Love of Christ.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This is the ‘why’ behind everything we do. It’s why we work with celebrities. It’s why we take big swings on a superbowl ad or other TV commercials.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The vast majority of the content on the app is led by priests, religious sisters, bishops, theologians, and other great spiritual leaders, but we’ve found that partnering with celebrities can act as a really powerful invitation to folks who otherwise would never download a Christian app, and invite them into the beauty of the Church’s spirituality.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Philosophy</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It is important, of course, for us to think through, seriously, who and how we partner with various creators. We are still early in this journey, but over the past few years working on this, and after many different conversations with faith advisors and time in prayer, we have developed the following philosophy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We generally think about partners in three different categories:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>1. Spiritual leaders</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">These are partners we trust to share their own personal reflections, meditations, and prayers with our community on the app without editing or scripts from our content team (Hallow’s full-time team with backgrounds in Catholic theology). We place an incredible amount of trust in these partners to be in-line with Church teaching. This group of partners is small, but includes folks like Fr. Mike Schmitz, Sr. Miriam James Heidland, Jeff Cavins, Bishop Barron, Mother Olga, Fr. Frankie Cicero, and others. We stand behind what these folks say, trust them to lead us in reflection and prayer, and allow them to guide conversations or interviews how they think best. We are honored and humbled to get to work with these partners. They are and will always be the core of the app.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>2. Content Partners</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">These are the partners who act as voice actors reading scripts, musicians performing in bands, or individuals sharing their own personal testimonies on the app.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We think about this group of people similarly to how we would think about the cast for <em>The Passion of the Christ</em> or <em>The Chosen </em>(most of whom are not Catholic and many of whom are not Christian). We believe these powerful works stand on their own, point us towards the truth, and can be used for spiritual growth - despite the diversity of faith backgrounds involved in their creation. It takes great courage to talk about or portray the truth of the faith in our world today, especially in Hollywood, and we’re incredibly grateful to our many content and music partners who are willing to be a part of sharing Christ’s message.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We take great care to make sure all of the content on the app is in-line with Church teaching, but we do not stand behind each individual actor or musician's past public comments, actions, or personal beliefs. Any answer to any question about where Hallow stands on Church teaching can be found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. We stand behind the Church’s teaching on all issues, including those that are unpopular in today’s culture and especially the preeminent issue of our time in our country – the right to life.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In thinking through this philosophy, we looked to the guidance usually given by the Bishops to Catholic universities when inviting speakers on campus (though unfortunately advice which nowadays is often disregarded by the universities): individuals can be invited to campus to speak, even if they publicly disagree with or act against Church teaching, as long as they are not given an honorary degree or some other award that implies an endorsement of their life’s work, and are not on campus to specifically promote the views that go against the Church’s teaching (excluding in the context of a debate). The current culture of ‘canceling’ or the idea that ‘platforming’ someone somehow requires an endorsement of everything they’ve publicly said is not something we understand to be Catholic teaching. If this were the case, that the Church requires each contributor to every piece of spiritual content consumed by Catholics to be fully in-line with Church teaching, publicly, in every way, we believe it would exclude Catholics from watching <em>The Passion</em>, <em>The Chosen,</em> many other great Christian media productions, and most religious music.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">All that being said, the way we think through who we partner with is based on whether or not the core of what the person does or is known for is against the Church and Her mission (e.g. we would not have the executive director of planned parenthood on the app, or someone whose career or public persona is centered around fighting against the Church). Other factors we consider in these decisions include what the content is, how prominent or central the partner is in the content, and how the content is marketed and promoted.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also want Hallow to be a place where anyone can come, regardless of background or political affiliation, and find a home in Christ, so we try not to have partners on the app who are primarily known for political work (except for those fighting for a topic on which the Church also has an explicit political stance, e.g., pro-life activists).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Partnerships with this and the third group below, are the ones that we know will cause the most controversy. We accept this. We also know that we will not always make perfect decisions, and I am certain we will make mistakes, but it is part of the risk we take on with Hallow in trying to reach out to those who have most fallen away.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A couple notes: partners in this category may offer their own personal testimonies or reflections on the app, but these are each reviewed in detail by our content team to ensure everything is in-line with Church teaching. This category will include both Catholics and Non-Catholic Christians.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Catholic Church has changed my life. I’m proudly Catholic. It’s the most important part of my life. I believe it is the One True Church. I believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Hallow’s goal will always be to create something authentically Catholic and 100% in-line with Church teaching. At the same time, since the beginning, we have wanted Hallow to be a place where anyone interested in Christian spirituality could come and develop a relationship with Jesus.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We believe prayer is one of the few things that might actually be able to bring us together. Instead of focusing on what divides us, we think we have an opportunity to come together with what unites us and grow together as brothers and sisters in Christ in our relationship with our Lord.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In thinking through this philosophy we studied closely the sin of <a href="https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/understanding-scandal">scandal</a>: any “attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil” CCC 2284 (though commonly misunderstood as anything that causes controversy). As such, in addition to making sure all of our content is fully in line with Church teaching, we also take it seriously to work to never “scandalize by omission” and to be clear and unequivocal about the Church’s teachings on the app, which is why, on the app, we offer:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Pro-Life prayer challenges, meditations, litany, and novena</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Catechism in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz from Ascension</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Meditations on Catholic Social Teaching to protect and pray for human dignity&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Courses on the Mass, spiritual warfare, imaginative prayer, feminine genius, Ignatian spirituality, “Catholic FAQs”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Many Eucharistic prayers, meditations, novena, and Holy Hour meditations</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Sunday Homilies from Cardinal Tagle, Bishop Barron, and Fr. Mike Schmitz</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Daily Reflections on the Daily Mass Readings with Jeff Cavins&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>And many more explanations of Catholic teaching and doctrine</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We will continue to be public and explicit about our stance with the Church on all of Her teachings, even those that aren’t popular politically or socially.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>3. Advertising partners&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">These are partners who do not have content on the app, but whom we work with to share an invitation of prayer with their audiences through marketing or advertising.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This is one of the primary ways we reach out to those who have fallen away. Both for marketing and simply in order to build the app, we work with many <a href="https://www.catholic.com/qa/no-need-to-boycott-google?_gl=1*aspra2*_up*MQ..*_ga*NTk3MjY1MzcwLjE3MzA0OTA1Mjc.*_ga_C1P2JNZ1YB*MTczMDQ5MDUyNS4xLjAuMTczMDQ5MDUyNS4wLjAuMA">partners</a> and organizations whose actions are not fully in-line with Church teaching. We host the app’s database on Amazon Web Services. We run ads through Facebook, TikTok, and Google. Most users download the app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. We do our best to partner as much as we can with explicitly Catholic tools, but we also believe in working in and through the world to reach those who spend their time in these tools and platforms.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We will advertise Hallow anywhere that allows us to share the message of Christ’s love, within reason (more on that below). We will run ads on Fox, on CNN, on ABC, on MSNBC, on Ben Shapiro’s podcast (a devout Jew), on Candace Cameron’s podcast, on the New York Times, on the Washington Post, etc.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Many folks and organizations who we advertise with will be considered controversial. By partnering with them to share Hallow with their listeners, we certainly do not endorse the opinions of any individual channel or show. The same approach applies to the shows that we, as founders and staff, appear on to talk about Hallow. I’ve appeared on Chris Cuomo, Tucker Carlson, Fox News, Newsnight. I will go anywhere to talk about what the Lord has done in my life.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In thinking through how to apply the Church’s teaching on <a href="https://www.catholic.com/qa/material-cooperation-explained">material cooperation with evil</a>, we have developed the following philosophy around these partners: we will not give money to any organization whose explicit, core purpose is contrary to the Catholic Church’s mission in the world. This would include an organization like the church of satan, planned parenthood, or the kkk (is what I was referring to when I said “within reason” above).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Outside of these extreme examples, if you are willing to share about Jesus with your listeners and platform, we want to help you do that. We believe that the only real way to change someone’s heart who very staunchly disagrees with Church teaching is to share with them the love of Christ, which is the only goal of the app (and, we believe, a strongly <a href="https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/explaining-ratzingers-proportionate-reasons">‘proportionate reason’</a>). We partner with these shows, even ones that we disagree with on critical issues, in the hope that their listeners and even the hosts of the shows themselves will discover a deeper relationship with the Lord and be transformed by His love.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I’ll also note a common objection we hear that we do not agree with, which is the stance that if someone converts to the faith, they must wait many years before sharing their faith publicly. If that were true, Hallow would not exist.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Most organizations are not willing to talk about Christ on their platforms. You may not see it, but most of the time when we approach organizations or individuals about partnering with us, their answer is no. It takes courage, strength, and, above all, an openness to Christ’s message to do that. We are deeply grateful to all of Hallow’s partners for helping make this mission possible.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I know there will be people who do not approve of some of these partnerships. There are many who will hate us for someone we partner with. That’s okay. I will stand with my fellow sinners, of which I am the foremost. There are other great apps, podcasts, books, and resources that can be phenomenal for those who don’t want to be a part of Hallow’s mission.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">During His time on Earth, Christ was criticized for associating with those who were the most hated in His time: tax collectors, outcasts, prostitutes, and sinners. And yet that is what He did. He did not ask them to answer a checklist of beliefs or renounce their sins publicly before He associated with them. Yes, He stood for Truth boldly and publicly and bravely, but that did not prevent Him from dining with sinners. He did so in order to transform them and us. And this is our goal as well - to transform all of us, including our partners and their audiences, with the fire of Christ’s love.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There are many folks on the app who do not need a celebrity invitation to give prayer a try. There are many folks on the app who already take their faith seriously - priests, nuns, bishops, monks, those who go to daily Mass, many who already pray every day. If this is you, it’s an honor to get to pray with you. My faith has been the central part of my life for the last 6 years now and I use the app every day. We certainly want to serve those who take their faith seriously as best as we can. We all have room to grow deeper in prayer. We all have an opportunity to give more of our lives to Christ.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">But at the core of Hallow’s mission is not those who already take their faith seriously, but those who have fallen away - those who may have never heard the names Fr. Mike or Bishop Barron, those who might scroll right past a post from their local church, but just might stop scrolling for half a second to watch a post from someone they recognize from the movies. And this, this leaving of the 99 to go in search of the 1 lost sheep, this is what we at Hallow are all about.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>To Close</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I could share countless stories about the folks who have discovered God’s love through our advertising partnerships with celebrities, folks in media, and musicians, but there’s one I’ll share with you here that is particularly meaningful.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A woman wrote to us a few months ago:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“I just wanted to let you know. I don’t think I’d be standing here physically alive today if it wasn’t for the grace God gave me through your app”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">She was a young married mother of three little girls but had been, for the last several years, addicted to drugs and alcohol and involved in a long-standing affair.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><br>Her husband found out about the affair, left her, and took their kids.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">She told me she was broken into a million pieces. Everyone she loved had left her. She was alone, exposed for the whole world to see her shame. She often thought she was better off dead.<br><br>But then she saw some little Instagram post from Mark Wahlberg telling her to pray.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“It was just too strange. This guy from the weird inappropriate Bear movies talking to me about the rosary. It was just too weird. So I downloaded the app and gave it a try.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And I realized something.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I was wrong.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I wasn’t alone.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Christ was there with me.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And He picked me up off the floor, scooped up all of my broken pieces into His arms, and one by one put me back together again.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">She began praying with the app every day. She got sober. She broke off the affair. She prayed for her husband’s forgiveness. He had his own miraculous encounter with Christ in adoration and forgave her. Their family’s back together. They’re having another kid.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glory to God alone. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This woman, and the countless other stories like hers we’ve received, is why we do what we do with Hallow.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Come, Holy Spirit. Please guide us. Come, Lord Jesus. Please lead us in Your Way.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It’s an honor to get to work on this.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I humbly ask for your prayers for us, our partners, and especially those we’re seeking to meet in one of the darkest or loneliest moments of their lives.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In Christ,&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Alex Jones<br>CEO and Co-Founder of Hallow</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => Our Partnership Philosophy [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => our-partnership-philosophy [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-12-16 21:50:22 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-12-16 21:50:22 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=70672 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 66612 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-09-11 19:12:56 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-09-11 19:12:56 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Gertrude, also known as St. Gertrude the Great, was a 13th-century German nun of the Benedictine order who belonged to the famous Monastery of Helfsta.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Few details of Gertrude’s early life are known, but we know a tremendous amount about her adult life and her interior life through her writings.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EZJODwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA3&amp;source=gbs_toc_r&amp;cad=2#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">The Herald of God’s Loving Kindness</a>,” we learn that Gertrude had either three or four brothers and sisters and pursued a religious vocation, to which she originally was indifferent after her parents chose that path for her.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">At 25, she began to experience visions of Jesus, which set her heart ablaze in a new way and led her to become one of the most well-known mystics in Church history.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">An introduction to “<a href="https://westminsterabbey.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/St.-Gertrude-Book.pdf">The Life and Revelations of St. Gertrude</a>,” attributed to an anonymous member of the Convent of Poor Clares, describes Gertrude and her love of Christ in beautiful imagery.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“A loving heart will always be a thankful heart; and so the continual incense of thanksgiving which ascended from the heart of Gertrude before the Eternal Throne, was but the fragrant aroma of the love which burned daily deeper and brighter within her.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stgertrudenovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-st-gertrude-s-visions-nbsp">St. Gertrude’s Visions&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Gertrude’s visions of Jesus ultimately led to her popular prayer, as well as the St. Gertrude Chaplet (“St. Gertrude Rosary”), a faith practice that remains popular even today, nearly 800 years since her death.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One of her visions, recounted in “The Life and Revelations of St. Gertrude,” saw an encounter with Jesus that made clear the power of praying for others. It beautifully visualizes prayer and its connection to the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-sacred-heart-novena/">Sacred Heart of Jesus</a> (to which St. Gertrude was an early devotee):.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>But my God, wilt Thou not hear my prayer for my friends?" Then our Lord confirmed His words as with an oath, replying: "I will, by My Divine power." The Saint replied: "Hear, then, my petition for the person so often recommended to my prayers."</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>And immediately she beheld a stream, pure as crystal, flowing forth from the Heart of the Lord into the person for whom she prayed.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Gertrude’s visionary encounters with Christ led her to abandon forms of vanity and devote herself more fully to God and in a special way, the study of Scripture.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">She “devoted herself to writing and popularizing the truth of faith with clarity and simplicity, with grace and persuasion, serving the Church faithfully and lovingly so as to be helpful to and appreciated by theologians and devout people,” <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20101006.html">said Pope Benedict XVI</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Gertrude developed a special fondness and devotion to praying for souls in purgatory, as detailed in “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=G7KrZTUwOxUC">The Herald of Divine Love</a>”:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>As for her, she besought the Lord that all those in heaven and on earth and even in purgatory (for indeed, all would have benefited from the fruits of her works, had she not been negligent) might now have at least some share in those fruits with which she had just been enriched by his divine generosity. As she was praying, each single one of her good works (symbolized by the fruits of the tree) began to distill a beneficent liquid. Part of this liquid spread over the blessed, increasing their bliss; part of it spread out over purgatory, easing the pain of souls; another part of it spread over the earth, increasing the sweetness of grace for the just, and for sinners the bitterness of repentance.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Benedict XVI also tells us that “St Gertrude's life lives on as a lesson of Christian life, of an upright path, and shows us that the heart of a happy life, of a true life, is friendship with the Lord Jesus.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Much of that lesson comes in the form of her prayer and devotion to souls in purgatory.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stgertrudenovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-st-gertrude-prayer">St. Gertrude Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">According to 1911 book “<a href="https://archive.org/stream/lovepeaceandjoya00prevuoft/lovepeaceandjoya00prevuoft_djvu.txt">Love, Peace, and Joy: A month of the Sacred Heart According to St. Gertrude</a>”, perhaps the simplest prayer associated with St. Gertrude is just three words: "Fiat voluntas tua", Latin for “May Thy will be done.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In one of her visions, St. Gertrude received the following prayer, now commonly called the St. Gertrude prayer or the prayer of St. Gertrude, from Jesus:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Eternal Father, I offer thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus in union with all the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my own family. Amen.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This prayer for souls in purgatory is prominent in the St. Gertrude Rosary. It also forms the basis for the St. Gertrude novena, where this prayer is repeated each day for nine days.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The St. Gertrude prayer for souls in purgatory is also the main component of the St. Gertrude Chaplet.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-how-to-pray-the-st-gertrude-chaplet">How to Pray the St. Gertrude Chaplet</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A chaplet is a special personal, devotional prayer. It often uses <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">rosary</a> beads or a single strand (or decade) of beads. Chaplets often involve repeating a particular prayer, as well as introductory and concluding prayers.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The St. Gertrude Chaplet is sometimes called the “St. Gertrude Rosary” because it’s prayed using standard rosary beads.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Because chaplets are personal devotions, feel free to try your own version based on the St. Gertrude prayer. If you’re more comfortable following along a more established version, here’s how to pray a popular version of the St. Gertrude chaplet:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Make the sign of the cross. Beginning at the crucifix, recite the Apostles Creed</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:image {"id":39583,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none","className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Step-2-Holding-the-Crucifix-pray-the-Apostles-Creed-1024x769.png" alt="Rosary beads with a spotlight on the crufifix" class="wp-image-39583"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>At the first large bead, Pray the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">Our Father</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Over the next three small beads, Pray three <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Marys</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>On the next large bead, pray a Glory Be</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:image {"id":39598,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none","className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Step-5-On-the-next-bead-pray-a-Glory-Be-1024x769.png" alt="Rosary beads with a highlight on the second large bead" class="wp-image-39598"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>On the medallion or medal of the Rosary, pray the Our Father</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Next, on the first decade of the Rosary beads, pray the St. Gertrude prayer</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Eternal Father, I offer thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus in union with all the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my own family. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Repeat this nine times, and then pray two special prayers common in the St. Gertrude chaplet:</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, open the hearts and minds of sinners to the truth and light of God, the Father. </em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/immaculate-heart-of-mary/">Immaculate Heart of Mary</a>, pray for the conversion of sinners in the world.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Pray a Glory Be, then pray an Our Father on the large bead and repeat for the next four decades.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Repeat this for the next four decades</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Close with the sign of the cross.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Though no official Church teaching suggests this, traditional belief holds that each time the St. Gertrude prayer is prayed, 1,000 souls are released from purgatory. Therefore, each time the St. Gertrude rosary is prayed, 50,000 souls enter heaven from purgatory.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stgertrudenovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-prayer-resources-from-hallow">More Prayer Resources from Hallow</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-peregrine-novena/">How to Pray the St. Peregrine Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-divine-mercy-chaplet/">How to Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-st-michael-chaplet/">How to Pray the St. Michael Chaplet</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => St. Gertrude Prayer, Chaplet and Rosary: How to Pray [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => st-gertrude-prayer-chaplet-and-rosary-how-to-pray [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-09-11 19:13:03 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-09-11 19:13:03 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=66612 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 66271 [post_author] => 54 [post_date] => 2024-09-06 19:49:37 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-09-06 19:49:37 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Golden Arrow Prayer is a simple yet effective prayer as a reparation for blasphemy. This prayer was revealed by Jesus to Sr. Mary of St. Peter in 1843.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"textAlign":"center","className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote has-text-align-center"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most mysterious and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in heaven, on earth and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Related Prayers: </strong><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-face-novena/">Holy Face of Jesus Novena</a>, <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/hail-holy-queen-prayer-salve-regina/">Hail Holy Queen Prayer</a>, and <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-sacred-heart-novena/">Sacred Heart Novena</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button {"backgroundColor":"hallow-purple"} --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-hallow-purple-background-color has-background wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/golden-arrow">Pray on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> [post_title] => Golden Arrow Prayer [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => golden-arrow-prayer [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-11-15 19:59:52 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-11-15 19:59:52 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=66271 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 66200 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-09-06 14:48:35 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-09-06 14:48:35 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,<br>our life, our sweetness and our hope.<br>To thee do we cry,<br>poor banished children of Eve.<br>To thee do we send up our sighs,<br>mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.<br>Turn then, most gracious advocate,<br>thine eyes of mercy toward us,<br>and after this our exile<br>show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.<br>O clement, O loving,<br>O sweet Virgin Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Hail Holy Queen Prayer is prayed at end of a <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">Rosary</a>, before the concluding prayer. It also the concluding prayer for the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/night-prayer-bedtime/">night prayer </a>for <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/liturgy-of-the-hours/">Litury of the Hours</a> between <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/pentecost/">Pentecost</a> and the start of <a href="https://hallow.com/advent/">Advent</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => Hail Holy Queen Prayer (Salve Regina) [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => hail-holy-queen-prayer-salve-regina [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-09-06 14:48:35 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-09-06 14:48:35 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=66200 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 66108 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-09-04 20:18:59 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-09-04 20:18:59 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Although his life sounds almost too unbelievable to be true, St. Peregrine not only existed but also left behind an incredible legacy that sees him still to this day as a patron saint to so many people battling terrible illnesses.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine Laziosi, now known as “The Cancer Saint,” was born in Forli, Italy in 1265.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">According to “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cQEPAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA92&amp;dq=st.+peregrine+laziosi&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj-k_6LkamIAxVwIzQIHeOcOsEQ6AF6BAgIEAI">The Fairest Flower of Paradise: Considerations on the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, Enriched with Examples Drawn from the Lives of the Saints</a>” by Rev. Alexis M. Lepicier, O.S.M., Laziosi grew up “a fierce enemy of the Church and the Pope,” helping to lead revolutions against Church authority.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In a major act of rebellion, Peregrine famously slapped St. Philip Benizi. St. Philip forgave him and prayed for him. Peregrine “was changed into another man” by the display of forgiveness, which eventually led to Peregrine joining the Servite order of friars.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As part of his self-imposed penance, Peregrine committed to never sitting unless absolutely necessary. He often slept leaning against a rock or a church bench. He tirelessly preached the Gospel and served the sick and the poor. Eventually, at 60, Peregrine’s legs began to fail him, as one leg developed cancer, marked by a horrible lesion.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The stench of the infected lesion made it unpleasant for others to be around Peregrine.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The night before his cancerous leg was set to be amputated, Peregrine prayed before an image of Jesus on the Cross. According to the <a href="https://www.stperry.org/history">Friends of St. Peregrine</a>, Peregrine’s prayer “led him into a deep trance-like sleep during which he envisioned the crucified Christ leaving the cross and touching his cancerous leg.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">He awoke the next day and his leg was completely healed, free of cancer and with no visible signs of sickness.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine is perhaps the only saint whose medical miracle is documented on the National Institute of Health (NIH) site, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1742910/pdf/v079p00672.pdf">saying</a> "His physician was astonished to observe that there were no signs of the tumour.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-praying-for-the-intercession-of-saint-peregrine">Praying for the Intercession of Saint Peregrine</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Throughout the rest of his life, and after his death, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1947908/pdf/canmedaj01592-0076.pdf">many miracles</a> were attributed to St. Peregrine, including restoring sight to the blind, casting out evil spirits, and healing abdominal injuries.&nbsp;He became known as "Glorious Wonder Worker" for the many miracles he was associated with.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Friends of St. Peregrine feature <a href="https://www.stperry.org/stories">many modern miraculous healings that</a>, while not miracles officially recognized by the Church, are attributed to St. Peregrine by those who experienced them. One such example comes from Michaelynn in December 2019:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>My brother was diagnosed with leukemia in June 2019. I googled the patron saint of anyone suffering from this disease and found St. Peregrine.&nbsp; I immediately began a novena for his intercession.&nbsp; I also asked everyone I knew to pray for my brother as well.&nbsp; My brother was immediately placed on chemotherapy. His response was so quick that he was released from the hospital earlier than expected. &nbsp; I continued to pray. My brother called me in August to tell me that he was leukemia free. I remembered the story in the Bible of Jesus healing a group of men and only one returned to thank Him. I am thanking Our Lord for my brother’s healing and St. Peregrine for his intercession.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We can always turn to God in our moments of suffering.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/travels/1997/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_04101997_sick.html">In an address to the sick at the National Cancer Institute</a>, Pope John Paul XIII said of God: “He will always dry your tears, if you are able to look at his Cross and anticipate in hope the reward for this suffering. Trust in him. He will not abandon you!”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We can pray to God, through the intercession of St. Peregrine, the patron saint of those battling cancer, cancerous diseases, HIV/AIDS and other incurab.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stperegrinenovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-st-peregrine-novena-how-to-pray-a-novena-to-st-peregrine">St. Peregrine Novena - How to Pray a Novena to St. Peregrine</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You can pray a novena to St. Peregrine the same way you <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-novenas/">pray any other novena</a>: repeating the same prayer, petition, or devotion each day for nine days.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow has created this original novena to St. Peregrine that you can use to ask for God’s healing from cancer for yourself or a loved one.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Each day’s prayer offers an opportunity to lift up your particular intention. Additionally, the novena will lift up a different universal group of people whose lives are impacted by cancer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We recognize how scary a cancer diagnosis can be. Be assured of our prayers, and may God grant you peace as you pray the St. Peregrine novena. And remember that <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayer-campaigns/">Hallow’s prayer campaigns</a> are always free to create and join.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Jump to a specific day of the novena below, or just keep scrolling to start on Day 1.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-1">Day 1 - For all those whose lives have been impacted by cancer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-2">Day 2 - For those undergoing tests and whose condition is unclear </a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-3">Day 3 - For those recently diagnosed </a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-4">Day 4 - For those whose cancer has returned </a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-5">Day 5 - For the families and friends of those battling cancer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-6">Day 6 - For caretakers, nurses, and doctors treating cancer patients </a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-7">Day 7 - For scientists and researchers striving to end this disease</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-8">Day 8 - For those near the end of their journey</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-9">Day 9 - For the pursuit of sainthood</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-1">St. Peregrine Novena: Day 1 - For everyone impacted by cancer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dearest St. Peregrine, faithful servant of God, I come to you today humbly seeking your intercession.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, patron of those battling cancer and other disease, you devoted your life entirely to God, tirelessly tending to God’s children battling sickness and poverty and constantly preaching His word. I beseech thee, o mighty St. Peregrine, to pray for me, that God may heal and protect me from any affliction, should it be His will, and that I may trust entirely in Him, as you modeled so courageously.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, I ask you to join me today in praying for everyone impacted by cancer, a truly awful disease. Pope Francis <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2023/05/29/230529a.html">once reminded</a> pediatric cancer patients, “Very often, in life, we find ourselves in the situation of not having the strength to go forward. But you are never alone! Jesus is always close to you.” St. Peregrine, pray for everyone whose lives have been changed by cancer. May they feel Jesus walking side by side with them on their journey. I also ask for you to pray for this special intention of mine: (state your intention).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, to whom many miracles are attributed, pray that God may grant this request. Pray also that despite the suffering I face, I can surrender myself to God’s will.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary</a>..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">Our Father</a>…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-2">Day 2 - For those undergoing tests&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dearest St. Peregrine, faithful servant of God, I come to you today humbly seeking your intercession.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, patron of those battling cancer and other disease, you devoted your life entirely to God, tirelessly tending to God’s children battling sickness and poverty and constantly preaching His word. I beseech thee, o mighty St. Peregrine, to pray for me, that God may heal and protect me from any affliction, should it be His will, and that I may trust entirely in Him, as you modeled so courageously.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, I ask you to join me today in praying for all of those who are undergoing medical tests and awaiting more information about their condition. Pray that God gives them strength amid uncertainty and comfort amid chaos. When they feel overwhelmed by simply not knowing, pray that they find solace in knowing that God has a plan for their life. I also ask for you to pray for this special intention of mine: (state your intention).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, to whom many miracles are attributed, pray that God may grant this request. Pray also that despite the suffering I face, I can surrender myself to God’s will.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-3">Day 3 - For those recently diagnosed with cancer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dearest St. Peregrine, faithful servant of God, I come to you today humbly seeking your intercession.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, patron of those battling cancer and other disease, you devoted your life entirely to God, tirelessly tending to God’s children battling sickness and poverty and constantly preaching His word. I beseech thee, o mighty St. Peregrine, to pray for me, that God may heal and protect me from any affliction, should it be His will, and that I may trust entirely in Him, as you modeled so courageously.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, I ask you to join me today in praying for those who have recently been diagnosed with cancer. A cancer diagnosis can feel like an entire world turning upside down, like the disciples felt in the tumultuous waters of the Sea of Galilee. St. Peregrine, for those who have just been diagnosed with cancer, pray that they feel Jesus extending His arm, reaching out to them to calm the storm in their life. Pray they feel Jesus shepherding them through these frightening times. I also ask for you to pray for this special intention of mine: (state your intention).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, to whom many miracles are attributed, pray that God may grant this request. Pray also that despite the suffering I face, I can surrender myself to God’s will.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stperegrinenovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-4">Day 4 - For those whose cancer has returned</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dearest St. Peregrine, faithful servant of God, I come to you today humbly seeking your intercession.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, patron of those battling cancer and other disease, you devoted your life entirely to God, tirelessly tending to God’s children battling sickness and poverty and constantly preaching His word. I beseech thee, o mighty St. Peregrine, to pray for me, that God may heal and protect me from any affliction, should it be His will, and that I may trust entirely in Him, as you modeled so courageously.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, I ask you to join me today in praying for those whose cancer has returned: those who have already faced this ugly disease and who prepare to battle it again. Pray that they may not tire in their journey. St. Peregrine, pray that they will trust in God, as you did. I also ask for you to pray for this special intention of mine: (state your intention).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, to whom many miracles are attributed, pray that God may grant this request. Pray also that despite the suffering I face, I can surrender myself to God’s will.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-5">Day 5 - For the families and friends of those battling cancer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dearest St. Peregrine, faithful servant of God, I come to you today humbly seeking your intercession.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, patron of those battling cancer and other disease, you devoted your life entirely to God, tirelessly tending to God’s children battling sickness and poverty and constantly preaching His word. I beseech thee, o mighty St. Peregrine, to pray for me, that God may heal and protect me from any affliction, should it be His will, and that I may trust entirely in Him, as you modeled so courageously.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, I ask you to join me today in praying for those impacted by cancer second hand–the family and friends of cancer patients, who support their loved ones on this difficult path while struggling with the challenges and helplessness of seeing someone close to them suffer. Pray that they, too, will feel comfort as they seek to provide comfort to the afflicted. I also ask for you to pray for this special intention of mine: (state your intention).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, to whom many miracles are attributed, pray that God may grant this request. Pray also that despite the suffering I face, I can surrender myself to God’s will.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-6">Day 6 - For doctors, nurses and caretakers&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dearest St. Peregrine, faithful servant of God, I come to you today humbly seeking your intercession.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, patron of those battling cancer and other disease, you devoted your life entirely to God, tirelessly tending to God’s children battling sickness and poverty and constantly preaching His word. I beseech thee, o mighty St. Peregrine, to pray for me, that God may heal and protect me from any affliction, should it be His will, and that I may trust entirely in Him, as you modeled so courageously.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, I ask you to join me today in praying for all of those to whom those battling cancer are entrusted for care: doctors, nurses, caretakers and others. Pray that God guides their minds to offer the best treatment possible and that He blesses them with strength and endurance. I also ask for you to pray for this special intention of mine: (state your intention).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, to whom many miracles are attributed, pray that God may grant this request. Pray also that despite the suffering I face, I can surrender myself to God’s will.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-7">Day 7 - For scientists and researchers seeking cures and treatments</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dearest St. Peregrine, faithful servant of God, I come to you today humbly seeking your intercession.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, patron of those battling cancer and other disease, you devoted your life entirely to God, tirelessly tending to God’s children battling sickness and poverty and constantly preaching His word. I beseech thee, o mighty St. Peregrine, to pray for me, that God may heal and protect me from any affliction, should it be His will, and that I may trust entirely in Him, as you modeled so courageously.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, I ask you to join me today in praying for scientists and researchers who seek to put an end to cancer as well as create more effective ways to treat this terrible disease. Through your intercession, may God bless with wisdom, knowledge, and strength those who have devoted their lives to seeking an end to cancer so that we may soon have a cure. I also ask for you to pray for this special intention of mine: (state your intention).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, to whom many miracles are attributed, pray that God may grant this request. Pray also that despite the suffering I face, I can surrender myself to God’s will.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-8">Day 8 - For those near the end of their battle with cancer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dearest St. Peregrine, faithful servant of God, I come to you today humbly seeking your intercession.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, patron of those battling cancer and other disease, you devoted your life entirely to God, tirelessly tending to God’s children battling sickness and poverty and constantly preaching His word. I beseech thee, o mighty St. Peregrine, to pray for me, that God may heal and protect me from any affliction, should it be His will, and that I may trust entirely in Him, as you modeled so courageously.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, I ask you to join me today in praying for those who are near the end of their battle with this horrific disease. Pray, St. Peregrine, that though their body may be weakened by cancer, that their faith may remain strong. Pray that they can feel Jesus walking alongside them as they cross from this world to the next. Pray that God will grant them peace and comfort to their families. I also ask for you to pray for this special intention of mine: (state your intention).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, to whom many miracles are attributed, pray that God may grant this request. Pray also that despite the suffering I face, I can surrender myself to God’s will.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stperegrinenovena">Pray Novenas on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-9">Day 9 - For the pursuit of sainthood</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dearest St. Peregrine, faithful servant of God, I come to you today humbly seeking your intercession.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, patron of those battling cancer and other disease, you devoted your life entirely to God, tirelessly tending to God’s children battling sickness and poverty and constantly preaching His word. I beseech thee, o mighty St. Peregrine, to pray for me, that God may heal and protect me from any affliction, should it be His will, and that I may trust entirely in Him, as you modeled so courageously.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, I ask you to join me today in praying that we live our lives like saints, as we are all called to do. You modeled this in your life. Pray that it may inspire me. I also ask for you to pray for this special intention of mine: (state your intention).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Peregrine, to whom many miracles are attributed, pray that God may grant this request. Pray also that despite the suffering I face, I can surrender myself to God’s will.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you enjoyed Hallow’s St. Peregrine novena, consider praying other novenas, like the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/">Surrender Novena</a>, <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-jude-novena/">St. Jude Novena</a>, and the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-sacred-heart-novena/">Sacred Heart Novena</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => St. Peregrine Novena: How to Pray [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => st-peregrine-novena [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-09-09 16:15:40 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-09-09 16:15:40 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=66108 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 65631 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-08-28 19:53:44 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-08-28 19:53:44 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Peace is fundamental to the Christian faith.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the book of the prophet Isaiah, long before Jesus’s birth, we learn of his title of Prince of Peace.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“For a child, is born to us, a son is given to us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace.” </em>~ Isaiah 9:5</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the Gospels, Jesus Himself tells us that he offers us peace.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.</em> ~ John 14:27</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We logically <em>know</em> Jesus brings us peace. Yet, both in the world around us and inside our own hearts and minds, it is sometimes difficult to recognize that peace. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here are some prayers you can use to pray for peace, whether you’re seeking peace in our world or peace in your mind.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-prayers-for-peace">Prayers for Peace</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow created these simple prayers for peace that you can pray to ask God for peace on earth, in the many forms that that takes.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you are using these prayers in a group setting, simply change the singular pronouns (“I” and “me”) to plural ones (like “we” and “us”).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You may also find these prayers helpful for praying for peace within families.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Heavenly Father, you created the earth, the sun, and all of the life that dwells here as part of your creation. I pray that your Holy Spirit may move the hearts of all of Your children toward a radical form of peace that rejects violence and oppression. I understand, o Lord, that conflicts have existed for centuries and can seem impossibly complex and without hope. However, You are a God of peace and healing. Through You, all things are possible. Heal our world. May Your Kingdom come. Amen.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>God of peace and justice, I turn to You today with a heavy heart, overwhelmed by the division and unrest that distances us from each other–and from You. Soften the hearts of those who see their brother as “other”. Remind us all that you call us to live in harmony with each other. May pride never overtake us. May we live to serve, putting others before ourselves. God, may Your peace reign now and forever. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Dear God, we know you have conquered the world, including death, and all of the evil that sometimes feels like it surrounds us. In moments like this, where I desperately seek peace, I pray that I can take comfort in Your promise and place my trust in You. I pray that I not only feel Your love but that I become an instrument of it, extending Your loving embrace to those whose lives are most shattered by the sins of violence. In Your name I pray. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Holy Spirit come, guide us towards the way of peace. Lead us to build God’s kingdom here on earth. Set our hearts ablaze with a fire for justice. Strengthen us in our mission to follow the path that God leads us toward. I pray for hope, I pray for kindness, I pray for justice. I pray for all these things as I pray for peace. In Jesus’s name I pray. Amen.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Related prayers: </em><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/"><em>Prayers to the Holy Spirit</em></a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-prayers-for-peace-of-mind-nbsp">Prayers for Peace of Mind&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Sometimes the peace we desire has less to do with what’s happening out in the world, and what’s happening in the complicated space inside our heads.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you’ve ever been overcome by worrying, overthinking, restlessness or any other feelings that have left you feeling unsettled, you know that peace of mind is not always easy to come by.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/prayersforpeace">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Consider these short prayers whenever you need peace of mind, whether you’re lying in bed struggling to sleep or feeling a lack of peace amid the busyness of your day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>When my mind races and my heart is unsettled, Lord, I turn to you. Settle my uneasy mind and strengthen me that I may fix my eyes on You and the promise of eternal life secured through Jesus’s victory over death. I love You, Lord, and I trust in You. In Your name I pray. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Heavenly Father, Your love for me knows no bounds. You sent Your Son so that I may live forever with you in heaven. Right now, heaven feels far away, and I struggle to feel the peace that I know You provide. Let my mind be calm, my heart be still. Help me to feel Your presence with me now. Clear my mind of worries and fill it with the peace only You provide. In gratitude I pray. Amen.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Jesus, you calmed the stormy waters in the Sea of Galilee. I imagine how the disciples felt in the boat, far from the safety of dry land, dealing with choppy, turbulent waves, unable to feel peace. It’s a feeling I relate to now. I turn to You as I navigate the storm in my mind and ask You to make it still. Grant me peace, that I may feel rest. You are with me in stormy waters just like You are in the beautiful, still waters of my life. No matter the storm around me, grant that my mind may feel Your peace, trusting in You entirely.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-papal-prayers-for-peace-in-the-world">Papal Prayers for Peace in the World</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Across centuries, the Holy See has led the faithful around the world in prayers for peace.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Sometimes, this has been in response to specific instances of war and violence around the world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Other times, these prayers for peace have been general invocations aiming to help God’s peace flourish here on earth.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The amazing thing about these prayers from popes is that, while they are rooted in specific periods of time, they feel just as relevant today in many ways.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Consider <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xv/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xv_exh_19150728_fummo-chiamati.html">the words below,</a> the concluding lines of a prayer from St. Benedict XVI in 1915, following the outbreak of World War I:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>This is the cry of peace which breaks forth from Our heart with added vehemence on this mournful day; and We invite all, whosoever are the friends of peace the world over, to give Us a helping hand in order to hasten the termination of the war, which for a long year has changed Europe into one vast battlefield. May the merciful Jesus, through the intercession of His Sorrowful Mother, grant that at last, after so horrible a storm, the dawn of peace may break, placid and radiant, an image of His own Divine Countenance. May hymns of thanksgiving soon rise to the Most High, the Giver of all good things, for the accomplished reconciliation of the States; may the peoples, bound in bonds of brotherly love, return to the peaceful rivalry of studies, of arts, of industries, and, with the empire of right reestablished, may they resolve from now henceforth to entrust the settlement of their differences, not to the sword's edge, but to reasons of equity and justice, pondered with due cairn and deliberation. This will be their most splendid and glorious conquest! In loving trust that the tree of peace may soon return to rejoice the world with such desirable fruits, We impart the Apostolic Benediction to all who make up the mystical flock confided to Us, and also for those, who do not yet belong to the Church of Rome, We pray the Lord to draw them close to Us in the bonds of perfect charity.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Similarly, in 1961, Pope John XIII issued this prayer for peace during the Cold War. See the prayer in its entirety <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/en/messages/pont_messages/1961/documents/hf_j-xxiii_mes_19610910_pace.html">here</a>, or spend in time prayer with the final section of it, featured below:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>We would extend our most urgent invitation to prayer to priests, to consecrated souls, to the innocent and to the suffering. Let us all together beg the Father of light and of grace to enlighten the minds and move the wills of those who hold the chief responsibility for the life or death of the peoples; let us pray for the peoples themselves that they may not allow themselves to be dazzled by exacerbated nationalism and destructive rivalry, and that, as We so earnestly exhorted in Our Encyclical "Mater et Magistra", the relationships in the life of human society may be reintegrated in truth, in justice and in love. Let us all pray that by means of the penetration of the Christian spirit morality may grow strong: the vigorous strength of Christian families, the source of noble power and dignity and of blessed and joyful prosperity.</em> <em>Ever and always let us pray for the peace of Christ here below, between all men of good will: "that all the families of the nations, rent asunder by the wound of sin, may be subjected to the most gentle rule of Christ."</em> <em>And finally we turn to you, O blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus and our Mother also. How can we, with trembling hearts, apply ourselves to this greatest problem of life or death, which overshadows all mankind, without relying on your intercession to keep us safe from all dangers? This is your hour, Mary; to you Jesus entrusted us in the final moment of His sacrifice of blood. We are confident in your intercession.On the Eighth of September Holy Church kept the feast of your most happy birthday, hailing it as the first beginning of the world's salvation and the growth of peace. This indeed, is what we beg of you, most loving Mother and Queen of all the world. The world has no need of victorious wars and defeated peoples, but of the renewed strength of salvation and of the fruitfulness and calm of peace: this is its need and this it is for which it cries aloud: "salutis exordum; et pacis incrementum"; "the dawn of salvation and growth of peace. Amen. Amen."</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On World Day of Peace (January 1) in 2006, Pope Benedict XVI prayed for peace through the intercession of Mary, Mother of the Prince of Peace. The full prayer is <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20051213_xxxix-world-day-peace.html">available here</a>, with the ending excerpt included below:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>At the same time I ask for an increase of prayers, since peace is above all a gift of God, a gift to be implored incessantly. By God's help, our proclamation and witness to the truth of peace will be all the more convincing and illuminating. With confidence and filial abandonment let us lift up our eyes to Mary, Mother of the Prince of Peace. At the beginning of this New Year, let us ask her to help all God's People, wherever they may be, to work for peace and to be guided by the light of the truth that sets man free (cf. Jn 8:32). Through Mary's intercession, may all mankind grow in esteem for this fundamental good and strive to make it ever more present in our world, and, in this way, to offer a safer and more serene future to generations yet to come.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 2014, Pope Francis <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/prayers/documents/papa-francesco_preghiere_20140608_invocazione-pace.html">issued an invocation for peace</a> at the Vatican Gardens. Following a trip to the Holy Land, he invited Israeli and Palestinian leaders together and called for peace, a message that certainly resonates a decade later:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>Lord God of peace, hear our prayer! We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the force of our arms. How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced; how much blood has been shed; how many lives have been shattered; how many hopes have been buried… But our efforts have been in vain. Now, Lord, come to our aid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: “Never again war!”; “With war everything is lost”. Instil in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace. Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters. Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace; enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister. Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness. Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way may peace triumph at last, and may the words “division”, “hatred” and “war” be banished from the heart of every man and woman. Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands. Renew our hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be “brother”, and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam! Amen.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/prayersforpeace">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-bible-verses-for-peace">Bible Verses for Peace</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">When you’re seeking peace, it can be comforting to simply spend time with the Word of God.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here are some portions of Scripture you can reflect on and pray with during times where you’re struggling to feel peace.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Psalms are filled with beautiful words that tell of the peace that only God can provide.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pslam 124 is one such example:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A song of ascents. Of David.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Had not the Lord been with us,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;let Israel say,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Had not the Lord been with us,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;when people rose against us,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Then they would have swallowed us alive,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for their fury blazed against us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Then the waters would have engulfed us,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the torrent overwhelmed us;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">then seething water would have drowned us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Blessed is the Lord, who did not leave us</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;to be torn by their teeth.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We escaped with our lives like a bird</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;from the fowler’s snare;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the snare was broken,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and we escaped.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Our help is in the name of the Lord,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the maker of heaven and earth.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This passage from Joshua reminds us that God is faithful to His promise to us, giving His people peace “on every side.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And so the Lord gave Israel the entire land he had sworn to their ancestors he would give them. Once they had taken possession of it, and dwelt in it, the Lord gave them peace on every side, just as he had promised their ancestors. Not one of their enemies could withstand them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their power. Not a single word of the blessing that the Lord had promised to the house of Israel failed; it all came true. ~ Joshua 21:43-45</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Consider this passage from 1 Kings, which reminds us that when everything around us feels like chaos, God is present with us in the peace of silence.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Then the Lord said: Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord; the Lord will pass by. There was a strong and violent wind rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the Lord—but the Lord was not in the wind; after the wind, an earthquake—but the Lord was not in the earthquake; after the earthquake, fire—but the Lord was not in the fire; after the fire, a light silent sound. ~ 1 Kings 19:11-12</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here are some other <a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-peace/">Bible verses for peace</a> you can pray with.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/prayersforpeace">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-prayer-resources">More Prayer Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">When you're struggling, you're never alone. God is always here for us. Here are some resources to help you begin a conversation with God in moments when you're struggling.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-strength/">Prayers for Strength</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-hope/">Prayers for Hope</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-protection/">Prayers for Protection</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-healing/">Prayers for Healing</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Prayers for Peace: Peace of Mind, Peace in the World and More [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => prayers-for-peace [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2025-01-06 15:24:30 [post_modified_gmt] => 2025-01-06 15:24:30 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=65631 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 64883 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-08-16 20:19:33 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-08-16 20:19:33 [post_content] => <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-prayers-for-protection-table-of-contents"><strong>Prayers for Protection: Table of Contents</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#short">Short Prayers for Protection</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#violence">Protection from Violence</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="http://st-michael-prayer">St. Michael's Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#guardian-angel">Guardian Angel Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#driving">Protection While Driving</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#bible-verses">Bible Verses for Protection</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Scripture gives us countless examples of God’s protection, starting with the book of Genesis.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Chapter 22 of Genesis contains the famous story of God testing Abraham through Isaac’s sacrifice. Before Abraham actually harmed Isaac, God commanded Abraham to not lay a hand on his son.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">God protected Isaac. And He protected Daniel in the lion’s den. He safeguarded the Holy Family from Herod.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Today, too, God protects us. His protection and safeguarding didn’t exist only during Biblical times. He continues to watch over us today.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Benedict the XVI <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2005/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20050504.html">once said</a>, “God will protect us with love at every moment, guarding our lives from every evil.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Consider these prayers for protection, which you can pray at any time.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="short">Short Prayers for Protection and Safety</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>Come Holy Spirit, be my Guide. Open my eyes and move my heart to follow the path the Father calls me toward. Protect me from evil and temptation. Strengthen me that my heart may remain pure.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>Jesus, through your sacrifice, death and Resurrection, you defeated death and secured for us the promise of eternal life. I ask you today to help me remember that as I encounter any struggles, dangers, or challenges this day here on earth. Give me courage, knowing death will never win. Give me comfort, remembering Your love for me, knowing You gave everything for me. Be with me, now and always. Amen.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>Heavenly Father, I come to You today humbly seeking your protection, for me, my family and all of those close to me. Keep us safe while we’re awake and watch over us as we sleep. Assured of your love, I pray for the courage to live boldly, unafraid of challenges or dangers I may face. Strengthen me, O God, to follow your call to love and serve more fully than many will understand. In Your name I pray.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>Lord, you are my refuge and my fortress. I place my trust in you. Be with me today and protect me from all harm. May the wings of Your angels rescue me from danger. I cling to you now and always, knowing you are near to me in moments of suffering or danger. With a grateful heart, I pray. Amen. (inspired by Psalm 91)</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/prayersforprotection">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="violence">Prayer for Protection from Violence and Terrorism&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">To pray for protection from the thread of violence and terrorism, consider this prayer courtesy of Pope Francis. Pope Francis <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2016/07/31/160731a.html">shared this prayer</a> in 2016 while making an <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/34286/pope-makes-unexpected-stop-at-franciscan-monastery">unexpected visit</a> to a Polish church to pray before relics of two martyrs who were victims of political violence.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">He offered the following prayer for protection from violence:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“O almighty and merciful God, Lord of the universe and of history. All that You have created is good and your compassion for the mistakes of mankind knows no limits. We come to You today to ask You to keep in peace the world and its people, to keep far away from it the devastating wave of terrorism, to restore friendship and instill in the hearts of Your creatures the gift of trust and of readiness to forgive.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>O Giver of life, we pray to You also for all those who have died as victims of brutal terrorist attacks. Grant them their eternal reward. May they intercede for the world that is torn apart by conflicts and disagreements. O Jesus, Prince of Peace, we pray to You for the ones who have been wounded in these acts of inhuman violence: children and young people, old people and innocent people accidentally involved in evil. Heal their bodies and hearts; console them with Your strength and, at the same time, take away any hatred and a desire for revenge.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Holy Spirit Consoler, visit the families of the victims of terrorism, families that suffer through no fault of their own. Wrap them in the mantle of Your divine mercy. Make them find again in You and in themselves the strength and courage to continue to be brothers and sisters for others, above all for immigrants, giving witness to Your love by their lives.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Touch the hearts of terrorists so that they may recognise the evil of their actions and may turn to the way of peace and goodness, of respect for the life and for the dignity of every human being, regardless of religion, origin, wealth or poverty.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>O God, Eternal Father, in Your mercy hear our prayer which we raise up to You amidst the deafening noise and desperation of the world. We turn to You with great hope, full of trust in Your infinite Mercy. Made strong by the examples of the blessed martyrs of Peru, Zbigniew and Michael, who have rendered courageous testimony to the Gospel, to the point of offering their blood, we entrust ourselves to the intercession of Your Most Holy Mother. We ask for the gift of peace and of the elimination from our midst of the sore of terrorism.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Through Christ our Lord. Amen.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="st-michael-prayer">St. Michael Prayer for Protection</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Introduced by Pope Leo XII, the St. Michael Prayer for protection is a popular prayer for both individuals as well as communities—many churches have the custom of reciting this prayer at the end of Mass, before the process.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Learn more about St. Michael and asking for his protection through the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-st-michael-chaplet/">St. Michael Chaplet</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/prayersforprotection">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="guardian-angel">Guardian Angel Prayers for Protection</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The <a href="https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/88/">catechism of the Catholic Church</a> tells us that God "beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You can ask for protection through this guardian angel prayer:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>O Most holy Angel of God, appointed by God to be my guardian, I give thee thanks for all the benefits which thou hast ever bestowed on me in body and soul. I praise and glorify thee that thou condescended to assist me with such patient fidelity, and to defend me against all the assaults of my enemy. Blessed be the hour in which thou were assigned me for my guardian, my defender and my patron. In acknowledgment and return for all thy loving ministries to me, I offer thee the infinitely precious and noble Heart of Jesus, and firmly purpose to obey thee henceforward, and most faithfully to serve my God. Amen</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Find more <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/guardian-angel-prayers/">guardian angel prayers</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="driving">Prayers for Protection While Driving</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The safety of motor vehicles <a href="https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatality-trends/deaths-and-rates/">has improved greatly</a> since they first became popular modes of transportation. Still, we can feel dangers on the road, especially for those who drive professionally, take long road trips, or have to travel in adverse conditions.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Some people have the tradition of saying a short prayer for a safe trip before embarking on their drive. Here’s a simple prayer you can use to pray for protection while driving:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God, please help me arrive safely at my destination today. I pray also for the safety of the other drives I’ll share the road with today. Help me to be patient and attentive. Protect me from any dangerous conditions I may encounter. You’re a God of protection, who guided and kept safe the journeys of Abraham and Sarah, and Mary and Joseph. Protect me on my drive today.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers, pray for me!</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="bible-verses">Bible Verses for Protection</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow has a list of <a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-protection/">Bible verses for protection</a>. There is no shortage of them!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Perhaps the most popular is Psalm 121: 7-8:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“The LORD will keep you from all harm—he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Psalm 91 is another popular Bible verse with the theme of protection:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Say to the Lord, “My refuge and fortress, my God in whom I trust.” He will rescue you from the fowler’s snare, from the destroying plague, He will shelter you with his pinions, and under his wings you may take refuge; his faithfulness is a protecting shield. You shall not fear the terror of the night nor the arrow that flies by day, Nor the pestilence that roams in darkness, nor the plague that ravages at noon. Though a thousand fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, near you it shall not come. </em>Psalm 91: 2-7</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/prayersforprotection">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-praying-for-protection-in-your-own-way">Praying for Protection in Your Own Way</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If none of these prayers resonates with you, remember that you can always speak (and listen) to God in your own words.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There’s no “right” way to ask God for protection. The words that come from your heart work completely fine.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">More Prayer Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-children-how-to-pray-for-your-child/">Prayers for Your Children</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-strength/">Prayers for Strength </a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-hope/">Prayers for Hope</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-healing/">Prayers for Healing</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Prayers for Protection: Praying for Safety from Evil and Danger [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => prayers-for-protection [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-11-16 20:21:56 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-11-16 20:21:56 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=64883 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 64404 [post_author] => 75 [post_date] => 2024-08-12 13:39:05 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-08-12 13:39:05 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Michael's Lent is a spiritual practice rich in history and meaning, dating back to the 13th century. <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/francis-of-assisi/">Saint Francis of Assisi</a>, one of the Catholic Church's most beloved saints, received the stigmata on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14) and began this devotion in honor of Our Lady and Saint Michael the Archangel. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-origin-and-meaning">Origin and meaning </h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We learn about the the tradition of St. Michael's Lent as described in "The Little Flowers of St. Francis" by St. Bonaventure. Similar to <a href="https://hallow.com/lent/">Lent</a> before <a href="https://hallow.com/easter/">Easter</a>, St. Michael's Lent is a 40-day period of prayer and penance that begins on the Solemnity of the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-the-assumption/">Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary </a>(August 15) and ends on the feast of the Holy Archangels: St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael (September 29). This time of devotion is an opportunity for the faithful to renew their faith and grow in union with God.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-devotion-of-st-francis-of-assisi">The devotion of St. Francis of Assisi</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Francis had a great devotion to St. Michael the Archangel. He lived this 40-day period with deep reverence and a spirit of penance. According to St. Bonaventure: </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"Two years before his death, having begun a Lenten retreat in honor of Saint Michael on a very high mountain called Alverne, [Francisco] felt more abundantly than ever the softness of heavenly contemplation, the ardor of supernatural desires and the profusion of divine graces."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stmichaelslent">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Michael's Lent has been kept alive by the Franciscans over the centuries, making it popular with lay people as well as religious. Despite not being part of the Church's official liturgical calendar, this devotion is a rich opportunity to immerse oneself in prayer and penance, as St. Francis did, in order to draw even closer to the Lord. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-spiritual-practices">Spiritual Practices</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Ways to observe St. Michael's Lent include:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/daily-prayer-prayers-for-today/">Daily Prayer</a>: Pray the Litany of St. Michael or other prayers dedicated to him.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Penance: Choosing some kind of fast or choose something to give up to offer to God, such as waking up at dawn or abstaining from a specific food.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Charity: Find a way to demonstrate love to those most in need in a concrete way, such as through the corporal works of mercy.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Confession and Mass: Celebrate the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-go-to-confession-the-sacrament-of-penance-reconciliation/">Sacrament of Reconciliation</a> and Holy Mass regularly in order to be open to God's graces.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Our Lady of the Assumption, pray for us! St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle! </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stmichaelslent">Pray during St. Michael's Lent on Hallow now!</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => St. Michael's Lent: How to Pray and Observe St. Michael's Lent [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => st-michaels-lent [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-08-16 16:16:51 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-08-16 16:16:51 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=64404 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 64332 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2024-08-09 20:13:59 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-08-09 20:13:59 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>CHICAGO</strong> - Hallow, the No. 1 prayer app, today announced a partnership with Divine Mercy University, a leading Catholic graduate school.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">By partnership with Hallow, Divine Mercy University will make available to its students, faculty and administrators Hallow’s complete library of faith-based prayer and meditation resources free of charge.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow offers more than 10,000 audio-guided prayer and meditation sessions including rosaries, novenas, and Bible in a Year, as well as content that focuses on sleep and mental health, something increasingly important to both students and faculty.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Divine Mercy University’s graduate programs focus on psychology and counseling with a Catholic perspective of the person, marriage and family. Among Hallow’s prayer resources now available to the Divine Mercy University community are novenas on marriage, family and discernment.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It’s the first time that Hallow has partnered with a graduate school.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"We could not be more excited to be supporting the Divine Mercy community,” says Alessandro DiSanto, Co-Founder at Hallow. “One of our core goals at Hallow is to help our users find, in relationship with Christ, a peace that the world cannot bring. Divine Mercy's integrated view of spiritual and mental health has long been an inspiration to us and is a vision we are humbled to play a small role in helping realize."&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow offers more than 10,000 audio-guided prayer and meditation sessions including rosaries, novenas, and Bible in a Year, as well as content that focuses on sleep and mental health, something increasingly important to both students and faculty.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Fr. Charles Sikorsky, LC, JD, JCL, President of Divine Mercy University added, “It is a joy for us to work with Hallow and support them in their vital mission of using technology to bring souls to Christ. Our students, faculty and staff have been very happy with the benefits of using the app as a way to develop their spiritual life and become more intentional disciples who spread God’s love. This partnership will also help in our continuous efforts in shedding light on what students, communities and many around the world are currently going through regarding the mental health crisis plaguing our society.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>About Hallow</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow helps people deepen their relationship with God through audio-guided prayers, sleep meditations, Bible readings, meditations, and music. The app has more than 10,000 sessions including a Daily Rosary, Daily Gospel, Daily Saint, Novenas, Examens, Father Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year, The Chosen’s Jonathan Roumie’s audio Bible, Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons, peaceful Christian music, Gregorian chant, and so much more. Launched in December 2018, Hallow is now the #1 Catholic app in the world and has been downloaded 19 million times and used to pray more than 500 million times across 150-plus countries.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => Hallow Partners with Divine Mercy University to Bring Prayer Resources to Leading Catholic Graduate School [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => hallow-partners-with-divine-mercy-university [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-08-09 20:14:02 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-08-09 20:14:02 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=64332 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 63834 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-08-01 01:14:44 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-08-01 01:14:44 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">No matter how old or big our children get, we can always hold them up in prayer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Many parents can recall praying for their children before they were even born, and offering up prayers of thanksgiving to God the day they entered the world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The desire to pray for our children never goes away even as our kids grow and mature. And even if we don’t know the exact words to say.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Luckily, God knows our needs and our hearts better than we do ourselves. Try these words to lift up your children in prayer and to begin a conversation with God.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/prayersforchildren">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-prayers-for-children-nbsp">Prayers for Children&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Heavenly Father, I recognize that the sons and daughters we have on earth are gifts from You and belong to You. Bless my children and strengthen me that I may be the parent to them that You call me to be, demonstrating the sacrificial love that Jesus modeled for us all. Help me to recognize that it’s impossible to be a perfect parent. Help me resist the urge to be the parent that society tells us to be and rather, to love and nurture my children as You call me to. In Your name I pray. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Loving God, Creator of all things, including families, I come to you today to ask for Your blessing on (name children). Watch over them, keep them safe, guard them from evil and temptation. Help them to open their eyes to Your beautiful presence in the world in which they enjoy unlimited potential. Guide them as they grow, that no matter which path life takes them down, they listen to Your call to guide them.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>I see the wide-eyed zest for life in my child’s eye today, dear God, and pray that it will always remain. May (child’s name) forever possess the love of life, and the world You’ve created, as they do today. I pray simply for their happiness. Where life takes them, geographically, professionally, or otherwise, matters less to me than a happiness rooted in knowing and loving You. In gratitude, I pray. Amen.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-prayers-for-adult-children-nbsp">Prayers for Adult Children&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">When our children are no longer “kids,” they have different needs and encounter different obstacles. Still, they have a childlike dependency on God, as we all do, even if sometimes they don’t realize it.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Consider these words when you’d like to pray for your adult child:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>God, I lift up to you my children, remembering when they were young, carefree, and close to you, and recognizing now that they are grown and I can no longer protect them from all the challenges they may face. Father, our eternal Protector, keep them safe and healthy, holding them lovingly in Your hands always. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/prayersforchildren">Hallow: 30 Days Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-prayers-for-older-adult-children-who-have-fallen-away-from-their-faith">Prayers for Older/Adult Children Who Have Fallen Away from Their Faith</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Many parents can relate to the struggle of watching their children drift slowly away from their faith.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Despite our best efforts in raising our children to be people of faith, sometimes, for reasons we’ll never understand, our children can seem lost in their relationship with the Lord.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here are some words to pray for older children struggling with their faith:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>God, as my children have gotten older, it sometimes can feel like their hearts have hardened and they’ve grown distant from you. Help them to hear Your voice and soften their hardened hearts. In some small way today, open them up to feeling, Your love of them, knowing deep down, they return that love to You. With a thankful heart, I pray. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pray for the intercession of St. Monica, patron of mothers facing difficult family situations:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Dearest St. Monica, patient and virtuous mother of Augustine, who never lost faith in her son finding his way to God, pray for me today, and pray especially for the healing of my son/daughter. St. Monica, you know as well as anyone the struggles of parenthood and the difficulties of watching a child stray from God. Pray that I may trust in God’s plan, and pray that my child returns to God through some small action today, by recognizing the beauty in the world around them, even amid struggles–a beauty that reflects our Creator. St. Monica, pray for us!</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pray the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-monica-novena/">St. Monica Novena</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/prayersforchildren">Pray With Hallow Today</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-ask-for-others-to-lift-your-child-up-in-prayer">Ask for Others to Lift Your Child Up in Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you’re child is dealing with something extremely difficult, and you could use the support of others, consider lifting up your child in prayer with Hallow’s <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayer-campaigns/">Prayer Campaigns</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Prayer Campaigns are completely free to create, share, and join. We’ve seen some powerful campaigns lifting up in prayer children facing some really challenging circumstances.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Anyone who joins a Prayer Campaign can also leave notes of support for the person who created the campaign.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you're looking for resources on engaging your children with prayer (instead of praying <em>for</em> your children), check out our guide on <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-with-kids/">how to pray with kids</a>. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-prayer-resources">More Prayer Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-anne-novena/">St. Anne Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/litany-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-litany-of-loreto/">Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/saint-anthony-novena/">St. Anthony Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-joseph-worker-novena/">St. Joseph the Worker Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-family-novena/">Holy Family Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Prayers for Children: How to Pray for Your Child [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => prayers-for-children-how-to-pray-for-your-child [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-08-14 14:52:41 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-08-14 14:52:41 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=63834 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 63392 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-07-24 16:54:36 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-07-24 16:54:36 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Ignatian Spirituality and the Spiritual Exercises: Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#contemplative-in-action">Contemplative in Action</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#god-in-all-things">God in All Things</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#daily-examen">Daily Examen</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#overview">Spiritual Exercises Overview</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#what-happens">What Happens in the Spiritual Excersies</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="http://resources-on-hallow">Ignatian Resources on Hallow</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It may have been the most fortuitous cannonball in history.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 1521, a cannonball shattered the right leg of <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/ignatius-loyola/">Ignatius of Loyola</a> and also damaged his left leg.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As his right leg healed, it did so in an unsightly, unattractive way. <a href="https://ignatiansolidarity.net/blog/2021/05/20/cannonball-moments-year-of-ignatius/">Ignatius’s vanity</a> led him to have his leg completely reset so it could heal without the slightest deformity.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">During his recovery period, Ignatius read a book about the life of Christ as well as a book about saints, and his conversion began.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One single cannonball gave the world a great saint, a new religious order (the Society of Jesus, known as “The Jesuits”), and one of the greatest Christian spiritual traditions we have: Ignatian spirituality.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="contemplative-in-action">Contemplative in Action</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Being a “contemplative in action” is a simple way to describe Ignatian spirituality.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“Contemplative” refers to being mindful of how God is reaching out to us and leading us. “In Action” refers to taking this “contemplation” and using it to respond today, in this world, to the needs of our brothers and sisters and to how God guides us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In other words, in Ignatian spirituality, spending time with God and discerning His call does not lead us to isolation from the world. Instead, it calls us into the world. Contemplation leads to action—acts of love.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/april/documents/papa-francesco_20150430_comunita-vita-cristiana.pdf">In a 2015 address</a>, Pope Francis discussed contemplative in action, saying the following:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>We can speak a lot about theology, a lot… good things, speak about God… but the way is being able to contemplate Jesus Christ, to read the Gospel, what Jesus Christ did: It’s He, the Lord! Fall in love with Jesus Christ and say to Jesus Christ that you choose to follow Him, to be like Him. And this is done through prayer and touching the wounds of the Lord. You will never know Jesus Christ if you don’t touch his injuries, his wounds.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Being contemplative in action reflects the reality that God is very much present in our world, in big and small things.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/spiritualexercises">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="god-in-all-things">God in All Things</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://www.loyolapress.com/catholic-resources/ignatian-spirituality/finding-god-in-all-things/">According to Loyola Press</a>, what rests at the core of Ignatian Spirituality is “finding God in all things.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This means that we don’t just recognize God while we are at Mass and through His presence in the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/eucharist-holy-communion-adoration-prayer/">Eucharist</a>. Rather, finding God in all things calls us to open our eyes to God being with us throughout our days, in good times and in bad, and often in moments where we don’t expect to feel His presence.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The foundation of this belief is that God is active in our world. God is not distant and removed from us. He’s present in our joys and sorrows, our best moments and our lowest.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We can better appreciate God’s presence around us each day through another core element of Ignatian Spirituality: the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-examen/">daily examen</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="daily-examen">Daily Examen&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Our days can often feel like a blur. We wake up and are busy from when we crawl out of bed until the time we nod off into sleep.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If we don’t take time to review our days–and the conversations, experiences and feelings we have–it can be easy to miss how God is present in our lives, and perhaps more importantly, where He is leading us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">When we reflect on our day, we can notice where we experience feelings of consolation and desolation, sometimes called <a href="https://thejesuitpost.org/2022/03/jesuit-101-consolation-and-desolation/">discernment of spirits</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Daily Examen helps us unpack our days and be more aware of how God is moving in our daily lives and where our hearts feel most alive.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It has a simple format:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Beginning by giving thanks to God</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Reviewing your day and the moments that stand out</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Talk to God about your feelings throughout the day; ask for forgiveness for times you missed the mark</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Looking ahead to the next day and asking God for what we need</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It takes just a few minutes on any given day to pray the daily examen. A more in-depth form of prayer that Ignatian spirituality gives us is the Spiritual Exercises.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/spiritualexercises">Try the Daily Examen on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="overview">Ignatian Spirituality and the Spiritual Exercises</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Perhaps the greatest contribution that St. Ignatius gave to our spiritual lives remains his spiritual exercises.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">What we now know as Ignatius’s spiritual exercises started out as his own personal journal before he eventually realized the universal nature of some of the truths and experiences that he was discovering.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The full spiritual exercises traditionally take place as a <a href="https://ignatiushouse.org/why-attend-retreat/retreat-formats-2/">30-day retreat</a>, broken down into four weeks with different themes and areas of focus. This 30-day (sometimes 28-day) retreat is part of the formation of men pursuing a vocation with the Jesuits.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Since it’s difficult for many of us to leave our daily routines for a full month, the full spiritual exercises have been adapted into the “<a href="https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/offices/mission-ministry/sites/center-for-ignatian-spirituality/prayer/19th-annotation.html">19th Annotation</a>,” sometimes called the “retreat for daily life.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One thing that is true in both forms of the retreat is that Ignatius’s spiritual exercises were intended to guide the retreat director, not the retreatant. Therefore, while you can read the writings of Ignatius, it’s best to pursue the spiritual exercises under the guidance of someone trained in the exercises.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/spiritualexercises">Pray the Spiritual Exercises on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="what-happens">What Happens During the Spiritual Exercises?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">But what exactly happens during the spiritual exercises?&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Fr. Joe Laramie, S.J., <a href="https://www.joelaramiesj.com/st-ignatius-spiritual-exercises">explains</a>, “In some sections of the Exercises, Ignatius plunges us into the mystery of sin and evil. In other parts, he helps us to contemplate the love and power of Christ by engaging our emotions and imaginations.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In practice, this looks like spending time with Scripture and imagining ourselves in certain Gospel scenes through <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/contemplative-prayer-imaginative-prayer/">imaginative prayer</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Entering into prayer in the Scriptures is the basic pillar of the spiritual exercises, according to Fr. Timothy Gallagher.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“There are other actions in the spiritual exercises, but the main one is to pray over and over again through the days with Scripture.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Even if we have heard these passages many times, Ignatian contemplation through the spiritual exercises can allow God to reveal new details to us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“Ignatian contemplation allows us to see stories that we may have heard countless times with new eyes,” <a href="https://thejesuitpost.org/2021/10/jesuit-101-ignatian-contemplation-encountering-god-through-our-imagination/">says</a> Jesuit Tucker Redding, S.J. “We might notice different details, ask new questions, and find ways that God is speaking directly to us.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="resources-on-hallow">Explore Ignatian Spirituality on Hallow</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow offers a number of prayers and meditations rooted in Ignatian spirituality, including the daily examen, discernment of spirits (consolation and desolation) with Fr. Joe Laramie, S.J., and the full four-week spiritual exercises led by <a href="https://www.frtimothygallagher.org/">Fr. Timothy Gallagher</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/spiritualexercises">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-prayer-resources">More Prayer Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">How to Pray the Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-lectio-divina/">How to Pray Lection Divina</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/">How to Pray the Surrender Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/litany-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-litany-of-loreto/">Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Ignatian Spirituality and the Spiritual Exercises [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => ignatian-spirituality-and-the-spiritual-exercises [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-07-24 16:54:42 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-07-24 16:54:42 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=63392 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )