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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 39365 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-07-25 20:49:10 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-07-25 20:49:10 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Rita of Cascia (1381-1457) is a patron saint of the impossible, difficult, and hopeless causes, distinctly in the realm of marriage, abuse, fertility, parenthood, and disease. Like <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-jude-novena/">St. Jude</a>, many turn to St. Rita for her intercession in times of desperation, heartbreak, and disease.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Rita well interpreted the “feminine genius” by living it intensely in both physical and spiritual motherhood.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><em>St. Pope John Paul II&nbsp;</em></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We celebrate the Feast of St. Rita on May 22, though people turn to this saint throughout the year with the Novena to St. Rita (see below). St. Rita is often pictured among roses and bees for the miraculous events of her life.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#st-rita-life">Life of St. Rita of Cascia</a><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#early-life">Early life</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#religious-life">Religious life</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#rose-canonization-bees">Rose, canonization, and bees</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#centenary-jpII">Centenary - St. Pope John Paul II</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#how-to-pray-st-rita-novena">How to Pray the St. Rita Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#st-rita-prayer">St. Rita Prayer for Impossible Cases and Special Needs</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#more-novenas">More Novenas</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="st-rita-life">Life of St. Rita of Cascia</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="early-life">Early life</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Many events in her life led St. Rita of Cascia to be called both a saint of the impossible and the “disciple of the Crucified One.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Born Margherita (Rita) Lotti in Roccaporena, Italy, St. Rita experienced a miracle just a few days after her birth. The day after Rita was baptized, honeybees swarmed her, flying in and out of her mouth without harm. Her family saw this occasion as a sign of blessing and devotion to God.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In her youth, Rita desired to enter the convent, though she was forced into an arranged marriage with a “violent and ill-tempered” man at the age of 12 (<a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-rita-of-cascia-464#:~:text=and%20spiritual%20motherhood.%E2%80%9D-,St.,sick%2C%20bodily%20ills%20and%20wounds.">Catholic News Agency</a>). Together they had twin sons, and 18 years after they were married, her husband was murdered. Her sons then passed at a young age, and she again desired to enter the <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/augustine-of-hippo/">Augustinian</a> convent of <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/mary-magdalene/">St. Mary Magdalene</a> in Cascia, Italy. For this reason, she is the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/patron-saints/">patron saint</a> of difficult marriages.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="religious-life">Religious life</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Rita eventually entered the Augustinian convent after <a href="https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=205">appealing</a> to St. John the Baptist, <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/augustine-of-hippo/">St. Augustine of Hippo</a>, and Nicholas of Tolentino. Some legends hold that “she was transported into the monastery of Saint Magdalene through levitation at night by the three patron saints she appealed to” (<a href="https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=205">Catholic.org</a>).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">During <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-week-schedule/">Holy Week</a> in 1442, St. Rita of Cascia <a href="https://www.saintritashrine.org/saint-rita-of-cascia">received</a> the stigmata (a bodily wound resembling a wound of Christ).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In contemplation before an image of Jesus that was very dear to her, the Jesus of Holy Saturday or, as it is also known, the Resurgent Christ, she was moved by a deeper awareness of the physical and spiritual burden of pain which Christ so freely and willingly embraced for love of her and of all humanity. [...] Rita was united with Jesus in a profound experience of spiritual intimacy, a thorn from his crown penetrating her forehead. The wound it caused remained open and visible until the day of her death.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia&nbsp;</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Other saints who have received the stigmata include St. Francis of Assisi, <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-catherine-of-siena-feast-prayers-quotes-feast-day/">St. Catherine of Siena</a>, and <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/padre-pio-prayers-feast-day/">St. Padre Pio</a>, to name a few.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="rose-canonization-bees">Rose, canonization, and bees</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Rita of Cascia was ill for the final four years of her life and died from tuberculosis in 1456. She lived to be 70 years old.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the last winter of her life, one of Rita’s cousins came to visit her at the convent and inquired if Rita desired anything. Rita <a href="https://aleteia.org/2021/01/15/traces-of-miracles-remain-at-the-birthplace-of-st-rita-of-cascia/">asked</a> her cousin to bring back two figs and a rose from her father’s garden despite it being the middle of winter in Italy. Her cousin miraculously found one rose and two figs and returned to the convent. For this reason, St. Rita is often pictured with roses in art and churches around the world.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While her stigmata wound smelled poorly during her life, it smelled sweet and pleasant after her death; this is one of the miracles that led to her beatification in 1626 by Pope Urban VIII. Additionally, a colony of bees appeared in the cell walls monastery where she lived many decades after her death. Some people have reported that the bees exit the walls during Holy Week and return to the monastery on St. Rita’s feast day (May 22) each year.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Rita’s body remains incorrupt, venerated at the Basilica of Santa Rita da Cascia in Cascia, Italy. She was canonized in 1900 by Pope Leo XIII.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="centenary-jpII">Centenary - St. Pope John Paul II</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On the centenary of her canonization, St. Pope John Paul II <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/2000/apr-jun/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20000520_santa-rita.html">called</a> us to consider the message of St. Rita of Cascia: to live humbly and conform our lives to Christ.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“But what is the message that this saint passes on to us? It is a message that flows from her life: </em><strong><em>humility and obedience were the path that Rita took to be ever more perfectly conformed to the Crucified One.</em></strong><em> The mark which shines on her forehead is the verification of her Christian maturity. On the Cross with Jesus, she is crowned in a certain way with the love that she knew and heroically expressed within her home and by her participation in the events of her town.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>St. Pope John Paul II</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">He also encouraged us to consider the rose of St. Rita’s last winter as a symbol for living life attuned to Christ:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>It is to be hoped that the life of everyone devoted to her will be like the rose picked in the garden of Roccaporena the winter before the saint's death. That is, let it be a life sustained by passionate love for the Lord Jesus; a life capable of responding to suffering and to thorns with forgiveness and the total gift of self, in order to spread everywhere the good odour of Christ (cf. 2 Cor 2:15) through a consistently lived proclamation of the Gospel.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><em>St. Pope John Paul II</em></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- 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/MWySFk8lJBb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="how-to-pray-st-rita-novena">How to Pray the St. Rita Novena</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:yoast/how-to-block {"hasDuration":true,"minutes":"5","jsonDescription":"Many turn to St. Rita for her intercession — her guidance to help us turn to God — in times of desperation, heartbreak, and disease.","steps":[{"id":"how-to-step-1690316566593","name":["Take a moment to quiet your mind and rest in His peace."],"text":["Imagine yourself among blooming, fragrant roses in honor of St. Rita. "],"jsonName":"Take a moment to quiet your mind and rest in His peace.","jsonText":"Imagine yourself among blooming, fragrant roses in honor of St. Rita. "},{"id":"how-to-step-1690316609127","name":["Begin by making the Sign of the Cross."],"text":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the "]}},{"type":"a","props":{"href":"https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/","children":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["Holy Spirit"]}}]}},{"type":"em","props":{"children":[", Amen."]}}],"jsonName":"Begin by making the Sign of the Cross.","jsonText":"\u003cem\u003eIn the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the \u003c/em\u003e\u003ca href=\u0022https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/\u0022\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoly Spirit\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Amen.\u003c/em\u003e"},{"id":"how-to-step-1690316616190","name":["Pray the St. Rita Novena prayer."],"text":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["“O God, in your infinite tenderness you have been pleased to regard the prayer of your servant Rita, and to grant to her supplication that which is impossible to human foresight, skill, and effort, as rewards for her compassionate love and firm reliance on your promises. 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Have pity on us in times of adversities and comfort us in our calamities, that even the unbelievers may know that you are the recompense of the humble, the defense of the helpless, and the strength of those who trust in you. Grant this in the Name of Jesus the Lord.” (Source: </em><a href="https://novenaprayer.com/saint-rita-novena/"><em>novenaprayer.com</em></a><em>)</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1690316620784"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Pray the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">Our Father</a>.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done,  on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1690316624584"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Pray the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary</a>.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1690316628293"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Pray the Glory Be.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1690316631052"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Recall your intercessory intentions.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">Give all of your prayers to Him and ask St. Rita again to guide you in doing so. </p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1690316638398"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Conclude with the Sign of the Cross.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.</p> </li></ol></div> <!-- /wp:yoast/how-to-block --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="st-rita-prayer">St. Rita Prayer for Impossible Cases</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“O Holy Patroness of those in need, St. Rita, whose pleadings before thy Divine Lord are almost irresistible, who for thy lavishness in granting favors hast been called the Advocate of the Hopeless and even of the Impossible; St. Rita, so humble, so pure, so mortified, so patient and of such compassionate love for thy Crucified Jesus that thou couldst obtain from Him whatsoever thou askest, on account of which all confidently have recourse to thee expecting, if not always relief, at least comfort; be propitious to our petition, showing thy power with God on behalf of thy suppliant; be lavish to us, as thou hast been in so many wonderful cases, for the greater glory of God, for the spreading of thine own devotion, and for the consolation of those who trust in thee.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>We promise, if our petition is granted, to glorify thee by making known thy favor, to bless and sing thy praises forever. Relying then upon thy merits and power before the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we pray thee grant that [here mention your petition]. Pray for us, O holy St. Rita, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Source: <a href="https://aleteia.org/2018/05/22/these-astonishing-miracles-led-to-st-ritas-canonization/">Aleteia</a>&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/MWySFk8lJBb">Pray Novenas on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="more-novenas">More Novenas</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/">Surrender Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-therese-novena/">St. Thérèse Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-mary-undoer-of-knots-novena/">Mary, Undoer of Knots Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-sacred-heart-novena/">Sacred Heart 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 --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => St. Rita Novena - Who is St. Rita of Cascia? 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 38944 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2023-07-14 19:55:01 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-07-14 19:55:01 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Night Prayers: Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#intro">Intro and Importance of Night Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#evening">Evening Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#short">Night Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#now-i-lay-me-down-to-sleep">“Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#family-bedtime">Family Bedtime Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#pope-francis">Pope Francis's Night Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#more">More Prayer Resources</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="" id="intro">God is always accessible to us through prayer, but many of us gravitate toward Him at both ends of our day, through <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/morning-prayer/">morning prayer</a> and night prayer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Praying at night can help us in so many ways.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It can comfort us after a long day. It can give us peace as we draw closer to <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-sleep/">sleep</a>. It can help us begin the next day feeling closer to God.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":"lent-embed"} --> <p class="lent-embed">If you don’t know the right words to say, let Hallow help with these short, simple night prayers, perfect for praying solo or with families and kids. Remember, the exact words you say matter much less than the desire of your heart to grow closer to God.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Get the Hallow app and pray each night, or check out the prayers below to get started.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="evening">Evening Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Try these quick evening prayers towards the end of your (work/school/general) day and wind down with God at night time approaches:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>In this evening hour of my day, O Lord, I turn to you in this brief moment of peace. As the day winds down, I give You thanks and ask for Your blessing on me and my loved ones. Grant us peace in the balance of this day and all our days. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>God who made night and day, as the sun sets and the darkness fills the sky, I ask for Your grace to remember that no matter how dark my day was or how fearful I am of what tomorrow will bring, You will always provide light--to my life and to this world. May I keep my eyes open to the many ways in which you bless me. In Your name I pray. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>I retreat to You, heavenly Father, as the end of my day draws near. My day was not easy–they rarely are. But I take comfort in looking back at my day and recognizing Your presence beside me. Thank You for always being near to me. Guide me tonight and in my day tomorrow. I pray in thanksgiving for the gift of peace only You provide me. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="short">Night Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There are many powerful prayer options in the Catholic faith tradition for nighttime, including <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-night-prayer/">Liturgy of the Hours</a> or the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-examen/">Ignatian Examen</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">For shorter words of prayer to offer before falling asleep, consider these simple prayers:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with Christ, and asleep, rest in His peace (Prayed during the Liturgy of the Hours)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love entrusts me here, ever this night (day) be at my side to light, to guard, to rule, and to guide. From sinful stain O keep me free, and at death’s hour, my helper be. Amen. (<a href="https://hallow.com/blog/guardian-angel-prayers/">Guardian Angel prayer</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Father, as I lie down for sleep tonight, wash over me with the warmth of Your love. In Your mercy, soothe my pain, whether in my body, mind or soul. Grant me a restful night of sleep so that when I awake, I’m strengthened to do Your will. Amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>God of love and mercy, release me from the chains of sin as I conclude my day. Help me be a little bit better tomorrow and a little bit better the next day. More loving. More generous. Less judgmental. Less self-absorbed. I pray that You grant me a peaceful night of rest so that tomorrow, in small ways that others may not even notice, I help build Your kingdom here on earth.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Also see our guide to <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/falling-asleep-with-god/">praying before falling asleep</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/newnightprayer">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="now-i-lay-me-down-to-sleep">“Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Many Catholics and other Christians are familiar with the short nighttime prayer that begins with the line, “Now I lay me down to sleep.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The exact origins of this prayer are unknown, though it seems to date back to 18th-century England.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There also appear to be <a href="https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/tn-dpt-1006-godsquad-20121005-story.html">different versions</a> of the prayer, some more popular with Catholics and others with Protestants and Orthodox faith traditions.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. Thy love guard me through the night, And wake me with the morning light.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, bless the bed that I lie on. The are four corners to my bed, four angels round my head, one to watch, and one to pray, and two to bear my soul away. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="family-bedtime">Family Night Prayers/Bedtime Prayers</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Praying together as a family at night is a tremendous habit to build with your little ones. Any time you have a chance to <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-with-kids/">pray with your kids</a>, it’s absolutely worth the time, even after a long day (The Hallow app has many great prayers for kids!).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here are some prayers to say before bed with your kiddos that will cultivate a habit of nightly prayer in them.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“God, I come to you tonight to pray. Thank you for my entire day. As I close my eyes, please give me rest. My heavenly Father, you are the best.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“With my family gathered here tonight, I give You thanks for our family, for our home, and for the love that fills it. I also thank You for all my friends and other family members. I know sometimes I sin. I’m sorry. I love You, Lord, and ask for a good night of sleep and a good day tomorrow. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“With my pillow by my head, I thank You Lord, life-giving Bread. My mind and body come to rest, be with me, Lord, my special Guest. It’s time for sleep, this time of night–thank you, Lord, who gives me light. I close my eyes until tomorrow. With you, dear God, I know no sorrow!”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Instead of sheep, let’s count our blessings. (Child lists people and things that bless their lives.) Thank you God, for all of these. And thank you for a good night of sleep. Protect me tonight and be with me tomorrow. In Jesus’s name, I pray. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":"sleep-wisepops"} --> <p class="sleep-wisepops"></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="pope-francis">Pope Francis’s Simple (but Powerful) Night Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Francis revealed the simple night prayer he offers to God each night during a <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2016/06/22/160622a.html">2016 papal audience</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It’s simple, easy to remember, and great for people of all ages.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“Lord, if you will, you can make me clean!”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Francis said that he follows that by saying the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">Lord’s Prayer</a> five times–one for each of Jesus’s wounds.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“If I do this, you can do it too, in your home,” he said before also reminding the audience (and all of us) that “Jesus always hears us.”</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/newnightprayer">Pray Every Night with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-prayers">More Prayers</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-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/thanksgiving-prayer/">Thanksgiving Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-divine-mercy-chaplet/">Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">Seven Sorrows Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-sleep/">Bible Verses for Sleep</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/ignatian-spirituality-and-the-spiritual-exercises/">How to Pray the Spiritual Exercises</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Night Prayer: Simple, Powerful Prayers for the Evening and Bedtime [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => night-prayer-bedtime [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-07-24 17:23:20 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-07-24 17:23:20 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=38944 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1377 [post_author] => 13 [post_date] => 2023-07-12 03:28:00 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-07-12 03:28:00 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Usually prayed in the evening, the daily Examen is a reflective prayer that helps us notice God’s presence throughout the day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Speak little, listen much. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>St. Ignatius of Loyola</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-what-is-the-examen">What is the Examen? </h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-origin">Origin</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The prayer of the daily Examen originated in 1522 when <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/ignatius-loyola/">St. Ignatius of Loyola</a> began writing the <em><a href="https://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/1491-1556,_Ignatius_Loyola,_Spiritual_Exercises,_EN.pdf">Spiritual Exercises</a></em>. St. Ignatius believed this method would help us develop discipline, ask for God's grace, and see how God works through us and among us daily. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Ignatius actually began thinking about this technique during a difficult yet pivotal time in his life. In 1521, the Spanish saint and nobleman had his leg shattered by a <a href="https://www.jesuits.org/stories/with-ignatius-at-montserrat/">cannonball</a> in the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Pamplona">Battle of Pamplona</a>. He never had a successful surgery yet still decided to begin his pilgrimage on horseback to Montserrat, Spain (with the intention of traveling to Jerusalem). He ended up living in a cave near Montserrat in a town called Manresa for almost a year. And it was there that he began writing the <em>Spiritual Exercises</em>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It remains a powerful form of prayer event today and one that Pope Francis has encouraged.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“There is a good way of doing this, and today I would like to propose it to you: it consists of dedicating time, every evening, to a brief examination of conscience,” said he said in <a href="https://www.ewtnvatican.com/articles/pope-francis-tell-jesus-everything-886">April 2023</a>. “What happened inside of me today? That is the question. It means rereading the day with Jesus.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-an-adaptable-prayer">An adaptable prayer</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While there are a few key tenets to this reflective <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/daily-prayer-prayers-for-today/">daily prayer</a> (see "How to Pray" below), the Examen is easily adaptable to pray to God about your needs, worries, and gratitudes that might change on a daily basis. Incorporating the Examen into your day might help you better see beauty in the mundane of your job, school, or other ways you spend your time. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Your <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayer-as-a-morning-cup-of-coffee/">coffee</a> might taste better in the morning out of newfound appreciation, or you might realize more times in your day when you can <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/patience/">practice patience</a>. All in all, praying the Examen is another way to help you get to know God — to listen and see for where He is moving throughout your everyday. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:block {"ref":42529} /--> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">The examen and discernment</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">When we pray the examen, we’re mindful of where we feel consolation and desolation in our daily lives.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">What’s bringing us closer to God and what’s creating distance between us and God?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The examen can help us with discernment and listening to how the Spirit is moving us and where our hearts feel most alive.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This July, Hallow is launching a prayer challenge in Spanish inspired by St. Ignatius of Loyola and his framework for discernment. Fr. Cristobal Fones, S.J., a Jesuit priest, will lead the 15-day challenge.</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/dailyexamendiscernment">Join the Discernment Challenge (in Spanish)</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-why-do-we-pray-with-the-examen">Why do we pray with the Examen? </h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-a-daily-pilgrimage-to-god">A daily pilgrimage to God</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As we follow in the footsteps of St. Ignatius, we might begin to see each day as a pilgrimage. The Examen guides us in retracing our steps to value the little moments just as the big moments in our spiritual journeys. Ultimately, the purpose of the Examen helps us become better listeners for and discerners of the beautiful gift of life from God. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-surrender-prayer">The Surrender Prayer</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Ignatius' Surrender ("Suscipe") Prayer shares this greater purpose of the Examen with us:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em><strong>"Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,<br>my memory, my understanding,<br>and my entire will,<br>All I have and call my own.</strong></em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em><strong>You have given all to me.<br>To you, Lord, I return it.</strong></em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em><strong>Everything is yours; do with it what you will.<br>Give me only your love and your grace,<br>that is enough for me."</strong></em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center","orientation":"horizontal"}} --> <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/blogdownload">Pray the Surrender Prayer on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em><strong>ALSO PRAY</strong>: <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/">How to pray the Surrender Novena</a></em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-when-do-we-pray-with-the-examen">When do we pray with the Examen?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Ignatius likely prayed with the Examen multiple times throughout his day. In the <em>Spiritual Exercises</em>, he even mentions praying it every hour. We recommend starting with the Examen at the end of your day, or a time when you feel you can be most reflective. You could pray with the Examen on your way home from work, or right before you go to sleep. The Hallow App offers a daily Examen (5, 10, and 15-minute options), several Sleep Examen meditations, as well as several focused Examen meditations on humility, hope, and more. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-how-to-pray-the-ignatian-daily-examen">How to pray the Ignatian Daily Examen </h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Below are five steps to notice where God is present throughout your day:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:yoast/how-to-block {"hasDuration":true,"days":"0","hours":"0","minutes":"15","steps":[{"id":"how-to-step-1689089874121","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Prepare for prayer"]}}],"text":["Find a comfortable position. Begin with a few deep breaths to calm your heart and mind. 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Acknowledge the intent of this prayer: to grow closer with God. </p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1689089895130"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Thanksgiving</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">Start by thanking God for the gifts of the day and anything you are grateful for.</p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1689089908329"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Review</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">Ask the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/">Holy Spirit</a> to help you see your day clearly. Now, walk through your day as though you are playing a movie in your mind. What stands out? Any particular emotions or moments? Any consolations - when you felt close to God or noticed Him working? 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Visualize yourself walking through the day with God and ask for His help.</p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1689090080110"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Close</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">Spend a few more moments with God, listening for Him and finding peace in His presence. In Hallow, we close with an <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">Our Father</a> and the sign of the cross.</p> </li></ol></div> <!-- /wp:yoast/how-to-block --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:separator {"opacity":"css","className":"is-style-wide"} --> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide"/> <!-- /wp:separator --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We hope you'll join us in praying the Examen in Hallow. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center","orientation":"horizontal"}} --> <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/blogdownload">Download the Hallow App to start praying the Examen</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> [post_title] => How to Pray the Daily Examen [post_excerpt] => Notice God's presence throughout your day. 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 38671 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-07-10 15:46:29 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-07-10 15:46:29 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On May 13, 1917, Mary appeared to three children of Fátima, Portugal — cousins Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta – and said she would appear on the 13th of each month for the next five months. This Marian apparition led to the Blessed Mother’s title of Our Lady of Fátima. Pope Francis recently <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254634/breaking-pope-francis-advances-the-sainthood-cause-of-fatimas-sister-lucia">advanced</a> the cause for the sainthood of Sister Lucia on June 22, declaring the late holy woman “venerable.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>My <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/immaculate-heart-of-mary/">Immaculate Heart</a> will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Mary to Lucia, the Second Apparition on June 13, 1917&nbsp;</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Our Lady of Fátima’s feast is celebrated on May 13 annually, though pilgrims travel to Fátima year-round. An influx of young pilgrims is expected at this holy site in the weeks surrounding <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/world-youth-day/">World Youth Day</a>, which will take place August 1-6 in Lisbon, Portugal. Pope Francis also <a href="https://www.usccb.org/news/2023/pope-francis-adds-fatima-visit-world-youth-day-trip">plans</a> to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima on August 5 during his World Youth Day journey.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Read more about the apparitions at Fátima and the widely popular prayers given to the children at Fátima, including the “Fátima Prayer” prayed each decade of the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">Rosary</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#fatima-apparitions">Apparitions at Fátima</a><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#angel-of-peace">3 Visits from the Angel of Peace/Portugal</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#our-lady-apparitions-fatima">6 Apparitions to Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="# influenza">Influenza</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#lucia-our-lady">Lucia and Our Lady</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#five-prayers-fatima">Five Prayers Given to the Children at Fátima</a><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#fatima-prayer">Fátima Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#pardon-prayer">Pardon Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#angels-prayer">Angel’s Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#eucharistic-prayer">Eucharistic Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#sacrifice-prayer">Sacrifice Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#canonization">Canonization</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#related-reading">Related Reading</a></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/6xDIgTv7bBb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="fatima-apparitions">Apparitions at Fátima&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Before Our Lady of Fátima appeared to Lucia (9), Francisco (8), and Jacinta (6), the Angel of Peace visited the three children in 1916 amidst World War I.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>These apparitions [of the Angel] offered a catechesis of grace and sacrifice that disposed Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco to receive the coming of the Holy Virgin and her message with a depth of commitment and maturity that far exceeded their years or education.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Fr. John Horgan, <a href="https://catholicexchange.com/angel-fatima-messenger-peace/">Catholic Exchange</a></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="angel-of-peace">Visits from the Angel of Peace</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>First Visit, Spring 1916</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Angel of Peace visited Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta while tending to their flocks in the field. The Angel said, <em>“Do not be afraid! I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me,”</em> and then gave the children the Pardon Prayer (read the prayer below).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Second Visit, Summer 1916</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">During the Angel of Peace’s second visit, he called himself the “Angel of Portugal. He told the children, <em>“Pray! Pray very much! The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have designs of mercy on you.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Third Visit, Fall 1916</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Angel appeared a third time, holding a chalice above which the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/eucharist-holy-communion-adoration-prayer/">Host</a> was suspended in the air, dripping blood into the chalice. Giving the host to Lucia and the chalice to Jacinta and Francisco, the Angel <a href="http://www.fatimacentennial.com/timeline#:~:text=The%20Angel%20then%20arose%2C%20gave,.%22%20Then%20the%20Angel%20disappeared.">asked</a> them to pray for the crimes of the ungrateful and gave them the Angel’s Prayer (see prayer below).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="our-lady-apparitions-fatima">Our Lady of Fátima Apparitions to Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A few months after the Angel of Peace’s third visit to Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta, Our Lady first appeared to the three children while they were shepherding at la Cova da Iria.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>First Apparition, May 13, 1917</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mary appeared to the three children in the field surrounded by light. She asked them to return on the 13th of each month for her visit and requested that they pray the Rosary daily to end the war. <em>“Pray the rosary every day to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Second Apparition, June 13, 1917</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mary appeared for a second time to the children at Fátima and <a href="https://www.theholyrosary.org/fatimaapparitions">asked</a> Lucia to learn how to read and write. She also told them, <em>“Soon I will take Jacinta and Francisco, but Lucia is to stay a while longer,”</em> and to Lucia, <em>“Don't be discouraged, I will not abandon you ever. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and through it will conduct you to God."</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Third Apparition, July 13, 1917</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">At the third apparition, Mary revealed the <a href="https://aleteia.org/2020/08/28/what-are-the-3-secrets-of-our-lady-of-fatima/">“three secrets of Fátima”</a> to the children, pertaining to Hell, World War I and II, and Christian persecution. Undisclosed for many years, St. Pope John Paul II <a href="https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html">revealed</a> the three secrets of Fatima in full after the attempt of his assassination. She also <a href="https://www.theholyrosary.org/fatimaapparitions">gave</a> them the Fátima Prayer and Sacrifice Prayer during this visit.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Fourth Apparition, August 19, 1917</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“The children missed their scheduled meeting with the Lady at the Cova da Iria on Aug. 13 because they were detained by the anti-clerical civil authorities,” <a href="https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/the-meaning-of-fatima-100-years-later/">writes</a> Robert Fastiggi for Our Sunday Visitor. Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta were released on <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-the-assumption/">the Assumption</a> (August 15th). Our Lady appeared to the three children a few days later near one of their homes and encouraged them to continue returning to la Cova da Iria on the 13th of each month.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Fifth Apparition, September 13, 1917</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">30,000 people accompanied the three children to la Cova da Iria at the fifth apparition. Mary <a href="https://www.theholyrosary.org/fatimaapparitions">said</a>, <em>“I Want you to come here on October 13 and that you continue to recite the Rosary to obtain the end of the war. In October, the Lord, the sorrowful Lady, the Lady of Mt. Carmel, and St. Joseph with the child Jesus will also come to bless the world.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Sixth Apparition, October 13, 1917</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">More than 50,000 people gathered near la Cova da Iria in the rain to see the Blessed Mother. They witnessed what has been called the “Miracle of the Sun.” Many scholars and theologians have pointed to Revelation 12:1 in pertinence to this miracle and other apparitions like <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe-prayers-celebrations/">Our Lady of Guadalupe</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>“A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.”</em></strong> (<strong><em>Revelation 12:1</em></strong>)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">View images of the witnesses <a href="https://americaneedsfatima.org/articles/the-apparitions-of-our-lady-of-fatima">here</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>The sun started spinning and grew larger. It looked like it was going to fall on the earth. People fell to their knees in fear. The people then noticed that their clothes were completely dry even though they had been standing in the rain for some time. Even unbelievers and skeptics witnessed the phenomenon. The secular newspaper, O Século, had a front page story on “How the sun danced at midday in Fátima.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Robert Fastiggi, Our Sunday Visitor</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While the thousands accompanying them saw the miracle of the sun spinning, Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta saw just what Our Lady had promised them: St. Joseph with Jesus and Mary as both Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="influenza">Influenza&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 1919, Francisco passed away from influenza, and in 1920, Jacinta passed away from complications related to influenza. Lucia left Fátima to attend the school of the Sisters of Saint Dorothy at Vilar near Porto and eventually took vows as a woman religious. She took the name Sr. Mary of the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">Sorrowful Mother</a> on October 3, 1934, after Our Lady appeared to her alone twice more.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="lucia-our-lady">Lucia and Our Lady</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Years after her sixth apparition and the deaths of Jacinta and Francisco, Mary appeared privately to Lucia on June 13, 1929, and asked her to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart. <em>“The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father, in union with all the bishops of the world, to make the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Church approved Fátima as an apparition site in 1930, shortly after Our Lady’s eighth appearance to Lucia.&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/6xDIgTv7bBb">Download Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="five-prayers-fatima">The Five Prayers Given to the Children at Fátima</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Over many years, the children at Fátima received five prayers from the Angel of Peace and Our Lady. As Our Lady of Fátima has become very well-known in the last several decades, people worldwide turn to these short prayers to draw near to God.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="fatima-prayer">Fátima Prayer/Decade Prayer/Oh My Jesus Prayer</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Also called the “Oh My Jesus” prayer and the “Decade Prayer,” the Fátima prayer is said after the Glory Be for each decade of the Rosary. Mary gave it to the three children at Fátima on her second apparition.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="pardon-prayer">Pardon Prayer</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Angel of Peace gave the Pardon Prayer to the children at Fátima on his first visit.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee! I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee. Amen.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="angels-prayer">Angel’s Prayer</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Angel of Peace gave the Angel’s Prayer to the children at Fátima with the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/corpus-christi/">Body and Blood of Christ</a> on his third visit.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="eucharistic-prayer">Eucharistic Prayer</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The three children received this prayer in their hearts at the first apparition <a href="https://www.churchpop.com/the-5-prayers-revealed-at-fatima-that-every-catholic-should-know/">“after a bright line shone all around them.”</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="sacrifice-prayer">Sacrifice Prayer</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mary gave this prayer to the children on July 13 at the third apparition.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“O Jesus, it is for the love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners.”</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/6xDIgTv7bBb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="canonization">Canonization</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Francis <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2017/documents/papa-francesco_20170513_omelia-pellegrinaggio-fatima.html">canonized</a> Jacinta and Francisco in 2017 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima as the youngest non-martyrs to ever be made <a href="https://hallow.com/saints">saints</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Confirmed in this hope, we have gathered here to give thanks for the countless graces bestowed over these past hundred years. All of them passed beneath the mantle of light that Our Lady has spread over the four corners of the earth, beginning with this land of Portugal, so rich in hope. We can take as our examples Saint Francisco and Saint Jacinta, whom the Virgin Mary introduced into the immense ocean of God’s light and taught to adore him. That was the source of their strength in overcoming opposition and suffering. God’s presence became constant in their lives, as is evident from their insistent prayers for sinners and their desire to remain ever near “the hidden Jesus” in the tabernacle.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><em>Pope Francis</em></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 2017, Sister Lucia was named a Servant of God, the first step in becoming a saint after death. While Jacinta and Francisco passed away at ages 10 and 12, Sister Lucia lived to be 97, which means her canonization process is still underway.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 2022, Philip Kosloski for Aleteia <a href="https://aleteia.org/2022/03/22/why-isnt-sr-lucia-of-fatima-a-canonized-saint/">reported</a>, <em>“Since then there has been no official announcements on the progress of her case, as it is likely the Vatican is still reviewing all of the material submitted … Furthermore, a miracle through her intercession will eventually be necessary to solidify Sr. Lucia’s status, confirming her presence in Heaven.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="related-reading">Related reading&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/our-lady-of-chiquinquira-history-feast-day-and-prayers/">Our Lady of Chiquinquira</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-mary-undoer-of-knots-novena/">Mary, Undoer of Knots</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-marian-consecration/">Marian Consecration</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/patron-saints/">Catholic Patron Saints</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></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/6xDIgTv7bBb">Pray with Saints Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> [post_title] => Our Lady of Fátima: History, the Five Prayers Given to the Children at Fátima, and Their Sainthood [post_excerpt] => Mary appeared to the children at Fátima six times in 1917. 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 37772 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2023-06-29 19:27:56 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-06-29 19:27:56 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow is proud to support the <a href="https://www.eucharisticrevival.org/">National Eucharistic Revival</a> and <a href="https://www.eucharisticcongress.org/">National Eucharistic Congress</a>, which took place July 17-21, 2024, in Indianapolis, Indiana. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">80,000 Catholics gathered for the Congress for this profound experience.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A Eucharistic pilgrimage <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/07/22/eucharistic-pilgrimage-congress-248424">will take place in the spring of 2025</a>, from Indianapolis to Los Angeles, and another National Eucharistic Congress is expected to take place before 2033 (2,000 years after Jesus's death), when it was originally scheduled.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="about-the-national-eucharistic-revival">About the National Eucharistic Revival</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Launched on <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/corpus-christi/">Corpus Christi</a> in 2022, the National Eucharistic Revival’s mission is “to renew the Church by enkindling a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.” This grassroots movement is inspiring Catholics to truly and fully meet Jesus in the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/eucharist-holy-communion-adoration-prayer/">Eucharist</a>, experience His love, and go out into the world and share it with others.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to </em><strong><em>a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ</em></strong><em>, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them; I ask all of you to do this unfailingly each day. No one should think that this invitation is not meant for him or her, since ‘no one is excluded from the joy brought by the Lord.’</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Pope Francis, <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html#I.%E2%80%82A_joy_ever_new,_a_joy_which_is_shared">Evangelii Gaudium</a>&nbsp;</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The revival is divided into three years, each focusing on a different level of the mission:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Year 1 </strong>- June 19, 2022 - June 11, 2023: Year of Diocesan Revival</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Year 2 </strong>- June 11, 2023 - July 17, 2024: Year of Parish Revival&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>July 17 – 21, 2024: National Eucharistic Congress</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Year 3</strong> - July 21, 2024 - Pentecost 2025: National Year of Mission</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="about-the-national-eucharistic-congress">About the National Eucharistic Congress</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This is the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in the United States, and the 9th was held 83 years before, in 1941. This will be an incredible experience to gather with Catholics from all over, draw near to Jesus in the Eucharist, and inspire wonder to go out and share His love with others.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>We want to start a FIRE, not a program.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Bishop Andrew Cozzens, Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Eucharistic Congress</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>What: </strong>teaching, worship, fellowship, and guidance for sharing the love of Jesus in your local community&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Who: </strong>80,000 Catholics and Jesus Christ in the Eucharist with hosts Montse Alvarado, Sr. Miriam James Heidland, and Fr. Josh Johnson</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>When:</strong> July 17-21, 2024</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Where:</strong> Indianapolis, Indiana</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>How:</strong> Register today and prepare for the generational moment and Catholic event of the decade</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Why: </strong>experience prayer and the Eucharist like never before; take part in reconsecrating the Church to the Father, through the Son, and in the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/">Holy Spirit</a>; be moved to share the Eucharistic love of the Lord in local communities</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://www.eucharisticcongress.org/hallow">Join Hallow at the Congress with CODE: ‘Hallow’</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="hallow-eucharistic-meditations">Pray with Hallow: Eucharistic Meditations</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We invite you to pray now during the Eucharistic Revival and prepare for the Eucharistic Congress on the app.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Prayers and Meditations&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>I Am Here: “I Am” Meditations with Julianne Stanz and Bishop Andrew Cozzens&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Eucharistic Prayers with Bishop Andrew Cozzens&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Music</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Adoration, Vol. 1: reimagined hymns with Matt Maher&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Adoration Hymns with Kat Hammock</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Music Praylist: Holy Hours&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Eucharistic Chant with Benedict XVI Schola</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Guest Talks&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>The Mass with Tim O’Malley</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Food and Faith with Fr. Leo Patalinghug&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Bible Stories</strong>&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>The Last Supper with Fr. Josh Johnson</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Bread of Life with Bishop Andrew Cozzens</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/f50YCYa61Ab">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Related Reading</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/world-youth-day/">World Youth Day 2023</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-holy-hour/">Making a Holy Hour</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-act-of-contrition/">Act of Contrition</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => National Eucharistic Revival [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => national-eucharistic-revival-congress [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-09-17 15:28:44 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-09-17 15:28:44 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=37772 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 37612 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-06-27 17:12:33 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-06-27 17:12:33 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The 2023 World Youth Day will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, beginning on Tuesday, August 1, and concluding on Sunday, August 6.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“Young people of "World Youth Day", the Church asks you to go, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to those who are near and those who are far away. Share with them the freedom you have found in Christ. People thirst for genuine inner freedom. They yearn for the Life which Christ came to give in abundance … May you, the Catholic young people of the world, not fail him. In your hands, carry the Cross of Christ. On your lips, the words of Life. In your hearts, the saving grace of the Lord.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Pope John Paul II, 1993 WYD in Denver, Colorado</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#what-is-world-youth-day">What is World Youth Day?&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#when-is-world-youth-day">When is World Youth Day?&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#travel-preparation">Traveling and Preparing for World Youth Day</a><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#grandparents-elderly">World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#world-youth-day-history">World Youth Day History</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#past-locations-themes">Past WYD Locations and Themes</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#world-youth-day-2023-theme">World You Day 2023 Theme&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#dates-pope-francis-schedule">World Youth Day Dates and Pope Francis Schedule</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#world-youth-day-theme-song">World Youth Day Theme Song</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#app">World Youth Day App</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#world-youth-day-pilgrim-prayer">World Youth Day Pilgrim Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="what-is-world-youth-day">What is World Youth Day?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">World Youth Day is an international gathering of young people, ages 16 to 35, with the Pope.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It takes place every two to three years in different cities all over the globe. It has a strong Catholic identity and includes a celebration of Mass with the Pope, but it’s open to all.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In addition to celebrating young people, World Youth Day is an “expression of the universal Church and a powerful moment of evangelization for the world of youth.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Thousands and thousands of young people gather together for several days with accommodations ranging from camping to lodging in churches. More than 400,000 young people have <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-06/pope-francis-itinerary-world-youth-day-lisbon-2023.html#:~:text=The%20Holy%20See%20Press%20Office%20on%20Tuesday%2C%206%20June%2C%20released,on%201%2D6%20August%202023.">officially</a> registered to attend and take part in the 2023 International World Youth Day celebration in Lisbon, Portugal.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The most highly-attended WYD was in Manila in 1995, with more than 5 million people in attendance. After celebrating Mass, Pope John Paul II had to take a helicopter to get through the crowds, trading in the popemobile.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="when-is-world-youth-day">When is World Youth Day?&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">First celebrated on <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/palm-sunday/">Palm Sunday</a> in 1986, the international World Youth Day celebration takes place in the summer months though not always. In 2023, World Youth Day begins on August 1 and concludes on August 6, 2023.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The 2023 WYD celebration in Lisbon was originally planned for 2022, though the Vatican postponed the celebration due to Covid-19.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The location and dates of the next World Youth Day, following the 2023 celebration in Lisbon, have yet to be announced, though the archdiocese of Seoul, South Korea, has <a href="https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Seoul-archdiocese-wants-to-host-WYD-2027-56992.html">said</a> they want to host WYD in 2027.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="travel-preparation">Travel and Preparing for World Youth Day</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Attendance to WYD is free, though many pilgrims will incur travel, lodging, and other expenses during their travels as they hail from all over the world, often using multiple kinds of transportation. Some WYD pilgrimage groups are sponsored by schools, churches, or other organizations.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="grandparents-elderly">Pray for your grandparents and the elderly</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the weeks preceding WYD 2023, Pope Francis <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/nonni/documents/20230531-messaggio-nonni-anziani.html">calls</a> on young people to pray for their grandparents on the <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-06/pope-message-for-world-day-of-grandparents-and-elderly-2023.html">World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly</a>, which falls on July 23 near the feasts of Sts. Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>To you, the young who are preparing to meet in Lisbon or to celebrate World Youth Day in your own countries, I would ask: </em><strong><em>before you set out on your journey, visit your grandparents or an elderly person who lives alone!</em></strong><em> Their prayers will protect you and you will carry in your heart the blessing of that encounter. I ask you, the elderly among us, to accompany by your prayers the young people about to celebrate World Youth Day. Those young people are God’s answer to your prayers, the fruits of all that you have sown, the sign that God does not abandon his people, but always rejuvenates them with the creativity of the Holy Spirit.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Pope Francis</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-preparing-for-pilgrimage-nbsp">Preparing for pilgrimage&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Like other pilgrimages, prayer before the journey is an important part of the experience. To encounter others in Christ, we must first carry Christ within our own hearts. As Pope Francis <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/youth/documents/papa-francesco_20220815_messaggio-giovani_2022.html">encourages</a>, <em>“Let us carry Jesus within our hearts, and bring him to all those whom we meet! In this beautiful season of your lives, press ahead and do not postpone all the good that the Holy Spirit can accomplish in you! With affection, I bless your dreams and every step of your journey.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Consider praying with Hallow before your journey or praying for someone you know attending WYD should you not be in attendance. As the theme of the week centers around Mary’s haste – her joyful rush to share God’s love with others – you might consider praying alongside her with the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">Rosary</a> or other Marian prayers.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Another way to intentionally prepare your heart is to pray a <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-novenas/">novena</a> for your own intention or for the intention of a friend or family member. 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-the-sacred-heart-novena/">Sacred Heart Novena</a>, or <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-mary-undoer-of-knots-novena/">Mary, Undoer of Knots</a> novenas are all beautiful ways to draw near to Jesus for 9 days.&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/8glRa7GiSAb">Prepare for WYD with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="world-youth-day-history">World Youth Day History</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-st-pope-john-paul-ii-and-world-youth-day">St. Pope John Paul II and World Youth Day</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Established by St. John Paul II in his papacy, the first official World Youth Day was in 1986 in Rome, Italy. The <a href="https://worldyouthday.com/about-wyd/wyd-history">inspiration</a> for its institution began two years earlier, at the close of the Holy Year of Redemption in 1984. JPII invited an International Jubilee of youth to celebrate Palm Sunday in St. Peter’s Square, and over 300,000 youth responded.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The following year (1985) was also the U.N.’s International Year of the Youth, and JPII again invited young people to Rome and the Vatican. He also wrote the apostolic letter <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1985/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_31031985_dilecti-amici.html">Dilecti Amici</a>, meaning “Dear Friends,” addressing it to the “youth of the world.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Since man is the fundamental and at the same time the daily way of the Church, it is easy to understand why the Church attributes special importance to the period of youth as a key stage in the life of every human being. You young people are the ones who embody this youth: you are the youth of the nations and societies, the youth of every family and of all humanity; you are also the youth of the Church. We are all looking to you, for all of us, thanks to you, in a certain sense continually become young again. So your youth is not just your own property, your personal property or the property of a generation: it belongs to the whole of that space that every man traverses in his life's journey, and at the same time it is a special possession belonging to everyone. </em><strong><em>It is a possession of humanity itself.</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>St. Pope John Paul II, Dilecti Amici (March 31, 1985)</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A few months after writing Dielecti Amici, JPII announced the institution of World Youth Day on December 20, 1985, for the upcoming Palm Sunday in 1986. He <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1997/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19970323.html">selected</a> Palm Sunday as it was the day “the children of Jerusalem” met Jesus upon his entrance to Jerusalem after 40 days in the desert.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Since then, there have been 15 International World Youth Day celebrations spanning the globe and drawing in millions of young Catholics from all over. WYD is celebrated every two or three years, though there is always a smaller celebration in Rome in the “off” years.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="past-locations-themes">Past International WYD locations and themes</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:table {"className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-table"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Location</strong></td><td><strong>Theme and scripture reference</strong></td></tr><tr><td>2023</td><td>Lisbon (Portugal)</td><td>Mary arose and went with haste. (Luke 1:39)</td></tr><tr><td>2019</td><td>Panama City (Panama)</td><td>“I am the servant of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” (Luke 1:38)</td></tr><tr><td>2016</td><td>Krakow (Poland)</td><td>“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” (Matthew 5:7)</td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>Rio Di Janeiro (Brazil)</td><td>Go and Make Disciples of All Nations. (Matthew 28:19)</td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>Madrid (Spain)</td><td>Rooted and built up in Jesus Christ, Firm in the Faith. (Colossians 2:7)</td></tr><tr><td>2008</td><td>Sydney (Australia)</td><td>Rooted and built up in Jesus Christ, Firm in the Faith. (Colossians 2:7)</td></tr><tr><td>2005</td><td>Cologne (Germany)</td><td>We have come to worship him. (Matthew 2:2)</td></tr><tr><td>2002</td><td>Toronto (Canada)</td><td>You are the salt of the earth; You are the light of the world. (Matthew 5:13-14)</td></tr><tr><td>2000</td><td>Rome (Italy)</td><td>The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)</td></tr><tr><td>1997</td><td>Paris (France)</td><td>Teacher, where are you staying? Come and see. (John 1:38-39)</td></tr><tr><td>1995</td><td>Manila (Philippines)</td><td>As the Father sent me, so am I sending you. (John 20:21)</td></tr><tr><td>1993</td><td>Denver (Colorado)</td><td>I came that they might have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10)</td></tr><tr><td>1991</td><td>Częstochowa (Poland)</td><td>You have received a spirit of sonship. (Romans 8:15)</td></tr><tr><td>1989</td><td>Santiago de Compostela (Spain)</td><td>I am the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6)</td></tr><tr><td>1987</td><td>Buenos Aires (Argentina)</td><td>We ourselves have known and put our faith in God’s love towards ourselves. (1 John 4:16)</td></tr><tr><td>1986</td><td>Rome (Italy)</td><td>Always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you. (1 Peter 3:15)</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> <!-- /wp:table --> <!-- 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/8glRa7GiSAb">Download Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="world-youth-day-2023-theme">World Youth Day 2023 Theme</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The 2023 World Youth Day <a href="https://www.lisboa2023.org/en/theme">theme</a> comes from the Gospel of Luke. After the Angel Gabriel announced to her that she would bear the Son of God (the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-the-annunciation/">Annunciation</a>), Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth (the Visitation). Pope Francis <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/youth/documents/papa-francesco_20220815_messaggio-giovani_2022.html">reflected</a>, </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“Mary could have focused on herself and her own worries and fears about her new condition. Instead, she entrusted herself completely to God. Her thoughts turned to Elizabeth. She got up and went forth, into the world of life and movement.”&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Pope Francis</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And she went quickly as a pilgrim and a beacon of hope. Thus, <strong>the 2023 WYD theme is </strong><strong><em>“Mary arose and went with haste” (Lk 1:39).&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mary did not turn inward but outward to encounter her cousin Elizabeth, following God’s desire for her life.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“In these troubling times, when our human family, already tested by the trauma of the pandemic, is racked by the tragedy of war, Mary shows to all of us, and especially to you, young people like herself, the path of proximity and encounter. I hope and I firmly believe that the experience many of you will have in Lisbon next August will represent a new beginning for you, the young, and – with you – for humanity as a whole.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Francis&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/8glRa7GiSAb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="dates-pope-francis-schedule">World Youth Day Dates and Pope Francis Schedule</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">World Youth Day in 2023 will take place from August 1-6.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Francis will arrive on August 2 and be present at World Youth Day until his departure on August 6. View the live stream of St. Peter’s Square <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/events/event.dir.html/content/vaticanevents/en/2023/8/2/viaggio-portogallo-gmg.html">here</a> to follow Pope Francis’ apostolic journey to Lisbon on August 2.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The following events highlight the Holy Father’s day-by-day schedule:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>August 2 - 10:45: Welcome ceremony at Palácio Nacional de Belém</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>August 3 - 17:45: Welcome ceremony at Colina do Encontro (Parque Eduardo VII)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>August 4 - 18:00 Stations of the Cross at Colina do Encontro (Parque Eduardo VII)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>August 5 - 9:30 Rosary at Chapel of Apparitions of the Shrine of <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/our-lady-of-fatima/">Our Lady of Fatima</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>August 5 - 20:45 Vigil with young people at “Campo da Graça" (Parque Tejo)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>August 6 - 9:00 World Youth Day Mass at “Campo da Graça" (Parque Tejo)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>August 6 - 17:50 Farewell Ceremony at Figo Maduro Air Base</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Find more details on the Offical Schedule for the Pope’s Visit to Lisbon <a href="https://www.lisboa2023.org/en/official-schedule-for-pope-s-visit">here</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="world-youth-day-theme-song">World Youth Day Theme Song</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In tandem with the 2023 WYD theme, the official theme song of World Youth Day Lisbon is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWo7r7PaHqE">“Há Pressa No Ar,”</a> which translates to “There’s a Rush in the Air.” The song was released in January and is <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2021-01/wyd-2023-lisbon-portugal-ha-pressa-no-ar-mary.html">inspired</a> by the Gospel passage of Mary rushing to meet Elizabeth.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Recorded in Portuguese and in an international version featuring Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and Italian, the song was written by Fr. João Paulo Vaz with musical arrangements by musician Carlos Garcia.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="app"><strong>World Youth Day Official App</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There's an official app for World Youth Day that all attendees are encouraged to download. Get it <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lisboa-2023/id6443794483">here</a>!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="world-youth-day-pilgrim-prayer">World Youth Day Pilgrim Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In tandem with the Marian theme of the 2023 WYD, the Official Prayer for World Youth Day calls on the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-with-saints/">intercession</a> of Our Lady of the Visitation. Those attending World Youth Day or those joining in its celebration through prayer are invited to pray the Pilgrims’ Prayer below.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Our Lady of the Visitation, you who left in haste towards the mountain to meet Elizabeth, lead us also to meet all those who await us to deliver them the living Gospel: Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord! We will go in a hurry, with no distraction or delay, but with readiness and joy. We will go peacefully, because those who take Christ take peace, and welldoing is the best wellbeing. Our Lady of the Visitation, with your inspiration, this World Youth Day will be the mutual celebration of the Christ we take, as You once did. Make it a time of testimony and sharing, fraternization, and giving thanks, each of us looking for the others who always wait. With you, we will continue on this path of gathering, so that our world will gather as well, in fraternity, justice and peace. Help us, Our Lady of the Visitation, to bring Christ to everyone, obeying the Father, in the love of the Spirit!</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/8glRa7GiSAb">Download Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Related reading:</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/patron-saints/">Catholic Patron Saints</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-strength/">Catholic Prayers for Strength</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/3-takeaways-from-pope-francis-on-christian-meditation/">Pope Francis on Catholic Meditation</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:html --> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "World Youth Day 2023", "description": "International Catholic festival for young people, including a visit from Pope Francis.", "startDate": "2023-08-01", "endDate": "2023-08-06", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Colina do Encontro", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Parque Eduardo VII 1070-051", "addressLocality": "Lisbon", "postalCode": "", "addressCountry": "PT" } } } </script> <!-- /wp:html --> [post_title] => World Youth Day 2023 - Lisbon: Theme, Dates, Schedule  [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => world-youth-day [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-03-21 18:02:16 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-03-21 18:02:16 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=37612 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 37390 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2023-06-23 16:50:45 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-06-23 16:50:45 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Our Lady of Chiquinquira occupies an extremely important place in the faith lives of many Catholics, especially those in Colombia, much like <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe-prayers-celebrations/">Our Lady of Guadalupe</a> inspires many in Mexico.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Virgin of Chiquinquira refers to a miraculous occurrence involving a 16th-century painting of the Virgin Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It’s been a source of inspiration for Catholics for nearly 500 years.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Learn all about Our Lady of Chiquinquira and join <a href="https://www.instagram.com/talianav/?hl=en">Taliana Vargas</a> in praying the Our Lady of Chiquinquira novena on Hallow today,</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/chiquinquira">Join the Our Lady of Chiquinquira Challenge on the Hallow App</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-history-of-the-virgin-of-chiquinquira">History of the Virgin of Chiquinquira</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Spanish missionaries, including Dominican friars, arrived in Colombia early in the 16th century and began to spread the Catholic faith.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As the faith spread, so did the popularity of Mary. <a href="https://virgendechiquinquira.com/santuario/historia-del-santuario/">In 1562</a>, a man named Antonio de Santana commissioned the painting of a portrait of the Virgin Mary with the help of Dominican Fray Andrés Jadraque.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Painter Alonso de Narváez completed the painting, which was 44 inches tall and 26 inches wide. He took advantage of the wide space by adding St. Anthony of Padua (in honor of Antonio de Santana) to the left of Mary–holding baby Jesus–and St. Andrew (in honor of Andrés Jadraque) to her right.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">By 1574, as the Dominicans moved around and Andrés was reassigned, the painting was eventually left in a chapel, where it sustained damage from a leaky roof. Two years later, a man named Juan Alemán de Leguizamón found the painting in such poor condition that his wife used it in the kitchen to dry wheat.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">When she died, the painting was lost until 1585.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-miracle">The Miracle</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">María Ramos, who was married to Antonio de Santana’s brother, arrived in the Tunja area of Colombia before eventually staying with her sister-in-law, Catalina de Irlos, in Chiquinquira, where she discovered the badly damaged, partially destroyed painting.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Ramos, <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/36773/be-humble-in-serving-your-brothers-and-sisters-in-need-pope-says-in-colombia">as Pope Francis described</a> during a 2017 visit to Colombia, “had the courage and faith to put this blurred and torn fabric in a special place, restoring its lost dignity” by bringing it to a chapel at which she frequently prayed.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://www.colombia.co/cultura-colombiana/la-virgen-de-chiquinquira-la-patrona-de-colombia/">On December 25, 1586</a>, as Ramos was about to leave the chapel, a 5-year-old indigenous boy named Miguel saw the painting shining brightly on the ground where Ramos had been praying. He <a href="https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/89842/3/Cousins_Karen_S_201806_PhD_thesis.pdf">cried out to his mother</a>, Isabel, “Mother, look! The <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/solemnity-of-mary-mother-of-god/">Mother of God</a> is on the ground!”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Isabel stopped Ramos from leaving the church by telling her, “Look, look señora! Our Lady, the Mother of God, is standing up in your seat!”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The dilapidated painting, which previously hung in the chapel, was completely restored with beautiful, radiant color. It stood in the chapel, “<a href="https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/89842/3/Cousins_Karen_S_201806_PhD_thesis.pdf">reclining slightly in the air</a> without anyone or anything supporting it.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Word spread about the miraculous restoration of the painting, and local church authorities investigated the miracle. During this time, the “<a href="https://www.academia.edu/41236512/_Local_Factors_Indigenous_Devotion_to_the_Virgin_of_Chiquinquir%C3%A1_in_the_New_Kingdom_of_Granada_XVI_XVII_page_proofs_">celestial light</a>” that the painting emitted as a sign of the Virgin Mary’s patronage of the area.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-patroness-of-colombia-and-basilica-of-our-lady-of-the-rosary-of-chiquinquira">Patroness of Colombia and Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The story of what happened at Chiquinquira spread over the next 300 years.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 1801, construction began on the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira. A few decades later, in 1829, Pope Pius VII <a href="https://www.miamiarch.org/CatholicDiocese.php?op=Article_10715113619743">declared</a> Our Lady of Chiquinquira the patroness of Colombia.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Pius X canonically crowned the image of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira on July 9, 1919. In 2019, a jubilee year of celebration marked the 100-year anniversary of the Coronation of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The painting continues to be held at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira. It is removed from the Basilica rarely for special occasions, including most recently on the occasion of <a href="https://aleteia.org/2017/08/05/pope-requests-the-company-of-our-lady-on-his-flight-to-colombia/">Pope Francis’s 2017 visit</a> to Colombia.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-prayer-rosary-of-chiquinquira">Prayer: Rosary of Chiquinquira</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Ask for Mary’s intercession through this beautiful prayer associated with the Rosary of Chiquinquira:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Oh incomparable Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mother of God, Queen of angels,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">advocate of sinners,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">refuge and comfort of the afflicted and troubled.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Holy Virgin, full of power and goodness,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Look down on us favorably</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">so that we are helped by you</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">in all the needs in which we find ourselves.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Remember, O Most Clement Lady of the Rosary!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">that it was never heard that someone who has resorted to you,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">invoked your most holy name,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">and implored your singular protection,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I was abandoned by you.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Encouraged by this confidence, we turn to You.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We take you from today and forever for our Mother,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">our protector, comfort and guide,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">hope and light at the hour of death.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Free us from everything that can offend you</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">and your Most Holy Son, Jesus.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Protect us from all dangers of soul and body;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">direct us in all spiritual and temporal affairs;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">deliver us from the temptation of the devil,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">so that walking on the path of virtue,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">we may one day see you and love you in eternal glory,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">for ever and ever.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-feast-of-our-lady-of-chiquinquira-celebrate-with-hallow-and-taliana-vargas">Feast of Our Lady of Chiquinquira: Celebrate with Hallow and Taliana Vargas</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":37422,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none","className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignleft size-full"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-300x400-1.png" alt="Taliana Vargas kneeling in prayer" class="wp-image-37422"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Taliana Vargas kneels in prayer.</figcaption></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We are excited to offer the Novena to Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira inside the Hallow app.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Colombia actress Taliana Vargas will lead the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-novenas/">novena</a>, beginning on Friday, June 30, and continuing through July 8, ahead of the Feast of Our Lady of Chiquinquira on July 9.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Like many Colombians, Taliana shares a special devotion to Our Lady of Chiquinquira and was present in 2017 when Pope Francis visited Our Lady of Chiquinquira in Bogota.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Join Taliana in praying for nine days before the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons --> <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/chiquinquira">Try Hallow for Free Today</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Frequently Asked Questions about Our Lady of Chiquinquira</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:yoast/faq-block {"questions":[{"id":"faq-question-1687472252513","question":["When is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Chinquinquira? "],"answer":["The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira takes place on July 9. 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Venezuelans celebrate the day on November 18.</p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1687472262720"><strong class="schema-faq-question">What did the miracle of Chiquinquira consist of?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">A badly damaged painting of the Virgin Mary was miraculously restored and stood up straight on its own inside a small chapel in Chiquinquira, Boyacá, Colombia.</p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1687472287385"><strong class="schema-faq-question">Who named Our Lady of Chiquinquira the patron of Colombia?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">Pope Pius VII declared the Virgin of Chiquinquira the patroness of Colombia in 1829.</p> </div> </div> <!-- /wp:yoast/faq-block --> <!-- 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-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/patron-saints/">Patron Saints&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-mary-undoer-of-knots-novena/">Our Lady, Undoer of Knots</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Our Lady of Chiquinquira: History, Feast Day and Prayers  [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => our-lady-of-chiquinquira-history-feast-day-and-prayers [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-07-14 18:39:43 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-07-14 18:39:43 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=37390 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 35429 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-06-13 19:20:45 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-06-13 19:20:45 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Father’s Day is a beautiful day on which we celebrate our fathers, grandfathers, and the father figures in our lives. Though not officially a Christian celebration, Father’s Day is annually celebrated on the third Sunday in June and offers a time for reflection, expression of gratitude, and prayer for our fathers.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God took the </em><strong><em>strength</em></strong><em> of a mountain, the </em><strong><em>majesty</em></strong><em> of a tree, the </em><strong><em>warmth </em></strong><em>of a summer sun, the </em><strong><em>calm</em></strong><em> of a quiet sea, the </em><strong><em>generous</em></strong><em> soul of nature, the </em><strong><em>comforting</em></strong><em> arm of night, the </em><strong><em>wisdom</em></strong><em> of the ages, the </em><strong><em>power</em></strong><em> of the eagle's flight, the </em><strong><em>joy</em></strong><em> of a morning in spring, the </em><strong><em>faith</em></strong><em> of a mustard seed, the </em><strong><em>patience</em></strong><em> of eternity, the </em><strong><em>depth</em></strong><em> of a family need, then God combined these qualities, when there was nothing more to add, He knew His masterpiece was complete, and so, He called it ... </em><strong><em>Dad</em></strong><em>.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Author Unknown</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#simple-prayers">Simple prayers for Father’s Day</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#short-gratitudes-blessings">Short gratitudes and blessings for dads</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#scripture-fathers-day">Scripture for Father’s Day</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#st-joseph">St. Joseph-inspired prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Intercession-prayers">Intercession Prayers for Father’s Day</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#more-prayers">More prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="simple-prayers">Simple prayers for Father’s Day</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Lord, thank you for my father, for his sacrifices and his love for me. Amen.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>When our dads are tired, overwhelmed, or feeling weak, Lord give them the strength to continue loving and working. Lord, give them the courage to stand strong. Lord, give them the anchor of Your Way. In your name, I pray, Amen.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Dear God, thank you for the gift of fatherhood. We pray for all fathers and those hoping to become fathers. May You give them the strength to be a vessel of Your love. Amen.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>St. Joseph the Worker, you cared for Jesus in His time on earth. I ask for your intercession today for my father, to pray beside him and for him. Amen.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Heavenly Father, bless our fathers today and every day. Amen.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Dear God, we pray for all of the fathers who live in our memory. May they have eternal rest in Your peace. Amen.&nbsp;</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/cnNJiISsBAb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="short-gratitudes-blessings">Short gratitudes and blessings for dads</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Dad, I’m so grateful for everything you do for me and others that goes known and unknown. Thank you for your care and your strength.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Dad, thank you for your guidance in life’s daily and longer challenges.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Dad, thank you for your leading me to what is right while trusting me to make my own path.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Dad, thank you for your patience in answering my many questions.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Dad, thank you for being our rock and for standing firm in everything life brings.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>May His light shine on you today and every day.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>May you feel loved today on Father’s Day and furthermore.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="scripture-fathers-day">Scripture for Father’s Day</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In addition to the many passages on God as the Father, the Bible is filled with stories of fathers and short verses on fatherhood to inspire and lead. A few of the stories, or <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/parables-of-jesus/">parables</a>, include:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Joseph, the foster father of Jesus — <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+18&amp;version=NABRE">Matthew 18</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Parable of the Prodigal Son — <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+15%3A11%E2%80%9332&amp;version=NABRE">Luke 15:11–32</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Noah and the Ark — <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+6&amp;version=NABRE">Genesis 6</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Abraham and Isaac — <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+22&amp;version=NABRE">Genesis 22</a>, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+18%3A19&amp;version=NABRE">Genesis 18&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And among the many shorter verses, here are a few for your Father’s Day prayers or messages:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Psalm 103:13 <em>“As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.”</em>&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Psalm 32:7-8 <em>“You are my shelter; you guard me from distress; with joyful shouts of deliverance you surround me.”</em>&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Isaiah 40:31 <em>They that hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on eagles’ wings; They will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint.”</em>&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Psalm 127: 3-5<em> “Certainly sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. He will never be shamed for he will destroy his foes at the gate.”</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>1 Corinthians 16:13 <em>“Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.”</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="st-joseph">St. Joseph-inspired prayers</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pray alongside St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, on Father’s Day with the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-litany-of-st-joseph/">Litany of St. Joseph</a>, or you could even begin the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-joseph-worker-novena/">St. Joseph the Worker Novena</a> or the 21-Day Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Intercession-prayers">Intercession prayers for Father’s Day</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you’ve been tasked with writing intercessory prayers (prayers of the faithful) for Mass on Father’s Day, allow Hallow to help. Here are a few simple Father’s Day prayers suitable for most prayers of the faithful:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For all fathers, grandfathers, step-fathers, and fatherlike figures in our lives, may God bless them abundantly, we pray to the Lord,&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For all the fathers who have passed, may we hold them in our memory and in our hearts and honor them today, we pray to the Lord,&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For all those longing to become fathers, may You guide them through this hard time, we pray to the Lord,&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>St. Joseph, may you intercede in the lives of all fathers struggling, and may you pray for them to draw near to God the Father, we pray to the Lord,&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="more-prayers">More prayers</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/mothers-day-prayers/">Mother’s Day Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/memorial-day-prayers/">Memorial Day Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-birthdays-and-birthday-blessings/">Birthday Prayers and Blessings</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-fathers-day/">Bible Verses for Father's Day<br></a><br></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/cnNJiISsBAb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> [post_title] => Father’s Day Prayers 2024: Prayer for Father’s Day [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => fathers-day-prayers [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-05-21 00:30:36 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-05-21 00:30:36 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=35429 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 35027 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-06-02 18:23:14 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-06-02 18:23:14 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Book of Psalms so beautifully encompasses the human experience on earth through song, poetry, and prayer. From psalms of praise, joy, and thanksgiving to psalms of lament, desperation, and longing, there truly is a psalm for every day and each season of our lives.<br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In Hallow’s new Summer with the Psalms prayer challenge, you’ll dive deep into all 150 psalms in 30 days alongside Bishop Robert Barron from <a href="https://www.wordonfire.org/">Word on Fire</a>. Join the challenge below, and continue reading to learn more about the Book of Psalms and how you can pray with the psalms, allowing the same words Jesus prayed with, and millions of Christians throughout history, to move through you in prayer.&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/1PpXNYK8dAb">Join: Summer with the Psalms</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#psalms-background">Background: Authors and Origin of the Psalms</a><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#who-wrote-the-psalms">Who wrote the Psalms?</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#types-of-psalms">Types of Psalms</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#why-pray-with-the-psalms">Why pray with the Psalms?</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#when-to-pray-psalms">When to pray with the Psalms?</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#how-to-pray-with-psalms">How to pray with Psalms&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#related-reading">Related reading</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Indeed the Psalms teach how to pray.</em></strong><em> In them, the word of God becomes a word of prayer — and they are the words of the inspired Psalmist — which also becomes the word of the person who prays the Psalms.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><em>Pope Benedict XVI</em></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="psalms-background">Background: Authors and Themes of the Psalms</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="who-wrote-the-psalms">Who wrote the Psalms?</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Book of Psalms was written by a variety of authors, known and unknown, and composed and compiled over many centuries. In total, there are 150 psalms in this incredible work of Scripture, often referred to as “The Psalter.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Almost half of the Psalms are attributed to David, the anointed King of Israel whose line Jesus descended from – 73 of the total 150. Some Dead Sea Scroll scholars <a href="https://yalebiblestudy.org/courses/psalms/lessons/what-are-the-psalms-study-guide/">believe</a> David composed 3,600 psalms as noted in the ancient text, though these writings are lost or perhaps undiscovered perhaps. Evidently, they’re not included in the modern Bible.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/psalms/0#">USCCB</a> reports that “there is no sure way of dating any Psalm,” but all were written before 165 B.C., well over a century before the birth of Christ. Some of the Psalms were written before the exile of the Jews to Babylon in 597 B.C. (“pre-exilic”), while others were written after the Babylonian captivity, which ended in 538 B.C. (“post-exilic).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Psalm 90 – <em>“Lord, you have been our refuge through all generations”</em> – is attributed to Moses, who lived around 1400 B.C. This attribution of the famous psalm has led historians to believe it is the oldest.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also know that Asaph, Korah, Solomon, Ethan, and Heman were psalmists in addition to David and Moses.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="types-of-psalms">The Types of Psalms&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While the Book of Psalms encompasses the infinitude of emotions which we hold in our hearts, theologians have identified many “types” among the 150 psalms in the Bible. Among the many types, scholars also often distinguish between communal and individual psalms as well.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:pullquote --> <figure class="wp-block-pullquote"><blockquote><p><br>“<em>... the whole complexity of human life is distilled in the complexity of the different literary forms of the various Psalms: hymns, laments, individual entreaties and collective supplications, hymns of thanksgiving, penitential psalms, sapiential psalms and the other genres that are to be found in these poetic compositions.</em>”</p><cite>Pope Benedict XVI</cite></blockquote></figure> <!-- /wp:pullquote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><br>Not all scholars of the Psalter agree on a set list or nomenclature of the psalm types, though generally, we see 7 repeating types in researching the Psalms:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Hymn</strong>: psalm-songs of praise (ex.<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+8&amp;version=NABRE"> Psalm 8</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Thanksgiving</strong>: psalms of gratitude for God’s assistance, mercy, or goodness (ex. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+30&amp;version=NABRE">Psalm 30</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Lament</strong>: psalm expressing struggle or distress of some kind, asking God for help (ex. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+44&amp;version=NABRE">Psalm 44</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Praise</strong>: psalms of exaltation (ex. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&amp;version=NABRE">Psalm 145</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Royal</strong>: psalms that address a pre-exilic Israelite king, often interpreted messianically (ex. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+18&amp;version=NABRE">Psalm 18</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Divine enthronement</strong>: psalms that affirm God is the true King (ex. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+93&amp;version=NABRE">Psalm 93</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Wisdom</strong>: psalms that teach us to live morally and toward an eternal life with God (ex. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+37&amp;version=NABRE">Psalm 37</a>)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="why-pray-with-the-psalms">Why pray with the Psalms?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Book of Psalms is arguably the most read and prayed book of the Bible. Beyond this, here are three reasons why we pray with the Psalms:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-to-pray-with-the-same-words-that-jesus-did">To pray with the same words that Jesus did.&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It’s so powerful to know that Jesus prayed with the Psalms. One of <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-last-words-of-christ/">His last words</a> before dying on the cross comes from Psalm 22.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Psalm 22:2</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-psalms-teach-us-how-to-pray">The Psalms teach us how to pray.&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And they have for centuries. Taking on the psalmist's words, we pray alongside many other Christians seeking to know and love God better. As we read in the Catechism of the Catholic Church,&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God tirelessly calls each person to this mysterious encounter with Himself. Prayer unfolds throughout the whole history of salvation as a reciprocal call between God and man.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><em>CCC 2591</em></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-find-solace-in-the-shared-human-experience">Find solace in the shared human experience.&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Encompassing the wide range of human emotions, the Psalms help us to pray through the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-strength/">difficulties</a> and the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-happiness-and-joy/">joys</a> of life as so many others have before us and will do after us. While we do not all experience the same hills and valleys of life, it can be so comforting to know that our hearts hold the same longings as others.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In the Psalms are expressed and interwoven with joy and suffering, the longing for God and the perception of our own unworthiness, happiness and the feeling of abandonment, trust in God and sorrowful loneliness, fullness of life and fear of death. The whole reality of the believer converges in these prayers. [...]&nbsp; Since </em><strong><em>the Psalms are prayers they are expressions of the heart and of faith with which everyone can identify</em></strong><em> and in which that experience of special closeness to God — to which every human being is called — is communicated.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Pope Benedict XVI</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- 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/1PpXNYK8dAb">Download Hallow &amp; Pray the Psalms</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="when-to-pray-psalms">When to pray with the Psalms?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Because of the Psalms’ inherent thematic variety, you really can pray with them at any time. Many pray with the Psalms at the beginning of the day or right before bed. 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Consider the emotion, mood, and tone of the poem-prayer. Is there an image, phrase, or word that stands out to you? Spend some time with that and consider what God might be showing you through the Psalm.</p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685546931541"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Oratio: allow the Psalms to inspire you to <strong>pray</strong>.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">Ask God to guide you through the psalm. You might express your gratitude, ask forgiveness, or simply speak with Him about what the passage brought to your attention and heart. As Pope Benedict XVI said, the Psalms help us “find a language for the encounter with God” in prayer.</p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685546933223"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Contemplatio: allow this time in prayer to lead you to rest and <strong>contemplate</strong> God’s presence in your life.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">Allow yourself to fully rest in God’s presence at this moment, and listen for His voice. <br/>Conclude this time of reflection with an <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">Our Father</a>, <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary</a>, or Glory Be.</p> </li></ol></div> <!-- /wp:yoast/how-to-block --> <!-- 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/1PpXNYK8dAb">Pray the Psalms with Bishop Barron</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>The Summer with Psalms challenge, as well as this article, was largely inspired by the General Audience of Pope Benedict XVI on June 22, 2011, on the catechesis on the Book of Psalms.&nbsp;Read the homily in its entirety </em><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20110622.html"><em>here</em></a><em>.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="related-reading">Related reading</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-gospels/">How to Pray with the Gospels&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-examen/">How to Pray the Daily Examen</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>&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/morning-prayer/">Morning Prayers</a>&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- 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 --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => How to Pray the Psalms [post_excerpt] => Learn how to pray with the Psalms, a book that helps us grow closer to God with the same words Jesus prayed during His time on earth. 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 34799 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2023-05-30 15:38:10 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-05-30 15:38:10 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was inspired by Jesus' apparitions to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690). Christ <a href="https://www.churchpop.com/visions-of-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-4-mystical-messages-to-st-margaret-mary-alacoque/">appeared</a> to the French nun of the Order of the Visitation of Our Lady four times, revealing His Sacred Heart to her through mystical visions. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/padre-pio-prayers-feast-day/">St. Padre Pio</a> prayed the Sacred Heart <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-novenas/">novena</a> prayer every day.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Do not let the past disturb you - just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Mother Teresa</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Sacred Heart Novena is most traditionally prayed during the nine days leading up to the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which is always 19 days after Pentecost on a Friday. In 2024, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus falls on June 7.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 2024, the Sacred Heart Novena begins May 29 and ends June 6.<br><br>While this novena leads up to the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, it also prepares our hearts for the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary the day after, on June 8.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":"is-style-default"} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-style-default"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Do you not know that not only is Jesus resting and dwelling continually in the Heart of Mary but that He is Himself the Heart of Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>St. John Eudes</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pray the Sacred Heart Novena with Jonathan Roumie, the actor who portrays Jesus in The Chosen, on Hallow.&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/1yUtzmtI5zb">Sacred Heart Novena with Jonathan Roumie</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-how-to-pray-the-sacred-heart-novena">How to Pray the Sacred Heart Novena</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:yoast/how-to-block {"hasDuration":true,"minutes":"7","steps":[{"id":"how-to-step-1685026174149","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Begin by making the Sign of the Cross. "]}}],"text":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["In the name of Father, and of the Son, and of the "]}},{"type":"a","props":{"href":"https://hallow.com/2022/09/14/prayer-to-the-holy-spirit-and-other-holy-spirit-prayers/","children":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["Holy Spirit"]}}]}},{"type":"em","props":{"children":[", Amen."]}}],"jsonName":"\u003cstrong\u003eBegin by making the Sign of the Cross. \u003c/strong\u003e","jsonText":"\u003cem\u003eIn the name of Father, and of the Son, and of the \u003c/em\u003e\u003ca href=\u0022https://hallow.com/2022/09/14/prayer-to-the-holy-spirit-and-other-holy-spirit-prayers/\u0022\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoly Spirit\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Amen.\u003c/em\u003e"},{"id":"how-to-step-1685026199762","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Pray the first Sacred Heart petition. "]}}],"text":["O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.”"],"jsonName":"\u003cstrong\u003ePray the first Sacred Heart petition. \u003c/strong\u003e","jsonText":"O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.”"},{"id":"how-to-step-1685026210548","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Pray the Our Father. "]}}],"text":[{"type":"a","props":{"href":"https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/","children":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["Our Father"]}}]}},{"type":"em","props":{"children":[", Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."]}}],"jsonName":"\u003cstrong\u003ePray the Our Father. \u003c/strong\u003e","jsonText":"\u003ca href=\u0022https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/\u0022\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Father\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.\u003c/em\u003e"},{"id":"how-to-step-1685026222508","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Pray the Hail Mary. "]}}],"text":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":[{"type":"a","props":{"href":"https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/","children":["Hail Mary"]}},", full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed are thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death."]}}],"jsonName":"\u003cstrong\u003ePray the Hail Mary. \u003c/strong\u003e","jsonText":"\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\u0022https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/\u0022\u003eHail Mary\u003c/a\u003e, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed are thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.\u003c/em\u003e"},{"id":"how-to-step-1685026232081","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Pray the Glory Be. "]}}],"text":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen."]}}],"jsonName":"\u003cstrong\u003ePray the Glory Be. \u003c/strong\u003e","jsonText":"\u003cem\u003eGlory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.\u003c/em\u003e"},{"id":"how-to-step-1685026277578","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Pray the second Sacred Heart petition. "]}}],"text":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you. ",{"type":"br","props":{"children":[]}},{"type":"br","props":{"children":[]}},"O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.” ",{"type":"br","props":{"children":[]}},{"type":"br","props":{"children":[]}},"Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of my request. "]}}],"jsonName":"\u003cstrong\u003ePray the second Sacred Heart petition. \u003c/strong\u003e","jsonText":"\u003cem\u003eSacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you. \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003eO my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.” \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003eBehold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of my request. \u003c/em\u003e"},{"id":"how-to-step-1685026320315","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be. "]}}],"text":["See prayers above in Steps 3-5. "],"jsonName":"\u003cstrong\u003ePray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be. \u003c/strong\u003e","jsonText":"See prayers above in Steps 3-5. "},{"id":"how-to-step-1685026330865","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Pray the third Sacred Heart petition. "]}}],"text":["Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.",{"type":"br","props":{"children":[]}},{"type":"br","props":{"children":[]}},"O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.”"],"jsonName":"\u003cstrong\u003ePray the third Sacred Heart petition. \u003c/strong\u003e","jsonText":"Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003eO my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.”"},{"id":"how-to-step-1685026346092","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be. "]}}],"text":["See prayers above in Steps 3-5. "],"jsonName":"\u003cstrong\u003ePray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be. \u003c/strong\u003e","jsonText":"See prayers above in Steps 3-5. "},{"id":"how-to-step-1685026357429","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Pray with the novena prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  "]}}],"text":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours. "]}}],"jsonName":"\u003cstrong\u003ePray with the novena prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  \u003c/strong\u003e","jsonText":"\u003cem\u003eO Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours. \u003c/em\u003e"},{"id":"how-to-step-1685026366410","name":[{"type":"strong","props":{"children":["Pray the “Hail, Holy Queen” (Salve Regina). "]}}],"text":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, ",{"type":"br","props":{"children":[]}},"our life, our sweetness and our hope.",{"type":"br","props":{"children":[]}},"To you do we cry,",{"type":"br","props":{"children":[]}},"poor banished children of Eve. 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Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685026222508"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name"><strong>Pray the Hail Mary. </strong></strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary</a>, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed are thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685026232081"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name"><strong>Pray the Glory Be. </strong></strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685026277578"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name"><strong>Pray the second Sacred Heart petition. </strong></strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you. <br/><br/>O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.” <br/><br/>Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of my request. </em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685026320315"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name"><strong>Pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be. </strong></strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">See prayers above in Steps 3-5. </p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685026330865"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name"><strong>Pray the third Sacred Heart petition. </strong></strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.<br/><br/>O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.”</p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685026346092"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name"><strong>Pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be. </strong></strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">See prayers above in Steps 3-5. </p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685026357429"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name"><strong>Pray with the novena prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  </strong></strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours. </em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685026366410"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name"><strong>Pray the “Hail, Holy Queen” (Salve Regina). </strong></strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, <br/>our life, our sweetness and our hope.<br/>To you do we cry,<br/>poor banished children of Eve. <br/>To you do we send up our sighs, <br/>mourning and weeping in this valley of tears <br/>Turn then, most gracious advocate,<br/>your 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, O sweet Virgin Mary.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685026384129"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name"><strong>Conclude with the Sign of the Cross.</strong></strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>In the name of Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1685026395088"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name"><strong>Repeat the above daily for 8 days. </strong></strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"></p> </li></ol></div> <!-- /wp:yoast/how-to-block --> <!-- 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/1yUtzmtI5zb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Other Novenas and Prayer Resources </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/">Surrender Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/#holy-spirit-novena">Holy Spirit Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-therese-novena/">St. Thérèse Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-54-day-novena/">54-Day Rosary 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/immaculate-heart-of-mary/">Immaculate Heart of Mary Litany</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => How to Pray the Sacred Heart Novena [post_excerpt] => Give everything to Jesus in this 9-day prayer to His Sacred Heart. 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 34814 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2023-05-25 21:06:11 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-05-25 21:06:11 [post_content] => <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On the far side of every cross we find the newness of life in the Holy Spirit, that new life which will reach its fulfillment in the resurrection.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>St. Pope John Paul II</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#pentecost-bible-acts">Pentecost in the Bible - Acts</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#pentecost-old-testament">Jewish Roots and Pentecost in the Old Testament</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="http://pentecost-scripture">Pentecost Bible Readings</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#pentecost-prayers">Pentecost Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#FAQ">FAQ</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Related-Reading">Related Reading</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Solemnity of Pentecost recognizes the sometimes overlooked third member of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Celebrating the Holy Spirit’s role in launching the Church, Pentecost takes place on the seventh Sunday (50th day) after <a href="https://hallow.com/easter/">Easter</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It follows the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-the-ascension-of-the-lord/">Ascension</a>, where Jesus ascended into heaven and was no longer physically present with his disciples.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Before he left the disciples, Jesus told them, “And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age,” (Matthew 28:20).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Through the Holy Spirit’s descent as a mighty wind, sparking tongues of fire above them, the disciples recognized Jesus was indeed with them, baptizing them with the Holy Spirit and strengthening their mission.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="pentecost-bible-acts">Pentecost in the Bible - Acts of the Apostles&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We learn of Pentecost in the Christian tradition in Acts of the Apostles.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the first chapter of Acts, Jesus alludes to sending the Holy Spirit onto his disciples:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father&nbsp;about which you have heard me speak;&nbsp; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the holy Spirit.” (Acts 1:4-5)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Jesus went on to tell them in the “Great Commission,” in his final words before ascending to heaven, “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The next chapter of Acts contains the fulfillment of Jesus’s words. As the disciples were gathered in the upper room with others (a group of about 120 total), the Holy Spirit descended on them.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.” (Acts 2:2-4)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Those gathered saw this as their baptism “with the Holy Spirit,” as Jesus had promised and recognized this as their commissioning to be Jesus’s witnesses “to the ends of the earth.” This is why Pentecost is known as the <a href="https://faith.nd.edu/s/1210/faith/interior.aspx?sid=1210&amp;gid=609&amp;calcid=53508&amp;calpgid=61&amp;pgid=24977&amp;crid=0">birth of the Church</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/otiBB3N45zb">Pray this Pentecost with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="pentecost-old-testament">Pentecost in the Old Testament</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Christian celebration of Pentecost has roots in Jewish customs, as it is related to the Jewish feast of Shavuot.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Shavuot, also known as Feast of the Weeks (and sometimes referred to in other ways) <a href="https://www.ifcj.org/learn/jewish-holidays/what-is-shavuot-the-jewish-pentecost">celebrates Moses receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai</a>. It’s celebrated 50 days (seven weeks) after Passover, hence the name “Feast of the Weeks.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It also celebrates the harvest, as we learn in Exodus:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“You shall keep the feast of Weeks with the first fruits of the wheat harvest, likewise, the feast of the Ingathering at the close of the year.” (Exodus 34:22)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">When we hear “Pentecost” these days, we think of events we learn about in the Acts of the Apostles. When Acts of the Apostles mentions Jesus’s followers being gathered for Pentecost, it means they were together in Jerusalem for the “Jewish” Pentecost.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="pentecost-scripture">Pentecost Bible Readings and Scripture</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pentecost liturgies usually spotlight similar portions of Scripture each year.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The account of the Pentecost in the Acts of the Apostles normally represents the first reading. The Gospel often comes from John and features passages in which Jesus addresses the disciples about the Holy Spirit.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/052823-Day.cfm">USCCB</a> contains full daily readings for Pentecost and each day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="pentecost-prayers">Prayers for Pentecost</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pentecost is an important time for prayer and for listening to how God calls and commissions us, as he did the disciples.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In his <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2021/documents/papa-francesco_20210523_omelia-pentecoste.html">2021 Pentecost homily</a>, Pope Francis implored people to “open your hearts to the Holy Spirit.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/">Holy Spirit prayers</a> are popular during Pentecost, and can be as simple as repeating “Come, Holy Spirit” quietly in your head whenever time allows during the day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Also, consider the following short prayers:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Heavenly Father, on this Pentecost day, let me feel the Holy Spirit wash over me, guiding me in Your ways and helping me to hear Your call.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“May the Holy Spirit strengthen me, protect me, encourage me and guide me today and all days.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“God, quiet my heart and head so I can be mindful of the gift of the Holy Spirit in my life. In the voices of others, may I discern Your voice. In the actions of others, may I recognize Your love. In moments of stress, may I feel the peace that Your spirit brings. 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/otiBB3N45zb">Pray with the Hallow App</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="FAQ">Frequently Asked Questions about Pentecost&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:yoast/faq-block {"questions":[{"id":"faq-question-1685044437593","question":["What is Pentecost?"],"answer":["Pentecost celebrates the Holy Spirit coming descending upon the Apostles, as Jesus said it would. 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Many recognize Pentecost as the birth of the Church.</p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1685044449931"><strong class="schema-faq-question">What’s the color for Pentecost?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">Red is the official Church color for Pentecost, symbolizing the fire of the Holy Spirit.</p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1685044476314"><strong class="schema-faq-question">How many days after Easter is Pentecost?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">Pentecost falls 50 days (seven weeks) after Easter and 10 days after the Ascension. </p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1685044497730"><strong class="schema-faq-question">When is Pentecost in 2024?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">Pentecost always falls 50 days after Easter. In 2024, Pentecost will take place on Sunday, May 19.</p> </div> </div> <!-- /wp:yoast/faq-block --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Related-Reading">Related Reading</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/morning-prayer/">Morning Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/night-prayer-bedtime/">Night Prayer</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/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/prayers-for-strength/">Prayers for Strength </a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-birthdays-and-birthday-blessings/">Birthday Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Pentecost 2024 - Scripture and Prayers for the Coming of the Holy Spirit [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => pentecost [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-04-30 14:50:10 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-04-30 14:50:10 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=34814 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )