Prayer...

Prayer to implore favors through the intercession

Blessed John Paul II



O Holy Trinity,

We thank you for giving to the Church Pope John Paul II

and because it has reflected the tenderness of Your Paternity, the glory of the cross

Christ and the splendor of the Spirit of love.



He, trusting completely in your infinite mercy and in the maternal intercession

Mary has shown us a living image of Jesus the Good Shepherd,

indicating holiness, high degree of ordinary Christian life, as a way

achieving eternal communion with You.



Grant us, by his intercession, and according to Your will, the graces we implore,

with the hope that he will soon be numbered among your saints. Amen.





Today more than ever we need the peace of the Lord scatter on our lives, our homes, in our country and around the world.

There are many dear friends who are in other lands, far from their families, their friends and experiencing extreme situations, difficult or painful.

That is why we invite you to join in this prayer daily, praying for these intentions and for all those who are in our hearts, and thus, forming a chain of love among all, we feel that we are not alone, even difficult our situation or how far away we are.

Reflection...

Kill the error, erring love

Any other methods of prayer?

These days, with the influence of Eastern religions, there are many Catholics who are being led by non-Catholic doctrines, but of the New Age. And this is seen especially in prayer, neglecting prayer methods that have taught the Saints and accepting the sentence as yoga, reiki, etc.. Watch out! Because these media are trying to unite prayer to the divine, but not a personal deity in Christianity, that through prayer we are united to God, who is a Person, but in these meditations and prayers one is about bringing the pantheistic God, to energy, to become one with God, and we know that wanting to be like God was the sin of Lucifer and Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods," said the devil to our first parents.

The Catholic Church is rich in resources for prayer, why look in pagan religions, Oriental, which are in error, the means to speak with God, the Saints still have many other miracles demonstrating that they had reached a close union with the True God?

Within the Catholic Church itself there are many, including priests, who advise yoga or other of these practices, and has even been said that a "Christian yoga". This is a very serious mistake, because all forms of prayer and meditation on these practices lead to union with God than the One God, the Holy Trinity. And we know that if we do not worship God at the end we ended up worshiping the devil.

Many people who have embraced these practices end up losing faith. And while the search for a well is good, seeking relaxation and a healthy body is good, Jesus taught us that we must renunciarnos ourselves and follow the way of the cross. So that fever to seek welfare, and the "feel good" can sometimes come from the Evil One, who shouts, as he once shouted the Jews crucified Jesus: "Low Cross".

Be careful about wanting to feel good and look at other means outside the Church the solution, because we expose ourselves to deal with the demons that make us happy in this world but we tortured in eternity.