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"I
urge you, (brothers,) by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of
the Spirit, to join me in the struggle by your prayers to God on
my behalf, that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judea,
and that my ministry for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the holy
ones, so that I may come to you with joy by the will of God and be
refreshed together with you." (St. Paul, Rom. 15:30-32)
"Brothers,
pray for us (too)." (St. Paul, 1 Thes. 5:25)
"Finally,
brothers, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may speed
forward and be glorified, as it did among you, and that we may be
delivered from perverse and wicked people, for not all have
faith." (St. Paul, 2 Thes. 3:1-2)
"Pray for us, for we are confident that we have a clear
conscience, wishing to act rightly in every respect. I especially ask for your prayers that I may be restored to you very soon."
(St. Paul, Heb. 13:18-19)
"Persevere
in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving; at the same
time, pray for us, too, that God may open a door to us for the
word, to speak of the mystery of Christ, for which I am in prison,
that I may make it clear, as I must speak." (St. Paul, Col.
4:2-4)
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"Peter thus was being kept in prison, but prayer by the church was fervently being made to God on his behalf. On the very night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter, secured by double chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while outside the door guards kept watch on the prison. Suddenly the angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and awakened him, saying,
'Get up quickly.' The chains fell from his wrists." (Acts
12:5-7)
"Indeed,
we had accepted within ourselves the sentence of death, that we
might trust not in ourselves but in God who raises the dead. He
rescued us from such great danger of death, and he will continue
to rescue us; in him we have put our hope (that) he will also
rescue us again, as you help us with prayer, so that thanks may be
given by many on our behalf for the gift granted us through the
prayers of many." (St. Paul, 2 Cor. 1:9-11)
"I want you to know, brothers, that my situation has turned out rather to advance the gospel, so that my imprisonment has become well known in Christ throughout the whole praetorium and to all the rest, and so that the majority of the brothers, having taken encouragement in the Lord from my imprisonment, dare more than ever to proclaim the word fearlessly. Of course, some preach Christ from envy and rivalry, others from good will. The latter act out of love, aware that I am here for the defense of the gospel; the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not from pure motives, thinking that they will cause me trouble in my imprisonment. What difference does it make, as long as in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed? And in that I rejoice.
Indeed I shall continue to rejoice, for I know that this will result in deliverance for
me through your prayers and support from the Spirit of Jesus Christ."
(St. Paul, Phil. 1:12-19)
"At
the same time prepare a guest room for me, for I hope to be
granted to you through your prayers." (St. Paul, Phlm. 1:22)
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Praying
for Others
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"You
have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and
hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray
for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your
heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the
good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if
you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not
the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers
only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same?
So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Our
Lord Jesus Christ, Mt. 5:43-48)
"But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you."
(Our Lord Jesus Christ, Lk. 6:27-28)
"[P]ray one for another, that you may be
saved" (St. James, Jms. 5:16)
"If
anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not deadly, he
should pray to God and he will give him life. This is only for
those whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly
sin, about which I do not say that you should pray." (St.
John, 1 Jn. 5:16)
"First of all, then, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity. This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth."
(St. Paul, 1 Tm. 2:1-4)
"Souls
that really love God will never neglect to pray for poor
sinners." (St. Alphonsus, Doctor of the Church)
"Holy
Church does not teach us to pray for ourselves in particular, but
always for ourselves and for our Christian brethren." (St.
Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church)
"To
pray for another is an act of charity" (St. Thomas Aquinas,
Doctor of the Church and "greatest theologian in the history
of the Church")
"He
causes his prayers to be of more avail to himself, who offers them
also for others." (Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor of the
Church)
"[H]e
who prays for others will experience that his prayers for himself
will be heard much sooner." (Muller)
"Indeed,
prayer is the first and greatest work of charity that we must do
for our brothers and sisters." (Pope John Paul II)
"A
person who does nothing more than lovingly pray to God for his
brethren participates in the great work of saving souls." (Ven.
Anne Catherine Emmerich)
"Necessity
binds us to pray for ourselves, fraternal charity urges us to pray
for others: and the prayer that fraternal charity proffers is
sweeter to God than that which is the outcome of
necessity." (Pseudo-Chrys, as quoted by
St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church)
"We
say 'Our Father' and not 'My Father', 'Give us' and not 'Give me', because
the Master of unity did not wish us to pray privately, that is for
ourselves alone, for He wished each one to pray for all, even as
He Himself bore all in one." (St. Cyprian)
"[W]e
are bound to pray for our enemies in the same manner as we are
bound to love them." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the
Church and "greatest theologian in the history of the
Church")
"[W]hen
we pray we ought to ask for what we ought to desire. Now we ought
to desire good things not only for ourselves, but also for others:
for this is essential to the love which we owe to our neighbor...
Therefore charity requires us to pray for others." (St.
Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and "greatest theologian
in the history of the Church")
"The
conversion of sinners is, undoubtedly, one of the most
praiseworthy objects for which we can pray. Our Lord Jesus Christ
taught us in the 'Our Father' to pray not only for ourselves but
also for all our fellow men. By his example he taught us also to
pray for others. Indeed, we may say that his whole life was a
continual prayer, for the just as well as for sinners."
(Muller)
"We
ought also to pray for the just for three reasons: First, because
the prayers of a multitude are more easily heard, wherefore a
gloss on Romans 15:30, 'Help me in your prayers,' says: 'The
Apostle rightly tells the lesser brethren to pray for him, for
many lesser ones, if they be united together in one mind, become
great, and it is impossible for the prayers of a multitude not to
obtain' that which is possible to be obtained by prayer. Secondly,
that many may thank God for the graces conferred on the just,
which graces conduce to the profit of many, according to the
Apostle (2 Corinthians 1:11). Thirdly, that the more perfect may
not wax proud, seeing that they find that they need the prayers of
the less perfect." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church
and "greatest theologian in the history of the Church")
"For
it sometimes happens that we pray for another with piety and
perseverance, and ask for things relating to his salvation, and
yet it is not granted on account of some obstacle on the part of
the person we are praying for, according to Jeremiah 15:1, 'If
Moses and Samuel shall stand before Me, My soul is not towards
this people.' And yet the prayer will be meritorious for the
person who prays thus out of charity, according to Psalm 35:13,
'My prayer shall be turned into my bosom, i.e. though it profit
them not, I am not deprived of my reward,' as the gloss expounds
it." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and
"greatest theologian in the history of the Church")
"We
ought to pray even for sinners, that they may be converted, and
for the just that they may persevere and advance in holiness. Yet
those who pray are heard not for all sinners but for some: since
they are heard for the predestined, but not for those who are
foreknown to death; even as the correction whereby we correct the
brethren, has an effect in the predestined but not in the
reprobate, according to Ecclesiastes 7:13, 'No man can correct
whom God hath despised.' Hence it is written (1 John 5:16): 'He
that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let
him ask, and life shall be given to him, who sinneth not to
death.' Now just as the benefit of correction must not be refused
to any man so long as he lives here below, because we cannot
distinguish the predestined from the reprobate, as [St.] Augustine says
(De Correptione et Gratia xv), so too no man should be denied the
help of prayer." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church
and "greatest theologian in the history of the Church")
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Sharing
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"Rejoice
with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep." (St. Paul,
Rom. 12:15)
"[T]hose
who are in pain are consoled when their friends sympathize with
them...When one is in pain, it is natural that the sympathy of a
friend should afford consolation: whereof the Philosopher
indicates a twofold reason (Ethica Nicomachea ix,11). The first is
because, since sorrow has a depressing effect, it is like a weight
whereof we strive to unburden ourselves: so that when a man sees
others saddened by his own sorrow, it seems as though others were
bearing the burden with him, striving, as it were, to lessen its
weight; wherefore the load of sorrow becomes lighter for him:
something like what occurs in the carrying of bodily burdens. The
second and better reason is because when a man's friends condole
with him, he sees that he is loved by them, and this affords him
pleasure... Consequently, since every pleasure assuages sorrow...,
it follows that sorrow is mitigated by a sympathizing
friend." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and
"greatest theologian in the history of the Church")
"Moreover,
when in the mystical body of Christ, which is the Church, all the
members are united and flourish, it results, according to St.
Paul, that the joy or pain of one member is shared by all the
rest, so that if one of the brethren in Christ is suffering in
mind or body the others come to his help and succor him as far as
in them lies. The members are solicitous in regard of each other,
and if one member suffer all the members suffer in sympathy, and
if one member rejoice all the others rejoice also." (Pope Leo
XIII, "Octobri Mense", 1891)
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"We can never have too much hope in God. He
gives in the measure we ask." (St. Therese of Lisieux, Doctor
of the Church)
"Men by petitioning may merit to receive
what almighty God arranged before the ages to give them."
(Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church, 6th century A.D.)
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