Prayer Requests. Don't they seem ever present, and never-ending? Perhaps you feel like you can't pray for everyone and everything they want prayers for? Well, in a letter I received recently from one of the Mothers at Tyburn, a solution to this supposed predicament was suggested.
Mother M. Catherine OSB, the sub-prioress to Tyburn Convent's Benedictine Monastery in Largs suggested that there is a way to pray for everyone and all their needs and intentions, even if we do not know what those needs and intentions even are...
She wrote to me essentially saying that "the most important thing is to work at living each moment in union with Jesus. In this way each thought, word and deed is a prayer, and simply by holding the various intentions in your heart, you pray for them. If we consecrate our lives to God we become living holocausts, ~ a living prayer, for intentions which we do not even know about". If we just remember this then we will be able to pray for everyone and everything, without ever having to worry that there are people we are not praying for. All we need to do is strive to be in Union with Jesus in everything we do in our lives and hold those precious intentions in our hearts, and we could become a "living prayer" for the people. God Bless you all. Keep Praying. :)
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