All Day Prayer
by Deacon John Giglio
(Tavares, Florida)One thing I learned about prayer, the more you do it, the more you want to do! I remember years back when I didn't know how to pray, so I asked the Lord to teach me and he sent some really neat folks who gave me rosaries and prayer books and even invited me to their prayer group. Slowly I learned to pray! But just rattling off prayer words just does not do it for me, so I asked Our Blessed Mother Mary to teach me how to pray correctly and as I read some of her words to different seers, it all boiled down to "pray from the heart!" and 'meditate or think about the Passion of Christ!' And that's what I do, with the Liturgy of the Hours, the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Another blessing was when I found out about "spiritual communions." So now, often after each of the above prayers mentioned, I ask Jesus to come into my heart through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. What a blessings that is! Here's the formula:
'My Jesus, really present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the altar, since I cannot receive Thee now, under the Sacramental veil, I beseech Thee with a heart full of love and longing to come spiritually into my soul through the Immaculate Heart of Thy Most Holy Mother, and abide in me forever, Thou in me and I in Thee, in time and in eternity. Amen'
God bless+ us all!
Deacon John Giglio
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