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The Jesus Prayer, [a] also known as The Prayer, [b] is a short formulaic prayer, esteemed and advocated especially in Eastern Christianity and Catholicism: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. It is often repeated continually as a part of personal ascetic practice, its use being an integral part of the eremitic tradition ...
Collect for Purity. The Collect for Purity is the name traditionally given to the collect prayed near the beginning of the Eucharist in most Anglican rites. Its oldest known sources are Continental, where it appears in Latin in the 10th century Sacramentarium Fuldense Saeculi X. [1]
The Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus ( Latin: ) is a formal prayer in the Catholic Church dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus. It is one of six formal prayers approved by the Catholic Church for public and private use. This Litany carries a partial indulgence. [1] It is believed that the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus was written by SS.
In the New Testament the name Jesus is given both in the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew, and Emmanuel only in Matthew. In Luke 1:31 an angel tells Mary to name her child Jesus, and in Matthew 1:21 an angel tells Joseph to name the child Jesus. The statement in Matthew 1:21 "you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people ...
t. e. The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago). The idea is based on messianic prophecies and is part of most Christian eschatologies.
The "Anima Christi" (Latin for ‘Soul of Christ’) is a Catholic prayer to Jesus of medieval origin. History [ edit ] For many years the prayer was popularly believed to have been composed by Saint Ignatius of Loyola , as he puts it at the beginning of his Spiritual Exercises and often refers to it.
The Lord's Prayer, also known by its incipit Our Father ( Greek: Πάτερ ἡμῶν, Latin: Pater Noster ), is a central Christian prayer that Jesus taught as the way to pray. Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew, and a shorter form in the Gospel of ...
This part of the prayer is prayed either right after the first part of the prayer before a meal or separately from the first part of the prayer at the end of a meal. A common North American variation of this prayer generally goes as follows: "Come Lord Jesus be our guest and let these gifts to us be blessed." See also. Christian child's prayer