Religious-extremist - With Love In Christ

Prayer Paraphernalia

The devil loves noise; Christ looks for silence.

☦︎ St. Ambrose

I neglected posting this earlier but I was able to meet the Myrrhstreaming Icon of the Panagia, the Softener of Evil Hearts, while I was in Manila. (It was Divine Providence, I tell you because I wasn’t even supposed to be on the island while it was in Parañaque but that’s another story.)

We held a Moleben service at the small house church and during the Paraklesis, the icon began showing forth smatterings of blood or red liquid of some sort around the face of the Virgin and some around the edges as well. It was very interesting because they “bloomed” on the glass, it wasn’t dripping into or from the icon but rather appeared as if from thin air. It was extremely fragrant, and at some moments during our prayers, it was like the fragrance grew more potent.

Hello my friend. I hope you and your family are doing well. I have a prayer request, if it's not too much to ask.

My neighbor, Deb, is on hospice, the kind that essentially means she could go any day now.

Please pray for her comfort in passing, for her family, and especially for her grandchildren, who are quite young.

In Christ with love,

- @rejoice-womanofprayer

A Prayer for Another

Merciful Lord, may Your will be done. As You desire that all would come to the truth and be saved, so also have mercy and save Your servant [Deb]. Receive this prayer from me as a cry of love, which You have commanded.

A Prayer for the Unbaptized Departed to the Holy Martyr Varus

Holy Martyr Varus, zealous confessor of the Heavenly King, the Church venerates you as one glorified by Christ the Lord. As He has granted you grace to approach Him boldly, we ask: Remember the suffering of those who have departed outside the Faith. As you interceded for the ancestors of Cleopatra and freed them from eternal suffering, so also remember those who have departed without baptism and have been buried in an ungodly manner. Pray earnestly that they may be delivered from eternal darkness, and that we may all, with one mouth and one heart, praise the most merciful Maker unto ages of ages. Amen.

My dear one, say these prayers for Deb, and also read Psalm 118 (119) for her.