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Invoked against colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labour - Erasmus of Formiae or St Elmo; Convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics - Willibrord; Coughs, sneezes, and dropsy - Quentin [7] Invoked against cramps, afflictions associated with the nerves and ears - Cornelius
The Pontifical Association of the Holy Childhood (Latin: Pontificium Opus a Sancta Infantia) or Missionary Childhood Association, [1] is a Catholic children's association for the benefit of foreign missions. It is one of four Pontifical Mission Societies and is dedicated to fostering children’s awareness of the missionary nature of the Church ...
Mental prayer was defined by John A. Hardon in his Modern Catholic Dictionary as a form of prayer in which the sentiments expressed are one's own and not those of another person. Mental prayer is a form of prayer whereby one loves God through dialogue with him, meditating on his words, and contemplating him. [9]
Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice. [1]
This election season, faith leaders across denominations and religions shared insight and prayer with Fox News Digital about how to stay calm and at peace during times of transition and stress.
Transformational Prayer Ministry (formerly Theophostic counseling) was developed in the United States during the mid-1990s by Ed Smith, a Baptist minister. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its name comes from the Greek theo ( ' God ' ) and quasi-Greek phostic ( ' light ' ), and it is often associated with the Christian Inner Healing Movement .
Catholic and Orthodox Christians have their own set of children's prayers, often invoking Mary, Mother of Jesus, angels, or the saints, and including a remembrance of the dead. Some adult prayers are equally popular with children, such as the Golden Rule ( Luke 6:31 , Matthew 7:12 ), the Doxology , the Serenity Prayer , John 3:16 , Psalm 145:15 ...
One of Daytop’s founders, a Roman Catholic priest named William O’Brien, thought of addicts as needy infants — another sentiment borrowed from Synanon. “You don’t have a drug problem, you have a B-A-B-Y problem,” he explained in Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use In America, 1923-1965 , published in 1989.