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Ignatius offers his sword to an image of Our Lady of Montserrat.. Suscipe (pronounced "SOOS-chee-peh") is the Latin word for 'receive'. While the term was popularized by St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, who incorporated it into his Spiritual Exercises in the early sixteenth century, it goes back to monastic profession, in reciting Psalm 119.
The Jesuits promoted this devotion to emphasize the compassion and overwhelming love of Christ for people, and to counteract the rigorism and spiritual pessimism of the Jansenists. St. Ignatius counseled people to receive the Eucharist more often, and from the order's earliest days the Jesuits were promoters of "frequent communion". It was the ...
St. Thomas Aquinas (+1274) composed a Prayer of Thanksgiving after Communion that became a classic: I thank You, O holy Lord, almighty Father, eternal God, who have deigned, not through any merits of mine, but out of the condescension of Your goodness, to satisfy me a sinner, Your unworthy servant, with the precious Body and Blood of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
1. "Let Your goodness, Lord, appear to us, that we, made in your image, conform ourselves to it. In our own strength we cannot imitate Your majesty, power, and wonder
The Jewish prayer Shema Yisrael and its accompanying blessing/curse reveals the intent of the commandment to include love for the Lord and not only recognition or outward observance. [8] In the Gospels , Jesus quotes the Shema as the first and Greatest Commandment , [ 9 ] and the apostles after him preached that those who would follow Christ ...
Lord God, Heavenly Father, bless us and these Thy/Your gifts which we receive from Thy/Your bountiful goodness. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." Lutheran (more commonly, the common table prayer ) (before eating) "Come, Lord Jesus, be our Guest, and let Thy/these gifts to us be blessed.
Christian meditation is a form of prayer in which a structured attempt is made to become aware of and reflect upon the revelations of God. [1] The word meditation comes from the Latin word meditārī, which has a range of meanings including to reflect on, to study, and to practice.
The Eternal Father prayer opens each decade of the chaplet and is prayed on the single beads separating the decades where the Our Father is normally prayed: Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. [22]