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Thomas Aquinas quotes Revelation 8:4: "And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended up before God from the hand of the angel." [10] Both those for and against the intercession of saints quote Job 5:1: "Call if you will, but who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?"
Intercession or intercessory prayer is the act of praying on behalf of others, or asking a saint in heaven to pray on behalf of oneself or for others. [ 1 ] The Apostle Paul 's exhortation to Timothy specified that intercession prayers should be made for all people.
These ropes were only used for prayers to God, such as the Jesus Prayer and the Lord's Prayer, and involved no prayers to the Virgin Mary. [4] [5] In Western Christendom, devout Christians used the Pater Noster cord to pray the 150 Psalms, which were recited daily by Christian monastics in the praying of the canonical hours.
Fox News Media wants to take some of its fans to church. To promote “The Saints,” a new eight-part documentary series executive produced by Martin Scorsese for the Fox Nation streaming outlet ...
The Rosary [1] (/ ˈ r oʊ z ər i /; Latin: rosarium, in the sense of "crown of roses" or "garland of roses"), [2] formally known as the Psalter of Jesus and Mary [3] [4] (Latin: Psalterium Jesu et Mariae), also known as the Dominican Rosary [5] [6] (as distinct from other forms of rosary such as the Franciscan Crown, Bridgettine Rosary, Rosary of the Holy Wounds, etc.), refers to a set of ...
The Little Office did not come into general use before the tenth century. During the 11th century, as the number of monasteries grew, so did Marian prayers. There is little or no trace of the Hail Mary as an accepted devotional formula before about 1050. All the evidence suggests that it took its rise from certain versicles and responsories ...
The earliest recorded prayer to Mary is the sub tuum praesidium (3rd or 4th century) and the earliest depictions of her are from the Priscilla catacombs in Rome (early 3rd century). Hugo Rahner 's 20th-century discovery and reconstruction of Saint Ambrose 's 4th-century view of Mary as the Mother of the Church was adopted at the Second Vatican ...
The Virgin Mary and Saints on the Feast of the Rosary, by Albrecht Dürer, 1506. In the sixteenth century, Peter Canisius, a Doctor of the Church, who is credited with adding to the Hail Mary the sentence "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners," was an ardent advocate of the rosary and its confraternities. [22]