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The elders of the church can intercede for the sick people. "Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven" (James 5:14–15).
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.
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]
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 ...
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 traditions and prayers continue across the world to date, e.g. in May 2008 the arch-priest of St. George's Basilica, Malta, called on all parishioners to pray to Saint George every day. [63] St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral, New Delhi, India, holds prayers of intercession to Saint George every week. [64]
It was also included in the 1552 prayer book and the 1559 prayer book. One part of the litany has the people pray for deliverance "from the tyranny of the bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities." [12] In the 1559 prayer book, this invocation against the Pope was deleted. [13]
He did not develop an independent Mariology, but his statements on Mary surpass in number and depth those of other early writers. [6] His main themes are discussed in De santa virginitate (“On holy virginity”), where he explains that, like the church, Mary is both virgin and mother, both physically and spiritually.