Prayer & Rosary

Prayer:

Prayer is communicating with God, and because God is a relational God, prayer is possibly the most important thing for becoming and remaining a Christian.  God is love and through prayers you experience and understand more the love of Jesus.

Pope Francis: Prayer is “Spiritual Medicine”

Joking that he's like a pharmacist, Pope Francis is promoting prayer as medicine for the heart. Appearing at his studio window, Francis held up a rosary in a box designed to resemble a packet of pills, before volunteers distributed thousands of those boxes, which featured a design of a human heart.

Pope Francis said he was recommending reciting the rosary prayer as a "spiritual medicine" that is "good for the heart."

 

Rosary:

The Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer. —From On the Most Holy Rosary. . . (Rosarium Virginis Mariae)

Prayer Line:

Please call the prayer line at 612.716.8956 or email [email protected] to be added to the Parish Prayer Line. This is not the same as Submit A Prayer and adding a name to be added in the bulletin and announced at Mass. Please see the Submit A Prayer link on this page.