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#112662 - 04/05/07 06:19 PM Re: how do you pray? [Re: Dianne]
Lola Offline
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Registered: 06/23/06
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Loc: London UK
Many thanks for all your prayers and support. Gabriel's funeral was yesterday and all of us are at peace. We are sad, but nevertheless, at peace. We continue with our 40-day novena which commenced on the day Gabriel passed away. It is a practice where we gather to pray for the repose of the soul of the dear departed and the duration is in keeping with our family tradition which has been handed down by previous generations. Each member of the family will keep to the novena wherever they may be. In our case, my children and I will be doing it in the UK. The rest of the family are in New York.

Once again, on behalf of my loved ones, I thank all of you for the kind thoughts and prayers.

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#112663 - 04/05/07 10:32 PM Re: how do you pray? [Re: Lola]
Jane_Carroll Offline
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Registered: 07/06/06
Posts: 1521
Loc: Alabama
What a special tradition. Do you get together or just do it on your own?

I'm glad that you feel peace.
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#112664 - 04/06/07 06:18 AM Re: how do you pray? [Re: Jane_Carroll]
Lola Offline
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Hi, Jane: Family members who live in close proximity to each other would be doing the novena together. Then the rest do it wherever they may be. Either as a family unit, individually, or with a prayer group. A Mass is offered on the first and last days of the novena.
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#112665 - 04/06/07 06:56 PM Re: how do you pray? [Re: Lola]
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Lola, so glad to hear that the funeral is behind you and everyone is praying together. What a lovely thing to do. I've always been touched by the faithfulness of your family. I recall your mother passed it on from generation to generation. God bless her. Was your grandmother also a faithful woman?
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#112666 - 04/07/07 01:18 AM Re: how do you pray?
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Registered: 09/26/04
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Lola, I just gor back but wanted to tell you that my prayers are with you and your family. The novena tradition truly is different, I hadn't heard of it before.
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#112667 - 04/07/07 08:33 PM Re: how do you pray? [Re: chickadee]
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Registered: 04/28/06
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Loc: London
Hi gals...Celtic has been on at me to post my favourite prayer from my childhood...here it is..and it is even more beautiful in Gealic.

I am using it with my novena for Lola and her loved ones.

Popea


Hail, Holy Queen

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy!
Our life, our sweetness, and our hope!
To thee do we cry, poor banished
children of Eve, to thee do we send
up our sighs, mourning and weeping
in this valley, of tears.
Turn, then, most gracious advocate,
thine eyes of mercy toward us; and
after this our exile show unto us the
blessed fruit of thy womb Jesus;
O clement, O loving, O sweet virgin Mary.

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God

That we may be made worthy of the
promises of Christ.
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#112668 - 04/07/07 09:59 PM Re: how do you pray? [Re: Poppie]
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Registered: 11/24/06
Posts: 2930
Loc: Belfast/Northern Ireland
yep i love this one for a few reasons its almost like a poeam its great sentiment and its to the mary A womann and its so dramatic but wait till your reallie sad before doing this one then see how much it means to you ...all good eh!

its the 1st 2 lines i love the best.
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#112669 - 04/27/07 10:07 PM Re: how do you pray? [Re: Lola]
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Registered: 04/11/07
Posts: 41
I pray by the river near my house, and in the woods where I take walks. I often see Eagles and Deer and feel so close to God at these times

Madalyn

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#112670 - 04/29/07 02:31 PM Re: how do you pray? [Re: Madalyn]
Dotsie Offline
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Madalyn, I feel close to God when I'm in my garden and the bees are swarming, but not stinging, and the birds plunk down very near for a rest as though I'm not there. It's touching, isn't it?
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#112671 - 05/15/07 01:01 PM Frequently and with...Re: how do you pray?
jabber Offline
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Registered: 02/17/05
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I pray many, many times a day: morning, noon and nighttime, too. And I pray with lots and lots of fervor!!!!

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