THE RULES-"Name your three most favorite Catholic devotional prayers, and explain why they're your favorites. Then tag five bloggers - give them a link, and then go and tell them they have been tagged. Finally, tell the person who tagged you that you've completed the meme. The Liturgy and the Sacraments are off limits here. I'm more interested in people's favorite devotional prayers."
My favorite Catholic Devotionals-
The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy. I have spoke about it in the past. Its such a beautiful prayer and I truly credit this devotion for helping my big boy.
The Rosary- So powerful. Described as giving a bouquet of roses to our blessed mother Mary. My children have started to learn it. My husband, who converted to Catholicism 7 years ago, just learned the Rosary too. We have just started to pray it together every evening.
I found the following information on http://foryourmarriage.org/
As you probably know, 46-48% of marriages end in divorce.
But did you also know that:
For couples who worship together each Sunday only about 20% divorce. For couples who also regularly pray together at home marital stability is even greater.
My parents have been divorced, remarried, divorced.So this gives me a sort of peace by praying the Rosary with my hubby. The sweetest part was my Big Boy picked up his Rosary and said it with us too.
I love going to Adoration. I try to go once a week. Here is a great prayer to begin that time with Jesus.
While Visiting The Most Blessed Sacrament
by St. Alphonsus Liguori
My Lord Jesus Christ, for the love which You bear to men, You remain night and day in this Sacrament full of compassion and of love, awaiting, calling, and welcoming all who come to visit You. I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the Altar: I adore You from the abyss of my nothingness, and I thank You for all the graces which You have bestowed upon me and in particular for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament, for having given me your holy Mother Mary for my advocate, and for having called me to visit You in this chapel. I now salute
Your most loving Heart: and this for three ends:
1. In thanksgiving for this great gift;
2. To make amends to You for all the outrages which You receive in this Sacrament from all Your enemies;
3. I intend by this visit to adore You in all the places on earth in which You are the least revered and the most abandoned.
My Jesus, I love You with all my heart. I grieve for having so many times offended Your infinite goodness. I promise with Your grace never more to offend You in the future.
Now, miserable and unworthy though I be, I consecrate myself to You without reserve;
I give You my entire will, my affections, my desires, and all that I possess. From now on dispose of me and of all that I have as You please. All that I ask of You and desire is Your holy love, final perseverance, and the perfect accomplishment of Your will. I recommend to You the souls in purgatory; but especially those who had the greatest devotion to the most Blessed Sacrament and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. I also recommend to You all poor sinners.
My dear Saviour, I unite all my affections with the affections of Your most loving Heart; and I offer them, thus united, to Your eternal Father, and beseech Him in Your name to vouchsafe, for Your love, to accept them.
Amen.
To finish out the meme, I will tag others to share their thoughts--
Lerin at http://mycatholicfamily.blogspot.com/. She is very open about her life challenges. Its hard to tell the truth. But she does a great job!
Sarah at http://theclayrosarygirl.blogspot.com/. Talented artist fo sho.
