Hi I would like to ask you what is your take on how prayer intentions are distributed. If I pray for many intentions, does every intention gets the total credit of prayer or only part of it. For example, if before a prayer I state N intentions, does every intention gets 1/N of the prayer's credits? When I pray, I pray one decade for each intention. However, if I could state all intentions at the beginning of the prayers and if all the intentions were credited with all the prayers, that would enable me to include much more intentions, including all of yours, in my prayers.
I know during the Mass I place the whole world on the altar, and offer up the suffering of the world and unite it to His cross according to His holy will. I bring everyone before Him, as I know that one drop of His blood is enough for the whole world. Prayer i see it as surrounding a person in the love of God. Some situations take an awful lot of prayer, some prayers are answered in ways that we do not expect . Sometimes, if we ask God to take away suffering, He will give the person graces or something else instead.. As we are all called to be Christ for each other, and walking the 'Way of the Cross' is a part of that.. Does this help at all? I don't think we can add up and compare something so blessed and supernatural in human terms..
I think we can't limit God. His mercy seems unlikely to be capable of being measured by an equation! We pray for intentions and trust Him. It doesn't matter how many. He will take care of things in His own time and in His own way I think. It's not about the number of Hail Mary's we say for each intention. It is about praying/meditating from the heart and accepting God's will. I think Our Lady has mentioned this in many messages around the world.
Often I forget the peole who I am supposed to be praying for , even sometimes when I get out of confession I even forget my prayer penance. I just, then place everything in the hands of GOd and pray. It seems to me God would be far more offended by lack of confidence than by what we would think of as over confidence for we can never have too much confidence in the love of God. “May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.” ― Thérèse de Lisieux
These pictures are beautiful. I really really want to see a picture of Jesus throwing his head back and laughing, I would love to see him looking all joyful like this. Does anyone know where I can find one? If not, don't laugh, but I am actually going to work at drawing the image that I see in my head!! I am not an artist!! I can make things, but drawing does not come easily.
