A Book of Prayers Through the Intercession of St. John Paul II E-Book

Dom Wydawniczy RAFAEL

• Herausgeber: Dom Wydawniczy Rafael
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

This prayer book has been compiled for the canonisation of John Paul II and is the first publication of its kind containing special prayers through the new Saint’s intercession. It has an introduction by Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, Pope John Paul II’s personal secretary and his most faithful friend. Karol Wojtyła was known for his special empathy with ordinary people, and also for his profound prayer. These are the characteristics reflected in this prayer book, making it an ideal instrument for spiritual contact with Saint John Paul II, and a handy collection of prayers which will be useful throughout your life, both for the magnificent moments as well as at the hard times. This prayer book contains the Rosary with John Paul II, a Litany through the intercession of Saint John Paul II, a Way of the Cross with John Paul II, an examination of conscience according to the teachings of John Paul II, and a host of prayers for various occasions. It has been translated into all the major languages and has an imprimatur, which means it has been officially approved by the Roman Catholic Church

Leseprobe

A Book of Prayers Through the Intercession of St. John Paul II

Dom Wydawniczy RAFAEL

IMPRIMATUR FOR POLISH VERSION

Metropolitan Curia of Kraków

No. 150/2014, 27th January 201

Bishop Damian Andrzej Muskus OFM, Vicar General

Father Kazimierz Moskała, Vice-Chancellor

Father Stanisław Szczepaniec, Censor

AUTHORS OF PRAYERS

Bishop Grzegorz Ryś

Bishop Józef Zawitkowski

Father Henryk Romanik

Father Leszek Smoliński

Wojciech Jaroń

COVER DESIGN AND DTP

Łukasz Kosek

PHOTOGRAPHS OF JOHN PAUL II

Wojtek Laski/East Newes

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Edizione digitale: marzo 2014

ISBN: 9788375695205

Edizione digitale realizzata da Simplicissimus Book Farm srl

CONTENTS

Introduction

A Prayer for Good Prayer

For The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Totus Tuus

A Prayer to Start the Day

A Prayer for Relatives

A Prayer for Engaged Couples

A Prayer for My Spouse

A Parents’ Prayer for their Children

A Children’s Prayer for Their Parents

A Married Couple’s Prayer for the Blessing of Children

An Expectant Mother’s Prayer

In Sickness

A Family Litany to Divine Providence

A Prayer for Guidance in the Choice of My Life’s Vocation

A Prayer for a Job

A Prayer for the Elderly

A Prayer for the Sick

Prayers for the Last Day With St. John Paul II

A Prayer for the Dead

A Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life

A Prayer for Priests

A Prayer for the Pope and the Bishops

A Prayer for Respect for Conceived Life

A Prayer for Peace

A Prayer Before the Sacrament of Confession

An Examination of My Conscience Based on the Teaching of St. John Paul II

A Prayer for My Conversion and Perseverance in My Good Resolutions

A Prayer Before Holy Mass

A Prayer of Thanksgiving after Holy Communion

A Prayer of Thanksgiving after Holy Mass

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with John Paul II

The Rosary

The Chaplet of Divine Mercy

The Way of the Cross With John Paul II

The Angelus with St. John Paul II

Litany of John Paul II

Litany of the Saints Especially Dear to John Paul II

Litany of the Queen of the World

The Small Litany of Kalwaria

The Small Litany of Łagiewniki

The Small Roman Litany

At The end of the Day

Notes

INTRODUCTION

John Paul II’s Prayer

Pope John Paul II was a pilgrim of peace, an apostle of Divine Mercy, a defender of human rights, a pope who was a poet and a playwright, open to other cultures and religions, a man of dialogue and reconciliation among the nations. In his travels he covered a distance several times the Earth’s circumference, meeting the most important statesmen, presidents, prime ministers, kings, scientists, scholars, and representatives of the arts, as well as ordinary people – blue collar workers, farmers, the homeless and the sick in hospital. Without doubt he was a man of prayer, often called “a giant of prayer.” The features making up his prayerful disposition were his tremendous ability to concentrate and focus his attention on prayer, his invincible faith, and his candid sense of God’s presence.

John Paul II was not self-conscious about praying. We remember him saying his momentous Masses in the world’s biggest arenas and open spaces, on city squares and sports stadiums, in town centres and out in the countryside. His attention was always focused on the Mystery he was celebrating, fully united with the Master Whom he served throughout his life, administering Holy Communion, “the bread of pilgrims,” in the midst of huge crowds. The Pope’s slightly leaning figure, standing or kneeling, indicated that he was completely engrossed in what was going on in his soul – a personal dialogue with his Creator. We saw him carrying the monstrance at Eucharistic processions; in Wrocław we saw him kneeling before the Saviour’s cross. During the Mass in Zakopane he knelt in all simplicity before the Blessed Sacrament.

He is well-known for his devotion to Our Lady, which he learned at home, from his father, who used to take him on pilgrimages round the open-air Stations of the Cross and the Sorrows of Mary at Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. His prayers were an expression of his absolute trust in God, in which he followed Our Lady’s example – Her attention to the Word of God, Her obedience to the voice of God in Her soul. Mary’s attitude was also a model for John Paul II’s ministry and his faithful endurance at Christ’s cross to the very end. His devotion to Mary found its expression in scores of public prayers and acts of dedication in which he commended himself and the whole world to Her: in Rome, Fatima, Guadeloupe, Lourdes, and Częstochowa. He always had a rosary on him, and took it out whenever he had a spare moment. As he said the Hail Marys he concentrated his full attention on prayer.

His most memorable prayer, for me, was when he said the breviary in the total silence of Wawel Cathedral during his last pilgrimage to Poland in August 2002. It showed a contemplative Pope, valiantly embarking on a dialogue with God. During the thanksgiving after Holy Communion in his private chapel all you could hear was the Holy Father’s heavy breathing as he prayed, absolutely engrossed in God.

Prayer was a way of following Christ, Who prayed with his disciples, or used to hide away in solitude to converse with His Father in silence. John Paul II was closest in his imitation of Christ when he made the stations of the cross, which he did regularly every Friday. He asked for the stations of the cross to be installed for him on the terrace of the Apostolic Palace. On the Good Friday of 2005, in the last hours of his life, he clung firmly to the cross, so that nothing should separate him from the crucified Love in Which he put all his trust to the very end.

Stanisław Cardinal Dzwisz

Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków,

Kraków, on the Feast

of the Lord’s Epiphany, 2014