Filled with a wide range of prayer from the rich tradition of the Church—including personal, family, and liturgical prayer and prayers for special occasions—The Catholic Prayer Book serves as a treasury of Catholic worship from ancient times up to the present day. This revised edition contains the new translation for Mass.
New prayers have been added to make this beloved classic even more of a treasure. Written in Giant Type. Flexible binding. The Catholic Children's Prayer Book was designed to introduce young children to the beautiful prayers of our Catholic faith. Saying these prayers in their daily life - when they awake, when they eat, at Mass, or before they go to sleep, will help children learn to talk to and listen to God while being reminded of how He is always with them, and how much He loves and cares for them.
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Hundreds of traditional prayers are here, all in a compact and durable leather-bound volume that slips easily into a purse or pocket. Includes the new responses to the Mass. Author : William G. Introduce them to traditional and devotional prayers of the Church, as well as to contemporary styles and methods. Assist youth in developing the habit of daily prayer. It is the most expansive prayer book for teens. It helps teens become prayerful people.
Here's what's new! An easy-to-use index and improved navigational features have been added to enable young people to find prayers quickly and easily Many additional prayers have been added to address any situation young people may encounter in their day-to-day lives. While the primary purpose of an Act of Charity is to express our love for God, this prayer is also a daily reminder to our children to try to develop forgiveness and love toward others.
The Act of Contrition is an essential prayer for the Sacrament of Confession , but we should also encourage our children to say it every evening before they go to sleep.
Children who have made their First Confession should also make a quick examination of conscience before saying the Act of Contrition. Instilling a sense of gratitude in our children can be especially hard in a world where many of us have an overabundance of goods.
Grace Before Meals is a good way to remind them and ourselves! Consider adding the Grace After Meals to your routine as well, to cultivate a sense of thanksgiving as well as to keep those who have died in our prayers. As with devotion to the Virgin Mary, children seem predisposed toward belief in their guardian angel.
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On the top there is a little chapel where, on the days of pilgrimage, pilgrims can hear mass and take confession. At the very bottom of the mountain, just before the beginning of the climbing, there is a poster that gives you detailed instructions as to how the pilgrimage must be done: Croaghpatrick Pilgrimage: Every pilgrim who ascends the mountain on St.
The traditional Stations. The pilgrim walks seven times around the mount of stones saying seven Our Fathers, seven Hail Marys and one Creed. I do not know what percentage of pilgrims actually followed these instruc- tions. Certainly, not everybody did. But on the two occasions that I went to Croagh Patrick, I could see a good few people at the Stations, walking patiently around the piles of stones, some of them with a rosary in their hands, others simply praying in silence or in a low voice, the most pious walking in their bare feet.
What I found most noteworthy was the multitude waiting to take confession at the chapel of the summit. The little chapel had two corridors on each side, and the two corridors had a set of seven or eight confessionary boxes with a priest in each of them.
There was indeed a good turnout on both sides. But whatever the amount of people who decide to go through all this, it is the details of the whole procedure that I find significant. In actual fact, fastidiousness, meticulosity, care for details are all general features of religious rituals, espe- cially those related to the externalisation or symbolisation of prayer, both in Roman Catholicism and in other religions — the example of Islam comes to mind immediately cf.
Keane ; Henkel Yet very few scholars, to my knowledge, have concerned themselves with the analysis of this important attribute of religious ritual. Freud was amongst the very first.
The significance and symbolic meaning that Freud refers to is probably the message conveyed by ritual action according to theologians and exegetical tradition. But this message can be very different from the message or meaning that people have in their minds when they par- ticipate in the ritual. And this is the meaning that we, anthropologists, should be primarily interested in.
Freud also understood that despite the alleged abundance of apparent symbolic meaning to be found in ritual action, a somehow deeper level of significance could be uncovered from which a more substantive parallelism between ritual and obsessive behaviour could also be drawn. In both cases, we have a suppression or renunciation of certain instinctual impulses Freud that somehow, he hypothesised, would constitute that deeper, and common, meaning of both obsessive actions and religious ceremonial.
Durkheim ; Gluckman ; Rappaport []. I am certainly not denying the merits of the functional approach in the explana- tion of ritual, I am merely saying that it is insufficient as long as it leaves out important aspects of the behaviour it is meant to account for. As is customarily the case in this kind of approaches, their strategy consists in identifying the cognitive system acti- vated in the performance of ritual acts. Rituals are never seen as functional or adaptive in any way, but only the cognitive system from which they originate, or to which they correspond.
As far as the object of this paper is concerned, the interesting thing about this approach is that, as we saw with Freud, care for detail in ritualised behaviour is given full consideration. Once again, it is the comparison of ritual with the behaviour of patients suffering from some mental disorders, such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, what enables cognitive scientists to identify this care for detail as the common ground shared both by religious and pathological actions.
By this they mean that the minimal meaningful units into which a ritual act can be segmented become so relatively small that they are deprived of any specific goal. For instance, in the above- mentioned pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick, the purpose is not just climbing the mountain, or climbing the mountain and stopping at the stations, but one has to climb the mountain, stop at the stations, go around the stations so many times, saying so many prayers, etc.
The output to this system is a behaviour able to counteract that threat and to reduce or to smother the state of anxiety that pervades the subject who has inferred its existence.
The performance of a painstakingly detailed activity results in the overloading or swamping of working memory, in other words, people need to concentrate on the ritual and forget about everything else. Hence the intrusive thoughts responsible for that state of anxiety are pushed away from consciousness and the subject consequently experiences a pleasant sensation of relief — inversely proportional, we must assume, to the augmented anxiety felt by those who have not done the ritual or have not done it properly.
Symbols, indexes and forms of meaning Whatever cognitive systems happen to be activated in ritual performance, the problem with this sort of explanation is that it blatantly disregards the sym- bolic nature of ritual acts. In a way, the shortcomings of cognitivist approaches constitute a sort of inverted image of those we could find in functionalism. Whereas functionalists managed to provide an explanation for ritual while overlooking its characteristics, cognitive scientists pay due attention to the characteristics of ritualised behaviour but without explaining ritual acts as such; as a result, they fail to differentiate it from other behaviours with the same or similar characteristics.
In all of them the performing subject is likely to push away from consciousness uncomfort- able intrusive thoughts and he or she is also likely to fall into a state of anxiety when the activity has not taken place or has not been done properly. Without a doubt, the performance of magic rituals is highly formalistic. But in this case, it is a feature intimately related to the efficacy of those rituals.
I believe this is a crucial point. None of these interpretations, it seems to me, hit the nail on the head.
Evo- lutionist speculations of the sort we have just seen have long been discredited in social anthropology — even though this does not mean that they should be discarded in advance. But care for detail in prayer can be accounted for from a totally different perspective that I believe is more in accordance with its ultimate meaning, which is no other than an act of communication with God.
The question is: why does this act of communication need to be carried out in this particular manner? If it has nothing to do with efficacy, might it not be the authenticity of prayer what we should be looking at instead? Remember that authenticity, in the way I have defined it here, refers to the relationship between an external act and an internal mental state. I might be living according to the law of God, I do no harm to anybody, but my neighbour is having some trouble.
I can pray for him, you see, but if I fast or do penance my prayers get more powerful, like. It is like everything else, you have to concentrate on what you are doing. If you are taking to me and then I go to watch the cattle you will think that I have very bad man- ners, that I am not listening to you. The same when I am talking to God… quoted in Salazar These observations were made by one of my informants while talking about penance.
Specifically, I want to argue, because both penance and care for details are ways of making the act of praying materially costly. So what is so special about prayer? In other words, those external acts need to be able to sym- bolise the mental state, the state of believing, of the person who is uttering the prayer. Now a complicated performance, never mind if it goes together with some form of penance, can only be carried out by someone who really means it.
Stated otherwise, whereas the quality of the performance or utterance is indexical of its efficacy in the case of magical spell, these same characteristics are symbolic of its authenticity in the case of prayer.
The efficacy of prayer refers to its power or capacity to produce certain effects. Unlike magical spells, in prayer the efficacy is not contingent on its performance but on the almighty will of the supernatural entity whom the prayer addresses.
But this does not mean that the accurate performance of prayer is any less important. Prayers need to be actualised following detailed instructions that are not instrumental to their effectiveness but symbolic of their authenticity.
Notice that in all of them action could not be performed without the appropriate intention i. I wish to thank an anonymous reviewer for drawing my attention to this important point. Due to the fact that internal mental states are by definition invisible, that correspondence can only be ascertained by the very special characteristics of the act of praying itself. The symbolisation of an internal mental state is made possible in prayer by the painstaking concern for the details of its performance.
With this inter- pretation of a particular and very noticeable characteristic of prayer, I have attempted to provide an alternative complementary at best analysis of a par- ticular form of ritualised behaviour to recent cognitive approaches to cultural phenomena.
Unlike their functionalist antecedents or competitors, cognitive scientists are on the whole attentive, and rightly so, to the specific character- istics of ritual performance; but their unconcealed disregard for the meaning- ful and symbolic aspects of human action makes these approaches somewhat unsatisfactory from a more general anthropological perspective.
One last point perhaps needs further notice concerning my distinction between prayer and spell. Several scholars e.
In this paper, I have used these two con- cepts as ideal-type extremes that define the moral-pragmatic limits of symbolic action. Whatever happens to be nearer the opposite side of the spectrum will be systematically understood as spell, where the rela- tionship between its moral and pragmatic components appears inverted.
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