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Offline Disputaciones

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Do the prayers of one person affect the world?
« on: February 07, 2021, 07:05:09 PM »
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    • I'd like to think so, but I'm not sure.

    I know the prayers of someone will affect those who live in his/her circle etc.

    But world events?

    I ask because I feel there's really not much we can do to smite whoever is behind this fake pandemic and stop it except praying, but I wonder if a thing like that is not worth praying for because God probably will use it to punish the world etc so why even pray to bring it to a halt? 
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    Offline Seraphina

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    Re: Do the prayers of one person affect the world?
    « Reply #1 on: February 07, 2021, 08:43:36 PM »
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    • Maybe.  Perhaps you’ve been given the grace to pray for something or someone in a way that is one-of-a-kind.  Let God worry about the answer to your question.  Your job is to just pray.
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    Offline Nadir

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    Re: Do the prayers of one person affect the world?
    « Reply #2 on: February 07, 2021, 09:34:01 PM »
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    • Your prayer is never wasted. Pray for God’s sake. He know what is good for us and He will sort it out. So just pray.
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    Offline SeanJohnson

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    Re: Do the prayers of one person affect the world?
    « Reply #3 on: February 07, 2021, 09:34:21 PM »
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    • Matthew 17:20 -

    “Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.”
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    Re: Do the prayers of one person affect the world?
    « Reply #4 on: February 07, 2021, 11:07:16 PM »
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    • Quote from: Disputaciones on February 07, 2021, 07:05:09 PM
    I ask because I feel there's really not much we can do to smite whoever is behind this fake pandemic and stop it except praying, but I wonder if a thing like that is not worth praying for because God probably will use it to punish the world etc so why even pray to bring it to a halt?
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    God punishes the world because people do not pray. He is allowing all of this to get is praying again. Praying to halt this terrible worldwide revolution. Praying in reparation for the sins that have brought down this chastisement on the world. Praying for the conversion of sinners.
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    God allows these catastrophic events in order to get us back on our knees asking for His help.
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    YES! You must pray. We all must. Like we have never prayed before.
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    Re: Do the prayers of one person affect the world?
    « Reply #5 on: February 08, 2021, 03:35:33 AM »
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    • Do the prayers of one person affect the world?


    YES!

    We offer unto Thee, O Lord, the chalice of salvation, beseeching Thy clemency, that it may ascend in the sight of
    Thy divine majesty with a sweet savour, for our own salvation and for that of the whole world. Amen


    Taken from the Ordinary of the Mass after the Offertory. You are one person, and I am one person - each Catholic is one person.

    It is the great power that Catholics alone (united in prayer as single persons) are given and authorised/obligated by Almighty God to pray for the whole world because they are baptised members of His One, Holy and Apostolic Church.

    He died to save the souls of every single person because..

    ......he was the true light which enlighteneth every man who cometh into the world  (Last Gospel)


    It can be seen that through the Sacrament Catholics are obliged to pray for everyone.    Whether or not everyone accepts the invitation is another matter left to God to judge.

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    "In His wisdom," says St. Gregory, "almighty God preferred rather to bring good out of evil than never allow evil to occur."
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