Sign of the cross Study of TrinityThe Trinity symbolizes the relationship and connection between God the Father,

Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Yet the Trinity reflects 3 different persons as one God. We may look at it this way: Jesus the son would represent Gods body, the Holy Spirit as Gods Spirit, and the Father as Gods Soul. Symbol of the cross The sign of the Cross is made by touching the hand sequentially to the forehead, lower chest or navel area, and both shoulders, accompanied by the Trinitarian formula: at the forehead In the name of the Father (or In nomine Patris in Latin); at the stomach or heart and of the Son (et Filii); across the shoulders and of theHoly Spirit/Ghost (et Spiritus Sancti); and finally: Amen. There are several interpretations, according to Church Fathers:[1] the forehead symbolizes Heaven; the stomach, the earth; the shoulders, the place and sign of power. The Doxologies The Doxology: Glory to the Father, and to as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Our Father Our father you pray, do not use a lot of meaningless words as the pagans do, who think that Gods will hear them because their prayers are long. Do not be like them. Your Father already knows what you need before you ask him. This, then, is how you should pray: Our Father in Heaven, May your holy name be honoured; May your kingdom come; may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need. Forgive us the wrongs we have done, As we forgive the wrongs that others have done to us. Do not bring us to hard testing, But keep us safe from the Evil One. (Matthew 6:7-13) One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When He had finished, One of his Disciples said to him, Lord, Teach us to Pray, Just as John taught his Disciples. Jesus said to them, When you pray say this: Father: May your Holy name be honoured; May your kingdom come. Give us day by day the food we need. Forgive us our sins, for we forgive everyone who does us wrong. And do not bring us to hard testing. (Luke 11:14) Jesus Christ by Victor Hoagland C.P "Teach us how to pray," the disciples said to Jesus. (Luke 11, 1) He answered by teaching them the prayer we call the Our Father or The Lord's Prayer. The Lord's Prayer is a basic Christian prayer. As a model of prayer, every Christian learns it by heart. It appears everywhere in the church's life: in its liturgy and sacraments, in public and private prayer. It 's a prayer Christians treasure. Though we memorize it as a set formula, the Lord's Prayer shouldn't be repeated mechanically or without thought. Its purpose is to awaken and stimulate our faith. Through this prayer Jesus invites us to approach God as Father. Indeed, the Lord's Prayer has been called a summary of the gospel. the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. When Moses approached God on Mount Sinai, he heard a voice saying, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." An infinite chasm separates us from the transcendent God. In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus invites us to draw near to God who is beyond human understanding, who dwells in mystery, who is all holy. We can call God "our Father". Calling God "Father" does not mean that God is masculine. God is beyond the categories of gender, of masculine or feminine. None of our descriptions of God is adequate. God, who is "in heaven", whose name is holy, cannot be fully known by us. By calling God "Father" we are more rightly describing ourselves and our relationship with God. Jesus teaches that we have a filial relationship with God; God sees us as if we were a daughter or a son. And we, on our part, can approach God in the familiar confident way a child approaches a loving parent. What is more, we approach God through God's only Son, Jesus Christ, who unites us to himself . Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. God's kingdom. Jesus often said that God's power would appear and renew all creation. God like a mighty king would rule over the earth according to a plan that unfolds from the beginning of the world. God's kingdom would be marked by peace and justice. Good would be rewarded and evil punished. The kingdom, according to Jesus, is not far off, but already present in our midst, though not yet revealed. In the Lord's prayer we pray that God's kingdom come, that God's will, which is for our good, be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. We are God's children. What can be more childlike than this petition in which we pray for our daily bread, a word that describes all those physical, human and spiritual gifts we need to live. With the confidence of children we say: "Give us this day what we need." Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. This petition of the Lord's Prayer is a demanding one. Not only do we ask God's forgiveness for our daily offenses, but we link God's forgiveness of us with our forgiveness of others. Forgiving others is not always easy to do. We need God's help to do it. But it must be done or we ourselves cannot receive God's mercy. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Life is not easy. It is a daily battle. Trials like sickness and failure can crush our spirits. False values and easy promises can entice us and even destroy our souls. And so we ask God to keep us from failing when we are tested, to help us to know the right thing to do, to deliver us from the evil which awaits us in life. The Lord's Prayer sums up the teaching of Jesus. It is also a prayer that offers the grace of Jesus: his reverence for God, his childlike confidence in his Father, and his power to go bravely through life no matter what comes. When we pray his prayer, his spirit becomes our own. Hail Mary The Birth of Jesus is Announced (Luke 1:30-35) The Angel said to her, Dont be afraid, Mary; God has been gracious to you. You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.

He will be great and will be called the son of the most High God. The Lord God will make him a king, as his ancestor David was, And He will be the king of the descendants of Jacob forever; His kingdom will never end! Mary said to the angel, I am a virgin. How, then, can this be? The Angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come on you, Gods Power will rest upon you. For this reason the holy child will called the son of God. The Birth of Jesus (Luke 2:4-7) Joseph went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to the town of Bethlehem in Judea, the birth place of King David. Joseph went there because He was a descendant of David. He went to register with Mary, who has promised in marriage to him. She was pregnant, And while they were in Bethlehem, the time came for her to have her baby. She gave birth to her first son, wrapped him in a cloths and laid him in a manger- there was no room for them in the inn. Glory Be (Ephesians 3:21) To God be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus for all time, forever and ever! Amen. (Isaiah 45:17) But Israel is saved by the Lord, and her victory lasts forever; Her people will never be disgraced. 3 oclock prayer Zechariah(13:1) When that time comes, says the Lord Almighty,A fountain will be opened to purify the descendants of David and the people of Jerusalem from their sin and idolatry. St. Faustina Faustina wrote that on the night of Sunday February 22, 1931, while she was in her cell in Plock, Jesus appeared to her as the "King of Divine Mercy" wearing a white garment, with rays of white and red light emanating from near his heart.[13][14][2] In her diary (Notebook I, items 47 and 48) she wrote that Jesus told her: "Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: "Jesus, I trust in You". I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and then throughout the world. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish."[15][13][15] Not knowing how to paint, Faustina approached some other nuns at the convent in Plock for help, but received no assistance.[16][17] Three years later, after her assignment to Villnius, the first artistic rendering of the image was performed under her direction.

In the same February 22, 1931 message about the Divine Mercy image, Faustina also wrote in her diary (Notebook I, item 49) that Jesus told her that he wanted the Divine Mercy image to be "solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter; that Sunday is to be the Feast of Mercy." In her diary Faustina wrote that Jesus specified three o'clock each afternoon as the hour at which mercy was best received, and asked her to pray the Chaplet of Mercy and venerate the Divine Mercy image at that hour.[18][19] On October 10, 1937, in her diary (Notebook V, item 1320) Faustina attributed the following statement to Jesus: As often as you hear the clock strike the third hour immerse yourself completely in My mercy, adoring and glorifying it, invoke it's omnipotence for the whole world, and particularly for poor sinners, for at that moment mercy was opened wide for every soul. [20] Three o'clock in the afternoon corresponds to the hour at which Jesus died on the cross. [19] This hour is called the "hour of Divine Mercy" or the "hour of great mercy". Divine Mercy Chaplet The chaplet begins by making the Sign of the Cross.[9] The chaplet has an optional opening prayer: "Thou didst expire, Lord Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Thyself out upon us." And the following is repeated three times: "O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fountain of Mercy for us, I trust in Thee!" There are then seven segments to the chaplet: 1. The Our Father 2. The Hail Mary 3. Recitation of the Apostles' Creed 4. On the large bead before each of the five decades (set of ten prayers) it is stated: "Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Thy Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world." 5. On each of the 10 small "Hail Mary" beads it is stated: "For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world." 6. Items 2 and 3 are repeated for each of the decades. 7. The chaplet concludes with: "Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world."

The above prayer is repeated twice more. There is also an optional concluding prayer: "Eternal God, in Whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Thy mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Thy holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself. Amen." The Hail Mary By Fr. Victor Hoagland The great prayer to Mary in the Catholic tradition is the Hail Mary. The first part of the prayer evolved in medieval times when Mary, the mother of Jesus, appealed to Christians as the great witness to his life, death and resurrection. Its earliest form was the greeting of the angel Gabriel at Nazareth, according to St.Luke's gospel: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. By those words of the angel God announced a divine favor. God would be with Mary. She would bring Jesus Christ into the world. Over time the greeting given to Mary by her cousin Elizabeth, recorded in St. Luke, was added: Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Finally by the 15th century, the remainder of the prayer appeared: Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. The prayer calls upon Mary, who is full of grace and close to her Son, to intercede for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. With the disciple to whom Jesus entrusted her on Calvary when he said: "Behold your mother," we share her as mother. Mary will always bring Christ into our life. From the beginning she knew him; she witnessed his life, death and resurrection; will she not help us to know him and the mysteries of his life? We trust her to care for us as she cared for the newly married couple at Cana in Galilee. We can trust her with our needs. By the end of the 16th century the practice of saying 150 Hail Marys in series or decades of 10 became popular among many ordinary Christian people. During these prayers the mysteries of the life, death and resurrection were remembered. That practice of praying is known now as the Rosary. Mary has always been a model of faith and a companion for Christian believers. When the angel Gabriel came to her, she believed the words he spoke and she maintained her belief without hesitation even to the dark test of Calvary. She accompanies us too who are the brothers and sisters of her Son, as we journey on earth surrounded by dangers and difficulties. Through the centuries many ordinary Christians have found that Hail Mary and the Rosary a source of spiritual blessing. A prayer like the rosary is both simple and profound. Not beyond anyone's reach, its repeated words bring peace to the soul. And the mysteries of joy, sorrow and glory recalled from Jesus' life are meant to be repeated in our own. Through these mysteries, we hope to "imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise." Glory Be

Doxologies That phrase occurs in the King James Bible (cf. Eph. 3:21; Isa. 45:17). Similarly, "et semper" is often rendered "and ever shall be", giving the more metrical English version ... As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. The common Liturgy of the Hours doxology, as approved by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops uses a different translation of the same Latin: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. The Apostles Creed By Mary Fairchild Ancient theory or legend adopted the belief that the 12 apostles were the authors of the Apostles' Creed. Today biblical scholars agree that the creed was developed sometime between the second and ninth centuries, and most likely, the creed in its fullest form came into being around 700 AD. The creed was used to summarize Christian doctrine and as a baptismal confession in the churches of Rome. It is believed that the Apostles' Creed was originally formulated to refute the claims ofGnosticism, or early heresies and deviations from orthodox Christian doctrines. For more about the origins of the Apostles' Creed visit theCatholic Encyclopedia. Like the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed is widely accepted as a statement of faith among Christian churches and used by a number ofChristian denominations as a part of the worship services. Some evangelical Christians, however, reject the creed, specifically its recitation, not for its content, but simply because it is not found in the Bible. The word "catholic" in the Apostles' Creed refers not to the Roman Catholic Church, but to the universal church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Angelus The Angelus (Latin for "angel") is a Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation. The name Angelus is derived from the opening words: Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mari("... the Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary...) and is practised by reciting as versicle and response three Biblical verses describing the mystery; alternating with the salutation "Hail Mary!" The Angelus exemplifies a species of prayers called the prayer of the devotee. The Angelus is usually accompanied by the ringing of the Angelus bell, which is a call to prayer and to spread goodwill to everyone on Earth. The angel referred to in the prayer is Gabriel, a messenger of God who revealed to Mary that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God. (Luke 1:26-38). The angelus recited 6am,12,nn,6pm Pope Paul VI wrote about Angelus Pope Paul VI wrote about the Angelus in Marialis Cultis #41: What we have to say about the Angelus is meant to be only a simple but earnest exhortation to continue its traditional recitation wherever and whenever possible. The Angelus does not need to be revised, because of its simple structure, its biblical character, its historical origin which links it to the prayer for peace and safety, and its quasi-liturgical rhythm which sanctifies different moments during the day, and because it reminds us of the Paschal Mystery, in which recalling the Incarnation of the Son of God we

pray that we may be led through his passion and cross to the glory of his resurrection. These factors ensure that the Angelus despite the passing of centuries retains an unaltered value and an intact freshness. The Angelus V. The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary. R. And she conceived by the power of Holy Spirit. -Hail Mary V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord. R. Be it done unto me according to your Word. -Hail Mary... V. And the Word was made flesh. R. And dwelt among us. -Hail Mary... V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God. R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech thee, O Lord, Your grace into our hearts, that we to whom the incarnation of Christ Thy Son was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His resurrection; through the same Christ our Lord. Amen. - Glory be... Practice first instated by Regina Coeli Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia. For He whom you did merit to bear, alleluia. Has risen, as He said, alleluia. Pray for us to God, alleluia. V. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia. R. For the Lord has truly risen, alleluia. - Let us pray. O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection

of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech Thee, that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may obtain the joys of everlasting life. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Regina Caeli is sung or recited in place of theAngelus during the Easter season, from Holy Saturday through Pentecost Sunday. The Latin word coelum, meaning "heaven" (whence the English wordcelestial) was a common medieval and early modern spelling of caelum, which was the only form in Classical Latin. In mediaeval Latin, ae and oe were both pronounced [e]; the form was also influenced by an extremely dubious etymology from Greek koilos, "hollow".