Some extracts from the messages of Medjugorje concerning prayer
- My call to you is that the beginning and end of your day always be prayer.
- During the day, find a place where you will pray joyfully in a recollected way.
- I am calling you to sincere prayer with the heart so that every prayer of yours may be an encounter with God.
- Pray the Rosary and meditate the mysteries of the Rosary every day.
- The world needs much prayer, but prayer spoken with the heart and the soul .
- I wish to call you to pray daily for souls in purgatory. By doing this you obtain new intercessors who will help you in life.
- Pray without ceasing that you may be able to help yourselves and the others to whom your prayers will bring joy.
- Pray and in prayer you will discover the wisdom of living.
- Through prayer, one obtains everything.
- In prayer you shall perceive the way out of every situation that has no exit.
- Prayer is the heart of faith and is hope in eternal life.
- Consecrate each day to God in prayer.
- May your life become a continuous prayer.
Special Prayers
Prayer of the Angel of Fatima
Prayer taught by the Angel of Peace to the three visionaries of Fatima during his first apparition.
My God! I believe, I adore, I hope and I love thee! I ask pardon of Thee for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee.
Prayer taught by the Angel of Peace to the three visionaries of Fatima during his third apparition.
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly and I offer Thee the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all of the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the insults, sacrileges and indifference with which He is offended. And through the infinite merits of his Most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.
Prayer of Our Lady of Fatima
Prayer taught by Our Lady of Fatima after the terrible vision of hell shown to the visionaries.
When you pray the rosary, say after each mystery: O my Jesus, forgive us, deliver us from the fire of hell, take all souls to heaven, especially those who need it most.
Prayer for souls in Purgatory
Prayer taught by Jesus to St. Gertrude the Great. Our Lord promised her that 1000 souls would be released from purgatory each time it is said devoutly.
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen.
Invocation on the front of the Miraculous Medal
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you.
Oldest known prayer to Mary for intercession (sub tuum praesidium), 3rd or 4th century
We fly to thy patronage,
O holy Mother of God;
despise not our petitions in our necessities,
but deliver us always from all dangers,
O glorious and blessed Virgin.
Amen.
Act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Prayer dictated to Jelena Vasilj by the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje.
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, overflowing
with goodness, Show us your love for us.
May the flame of your heart, Oh Mary,
Descend upon all peoples.
We love you immensely.
Impress in our hearts a true love.
May our hearts yearn for you.
Oh Mary, sweet and humble of heart,
Remember us when we sin.
You know that all mankind are sinners.
Through your most sacred and maternal heart,
Cure us from every spiritual illness.
Make us capable of looking at the beauty of your maternal heart,
And that, thus, we may be converted
to the flame of your heart. Amen