Description: The Magnificent Prayers
the magnificent prayers secret to hapiness (1)
Life can be very bitter at times. We can be overcome by pain, by suffering of all kinds, sickness poverty and loneliness. We can feel abandoned and alone, without support or anyone to whom we can turn. This can be a call from God to turn to him. We cannot leave our lives to God in the sense that we expect him to work miracles for us, but having done what we can to change things, then we can leave the rest to God. Remember always that great saying of St. John It is not that we first loved God but
These prayers were copied from a book printed in Toulouse in 1740 and published by Father Adrien Parvilliers of the Society of Jesus, Missionary Apostolic of the Holy Land with the approbation, permission and recommendation to spread the devotion.
At the time of St. Bridget in the XIV century, printing had not been invented but recourse was had to copyists. Pope Urban VI encouraged the multiplication of the number of copies of the revelations of St. Bridget, which Kings, Bishops, Universities, Convents and Libraries were clamouring for.