Why Your Prayers Truly Matter | LITTLE BY LITTLE | Fr Columba Jordan CFR

[@LichtLe-tl8bz]

This is the best way to practice “pray without ceasing”

[@kabhijith8902]

A saint is a person who continues to pray for others even after death..

[@thisgirl5933]

Please please someone pray for me. I am in constant fear mode, panicked or distressed, 16 months of this, and I keep wishing I didn't have to live anymore. I have two kids who need their mom to be normal.

[@JesusChrist2513]

I’m so sorry you are going through this! May our Good Lord heal you! Pray the St. Dymphna prayer for mental health! ❤ God bless!

[@SEANPOL203]

🙏

[@YY-jv4uu]

Hey I was in this same spot myself (also a mother). I got to a point where I poured my heart out to Jesus and then started praying the rosary. Whenever I start getting bad thoughts I start saying Hail Marys. It helps a lot and really calms you down and helps you focus. If you can’t sit there and do a rosary I highly recommend going for walks around the block and whispering the rosary while you do. Also it really helps with procrastination or motivation. Start doing the thing you are putting off but say the rosary while you do it. I use my fingers because they are 10 just like a decade. This has helped me be more productive also. I will pray for you and your kids in my rosary today. God bless.

[@theresa5256]

I strongly recommend finding a good mental health counselor. Try reaching out to your parish priest or diocese to see what resources they can connect you to or look for counselors in your area. It's hard to see, but it will get better. God created you on purpose and doesn't want you to live in fear. I'll be praying for you.

[@sam12587]

I’m asking this to try to help. I y it send to have similar issues. Fear of unknown problem$ ( like car breaking) &/or spite filled vindictive people were the root of mine. What are you scared of? What unknown thing or subject do you think will cause a problem out of no where ?? I send hugs and prayers.

[@xlovelydearx]

When I tell people I will pray for them, I usually say a small, short prayer right then and there or soon after. Nothing fancy, but I want to make sure I do it. 🩷 God knows what’s in our hearts without us even having to say a word and sometimes I tell Him that also. “God, I can’t put into words what I’m feeling or asking for, but You know”. Bless Father. Thank you for this. I’ll use those tiny prayers daily now as I’m going through things that feel hard.

[@Tomas-to9kz]

As a teacher for 28 years in the American public school system, I've had a few situations, not many though, were the kids were very squirrelly. I go to the back of the room and pretend to be doing something and quietly - whisper, so the demons could hear - pray three Hail Marys. Every time I did this the settled down. Thank you Holy Spirit for giving me that inspiration.

[@Jbs2525]

I've deep dived today interceding for my husband (who has abandoned us for almost 2 years; not a peep from him). I do this daily but I really got into it today. A few short hours later, this premier came up. I think God spoke to me (and others) through this video. Thank you, God. Thank you, Father. May God bless and protect you, always. 💜

[@ctmcatholic]

God bless both of you.

[@Jbs2525]

@ctmcatholic same to you! 🙏💜

[@colleen.f.s]

Like salt over a meal❤. Cry out for more grace! Your words are seeds . Sweet Jesus bless Fr. Columba.

[@matildeosorio8257]

Thank you, Fr. Columba. I’ve experienced what you mentioned! Singing in choir during Mass; if we have a difficult song to sing I ask God to go before us and touch the hearts that they may hear Him and not us, and immediately it sounds different and afterwards people ask for the lyrics. Praise be to Him

[@debbieriolo9776]

May God Bless you Fr. Columbia, these last 3 posts have been life changing. Practical advice on how to live life more in line with God!

[@judykelly5477]

Along with this great suggestion, I am suggesting that we all go back to having holy water in our homes by the doors so that we are continually blessing ourselves (and others) taking the Holy Spirit with us as we go in and out.

[@bridgetoconnor7229]

Thank you for that Father! It is something to aspire to for sure!

[@CFrayRun]

Father, I hear the Holy Spirit every time I listen to you. Come Holy Spirit and spread Your Fire through Fr. Jordan's videos. Come Fire of God and inflame Fr. Jordan's viewers with love without end!!

[@apricotdog1]

Father you are a voice of sunshine here in Florida. God bless you this year.

[@ctmcatholic]

Thanks for listening

[@IrisHiller]

Thank GOD for this wonderful inspiration. May JESUS bless you ... Come HOLY SPIRIT, you are welcome here. Thank you, Fr. Columba!✨

[@margueriteweaver7534]

Veni Sancte Spiritus

[@MaryKatherine-lo3cn]

AMAZING! Thank you Father.

[@DallasChick8888]

Father that has been my prayer now for a while… God is making us all more aware of how simple prayer can be. There is so much need and we all come face to face with evil in our own circles. We have to be in a state of constant prayer. Also just saying the name of Jesus when you feel the presence of evil is powerful. Or doing the sign of the cross is very effective. Monks used to bless their monasteries just be walking around the property doing the powerful sign of the cross. Thank you father for giving us this confirmation. God is GOOD! and is Emmanuel, God is always with us.

[@danielbyrnes5446]

Wonderful insight, Fr. Columba. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy your talks immensely. Puts in mind two incidents. One time my grandmother Mary lost a set of keys in a snowbank. After a fruitless search, she went inside to pray to St. Anthony. While she was doing so, I was walking home from the arcade. As I approached her front step, it was like a light shone on a breach in the snow. I reached in and plucked out her lost keys. Had no idea she was praying. Wheny daughter was little, she had trouble sleeping. So I would go into her room amd begin to mimick the breathing pattern of a sleeping person. Gradually, her breathing would entrain with my own. It helped her drift off many a time.

[@dawnelainebowie3943]

The Buddhists have a nifty little template called the metta prayer. I don’t know what it does for those I’m praying for, but I know what it does for me - takes my eyes off me and stretches my heart out toward them. First I pray for those I love, then I pray for those I don’t usually notice, then I pray for those who are difficult to love - what I want most for myself - that I be relieved of the bondage of self. I can do that with my whole heart. Love your message!

[@maryannerazzano7692]

We have a similar prayer for those in recovery. " God , I offer myself to thee. To build with me and to do with me as you will. Relieve me of the bondage of self , that I may better do thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power , Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always . "

[@veroburkellcjeffburke3973]

Prayer of St Bernard! My 12 step group prays this very often! And the sinners and surrender prayers!​@@maryannerazzano7692

[@TrustInJesusThruMaryWithJoseph]

🙏🏻🕊️❤️‍🔥Thank you❤️‍🔥🕊️🙏🏻

[@Kittybeans0909]

Me: not realising that Mama Mary has been teaching me this months ago through Flame of Love Rosary. 😅 "Come Holy Spirit, come through the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mama Mary." Her Flame of Love is Jesus.

[@drjohnn.sutherland3455]

Thx. I often pray 'Lord, have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord, have mercy ' or even just 'Lord have mercy'.

[@SEANPOL203]

Me too

[@RH33.66]

Your insight is always spot on with my life situation, i almost feel you are guiding me directly, i thank you for this idea i will use the prayer for intercession through out my day thank you

[@Lydian804]

Romans 8:26 In the same way the Spirit also comes to help us, weak as we are. For we do not know how we ought to pray; the Spirit himself pleads with God for us in groans that words cannot express. Some translations literally say 'makes intercession for us'.

[@javierrenesolis4764]

Thanks be to God !!! I'll do it as I tend my patients in counseling therapy ! Come Holy Spirit !!!

[@tamarawinget]

Fr. This was extremely helpful. I tend to overthink, over rationalize and get discouraged trying to over perform even in prayer. This is so true and practical because I can’t ever pray the way I ought… I always need His Blood and the Holy Spirit to be interceding in my intercession❤️🙏

[@maryagneshaagensen269]

There is a devotion called The Flame of Love which is referring to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. While praying the Hail Mary prayer and right after the 'pray for us sinners' you say "and may the grace from the Flame of Love descend upon ________(the intention) Amen. This really makes for a thoughtful, powerful Rosary prayer time too.

[@stevehammett2008]

The Flame of Love Hail Mary prayer goes like this: Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus Holy Mary, Mother of God,. Pray for us, sinners. Spread the effect of Grace of thy Flame of Love, over all humanity. Now, and at the hour of our death. Amen!

[@ObstreperousAntipodean]

Intercession can be radical solidarity with folks who are suffering in circumstances where words would do violence. Thanks Columba. PS SERIOUS beard envy. Please intercede for my follicles.

[@roostercrows3477]

We all have a purpose be a prayer warrior when you see those that need help pray for them to Jesus Christ no other GOD'S son the Holy Sprit will bring exactly what you want to be said.

[@angelblessing7937]

Beautiful, simple and profound❤

[@jennycornwell2324]

I need the Holy Spirit to get the Holy Spirit love this Fr Columba Happy New Year looking forward to hearing your weekly messages! The next time I read at Mass and ask for Mary to intercede for us I will look directly into the congregation and pray intercede for them all and get that wow feeling 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@PadraigTomas]

Having meetings about meetings... Father Columba!

[@veroburkellcjeffburke3973]

I grew up protestant (converted 43 years ago). We had a joke, you could tell a denomination by their "meetings ". The Presbyterians would create a Committee to further plan meetings, and then the Committee would have a Committee Meeting to assign a Meeting Leader for each Meeting...took forever to make a decision, lol. But as a Catholic, we're definitely WORSE!

[@JackLeurs]

Fr. Columba please pray for us, so God doesn’t destroy this current civilization, but transforms it.

[@mollys1584]

A novel series I read the main character sends up "arrow prayers" to God. Short quick prayers and many times intercessory. I "took a page from this book" and now send up arrow prayers all day!

[@bridgetn2575]

I’m always looking for new books/authors. Which series was this in?

[@livinggreen7630]

What is the name of the book?

[@philbophilbo4945]

Thank you Father. May God continue to bless you in doing Gods Will. Glory to God.

[@markcerretani1978]

Such wonderful, PRACTICAL knowledge on how to intercede in real time. Thank you Father!

[@debbiegraham5585]

Thank you, Fr. Columba

[@momoffive5606]

Love love love this. Thank you Father.

[@DanaLymon]

Short! Sweet! Effective! I love it! Thank you Fr Columba!

[@MercedesCortina]

Please intercede for me

[@MABarb]

Father, please pray for my family. A lot going on. I greatly appreciate it.

[@joytotheworld9109]

Lord have mercy on us, grant us your peace.

[@gracacarvalho424]

May God bless you abundantly

[@frankreading5110]

BRILLIANT FR COLUMBA. I WILL DO THIS..GOD BLESS xx

[@shannonbrooks5735]

Amen!

[@mandy1104]

please pray for my son Blake to come back to Christ

[@Dakota0701]

Bless them, change me

[@jandaniluk4465]

I i terefere for my son , his healing ,good wife and job for him

[@Eternallyhopeful7788]

Thank you for encouraging my heart and soul! Sometimes in the past year you post just when I need encouragement. Blesses me much! ❤️🙏❤️

[@MarLindaPerez-s1i]

What a great way to intercede! Never thought about it before, that in that very small way which may seem so insignificant can be just as important as the big formal prayers. Bless you.🥰🙏

[@SouLightness]

Thank you thank you thank you.

[@janicemasterson5879]

Thank you, I needed this so much at this moment. I have been praying for my 4 year old grandson, who is being defiant. Refusing to use toilet, being naughty in school, refusing to do certain classes. So very frustrating for our family. Can you please say a prayer for him. I pray daily, hoping to see a change. He has 3 siblings And loving parents. Thank you so very much, and God Bless you.

[@jacktracy8356]

Romans 4:20 KJV "he (Abraham) staggered not at the promise of GOD through unbelief but was strong in FAITH giving glory to GOD 21 and being fully persuaded that what HE had promised, HE was able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him; 24 but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we BELIEVE on HIM that raised up JESUS our LORD from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification."

[@patodwyer721]

Thank you Fr.Columba for your Guidance and Support ✝️ I love the beard, you wouldn't look out of place on a Harley Davidson

[@colleenmullen4447]

Oh, my goodness. So much wisdom in this. Thank you!❤

[@lekat525]

Thank you for your ministry♥️🕊

[@barbaracimini1447]

Wow!! I really needed to hear this!❤

[@marksteo6178]

Thank you, father for your inspiration to us here in Washington DC

[@karenmurray-yl9js]

So simple and inspiring. Thank you Father 🙏

[@margaretinsydney3856]

This is wonderful advice, thank you! I do this occasionally, but this is a great reminder that I should do it "without ceasing". I just watched your video on intercession from eight months ago. Wonderful! So many inspiring ideas there.😊

[@Marcy1xxMcGrath]

divine mercy i trust in you amen thank you father god bless you

[@patricianoga9119]

Thankyou❤

[@annemcgoff8495]

Very helpful🙏

[@redwood1957]

Pray without ceasing?

[@ChesRokas]

God is simple! Love this! God bless from Croatia!

[@ianmetcalfe9429]

Come Holy Spirit come

[@erinduarte1991]

Thank you, I think this is what's missing for how I respond to wild days with our 6 children.

[@kafinn5302]

Very helpful…thank you, Father. 🙏❤️🙏

[@EricJMJ]

Amen! God bless 🙏! Thank you Fr.!

[@anthonyw2931]

God bless you, and everyone.

[@barbaracimini1447]

I’d love for you to give us a list of these quick intercessory prayers!

[@corapartosa4724]

Thank you, Fr Jordan. This is very helpful.

[@katkat2340]

Thanks Father 🙏🏽😇😇😇🙏🏽

[@Kelpie119]

👏👏👏👏🙏

[@micheleolding1473]

thank you - intercede for me!

[@ewtam24]

Thank you for the reflection Father!

[@YY-jv4uu]

I’m somewhat new to praying. I have never been too sure on how to pray for others so this helps! What I usually do is dedicate my rosary for the day to different people I know but I’m not sure if that is effective? When I pray I just speak to God in a conversation style but it would be so helpful to have a praying guide or tips for coming up with the right words that are the most effective. I also do not know how to dedicate a mass for people so before I receive communion each week I tell Jesus that this communion is for so and so please send the graces to them. I am not sure if we can do this or if this is the right way to do it so any tips or advice would help! I recently learnt that sprinkling holy water on the church floor when entering the church for mass for the holy souls in purgatory helps them so I’ve been doing this too. I also say the st Gertrude prayer in between the decades of my rosary for the holy souls in purgatory. Please if you could make a video about other ways to give back to people through prayer that would be very greatly appreciated.

[@annbyrne6012]

You are praying so beautifully. 🙏

[@Goretti8201]

Love this! Simplicity is beautiful. ❤

[@lcothdwf]

🙏🏼❤️‍🔥

[@susannanorton2366]

and Lasses!

[@anneliesed]

I sometimes wonder if people really intercede for me when I ask. It really doesn't seem like it.

[@tracycampanaro9004]

If I say I will intercede for someone I always do. Always. I think if someone has said that to you then you should have faith that that indeed they do intercede for you. Have faith my friend.

[@TheAAnne123]

🙏🙏🙏🙏❣️❣️❣️❣️

[@GaetanoLetiziaMusic]

Thanks!

[@ctmcatholic]

Thank you for your support!!

[@johndalen8367]

❤️

[@catholiclife9304]

Father when will you have another live show?

[@mycatholicfaithlivingstone845]

Tuesday 7th Jan 😊

[@mexicangunslinger915]

I do not know if its okay if to ask for prayer here but my name is Hector if you guys don't mind praying for me

[@b8akaratn19]

That's some beard, Father!!

[@mattynorrish8565]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ7biap3nNCbjbMsi=2xC5TG-hnMY7UlFg Veni Sancte Spiritus... Come Holy Spirit 🙏

[@SamanthaOrtiz-g1c]

🕍🛐💝🌹💞🙏🙏🙏😇🕯️🕊️✝️