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Posts Tagged ‘prayer’
Just a reminder of the job description of Christanity…
Posted: March 25, 2010 by datechguy in catholicTags: christian life, movies, prayer, religion
Open prayer offering
Posted: March 2, 2010 by datechguy in catholicTags: prayer, prayer request, religion
Every now and again I’ve mentioned a cause that is worthy of prayer and asked for you to join in.
As you might have noticed I did a little post on the Rosary and the 30 prayer intentions that you can offer during it. It occurs to me that a few readers out there might have issues that they want some prayers said for.
So I’m putting out an open call: If anyone has a prayer intention, personal or otherwise that they would like me to incorporate into my daily Rosary just leave the intentions in comments below. If it is an intention that you don’t want made public the click here and e-mail me and I’ll pray on it privately.
I also invite any readers who see an intention in comments that they believe worthy to join in, every little bit helps.
About that MSNBC that I wanted to watch…
Posted: January 21, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: prayer, still angry left
for the first time I’ve watched Olbermann straight through and have come to the conclusion that he has never actually talked to or listened to any regular person who disagrees with him in his life.
That does explain the lady in front of Au Bon Pain
I’ll say a decade of the Rosary for him.
Prayer and Probability
Posted: June 20, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news, personalTags: prayer, prayer request, religion
People often laugh at the idea of prayer imagine a grown adult asking an invisible power to adjust something for them. Prayer is also attacked as an assault on free will. For example the reporter who attacked pro-life people for praying that president Obama have a change of heart.
I have a theory on prayer, this is not to my knowledge based in specific theology, so someone who knows the church better than me can tell me if I’m committing heresy but consider the following:
How many things in life are actually certain? Very few. Spock’s example of letting go of a hammer and not having to see it to know has fallen not withstanding everything is subject to a certain amount of probability.
The medical field is a great example, you are always dealing with a level of probability on recovery from operations, risks from behaviors and so on. An excellent example is that we all know people who have avoided cancer and non smokers who have gotten it. This is a function of probability. Haven’t we all had close calls of one type or another? Or bad luck that has come hitting that one stone that was loose to trip and break a leg etc?
In my opinion this is where prayer comes in, I believe prayer can alter the probabilities on situation and actions. Since the actions are indeterminate (we don’t know for sure how they will go) it seems simply a function of luck. I believe that the power of prayer is basically channeling the intrinsic link between God and man and the community of saints to nudge probability. The stronger the link of the individual to God or the number of people involved prayer the better the chance of the odds moving.
That doesn’t effect the idea that God is a part of it, for example because a wind comes to help a becalmed ship and the wind is a natural phenomena that doesn’t mean that God allowed it to come.
This is in contarast to direct action by God that would be classified as a miracle. In that case you can have either objectively impossible action (Joshua and the sun) or an action so improbable that it seems to be no odds take place. (Curing of the blind man). Those are solid miracles.
Anyways that’s my theory. What do you think?
Update: Corrected awful spelling and grammar in post as it was rushed due to the party today.
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