Look Who's Praying Now: Healing Unto the Nations

By El Enamorado

Look Who's Praying Now: Healing unto the Nations promotes lasting world peace through omnistic prayer including prayers, meditations, mantras, sutras, and poems, invoking even the paradoxical praying atheist that all may have the utmost respect for one another.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781641406475

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Look Who's Praying Now

Healing Unto the Nations

El Enamorado

Copyright © 2018 El Enamorado

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First Edition

Christian Faith Publishing, Inc

New York, NY

First originally published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc 2018

ISBN 978-1-64140-646-8 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64140-647-5 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Dedicated in the loving memories of one Mr. Robert J. Klun (June 24, 1931–July 24, 2015)

It’s a subject of much pondering debate as to what should be the death of a good man. Some may say a noble death of righteous passion typified by the noblest, Christ crucified for the world’s redemption, constitutes a good man’s death. Surely, the comforting death of St. Joseph passing while in the highest esteemed august company of our Lord and Blessed Mother remains undeniably as the epitome of a good death. Some say an altruist honorable death in the line of duty for a just intention is the utmost measure of a good man’s death. Some would hold to the opinion of a death of spiritual experience such as passing while the lingering taste of the viaticum proves forth Christ’s intimate real presence while grasping the rosary in meditation upon its mystery or sacred passage of scripture would be befitting for a good man. Probably the most popular recognized death for a good man would be exemplified by the passing of your loved one Bob; my best friend, mentor, and brother in Christ as well as the Knights of Columbus, partook of during peaceful slumber while in the pleasant company of his loving family who he once joined in the divine creative nature of God in the obedience of the original command to procreate. Bob’s existence fully embodies the meaning of the sanctity of life from conception to natural death. I am deeply saddened that Bob left us for the heir of eternal grandeur that awaits all God’s blessed children only because the departure came so sudden and too soon; however, I am gladdened that he entered the realm through a passing deserving of a good man. In full concluding conviction while judging from Bob’s life, richly evincing such an overabundance of numerous selfless compassionate virtuous acts, he will hear those resounding words of blessing, Well done good and faithful servant! It is all one can plead that he’d enhance the intercession proclaimed by the entire litany of the saints to pray for us.

Foreword

Shalom aleichem!

Welcome to this journey to discover people’s prayers and the potential power one’s prayer possesses, which can change the world; one or more persons at a time. This work is truly written with you in mind no matter if you are an atheist, Buddhist, Christian (Catholic or Protestant), Confucian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, sinner or saint; practicing or not. This work celebrates and embraces the diversity of the world’s citizens with a few tactful opinions that are not intended to attack or modify anyone’s convictions. As far as a tool for evangelism, this work works like digging a tunnel through a granite mountain with a plastic fork. Any reference that pertains to evangelism provides levity of the subject or the loss of a culture in mind; chiefly the loss of true Confucianism. This work promotes lasting peace in the world never thought to ever be achieved for eons; however, never has such an intellectual generation of people inhabited the planet who knows better than warring. This work is not meant to be a doorstop, paper weight, toddler’s coloring book or platform for a table’s short leg to keep it from teetering. Certainly, one may use it for kindling for a fire if in dire need to remain warm and escape hypothermia; however, refrain from using it as such to start a conflagration of other such writings. Now that we have discussed what the book is and is not, let us discuss the pages within its covers.

(The use of the word one in this foreword will denote as the writer, except where it will be used as a numeral.) This work was drafted as a healthy outlet for one who has many ill hurts, hang-ups, and habits. One figured this was a good way to redirect one’s attention away from those negative traits of character. One didn’t know how much could be learned on the subject of prayer and used that knowledge to decimate so much religious culture, as a brain with a little bit of knowledge is a most dangerous thing. One held himself truly apologetic for doing such, but some wisdom may be gained, like so much astonishing prudence of utterance out of the oral orifice of the infantile. The method one used to create in this work is much like one uses to murder a newly learned foreign language with the tact of a live large aggressive rodeo-trained male bovine with massive frontal bone protuberances, excreting Montezuma’s revenge in projectile precision, trapped in the Murano glass works room of fine masterpieces. Well maybe it remains less complicated and involved as that description; however, one may become humiliated by one’s attempt to describe people’s prayer of different religions, cultures, and convictions when critiqued by those of greater knowledge of the subject. One’s only defense is to ask, Where were such people when this work was in draft form? On the other hand, one could always shift the blame upon the editor.

Speaking of the editor, one helplessly hopes they take pity for this is one’s first attempt to present such literary work where such errors were inevitably bound to be made. One graciously thanks the editor’s scrupulous endeavor to embark on such an arduous, bewildering, and adventurous task. Areas of vagueness of meaning or slayings of the English literary rules were purposely meant to encourage you in your profession. One’s lack of journalistic experience increases one’s visceral feelings that even this paragraph’s context contains much malicious forms of literary blunders. One will attempt to keep one’s composure, under the scrutiny of the editor’s critique of this work; else one will never pursue such an undertaking challenge again. Perhaps the editor perceives divesting one’s ability to write such a work in the future as a reasonable venture. Whatever the editor replies, one hopes it would be in the form of a good rejoinder that one can later use for amusement.

One enjoys gathering research but has trouble wondering why so many wish to remain anonymous from their interesting factual writings. These writings were crucial for this work, yet one may see where such anonymous references would not be allowed for a term paper, research paper or final dissertation. Please take credit for your expertise because it affects one’s authenticity when using such facts for referencing one’s work. Many of the mysterious authors come from religious backgrounds compared to those of the nonreligious who always divulge readily their credit for their work by naming themselves. Authors who remain unknown may be doing it for humility sake or possibilities they fear criticism. Hiding your talent under a lid makes for shady dealings; one bids, get rid of the lid.

Prayers or writings of meditation or contemplation were researched from six major religions and atheism mainly seeking writings or quotes of religious leader on the topic of peace. A peace prayer was improvised as no peace prayers were found for atheists. One thought if anyone would be praying or at least contemplating of peace, it would be the atheists since they are the captive audience in a world of religious conflicts and wars. The work, which started simply as a documentary about people’s prayer, quickly became a plea for world peace through prayer when one realized that all religions had a quest for peace. With all the religious literature on peace, one wonders why war still exists in the world. One does not promote the world becoming a syncretistic culture of worship but a celebration of the diversity of religions where peaceful respect for each other’s viability rules. A world where people virtuously seek to live moralistically and ethically should exist and not be depicted as vague subjective topics but ones of absolute truths.

One wrote the first two chapters on Christian prayer, which was most familiar to one. One has Lutheran, Baptist, and Catholic knowledge, which helped immensely in writing these chapters, thus they tend to be longer. One chapter was to be devoted to Catholic prayer and one to Protestant prayer, but since the majority of Protestants ad-lib their prayers, the Protestant chapter was turned into liturgical prayers and the Serenity Prayer. Certainly, there existed many written prayers by Protestant denominations, but the requirement for the prayers used in this book were widely used prayers by more than just a single denomination. Certainly, the prayers of the mainstream denominations were included in the work. This work could not be exhaustive in its search due to the limit of the size of the chapters. These chapters had to be limited in size to account for other people of different faiths to read the work in its entirety. The chapters quickly reached the specified size limit; therefore, certain prayer could not be given much detail.

The third chapter’s topic was Jewish prayer or tefilah. One knew very little except what learned from Jewish to Christian converts. Much of the material had to be researched. There were a few good articles on the subject and enough material was gathered to reach a better than minimal chapter volume. The work was very challenging and one wishes more literature could have been found on the subject. The Song of the Sea intrigued one the most, as the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea was taught to one at a very young age. It is an account one will fascinate upon one’s whole life. One was raised in a city of bridges and just the thought of being able to part a body of water instead of using a bridge enthralls one’s mind.

The fourth chapter covered the Islam religious prayer. One knew even less of Islam and its sacred Quran. Prayers where readily found through research. Muslims like the Jews don’t take prayer lightly and may even more so be true of Islam. One was amazed at the effort Muslims make to initiate prayer through the Wudu and Ghusul. One was most intrigued by the ninety-nine names or titles of Allah, which Muslims are required to remember by heart, recited on the beaded ring called the Subha. The material found was nearly enough to fill the minimal required for a chapter so one included a foreshadowing for the next chapters and a Shinto prayer for peace. One hopes this foreshadowing does not offend any Muslim. One wrote such in tribute to the phrase Peace and mercy of Allah be on you, said at the end of the Muslim prayer.

In the fifth chapter, mantras or prarthana of Hinduism were researched. One never knew much about Hinduism and had to research all of data used for the chapter’s work. One had previously seen movies and read books about the famous Gandhi. One also knew of the work of St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta among the Hindu people. The fact drawn for these were vaguely remembered since much time had passed since one experienced the material of these two well-renowned people. The material gathered was enough to suffice the minimal volume of information for the chapter. One was impressed by Gandhi’s passion for people pursuing education and peacefulness.

Buddhists were the next people of interest in chapter six. Prayers of enlightenment and clarity were readily found. One had nothing to jog from memory or experience covering Buddhist prayer. One was impressed of the people’s moral pursuit to become a Buddha and did not realize more than one Buddha exists. One has much respect for the Dalai Lama but had some problems