How Pagans Pray for Rain
Sam links us to the following video. Before you watch it, remember that God warned against prayers like the pagans. He said not to chant, or fill prayers with vain repetitions. When people are focussed on winning control of the state’s billy-club rather than abolishing it they start doing silly things.
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As a teenager, I used to play the organ for a local Catholic church, which allowed me lots of time during their boring masses to read the old Latin breviaries stored near the organ. They had special prayers in them “ad petandam pluviam” (to ask for rain) and “ad repellendam tempestates” (to repel storms) and a bunch of things like that. I know that it is common practice among certain factions of American protestants even today to do that kind of very particular praying (I remember one guy in college who would pray before testing his circuit boards), but it sure isn’t common these days among Catholics in my home town, and it always used to make us crack up to think that apparently when these old breviaries were used, it did happen, and people were presumably impressed by the fact that it was all in Latin.
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