Tell me about Catholic prayer cards, please.?

Answer 1

There are different types...some are of Saints, which have info about the saint and a prayer for their prayers for you. Different saints have specialties....St George prays for Boy Scouts, St. Michael for Police officers and soldiers, St Florian for firefighters, St Dymphna for people dealing with mentalillness.

Other prayer cards are for the deceased. You get these at their funeral...has their information, when the funeral will be held and where....and a prayer for the deceased. Catholics generally keep these in their Bibles. YES, we have bibles and YES we read them!

Other prayer cards may be in honor of a special event, 1st Communion, ordination, anniversary of wedding or ordination. It is a way of requesting prayers.

Answer 2

Prayer cards are exactly that, cards with prayers on them.

On the front of the prayer card is an image that often has something to do with the prayer printed on the back, saints for example.

There are many ways to obtain prayer cards. There always seems to be some available at Church. They come in petitions from religious charities. And they can be downloaded from the Internet and printed.

I like them for their beautiful imagery. You know what they say, "A picture is worth a 1,000 words."

Answer 3

There cards with saints and the saint prayer. You say a prayer to whatever saint it is you need at that time...for example you you need to find something you are going to pray to saint Anthony to help you find it. That's all there is to them.

Answer 4

They are simple cards that have a written prayer on the back, and usually a picture on the front, about the size of a business card.
Here are some examples:
http://www.catholicstore.com/index.asp?Category=1851&PageAction=VIEWCATS

http://paxchristiusa.3dcartstores.com/Prayer-cards_c_6-1.html

Answer 5

There are fifty-two of them in four different suits, the holy ghost, the son the father and our lady, they are used to play Heaven hold'em poker.