The Catholic Defender: Jesus gave us the The Golden Arrow through Sister Mary of St. Peter, a 19th-century French Carmelite nun, who saw blasphemy as a poisoned arrow wounding Christ's Heart
- Donald Hartley

- 14 hours ago
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The Golden Arrow is an important prayer that Jesus gave to Sister Mary of St. Peter, a Carmelite nun in France, in August of 1843. Sister Mary called it “an Act of Praise that our Lord Himself dictated to me, notwithstanding my unworthiness, for the reparation of Blasphemy [insulting or disrespectful thoughts or behavior] against His Holy Name.”
You don't need to be a theologian or a biblical scholar to see how much our Lord Jesus Christ has suffered what Shakespeare once called "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; since His birth in a cave in Bethlehem over 2000 years ago!
Yet this prayer sends and actually pleasing projectile His way:
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.
After praying it, Sister Mary saw torrents of graces streaming from Jesus' Heart for the conversion of sinners, showing the prayer's power.
A central focus is praising and adoring the Name of God "in heaven, on earth, and under the earth". It emphasizes the sacredness and unutterable nature of God's name.





















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