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Summary
- Short prayers for a brother cover daily safety, health, work, hard times, a brother who has lost his way, distance or a quarrel, and his faith, with a birthday blessing and a prayer of thanks.
- Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“For Those We Love”) and Lasance’s Catholic Girl’s Guide (1906), which prays for “my dear parents, brothers and sisters.”
- Psalm 91, numbered Psalm 90 in Orthodox and Catholic Bibles that follow the Greek, is widely prayed for protection; Russian Orthodox believers know it as “Живый в помощи Вышняго.”
- A Christian prayer is a request to God, not a charm; Orthodox Christians give a brother’s baptismal name to be remembered at the Liturgy, and Catholic canon law lets a priest offer Mass “for anyone, living or dead” (canon 901).
- Andrew brought his brother Simon Peter to Jesus (John 1:41–42), and Moses prayed for his brother Aaron (Deuteronomy 9:20).
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 4:9; Numbers 6:24–26; Deuteronomy 9:20; Psalm 91:1–2, 11; 121:8; 133:1; Proverbs 17:17; Luke 22:32; John 1:41–42; 3 John 1:2). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate (Douay-Rheims), Psalm 90. Project Gutenberg eBook no. 1581. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1581
- “Псалом 90 «Живый в помощи Вышняго».” Фома (Foma). https://foma.ru/psalom-90-zhivyiy-v-pomoshhi-vyishnyago.html
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Family Prayer, “For Those We Love,” p. 597. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Lasance, Francis Xavier. The Catholic Girl’s Guide: Counsels and Devotions for Girls in the Ordinary Walks of Life. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1906. Devotions for Mass, “At the Commemoration of the Living,” p. 459. https://archive.org/details/catholicgirlsgui00lasa
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. Appendix B, p. 597. https://archive.org/details/ServiceBookOfHolyOrthodoxChurchByHapgood
- Code of Canon Law (1983), canon 901. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann879-958_en.html
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. https://988lifeline.org/
- Samaritans. “Contact Samaritans.” https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
- Фонд поддержки детей, находящихся в трудной жизненной ситуации. Детский телефон доверия 8 800 2000 122. https://fond-detyam.ru/
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