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JUDITH (Designate PAGES)(JDT 9, 2-4) Peer of the realm, GOD OF MY FOREFATHER SIMEON!
"Peer of the realm, God of my forefather Simeon! You put a sword all the rage his hand to race revenge upon the foreigners who had immodestly loosened the maiden's girdle, shamefully unarmed her thighs, and dreadfully desecrated her core. This they did, though you forbade it. That's why you had their rulers slaughtered; and you stippled with their blood the bed in which they lay deceived, the exact bed that had felt the embarrassment of their own unreliable. You smote the slaves together with their princes, and the princes together with their servants. Their wives you handed upper to simmer, and their daughters to captivity; and all the pillage you at odds concerning your ideal sons, who burned with zeal for you, and in their disgust of the sacrilege of their kinswoman, called on you for help. (CCC 2562) Someplace does prayer come from? Whether prayer is expressed in words or gestures, it is the whole man who prays. But in baptism ceremony the starting point of prayer, Scripture speaks sometimes of the center or the spirit, but greatest recurrently of the focus (on than a thousand epoch). According to Scripture, it is the "focus" that prays. If our focus is far from God, the words of prayer are in full of yourself.
