Dear Editor, I would like through the columns of your newspaper to call on people to be careful about the prayers they use which belong to a different time and era. They reflect a bad theology.
I would suggest that people stop using a prayer which contains these words: “O Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell…” This prayer is sometimes used during the public recitation of the Rosary. It is claimed that it originated in Fatima.
Wherever it originated it should be abolished forever. I would also ask people to refrain from the old versions of the Act of Sorrow about “offending” God and to use the new one learned by children in school. It is short and meaningful.
Yours etc.,
Fr Joe McVeigh,
Enniskillen,
Co. Fermanagh.