This small book collects a series of prayers that have been handed down from the Latin American popular tradition. These are compositions that are now ecclesiastical, now naive, now real complaints but which over the years have accumulated a truly special force. Their peculiarity is in their direct connection with the needs of everyday life. Souls are asked not only for salvation, but also for remedying everyday problems, from the economic to the more exquisitely emotional ones.

If some people see in these texts a sort of deviation from popular piety, in my view, on the other hand, they are the mirror of true spirituality, that is, that yearning which, precisely because it is believed, pushes us, in times of need, to request the help from Heaven also for unofficially orthodox reasons, real needs though. If the divine is with us, why should it be diverted to make it present in our daily lives?

In this book you will find not only the texts of the prayers, but also the various ways in which they are recited, a unique collection of its kind. It was not easy to recover all the texts. Magic? Spirituality? Mystery? One word contains the essence of all these meanings: Prayer.

Language: Italian