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A gentle and fraternal reminder Brethren:
There is nothing wrong with receiving beautiful prayers, nor is
there anything wrong with passing good prayers on. When passed on,
although the prayers asked are harmless, at times they become like
“chain prayers” modeled after secular chain letters (kana bitawng i-
photocopy nga daghan kaayong kopya ibilin sa simbahan), in which
superstitious language is used to suggest to the recipient that the
promised “blessing” will only be given if the message is passed on.
Those with a more sensitive conscience could fall into superstition. The
Catechism of the Catholic Church warns us that to “attribute the
efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external
performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is
to fall into superstition” (CCC 2111). Thus, electronic chain prayers (or
letters) can become an occasion of sin (CCC 2111, 1 Cor 8:13).

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says about the First

Commandment: “Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and
of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we
offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some
way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary” (CCC
2111).