Prayer for a Faithful Heart During Lent Heavenly Father, In this season of Lent, draw our hearts closer to You. When our lives feel busy or uncertain, teach us to slow down and listen for Your voice. Help us to let go of what distracts us from Your love and to embrace what leads us Read More...
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT - Keep Us Focused, Loving God, help us to live by your words. Guide us in the way of compassion, respect, caring, forgiving and love. Keep us focused on Jesus' way of disarming the evil in our life. Do not let us give in to the world’s view of power, might and right. Grace us Read More...
Soften Our Heart - Good Jesus, the author and encourager of peace, love and goodwill, soften our hard and steely hearts, and warm our frozen and icy hearts, so that we may wish well to one another today and that we may be true disciples and friends of Jesus. Give us the grace even now to begin to Read More...
Doing What is Right - Gift us O God, with a spirit that always contemplates what is right, what is good, what is worthy, what is decent, what is honorable, what is of value, the goodness, within ourselves and others. Help us to treat all we meet in the same way we want to be treated. Grace us with Read More...
Hearing and Responding - O God, look kindly on us today. Help us to recognize you in the many ways you will be part of our life today. Enable us to hear your word and respond to it with energy and enthusiasm. Grace us with humble and contrite hearts open to your presence and word. Fill us with your Read More...
Our Father - Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen! (Say it slowly, listen to the words!)
Thinking Before Action - Help us O God; to be the people you have created us to be today. Help us to think before we speak, especially when our words are directed towards others. Help us to think before we write, especially when we are writing about others. Help us to act, respond and live as people Read More...
Humble Prayer - Loving God, help us to live as humble, compassionate, joyful people today and always. May we always pray with openness to your mercy and love just like the tax collector. Grace us with hearts that recognize your gifts in our lives and an openness to share joyfully these gifts with others. Amen!
