PREPARE ME FOR THESE WEEKS OF LENT
Creator of my Life,
Renew me, bring me to a new life in you. Touch me and make me feel whole again.
Help me to see your love in the passion, death and resurrection of your Son.
Help me to observe Lent in a way that allows me to celebrate that love. Prepare me Read More...
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES
Oh ever immaculate Virgin, Mother of Mercy, Health of the Sick, Refuge of Sinners, Comfortess of the Afflicted, you know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings. Look upon me with mercy.
When you appeared in the grotto of Lourdes, you made it a privileged sanctuary Read More...
ACT OF A SPIRITUAL COMMUNION My Jesus, I believe that You are in the Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I long for You in my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, Come at least spiritually into my heart. As though You have already come, I embrace You and unite myself Read More...
ST. SCHOLASTICA PRAYER
O God, to show us where innocence leads,
you made the soul of your virgin Saint Scholastica
soar to heaven like a dove in flight.
Grant through her merits and her prayers
that we may so live in innocence
as to attain to joys everlasting.
This we ask through our Lord. Amen.
TODAY IS NEW
Today is new, unlike any other day, for God makes each day different.
Today God's everyday grace falls on my soul like abundant seed, though I may hardly see it.
Today is one of those days Jesus promised to be with me, a companion on my journey. And my life today, if I trust him, has consequences unseen. My life has a purpose. Amen.
A PRAYER FOR THE END OF
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
God of freedom, beauty and truth
we believe that your deepest desire,
your most powerful energy,
is that all creation might know abundant life.
We raise our voices in anguished prayer
for our sisters and brothers,
women and girls, men and boys,
who Read More...
FOR THE GIFT OF WISDOM
Great is the wisdom of the Lord!
God Almighty, Your Wisdom includes
An understanding of what is fair,
What is logical, what is true,
What is right and what is lasting.
It mirrors Your pure intellect!
I entreat You to grant me such Wisdom,
That my labours may reflect Read More...
PRAYER TO ST PAUL MIKI AND COMPANIONS – MARTYRS OF JAPAN
O God, strength of all the Saints,
who through the Cross were pleased to call
the Martyrs Saint Paul Miki and Companions to life,
grant, we pray, that by their intercession
we may hold with courage even until death
to the faith that Read More...