PRAYER FOR THE SICK Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give your angels charge of those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Christ. Rest your weary ones. Bless your dying ones. Soothe your suffering ones. Pity your afflicted ones. Shield your joyous Read More...
ST CYRIL, MONK; AND ST METHODIUS, BISHOP Father, you brought the light of the gospel to the Slavic nations through Saint Cyril and his brother Saint Methodius. Open our hearts to understand your teaching and help us to become one in faith and praise. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Read More...
FOR THOSE WORKING TO END VIOLENCE God Bless you with insight to recognize violence in all its forms, and courage to name it, speaking out for justice. Amen. The Lord Jesus bless you with compassion for the vulnerable, and grace to stand with them, sharing his strength. Amen. The Holy Spirit bless Read More...
ANOTHER DAY Lord, thank You for another day within this life of mine. Give me the strength to live it well, whatever I may find. Bestow from Your abundance whatever I may lack, to use the hours wisely, for I cannot have them back. Lord, thank You for another day in which to amends, for little Read More...
STUDENTS' PRAYER St. Thomas Aquinas Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and Read More...
A PRAYER FOR LIFE Father and maker of all, you adorn all creation with splendor and beauty, and fashion human lives in your image and likeness. Awaken in every heart reverence for the work of your hands, and renew among your people a readiness to nurture and sustain your precious gift of Read More...
ECUMENICAL PRAYER O Lord, you love justice and you establish peace on earth. We bring before you the disunity of today’s world; the absurd violence, and the many wars which are breaking the courage of the people of the world, human greed and injustice, which breed hatred and strife. Send Read More...
PRAYER TO SAINT AGNES O Little St. Agnes, so young and yet made so strong and wise by the power of God, protect by your prayers all the young people of every place whose goodness and purity are threatened by the evils and impurities of this world. Give them strength in temptation and a true Read More...
