Daily Prayer Archive

Loving God, in Your goodness You have given us the gift of life.
I ask Your pardon and forgiveness for my own failure
and the failure of all people in this world
to protect and respect this gift You have given us.
I pray that with Your grace I and all the people will respect,
reverence, and protect all life of the unborn,
the abused, neglected, disabled, and the elderly.
Guide all who make decision about life,
that they will do so with wisdom, love, and courage.
In Your name Father, Source of all life,
Son, Savior of our lives, and Spirit,
Sanctifier of our lives - I pray.

Amen.

Thank You, Lord,
for the precious gift of my family.

I ask You to bless them,
protect them, and give them
strength to cope with their own
struggles in life.

They have surrounded me
with their love.

Enfold them, Lord,
in Your loving care,
this day and always.

Amen.

- By Columban Fr. Patrick Sayles

Almighty God,
from whom all thoughts of truth and peace proceed,
kindle in the hearts of all men the true love of peace,
and guide with Your pure and peaceable wisdom
those who make decisions for the nations of the earth;
that in tranquility Your kingdom may go forward,
till the earth be filled with the knowledge of Your love;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Imprint, O Lady, your wounds upon my heart,
that I may read therein sorrow and love;
sorrow, to endure every sorrow for you;
love, to despise every love for you.

Amen.

Saint John of God,
heavenly Patron of the Sick,
I come to you in prayer to seek your help in my present sickness.
Through the love which Jesus had for you
in choosing you for the sublime vocation of serving the sick,
and through the tender affection
with which the Blessed Virgin Mary placed upon your head
a crown of thorns as a symbol of the sufferings
you would undergo in the service of the sick
to attain to your crown of glory,
I beg you to intercede for me to Jesus and Mary
that They may grant me a cure,
if this should be according to the Will of God.

O Heavenly Father,
I commend my children to You.
Be their God and Father;
and mercifully supply whatever is wanting in me
through frailty or negligence.
Strengthen them to overcome the corruptions of the world,
to resist all solicitations to evil,
whether from within or without;
and deliver them from the secret snares of the enemy.
Pour Your grace into their hearts,
and confirm and multiply in them the gifts of Your Holy Spirit,
that they may daily grow in grace
and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
and so, faithfully serving You here,
may come to rejoice in Your presence hereafter.

Amen.

Preserve us, we ask You, O Lord,
from all dangers to soul and body,
and by the intercession of the Blessed
and Glorious Mary ever Virgin, Mother of God,
of St. Joseph, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul,
of St. Casimir and all the Saints,
in Your mercy, grant us health and peace,
that after all adversity and error is removed,
Your Church may serve You in freedom and safety,
through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord,
Who lives and reigns with You
in the union of the Holy Ghost
world without end.

Amen.