Prayers (A-Z)

O Lord, my God, 
Creator and Ruler of the universe, 
it is Your Will that human beings accept the duty of work. 
May the work I do bring growth in this life to me 
and those I love and help to extend the Kingdom of Christ. 

Give all persons work that draws them to You 
and to each other in cheerful service. 

I unite all my work with the Sacrifice of Jesus 
in the Mass that it may be pleasing to You and give You 
glory. 

I beg Your Blessing upon all my efforts. 

With Saint Joseph as my example and guide, 
help me to do the work You have asked 
and come to the reward You have prepared.

Father in Heaven, 
You made me Your child 
and called me to walk in the Light of Christ. 
Free me from darkness 
and keep me in the Light of Your Truth. 

The Light of Jesus has scattered 
the darkness of hatred and sin.

Called to that Light, 
I ask for Your guidance. 

Form my life in Your Truth,
my heart in Your Love. 

Through the Holy Eucharist,
give me the power of Your Grace 
that I may walk in the Light of Jesus 
and serve Him faithfully.

Our Father, may everything I do begin with Your 
Inspiration, 
continue with Your Help, 
and reach perfection under Your Guidance. 

With Your loving care guide me in my daily actions. 
Help me to persevere with love and sincerity. 

Teach me to judge wisely the things of earth 
and to love the things of Heaven. 

Keep me in Your presence 
and never let me be separated from You. 
Your Spirit made me Your child, 
confident to call You Father. 

Make Your Love the foundation of my life. 
Teach me to long for Heaven. 

May its promise and hope guide my way on earth 
until I reach eternal life with You.

God’s Plan 

Almighty God, father God, God of great mercy. I love and am grateful I can come before you knowing you eaccept me as your child whom you love. 

Thank you so much dear Jesus that you are with me where ever I go. Like a child in his mother’s arms I come to you. Take ownership of me, guide me, prompt me, teach me, and instruct me dear God in the way I should go. May your great plan for my life be fulfilled so I may be closer to you. 

Thank you dear God for all you have done. 

Amen

May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most mysterious and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in heaven on earth and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar. 

This prayer was revealed by Our Lord to a Carmelite Nun of Tours in 1843 as a reparation for blasphemy. “This Golden Arrow will wound My Heart delightfully,” He said, “and heal the wounds inflicted by blasphemy.” Imprimatur: T. J. Toolen, Archbishop of Mobile-Birm.

Eternal Father, 
turn away Your angry gaze from our guilty people 
whose face has become unsightly in Your eyes. 
Look instead upon the Face of Your Beloved Son, 
for this is the Face of Him 
in Whom You are well pleased. 

We now offer You this Holy Face, 
covered with shame and disfigured by bloody bruises 
in reparation for the crimes of our age 
in order to appease Your anger, 
justly provoked against us. 

Because Your Divine Son, our Redeemer, 
has taken upon His Head all the sins of His members, 
that they might be spared, 
we now beg of You, Eternal Father, 
to grant us mercy.

Amen

May the most holy,
most sacred,
most adorable,
most mysterious and unutterable Name of God
be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified
in heaven on earth and under the earth,
by all the creatures of God, 
and by the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ 
in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar.

Mother or a child:

Jesus lives His entire life for his journey or a 
child: 
under the Cross of salvation. 
St. John’s Gospel gives us some of His last words 
(12:27-33): 

Now my soul is troubled. 
And what shall I say! 
Father, save me from this hour. 
No, this is why I came to this hour! 
Father, glorify thy Name. 
There came therefore a voice from heaven: 
I have both glorified it, and I will glorify it 
again. 
Now is the judgment of the world, 
now will the prince of the world be cast out. 
And I, if I be lifted up, 
will draw all things to myself. 

Father: 

He humbled Himself becoming obedient unto death, 
even to death on a Cross. 
Therefore God also has exalted Him 
and has bestowed upon Him the Name that is above 
every name, 
so that at the Name of Jesus, 
every knee should bend of those in heaven, 
on earth and under the earth, 
and every tongue should confess 
that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God 
the Father. 

We adore Your Cross, O Lord, 
and we praise and glorify Your holy resurrection 

Family:

Because by this sacred wood joy has come into the 
whole world. 

Father: 

Let us pray. We beseech you, O God, 
look upon this Your family 
for whom our Lord Jesus Christ allowed Himself to 
be betrayed 
into the hands of wicked men 
and to undergo the torment of the Cross. 
In His Name grant our petition. 

Family: 

Amen.

O Jesus, 
it is not the heavenly reward You have promised
which impels me to love You;
neither is it the threat of hell
that keeps me from offending You.

It is You O Lord,
it is the sight of You
affixed to the Cross and suffering insults;
it is the sight of Your broken body,
as well as Your pains and Your death.

There is nothing You can give me
to make me love You.
For even if there were no heaven and no hell
I would still love you as I do!

O Jesus, Who by reason of Thy burning love for us 
hast willed to be crucified 
and to shed Thy Most Precious Blood 
for the redemption and salvation of our souls, 
look down upon us here gathered together 
in remembrance of Thy most sorrowful Passion and Death, 
fully trusting in Thy mercy; 
cleanse us from sin by Thy grace, 
sanctify our toil, 
give unto us and unto all those who are dear to us our 
daily bread, 
sweeten our sufferings, 
bless our families, 
and to the nations so sorely afflicted, 
grant Thy peace, 
which is the only true peace, 
so that by obeying Thy commandments 
we may come at last to the glory of heaven.

Amen.