Prayers (A-Z)

O Jesus, lover of the young, the dearest Friend I have, in all confidence I open my heart to You to beg Your light and assistance in the important task of planning my future. Give me the light of Your grace, that I may decide wisely concerning the person who is to be my partner through life. Dearest Jesus, send me such a one whom in Your divine wisdom You judge best suited to be united with me in marriage.

May her/his character reflect some of the traits of Your own Sacred Heart. May s/he be upright, loyal, pure, sincere and noble, so that with united efforts and with pure and unselfish love we both may strive to perfect ourselves in soul and body, as well as the children it may please You to entrust to our care. Bless our friendship before marriage, that sin may have no part in it. May our mutual love bind us so closely, that our future home may ever be most like Your own at Nazareth.

O Mary Immaculate, sweet Mother of the young, to your special care I entrust the decision I am to make as to my future wife/husband. You are my guiding Star! Direct me to the person with whom I can best cooperate in doing God’s Holy Will, with whom I can live in peace, love and harmony in this life, and attain to eternal joys in the next.

Amen.

Good Morning God! 
You are ushering in another day, 
untouched and freshly new. 
So here I am to ask you, God, 
if You’ll renew me too. 

Forgive the many errors that I made yesterday 
and let me try again dear God 
to walk closer in Your way. 

But Lord, I am well aware, 
I can’t make it on my own. 
So take my hand and hold it tight, 
for I cannot walk alone.

Good night, my Guardian Angel, The day has sped away; Well spent or ill, its story Is written down for aye. And now, of God’s kind Providence, Thou image pure and bright, Watch over me while I’m sleeping.

My Angel dear, good night!

God of power and might, wisdom and justice,
through you authority is rightly administered,
laws are enacted, and judgment is decreed.

Assist with your spirit of counsel and fortitude
the President and other government leaders of these United 
States.

May they always seek the ways of righteousness, justice and mercy.
Grant that they may be enabled by your powerful protection
to lead our country with honesty and integrity.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

O my God and my all, 
in Thy goodness and mercy, 
grant that before I die 
I may regain all the graces 
which I have lost through my carelessness and folly. 

Permit me to attain the degree of merit and perfection 
to which Thou didst desire to lead me, 
and which I failed by my unfaithfulness to reach. 

Mercifully grant also that others regain the graces 
which they have lost through my fault. 
This I humbly beg through the merits 
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 
and Immaculate Virgin Mary.

Amen.

O Lord Jesus Christ, 
the great High Priest, 
who dost call chosen souls to offer Thee in sacrifice 
and to assist Thee in saving souls, 
I beseech Thee to grant me this high grace 
though I am most unworthy of it; 
make me carefully to prepare my heart to receive it 
and to keep myself pure and lowly 
that Thou mayest call me to serve Thee at Thine altar.

Amen.

O Mary, Mother of God and my dear mother too, 
obtain for me this grace from the Sacred Heart of thy dear 
Son.

Grant me Thy grace, most merciful Jesus, 
that it may be with me, 
and work with me, 
and continue with me even to the end. 

Grant me ever to will and desire what is most pleasing to 
Thee. 

Let Thy will be mine, 
and my will ever perfectly follow Thine, 
that so I may neither choose nor reject, 
save that Thou choosest and rejectest. 

Grant me to die to all that is in the world, 
and for love of Thee 
to be content to be despised and unknown in this life. 
Grant me, above all things, 
to rest in Thee, 
and to still my heart to perfect peace in Thee. 

For Thou art the true peace of the heart, 
Thou art its only rest, 
and of the Thee there is no rest. 

In this peach, 
that is in Thy self alone, 
my chief and eternal good, 
may I lie down and take my rest.

Amen.

Before: Bless us, O Lord! and these Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. 

Amen. 

After: We give Thee thanks for all Thy benefits, O Almighty God, who livest and reignest world without end. Amen. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Amen.

Bless us, 
O Lord, 
and these your gifts, 
which we are about to receive 
from your bounty.
Through Christ our Lord. 

Amen.

Lord Jesus, our brother, We praise You for saving us. Bless us in Your love As we gather in your Name, and bless this meal that we share.

Jesus, we praise you for ever.

Amen.