A Lenten Prayer to Begin Each Day

Dear Lord,

As this day dawns along my Lenten journey, open my eyes to how I can follow you more closely along the road of love and self-sacrifice. Give me a heart that’s grateful so as to recognize your countless blessings and generosity so as to share all I have with others.

May I comfort you in your Holy Passion by comforting others in distress I meet along my daily road — especially the poor and forgotten. May I show true sorrow for my failings with a sincere resolution to overcome my faults with the help of your infinite mercy.

I entrust all this to you through your loving Mother, whose tender love I trust will guide my steps to lasting hope and eternal joy found only in you.

AMEN

Prayer for relief of the sick from their sickness

PRAYER FOR THE SICK

 Prayer for relief of the sick from their sickness so they can enjoy life once again.

Recite the following prayer to help those who are suffering from any form of sickness:

Our Lady, Health of the Sick,

I look to you for the comfort of a mother's love,

I pray to you on behalf of those who are suffering

and for my own healing needs.

Mary, your love strengthens me

and brings me peace.

Our Lady, Health of the Sick,

embrace all who are emotionally and physically ill that they may return to

good health under your tender care. And please intercede for my very

special needs. (mention your needs here).

Mary, your love strengthens me and brings me peace.

Our Lady, Health of the Sick, pray for us. Amen.

When you feel overwhelmed with anxiety over poor health,we can turn to God and say this prayer for health

When you feel overwhelmed with the anxiety of poor health - whether physical, emotional, or mental - God provides peace and healing. We can turn to God and pray for our health and the health of those we love.

A Prayer for Good Health

Dear Lord, we come to you with confidence at this time, knowing that you are always filled with compassion. We ask you now for the grace of healing and thus a life of good health. When we are facing health issues, we ask you, dear Lord, to be with us. We pray for healing as you see fit for us. We ask for all the blessings that come from you – we pray in your name, through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

1 Our Father...
3 Hail Marys...
! Glory Be...

The Chaplet of Saint Patrick

 

Prayer on the Medal: The Apostle's Creed

On Each of the 12 Green Beads: Say 1 Glory Be, then:
Through the intercession of St. Patrick, may God Almighty strenghen my faith, and grant the grace of faith for others. Amen.

Concluding Prayer: The Breastplate of St. Patrick
Christ as a light,
Illumine and guide me!
Christ as a shield, o'ershadow and cover me!
Christ be under me! Christ be over me!
Christ be beside me, On the left hand and right!
Christ be before me, behind me, about me;
Christ this day be within and without me!

Saint Patrick's Prayer (An Irish Prayer)

 As I arise today,

may the strength of God pilot me,
the power of God uphold me,
the wisdom of God guide me.
May the eye of God look before me,
the ear of God hear me,
the word of God speak for me.
May the hand of God protect me,
the way of God lie before me,
the shield of God defend me,
the host of God save me.
May Christ shield me today.
Christ with me, Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit,
Christ when I stand,
Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
Amen

Consecration of Family Prayer

 

CONSECRATION OF OUR FAMILY TO THE HOLY FAMILY 

*This act of consecration to the Holy Family will unite the members of your family more closely to God and to one another.

Prayer

O Jesus, our most loving Redeemer, Who having come to enlighten the world, with Your teaching and example, willed to pass the greater part of Your life in humility and subjection to Mary and Joseph in the poor home of Nazareth, thus sanctifying the Family that was to be an example for all Christian families, graciously receive our family as it dedicates and consecrates itself to You this day. Defend us, guard us and establish among us Your holy fear, true peace and concord in Christian love: in order that by conforming ourselves to the divine pattern of Your Family we may be able, all of us without exception, to attain to eternal happiness.

Mary, dear Mother of Jesus and Mother of us, by your kind intercession make this our humble offering acceptable in the sight of Jesus, and obtain for us His graces and blessings.

Saint Joseph, most holy Guardian of Jesus and Mary, assist us by your prayers in all our spiritual and temporal necessities; that we may be able to praise our divine Savior Jesus, together with Mary and you, for all eternity.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Gloria three times.

Prayer Source: Catholic Family Handbook, The by Rev. George A. Kelly, Random House, Inc., New York, 1959 

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Prayer To Our Mother for Help In Your Journey Through This Lent

Praying Through Our Lady

on

Your Lenten Journey

“Dear Mary, teach me your ways, 

that God may count me worthy of receiving his Son, 

Our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Open my heart to serve 

all who are in need. 

Give me patience in trial. 

Obtain for me a share of 

God’s gracious forgiveness, 

for my sins are many. 

May I give myself wholly to Our Savior 

throughout this Lenten season, 

ever confident in hope that by his passion, 

death, and resurrection I am saved.” Amen.

Sts. Perpetua and Felicity

 

"Feast of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity"

By Fr. Jacob Boddicker, SJ

Noble-born Perpetua, child at breast,

Taken first by Christ, then by jealous Rome

Who sought from Heaven her heart to wrest;

Bound was she in chains, taken from her home.

Too was brought Felicity, round with child,

And bore him ‘fore her own labor began,

From “blood to blood” down the wedding aisle

To the Spouse of Martyrs, the God-Made-Man.

Two sisters in Christ stood before the crowd,

Stripped, then robed to satisfy false dismay

Before they battled with a wild cow,

Their sex mocked; yet manly faith won the day.

Treading the Serpent’s head, spurning his hiss,

Rose they to Heaven’s perpetual bliss.

Painting: Perpetua refusing her father's pleas to deny Christ. Artist unknown.

Saint Gabriel ,the Archangel

 

Feast Day of St. Grabriel the Archangel | March 24,2022

Friday, March 24 was the original feast day of St. Gabriel the Archangel. You might know that he delivered the message to Mary saying that she was going to be the Mother of God, but what else do you know? Most saints are people who started out just like us. They made mistakes, but they key was that they got back up and got closer to God because of it.

But St. Gabriel the Archangel is an angel, making him very close to God. In fact, he was a very important angel. One could say that he had the most important job in history, besides perhaps, Mary. Gabriel was the messenger to Mary. He delivered the message to her from God that she had been chosen to carry and deliver the Son of God. However, not many people know that that was the last job he had that was mentioned in the Bible.

Before that, he had to deliver some other messages too. First, Gabriel appears to the Prophet Daniel in his sleep to explain the visions he was having. Then, he appears to Zacharias to tell him that his wife Elizabeth, Mary’s cousin, is pregnant. After this visit is when he appears to Mary to tell her that she will give birth to the Son of God. Originally, his feast day was on March 24, the day before the Annunciation. However in 1969, after Vatican II, it was changed to September 29 so that the feast day would be together with the other archangels, Michael and Raphael. It can be good to pray through the intercession of St. Gabriel because he is obviously very close to God.

God entrusted Gabriel with the delivering of the most important message of the Catholic faith, as well as other messages. Because of this, he is the patron saint of messengers, telecommunications workers, and postal workers.

SAINT GABRIEL THE ARCHANGEL, PRAY FOR US🙏

SOURCE: https://lookingglass.montroseschool.org/front-page-scroll/2017/03/26/st-gabriel-the-archangel-feast-day-march-24/

PADRE PIO'S PRAYER TO HIS GUARDIAN ANGEL

Below is Padre Pio’s personal prayer to his Guardian Angel that he prayed on a daily basis. 

Oh, my Holy guardian Angel, care for my soul and my body.

Enlighten my mind that I may better know the Lord my God and love Him with all my heart.

Watch over me when I pray so I won't give into life's distractions.

​Sustain me with your counsel as I live as righteous Christian, and help me to do good works with a giving heart.

Protect me from the cunning of the adversary, and lift me up when I am being tempted so I may win the fight against evil.

Stay beside me at all times, never stop watching over me until I'm called back to the father's house, where we will praise together our Great God for all eternity. Amen.
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Our Father...

Hail Mary...

Glory Be...

Remember, for your prayers to be answered: 1. Pray with a contrite heart 2. Help the needy There are prayers or petitions that take time before God answers them. Be persistent in praying and have patience. Never give up or surrender. This is because God is challenging us to deepen our faith in him. If He answered your prayer, whether with the intercession of Mother Mary or angels or saints, never forget to thank them. Continue to pray. And share your story to inspire others. God bless!

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