Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace that is enough for me. (St. Ignatius of Loyola)
God be in our head and in our understanding today. God be in our eyes, and in our seeing today. God be in our mouth and in our speaking today. God be in our feet and in our traveling today. God be in our hands and in our embracing today. God be in our ears and in our listening today. God be in Read More...
O God, strengthen us with the power to fall in love through the gift of your Spirit in our inner most being. Fill our hearts with your presence and please do not leave us. Help us to grasp how wide and long and high and deep your love is for us. And, above all, enable us to know this love that Read More...
O glorious St. Matthias … you were selected by the twofold sign of the uprightness of your life and the call of the Holy Spirit. Obtain for us the grace to practice the same uprightness of life and to be called by that same Spirit to wholehearted service of the Church. Amen!
Come, O Holy Spirit of Life and help us in our weaknesses, in our troubles and in our struggles. We do not always know how to pray as we should, so we ask you to intercede for us. Grace our prayers with your groanings too deep for words and set our hearts on fire with your love. Help us to be Read More...
Help us, O God, to remember that our lives are a gift, that our health is a blessing, that this new day is filled with awesome potential, and that we have the capacity to bring something wholly new and unique and good into this world. Help us to remember to be kind and patient with ourselves and Read More...
O God, we seek the unity of our lives in you. Help us by the power of your Son’s Passion, Death and Resurrection to trust in your presence. May our prayers find their way into your heart. Helps us to trust that you will answer them not so that our will be done but your will. Grace us with hearts Read More...
Open our hearts, O Lord, and enlighten our minds by the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may seek what is well-pleasing to your will and so order our doings after your commandments, that we may be found fit to enter into your everlasting joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Prayer by St. Bede the Venerable)
