PRAYER FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS Blessed are You, loving Father, for all your gifts to us. Blessed are You for giving us family and friends to be with us in times of joy and sorrow, to help us in days of need, and to rejoice with us in moments of celebration. Father, we praise You for Your Son Read More...
I AM WITH YOU I am with you in the springtime of your life, when joy is new, and when summer brings the fullness of your faith, I am there with you... I am with you in the autumn of your years, to turn to gold every memory of your yesterdays, to banish winter's cold... I am with you in the Read More...
PRAYER FOR THE FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD Heavenly Father, on this Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, I recall the gift Mary and Joseph gave to the world by offering baby Jesus to You in the temple. I offer up to You all the children in my family. I place them into Your perfect Read More...
PRAYER FOR STRENGTH AND CONTENTMENT Gracious Father, help me to understand that while I may be content to rest with what I have gathered, I cannot preserve the strength of my soul unless I share my possessions. Give me a passion for humanity that will advance gifts through love, and offer service without the need of an appeal. Amen.
SAINT JOHN BOSCO St. John Bosco Friend of the young, Teacher in the ways of God, Your dedication to empowering the needy inspires us still. Help me to work for a better world, where the young are given the chance to flourish, where the poor’s dream for justice can come true, and where God’s Read More...
ANOTHER DAY Lord, thank You for another day within this life of mine. Give me the strength to live it well, whatever I may find. Bestow from Your abundance whatever I may lack, to use the hours wisely, for I cannot have them back. Lord, thank You for another day in which to amends, for little Read More...
PRAYER FOR RELIEF OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION I bind myself to you this day, oh Christ, in your truth and in your sacrifice. I give to you my anxiety and my fear, my depression and my doubt, for you have promised to take them if we only ask; and I take upon myself your burden, for it is light and Read More...
STUDENTS' PRAYER By St. Thomas Aquinas Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and Read More...
