A PRAYER BY SAINT PIUS OF PIETRELCINA
May Jesus comfort you in all your afflictions. May he sustain you in dangers, watch over you always with His grace, and indicate the safe path that leads to eternal salvation. And may He render you always dearer to His Divine Heart and always more worthy of Paradise. Amen.
TODAY
My life is a gift of God given, not years but a day at a time. Today is the day the Lord has made for me, and he planned it to be the most important day of my life. Yesterday is gone, never to return. I must not worry about it, but leave it in the hands of God.
Tomorrow and all that it Read More...
PRAYER TO SAINT MATTHEW
O Glorious Saint Matthew, in your Gospel you portray Jesus as the longed-for Messiah who fulfilled the Prophets of the Old Covenant and as the new Lawgiver who founded a Church of the New Covenant.
Obtain for us the grace to see Jesus living in his Church and to follow Read More...
PRAYER ON THE MEMORIAL OF SAINTS ANDREW KIM TAE-GON, PAUL CHONG HA-SANG, AND COMPANIONS
O God, who have been pleased to increase
your adopted children in all the world,
and who made the blood of the Martyrs
Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gon and his companions
a most fruitful seed of Read More...
PRAYER FOR TRUST IN JESUS
O Christ Jesus,
when all is darkness
and we feel our weakness and helplessness,
give us the sense of Your presence,
Your love, and Your strength.
Help us to have perfect trust
in Your protecting love
and strengthening power,
so that nothing may frighten or worry Read More...
PARENTS' PRAYER FOR CHILDREN
O Jesus, lover of children, bestow Your most precious graces on those You have confided to our care. Increase in them faith, hope and charity.
May Your love form them to goodness, inspiring them with an aversion to sin, love of work, and an ardent desire of Read More...
FOR THOSE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS
O HEAVENLY Father, I beseech you to have mercy upon all your children who are living with mental illnesses.
Restore them to strength of mind and cheerfulness of spirit, and give them health and peace;
and if, because of their clouded minds, they are Read More...
SAINTS CORNELIUS AND CYPRIAN
God our Father, in Saints Cornelius and Cyprian you have given your people an inspiring example of dedication to the pastoral ministry and constant witness to Christ in their suffering.
May their prayers and faith give us courage to work for the unity of your Church. Read More...