PRAYER FOR PATIENCE
My Father, I pray that I may have patience to live through the difficulties of life. May I correct my faults, that they may not destroy my peace and take from me my strength; help me to center my life in brightness and hope. Amen.
THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE
By Thomas Merton
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But Read More...
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...