A PRAYER BY SAINT IRENAEUS It is not you that shapes God it is God that shapes you. If you are the work of God await the hand of the artist who does all things in due season. Offer Him your heart, soft and tractable, and keep the form in which the artist has fashioned you. Let your clay be Read More...
A PRAYER WHEN FEELING LOW Loving Lord Jesus, whose hands are underneath our lowest feelings to support us as we rest in you. Hold me in this dark place and sustain my life with your hope. Let the light of your love warm my heart, and your Holy Spirit, the comforter, be with me to lift me up. Amen.
PRAYER FOR THOSE WHO LIVE ALONE I live alone, dear Lord, Stay by my side. In all my daily needs Be thou my guide. Grant me good health, For that indeed, I Pray, To carry on my work from day to day. Keep pure my mind, My thoughts, my every deed, Let me be kind, unselfish In my Read More...
BEATITUDES FOR CAREGIVERS Blessed are those who care and who are not afraid to show it — they will let people know they are loved. Blessed are those who are gentle and patient — they will help people to grow as the sun helps the buds to open and blossom. Blessed are those who have the ability to Read More...
PRAYER TO ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST God, You raised up St. John the Baptist to prepare a perfect people for Christ. Fill Your people with the joy of possessing His grace, and direct the minds of all the faithful in the way of peace and salvation. Grant that, as St. John was martyred for truth and Read More...
FOR OUR WORLD COMMUNITY Let us see one another through eyes enlightened by understanding and compassion. Release us from judgment so we can receive the stories of our sisters and brothers with respect and attention. Open our hearts to the cries of a suffering world and the healing 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...
St. Aloysius Gonzaga O Holy Mary, my mother, into your blessed trust and custody, and into the care of your mercy I this day, every day, and in the hour of my death, commend my soul and my body. To you I commit all my anxieties and miseries, my life and the end of my life, that by your Read More...
