Prayers for Mothers

O Heart of Jesus, I humbly prostrate myself before You, adoring You as the Heart of my Lord and my God! Pardon the sins by which I have offended You and rendered myself unworthy of Your mercies. For Your own sake, O Lord, for the honor and glory of Your infinite mercy, have pity on…

Prayer that God may dispose for the best the Temporal Affairs of the Child All things, O God! rest in thy hands. “Thy power reacheth from one end of the world to the other, and disposeth all things well.” Thou ordainest all things, that they may serve to lead men to true sanctity of…

O my God!  How great and how important is the vocation which Thou hast given me, and how difficult its duties!  I am called to educate the children whom Thou hast confided to me, each of them according to its peculiar character; and to induce them to rid themselves of their faults, and to…

Almighty God! rich in graces Thou who directest the hearts of men like rivers of water, graciously listen to my supplication in behalf of my son–(my daughter).  Thou knowest how much the sad condition of his (her) soul fills my heart with sorrow and anxiety.  All my endeavors in his (her) regard prove fruitless.…

Almighty and all-merciful God, Creator and Preserver of all things, Thou who, according to the counsel of Thy wisdom and goodness, hast blessed my matrimonial union, how many reasons have I not to thank Thee for having held me worthy to cooperate in the fulfillment of Thy fatherly intentions, according to which Thou hast again given…

O heavenly Father!  thou hast confided my children not to myself alone, but to my husband also.  The true education of our children can only be accomplished, therefore, when we both are sincerely and earnestly intent upon fulfilling our duties toward them.  Grant then, O Lord, also to my husband the grace to see…

Prayer to obtain the Grace to give a Good Example O God, what a powerful exhortation Thy Divine Son addresses to me also when He says, “Let your light shine.”  It is Thy holy will that I should give to my children in all things the example of a life pleasing to Thee.  How…

  My God, and Father of my children, since Thou hast confided them to me, Thou hast given to my heart a share of that love which Thy divine heart bears to them, and Thou art ready, in virtue of the holy sacrament of matrimony, to purify and elevate this natural love of a…