Prayers

  • Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas for Virtue

    Grant me, O merciful God, that what is pleasing to Thee I may ardently desire, prudently acquire, truthfully acknowledge, and perfectly accomplish for the praise and glory of Thy Name. Ordain, O my God, my whole life; and what Thou requirest that I should do, grant me to know and to fulfil as meet…

  • Universal Prayer for All Things Necessary for Salvation

    O my God, I believe in Thee; do Thou strengthen my faith. All my hopes are in Thee; do Thou secure them. I love Thee with my whole heart; teach me to love Thee more and more. I am sorry that I have offended Thee; do Thou increase my sorrow. I adore Thee as…

  • A Prayer to be said by Parents in Behalf of Their Children

    O Lord God, who hast called us to holy matrimony and hast been pleased to render our union fruitful, thus making glad the sublime state of life wherein Thou hast placed us, by a certain likeness to Thine own infinite fruitfulness; we heartily recommend to Thee our dear children; we entrust them to Thy…

  • A Prayer to be Said by Children in Behalf of Their Parents

    Almighty and everlasting God, who, in the secret counsels of Thine ineffable Providence, hast been pleased to call us into life by means of our parents, who thus partake of Thy divine power in our regard, mercifully hear the prayer of filial affection which we offer to Thee in behalf of those to whom…

  • Prayer in Time of Calamity

    Help us, O God, our Savior; and for the glory of Thy Name deliver us: and forgive us our sins for Thy Name’s sake. V. For the glory of Thy holy Name deliver us,R. And forgive us our sins for Thy Name’s sake. Let us pray: Mercifully hear the prayers of Thy people, we beseech Thee,…

  • A Sinner’s Prayer

    by St. Alphonsus de Liguori O my most sweet Mother, how shall I die, poor sinner that I am? Even now the thought of that important moment when I must expire, and appear before the judgment-seat of God, and the remembrance that I have myself so often written my condemnation by consenting to sin,…

  • A Prayer for the Conversion of her Child

    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…

  • Jesus Lying on the Straw ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori

    Jesus is born in the stable at Bethlehem. His poor Mother has neither wool nor down to make a bed for the tender Infant. What does she do, then? She gathers together a small handful of straw into the manger, and puts it there for Him to lie on : And she laid Him…

  • Prayer that God may dispose for the best the Temporal Affairs of the Child

    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…

  • The Steps of the Saviour’s Passion

    An excellent Devotion for Fridays; and for Lent; composed by St. Augustin: I. O dearest Jesus so sorrowfully praying to Thy Father in the Garden; whilst trembling with agony; and covered with a sweat of blood; have mercy on us. R. Have mercy on us, Lord; have mercy on us. II. O dearest Jesus;…