Daily Prayer Archive

Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless
and the treasury of compassion - inexhaustible,
look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy
in us, that in difficult moments we might not
despair nor become despondent, but with
great confidence submit ourselves to Your
holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.

Amen.

God, our Father,
I turn to You seeking Your Divine help and guidance
In a world suffering from unemployment,
I need Your wisdom to guide my footsteps along the right path,
and to lead me to find the proper things to say
and do in this quest.
I wish to use the gifts and talents You have given me,
but I need the opportunity to do so with gainful employment.
Do not abandon me, dear Father, in this search,
but rather grant me this favor I seek
so that I may return to You with praise
and thanksgiving for your gracious assistance.
Grant this through Christ, our Lord.

Amen.

Holy Virgin, I beg of you,
when my soul shall depart from my body,
be pleased to meet and receive it.
Mary, do not refuse me then
the grace of being sustained by your sweet presence.
Be for me the ladder and the way to heaven,
and finally assure me of pardon
and eternal rest.

Before the closing of the day,
Creator, we humbly pray,
that, for Your wonted mercy's sake,
we ask for Your protection.
May nothing in our minds excite
vain dreams and phantoms of the night.
In this, most gracious Father, hear,
With Christ, Your equal Son, our prayer;
Who, with the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns eternally.

Amen.

O exalted Father St. Benedict,
guide and patriarch of the monastic life,
you are the hope and consolation
of all who cry to you from their inmost heart.
To your holy patronage I humbly recommend myself.
To you do I pray, to thee do I cry,
O benign Father, O sweetest Master!
With the utmost fervor of my heart,
and with the vehement desires of my soul,
I ask you to graciously intercede with God
for me, a poor sinner, that He may
mercifully grant the forgiveness of my sins
and perseverance in good.

O loving Father, I most ardently ask you,
never permit me to be separated from God,
but pray that I may attain to the communion
of saints, to the happy vision of my Lord,
that with you and the numerous choirs of
your spiritual sons and daughters,
I may rejoice forever and ever.
This grant me, O Lord Jesus Christ.

O righteous band of martyrs united by faith in Christ and His Church
in a nation of religious oppression.
Led by your convictions you gave your lives
for the love and worship of Jesus, all men's Savior.
Pray the Holy Spirit descend like a redeeming fire
upon every soul in the country where you so honorably died;
pray His power spread and bring renewal
upon the face of all the earth.

Lord of joyful journeys and boundless mercy:
From the time the sun rises to the moment it sets,
You surround me with Your glory and grandness.
But even in the tiniest of butterflies, there You are,
beautiful, delicate, helpless, wonderfully You.
I pray, my Lord, grant me the grace to find You
and love You in every creature, in every moment,
in every season I encounter You.

By Columban Fr. Kurt Zion Pala