Daily Prayer Archive

Dear St. Ann,
You were truly twice blessed to have
our blessed Mother As your daughter
and Jesus our Savior As your grandson.
I know that every period of our lives
has its responsibilities and joys.

Today, it seems that grandparents
are either shunted aside to do nothing,
or are called upon to do everything.
Help me to know just where my duties lie
and to carry them out as best I can.

Take care of my family,
my children, and their children.
Inspire them all to follow your Grandson
and lead truly Christian lives.

Keep all of us in your loving care,
Never let us turn away from Jesus,
And help us in the end to receive the joy
Of entering into your Grandsons’
Glorious presence forever.

Good St. Ann pray for us grandparents.

Amen.

Treasured in time immeasurable
how much more then are we
in glorious splendor adorned,
clothed in richest glory.

For those who have died
life is changed, not ended.

In your goodness, Lord, we pray
their faults and failings mended
and heaven’s crown thus won,
we will remember them transformed
into the image of your divinity,
we will think of them changed into glory.

Amen

Lord, thank You for the gift of education in every form.
As our children start a new school year,
may confidence be their foundation,
may grace be their guide and may hope
be their compass toward a bright future.

I pray they have eyes to see
the needs of those around them
and a heart to love well.

May they face each day with positivity
knowing that no matter what come their way,
they do not have to face it alone.

Heavenly Father,
On this Labor Day, we thank You
for the talents you have bestowed upon us
and for the gift to share them through work.

Smile upon those who are unemployed or underemployed.
Provide guidance and encouragement
for all those seeking employment.
Grant that they may find meaningful, rewarding work.

Be with those who work tirelessly for the good of all.
Protect them and grant them peace in their endeavors.

We ask this in the name of Jesus, who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit now and forever.

Amen.

Mary, I beg you,
by that grace through which the Lord is with you
and you will to be with him,
let your mercy be with me.
Let love for you always be with me,
and the care for me be always with you.
Let the cry of my need,
as long as it persists, be with you,
and the care of your goodness,
as long as I need it, be with me.
Let joy in your blessedness
be always with me,
and compassion for my wretchedness,
where I need it, be with you.

Eternal Father,
turn away Your angry gaze from our guilty people
whose face has become unsightly in Your eyes.
Look instead upon the Face of Your Beloved Son,
for this is the Face of Him
in Whom You are well pleased.
We now offer You this Holy Face,
covered with shame and disfigured by bloody bruises
in reparation for the crimes of our age
in order to appease Your anger,
justly provoked against us.
Because Your Divine Son, our Redeemer,
has taken upon His Head all the sins of His members,
that they might be spared,
we now beg of You, Eternal Father,
to grant us mercy.

Amen.

Blessed Monica, mother of St. Augustine,
we give thanks to our Father in Heaven
Who looked with mercy upon your tears
over your wayward son.
His conversion and heroic sanctification
were the fruit of your prayers.
Dear St. Monica
we now ask you to pray with us
for all those sons and daughters that have wandered away from God,
and to add your prayers to those of all mothers
who are worried over their children.
Pray also for us that,
following your example, we may,
in the company of our children,
one day enjoy the eternal vision of our Father in Heaven.

Amen.