Prayer of Children to St. Nicholas
God Our Father we pray,
That through the
Intercessory of St. Nicholas,
You will protect our
children.
Keep them safe from harm,
And help them
grow,
And become worthy of Your sight.
Give them strength,
To keep their Faith in
You,
And to keep alive their joy,
In Your creation.
Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
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Protection Prayer to St. Michael
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in
battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and
snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do
Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host - by the
Divine
Power of God - cast into hell, Satan
and all the evil
spirits, who roam throughout
the world seeking the ruin of
souls.
Amen.
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St.
Anthony Prayer
St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love
for God and charity for his creatures,
made you
worthy, when on earth, to possess
miraculous powers.
Miracles waited on your
word, which you were ready to
speak for
those in trouble or anxiety. Encouraged
by
this thought, I ask you to obtain for
me the favors that I
seek
(state your request here).
The answer to my prayer may require a
miracle, even so, you are the Saint
of Miracles.
O gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose
heart was full of sympathy, whisper my
petition into
the ears of the Infant
Jesus, who loved to be held in your
arms; and the gratitude of my heart
will ever by
yours.
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Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is
injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where
there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so
much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood,
as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is
in
giving that we receive,
it is in
pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we
are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
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Prayer to St. Catherine to find a Husband
St. Catherine, St. Catherine,
O lend me
thy aid.
And grant that I never shall die an old maid.
A husband, St. Catherine,
a good one, St.
Catherine.
But anyone’s better than no one, St.
Catherine.
A husband, St. Catherine,
young, St.
Catherine,
handsome, St. Catherine,
nice, St.
Catherine,
soon, St. Catherine!
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Prayer to St. Joseph
Oh, St. Joseph,
whose protection is so
great, so prompt, so strong,
before the throne of God,
I
place in you all my interests and desires.
Oh, St.
Joseph,
do assist me by your powerful intercession,
and
obtain for me from your Divine Son
all spiritual blessings,
through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
So that, having engaged
here below your heavenly power,
I may offer my thanksgiving
and homage to the most Loving of Fathers.
Oh, St.
Joseph,
I never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep in
your arms;
I dare not approach while He reposes near your
heart.
Press Him in my name and kiss His fine Head for me
and
Ask Him to return the Kiss when I draw my dying
breath.
St. Joseph, Patron of departed souls - pray for
me.
Amen.
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Prayer
to St. Anthony for lost items
St. Anthony, perfect imitator of Jesus, who
received from
God the special power of restoring lost
things, grant that
I may find (name the lost item) which
has been lost.
At least restore to me peace and tranquillity
of mind,
the loss of which has afflicted me even more than
my
material loss. To this favor, I ask another of you:
that
I may always remain in possession of the true good
that is God.
Let me rather lose all things than lose God,
my supreme good.
Let me never suffer the loss of my
greatest treasure, eternal
life with God.
Amen.
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Prayer to St. Jude
Most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant
and friend of Jesus,
the Church honors and invokes you
universally, as the patron of
hopeless cases, of things
almost despaired of.
Pray for me, I am so helpless and
alone. Make use I implore you,
of that particular
privilege given to you, to bring visible and
speedy help
where help is almost despaired of.
Come to my assistance in
this great need that I may receive the
consolation and
help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations,
and
sufferings, particularly - (make your
request) that I may
praise God with you and all the elect forever.
I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever
mindful of this great favor,
to always honor you as my
special and powerful patron, and to
gratefully encourage
devotion to you.
Amen.
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St. Ignatius of Loyola Prayer for the
Disturbed
Prayer for the Disturbed
O Christ Jesus,
when all is darkness
and
we feel our weakness and helplessness,
give us the sense of
Your presence,
Your love, and Your strength.
Help us to
have perfect trust
in Your protecting love
and
strengthening power,
so that nothing may frighten or worry
us,
for, living close to You,
we shall see Your
hand,
Your purpose, Your will through all
things.
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St.
Patrick's Breastplate Prayer
I bind unto myself today
The strong name of
the Trinity,
By invocation of the same,
The Three in One
and One in Three.
I bind this day to me for ever,
By power of
faith, Christ's Incarnation;
His baptism in the Jordan
River;
His death on cross for my salvation;
His bursting
from the spicèd tomb;
His riding up the heavenly
way;
His coming at the day of doom;
I bind unto myself
today.
I bind unto myself the power
Of the great
love of the Cherubim;
The sweet 'Well done' in judgment
hour;
The service of the Seraphim,
Confessors' faith,
Apostles' word,
The Patriarchs' prayers, the Prophets'
scrolls,
All good deeds done unto the Lord,
And purity
of virgin souls.
I bind unto myself today
The virtues of the
starlit heaven,
The glorious sun's life-giving ray,
The
whiteness of the moon at even,
The flashing of the
lightning free,
The whirling wind's tempestuous
shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt sea,
Around the
old eternal rocks.
I bind unto myself today
The power of God
to hold and lead,
His eye to watch, His might to
stay,
His ear to hearken to my need.
The wisdom of my
God to teach,
His hand to guide, his shield to ward,
The
word of God to give me speech,
His heavenly host to be my
guard.
Against the demon snares of sin,
The vice
that gives temptation force,
The natural lusts that war
within,
The hostile men that mar my course;
Or few or
many, far or nigh,
In every place and in all
hours
Against their fierce hostility,
I bind to me these
holy powers.
Against all Satan's spells and
wiles,
Against false words of heresy,
Against the
knowledge that defiles,
Against the heart's
idolatry,
Against the wizard's evil craft,
Against the
death-wound and the burning
The choking wave and the
poisoned shaft,
Protect me, Christ, till thy returning.
Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ
behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to
win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me,
Christ beneath
me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in
danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in
mouth of friend and stranger.
I bind unto myself the name,
The strong
name of the Trinity;
By invocation of the same.
The
Three in One, and One in Three,
Of whom all nature hath
creation,
Eternal Father, Spirit, Word:
Praise to the
Lord of my salvation,
salvation is of Christ the
Lord.
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The
Jesus Prayer
O my Divine Savior, transform me into
yourself.
May my hands be the hands of Jesus.
May my
tongue be the tongue of Jesus,
Grant that every faculty of
my body may serve only to glorify you.
Above all, transform
my soul and all its powers,
that my memory, my will and my
affections
may be the memory, the will and the affections
of Jesus.
I pray you to destroy in me all that is not
you.
Grant that I may live but in you and for you,
and
that I may truly say with St. Paul:
"I live, now not I, but
Christ lives in me"
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The
Christopher Prayer
Father, grant that I may be a bearer of Christ
Jesus, Your Son.
Allow me to warm the often cold,
impersonal scene of modern life with Your burning love.
Strengthen me by Your Holy Spirit
to carry out my
mission of changing the world
or some definite part of it
for the better.
Despite my lamentable failures,
bring
home to me that my advantages
are Your blessings to be
shared with others.
Make me more energetic in setting
right
what I find wrong with the world instead of
complaining about it.
Nourish in me a practical desire to
build up
rather than tear down,
to reconcile instead
of polarize,
to go out on a limb rather than crave
security.
Never let me forget that it is far better to
light one candle
than to curse the darkness,
and to
join my light, one day, with Yours.
Amen.
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