Tag: prayer

A Prayer for Uvalde to Mourn with Those Who Mourn

Read A Prayer for Uvalde to Mourn with Those Who Mourn by Cheryl Gilbert – encouragement for Christian moms!

— Read on www.ibelieve.com/motherhood/mourn-with-those-who-mourn-a-prayer-for-uvalde-texas-school-shooting.html

Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of Your 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.

A St. Patrick’s Day Prayer for Blessing

In 433 A.D., history tells us that St. Patrick was praying for God’s divine protection in his work and ministry in Ireland while facing powerful enemies. He wrote this prayer called St. Patrick’s Breastplate, which is still widely known and recited today. Happy St. Patrick’s Day, may God’s favor and blessing cover you this day, and every day.

— Read on www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/your-daily-prayer/a-prayer-of-blessing-for-st-patrick-s-day-your-daily-prayer-march-17-2017.html

Prayer of Teilhard de Chardin

Picture taken of quote from the book, Prayers For Your Future Husband by Robin Jones Gunn and Tricia Goyer

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.

And yet it is the law of all progressthat it is made by passing through some stages of instability—and that it may take a very long time.

And so I think it is with you;your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,let them shape themselves, without undue haste.Don’t try to force them on,as though you could be today what time(that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spiritgradually forming within you will be.Give Our Lord the benefit of believingthat his hand is leading you,and accept the anxiety of feeling yourselfin suspense and incomplete.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, excerpted from Hearts on Fire