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Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
PRAYER OF POPE PIUS XII
Mary Our Strength

O Virgin, fair as the moon,
delight of the angels and saints in heaven,
grant that we may become like you
and that our souls may receive a ray of your beauty,
which does not decline with the years
but shines forth into eternity.
O Mary, sun of heaven,
restore life where there is death
and enlighten spirits where there is darkness.
Turn your countenance to your children
and radiate on us your light and your fervor.
O Mary, powerful as an army,
grant victory to our ranks.
We are very weak
and our enemy rages with uttermost conceit.
But under your banner
we are confident of overcoming him.
Save us, O Mary,
fair as the moon,
bright as the sun,
awe inspiring as an army set in battle array
and sustained not by hatred
but by the ardor of love.

Amen.
 
EACH NEW DAY

Let me pause as I begin this new day to give it to You, Lord.
Before the tumult of activities breaks in;
before breakfast plates crash through my still sleepy mind;
for this last moment in my bed, thank you, Lord.

Let me hold Your promise of new life.
Keep me from slipping back
for I know that what is forgiven is as if it never were.
Each new day,
Your grace gives me a fresh start to walk in Your light again.

May the Lord support us all the day long,
till the shades lengthen and the evening comes,
and the busy world is hushed,
and the fever of life is over,
and our work is done.
Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging,
and a holy rest,
and peace at the last.

Amen.

(*By John Henry Cardinal Newman, 1801-1890.) *
 
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.
 
Mother Teresa’s Poem
engraved on the wall of her home for children in Calcutta, India

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

Amen.

*Lord, please be with all these dear people and help them to overcome the challenges and anxieties of life with this situation. Please grant them your peace and strength, and help them to focus on each other as a family unit and their love for you, as hard as that is at this time. Please grant them (Trishie’s son and grand children) courage, strong faith, and hope in You, dear Lord.

Amen.*
 
Blessed are the meek
  • It is difficult for most of us to conjure up an example that validates this blessing.
  • The background for this comes from Psalm 37 where the writer commended followers to trust in the power of patience and the wisdom of calm.
  • Biblical meekness is quiet perseverance in the face of brute rage; it is our staunch refusal either to lay down in submission or to rise up in violence before those forces that oppress us.
  • Three key elements in the definition of meekness:
  • Oppression: my enemy is any oppressive force that, by inches or yards, threatens to diminish me as a human being.
  • Perseverance: The meek are like water which is not hard to the touch, which seems to give way before other substances, but slowly rises, silently attacks, and calmly consumes, with patience over the years, the hardest of granites.
  • Nonviolence: The willingness to endure the pain of oppression, steadfast in the belief that, as with any poison denied a place to take root, it will eventually, inevitably, dissipate, diffuse, and destroy itself.
  • Meekness is any one of us, at any time and place, encountering a rage born of injuries as great as the subjugation of one people to another or as modest as a bad day in an otherwise good life, and persevering with a steady calm and solid faith until such time as those injuries are consumed.
Source: What Jesus Meant, The Beatitudes and a Meaningful Life, by: Erik Kolbell

Loving God,

Please bless our friend Trishie’s son with the capacity to endure and persevere through this great hardship and suffering and to bring his children through it to the best of his ability, strengthened by your grace, mercy, and unconditional love.

Amen.
 
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,
now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
 
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the Fruit Of Thy Womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen
 
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
PRAYER OF POPE PIUS XII
Mary Our Strength

O Virgin, fair as the moon,
delight of the angels and saints in heaven,
grant that we may become like you
and that our souls may receive a ray of your beauty,
which does not decline with the years
but shines forth into eternity.
O Mary, sun of heaven,
restore life where there is death
and enlighten spirits where there is darkness.
Turn your countenance to your children
and radiate on us your light and your fervor.
O Mary, powerful as an army,
grant victory to our ranks.
We are very weak
and our enemy rages with uttermost conceit.
But under your banner
we are confident of overcoming him.
Save us, O Mary,
fair as the moon,
bright as the sun,
awe inspiring as an army set in battle array
and sustained not by hatred
but by the ardor of love.

Amen.
 
EACH NEW DAY

Let me pause as I begin this new day to give it to You, Lord.
Before the tumult of activities breaks in;
before breakfast plates crash through my still sleepy mind;
for this last moment in my bed, thank you, Lord.

Let me hold Your promise of new life.
Keep me from slipping back
for I know that what is forgiven is as if it never were.
Each new day,
Your grace gives me a fresh start to walk in Your light again.

May the Lord support us all the day long,
till the shades lengthen and the evening comes,
and the busy world is hushed,
and the fever of life is over,
and our work is done.
Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging,
and a holy rest,
and peace at the last.

Amen.

(By John Henry Cardinal Newman, 1801-1890.)
 
Mother Teresa’s Daily Prayer

• Deliver me, O Jesus,
From the desire of being loved,
From the desire of being extolled,
From the desire of being honored,
From the desire of being praised,
From the desire of being preferred,
From the desire of being consulted,
From the desire of being approved,
From the desire of being popular,
From the fear of being humiliated,
From the fear of being despised,
From the fear of suffering rebukes,
From the fear of being calumniated,
From the fear of being forgotten,
From the fear of being wronged,
From the fear of being ridiculed,
From the fear of being suspected.
Amen.
 
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.
 
A PRAYER FOR
THE VIRTUE OF TRUST

My trust is in sweet Jesus:
He is my passport to heaven!
I place my life in His gentle hands;
He will guide me along the rainbow.
My blind trust is His to guide,
May my soul reflect His light.
I look around and see Jesus’ help;
I know He is worthy of my trust.
Sweet Jesus, remain by my side,
Never letting my trust be shaken!
May I learn to share my trust with others,
So Jesus will be known to all!

Amen.
 
A PRAYER FOR
THE VIRTUE OF TRUST

My trust is in sweet Jesus:
He is my passport to heaven!
I place my life in His gentle hands;
He will guide me along the rainbow.
My blind trust is His to guide,
May my soul reflect His light.
I look around and see Jesus’ help;
I know He is worthy of my trust.
Sweet Jesus, remain by my side,
Never letting my trust be shaken!
May I learn to share my trust with others,
So Jesus will be known to all!

Amen.
 
Reflections on Tribulations and Interior Struggle
Source: The Way
By: St. Josemaria Escriva

***#691 ***

Are you suffering some great tribulation? Do you have reverses?
Say very slowly, as if savoring the words, this powerful and manly prayer:

“May the most just and most lovable will of God be done, be fulfilled,
be praised and eternally exalted above all things. Amen. Amen.”

I assure you that you’ll find peace.

#692

You suffer in this present life, which is only a dream, and a short one
at that. Rejoice, because your Father God loves you so much, and
if you put no obstacles in his way, after this bad dream he will give
you a good awakening.

#694

I don’t know why you’re amazed: the enemies of Christ were never
very reasonable.

When Lazarus was raised from the dead, you might have thought they
would yield and confess the divinity of Jesus. But no! “Let us kill him
who gives life!” they said.

It’s the same today.

#696

If you accept tribulation with a faint heart, you lose your joy and your
peace, and you run the risk of not deriving any spiritual profit from
that trial.

#699

Cross, toil, tribulation: such will be your lot as long as you live. That
was the way Christ followed, and the disciple is not above his Master.

#702

You are upset. Look: happen what may in your interior life or in the world
around you, never forget that the importance of events or of people is very
relative. Take things calmly. Let time pass. And then, as you view persons
and events dispassionately and from afar, you’ll acquire the perspective
that will enable you to see each thing in its proper place and in its true
proportion.

If you do this, you’ll be more objective and you’ll be spared many a cause
of anxiety.

#705

Worry? Never. That’s to lose your peace.

#717

Blessed be the hardships of this earth! Poverty, tears, hatred, injustice,
dishonor…You can endure all things in him who strengthens you.

#722

This time the trial has been so long. Perhaps - and without the perhaps -
you haven’t borne it well so far, for you were still seeking human
consolations. But your Father God has torn them out by the roots so as
to leave you no other refuge but him.

#726

After losing those human consolations you have been left with a feeling
of loneliness, as if you were hanging by a thin thread over the emptiness
of a black abyss. And your cries, your shouts for help, seem to go
unheard by anybody.

The truth is you deserve to be so forlorn. Be humble; don’t seek yourself;
don’t seek your own satisfaction. Love the cross - to bear it is little - and
our Lord will hear your prayer. And in time, calm will be restored to your
senses. And your heart will heal, and you will have peace.

#728

All our fortitude is on loan.

#729

Each day, O my God, I am less sure of myself and more sure of you!

#732

O Jesus! I rest in you.

#733

Trust always in your God. He does not lose battles.

#774

Steps: to be resigned to the will of God; to conform to the will of God; to want
the will of God; to love the will of God.

Amen and Amen.
 
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
A PRAYER FOR
THE VIRTUE OF TRUST

My trust is in sweet Jesus:
He is my passport to heaven!
I place my life in His gentle hands;
He will guide me along the rainbow.
My blind trust is His to guide,
May my soul reflect His light.
I look around and see Jesus’ help;
I know He is worthy of my trust.
Sweet Jesus, remain by my side,
Never letting my trust be shaken!
May I learn to share my trust with others,
So Jesus will be known to all!

Amen.
 
A PRAYER FOR
THE VIRTUE OF TRUST

My trust is in sweet Jesus:
He is my passport to heaven!
I place my life in His gentle hands;
He will guide me along the rainbow.
My blind trust is His to guide,
May my soul reflect His light.
I look around and see Jesus’ help;
I know He is worthy of my trust.
Sweet Jesus, remain by my side,
Never letting my trust be shaken!
May I learn to share my trust with others,
So Jesus will be known to all!

Amen.
 
Hail Mary,
full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the Fruit Of Thy Womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen
 
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