Prayers for a college student

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When I first started college, I stopped attending Mass. Fast forward 2 1/2 years later. I am now trying to restore my relationship with God and am struggling. This year has been particularly rough with my busy nursing school schedule, long-term relationship ending, and Grandma slowly dying from renal failure. It’s been hard for me to have faith that God has a plan with all of the challenges I am currently faced with. I said many prayers and novenas that my relationship with my ex boyfriend can be restored and my grandma can feel better. I haven’t had the answer I have been looking for and am struggling to trust in God’s plan. Please pray for me and all other college students that are struggling to maintain or restore a relationship with God. Also, if anybody is in need of prayers feel free to post and I will pray for you in return.
 
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 ever shall be world without end
 
Hang in there I will pray for you and I ask that you keep me in your prayers as well. I’m a college student as well. I was out of God’s grace for a long time and recently made a good confession. Hang in there and stay strong in your faith!
 
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 all evil, Amen.
 
Remember what the Church has said about prayer. The Church is blessed to have you.
CCC 2559 “Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.”
But when we pray, do we speak from the height of our pride and will, or “out of the depths” of a humble and contrite heart?
He who humbles himself will be exalted; humility is the foundation of prayer,
Only when we humbly acknowledge that “we do not know how to pray as we ought,” are we ready to receive freely the gift of prayer.
“Man is a beggar before God.”
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2560 “If you knew the gift of God!”
The wonder of prayer is revealed beside the well where we come seeking water: there, Christ comes to meet every human being.
It is he who first seeks us and asks us for a drink. Jesus thirsts; his asking arises from the depths of God’s desire for us.
Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him.
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2561 “You would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
Paradoxically our prayer of petition is a response to the plea of the living God:
“They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water!”
Prayer is the response of faith to the free promise of salvation and also a response of love to the thirst of the only Son of God.
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CCC at the Vatican’s site
 
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.
 
I am truly sorry for your difficulties, and I pray for the healing and forgiveness of sins of your grandmother. It is tragic how many college students lose their faith in college. It seems to be the single greatest trap for irreligion in the modern world. There are many possible reasons for this, but one of the biggest is that when people enter college, they expect everything to go perfectly for them from then on, that having a college education will give them complete security in life. And, when that expectation fails, they lose faith in God as if He had guaranteed their expectations to come true. They begin to think that life is hopeless, that things are accomplished by one’s own effort alone. They forget that God is the most important thing in life and the one and only source of goodness, meaning and eternal life.

Our pain, difficulties and expectations are all temporary, short-lived. God alone is eternal. And, how did He accomplish our salvation? By terrible suffering, persecution and death. Our own salvation is accomplished by those same means. Christ did not suffer and die so that our lives in this world could be painless and prosperous. He did so to show us what we must do to be saved - we must be completely and utterly devoted to God and to mankind, out of faith, hope and love, willing to suffering anything that Satan and this fallen world throw at us to deter us from that purpose. We are soldiers for Christ, fighting to save ourselves and our brethren from the clutches of Satan and his sin-poison.

If you ever have any questions or issues you would like to discuss privately, please feel free to PM me. 🙂 I fervently pray that you may return to Christ and His Church, that you may experience a new conversion and be forgiven of all your sins, to be inflamed with the love of Christ. I pray that you may be healed of all your afflictions, protected from all other problems, and find new love in romance. I extend these prayers to all college students, current and former, in the world, and all those who have lost their faith. I ask for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, your guardian angel, and St. Albert the Great, patron saint of students. God bless. 🙂

Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home and within my family. 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.
 
Thank you everybody. Please continue to all young adults struggling to maintain faith.
 
Lord please help this young woman with her numerous trials. Fill her heart with your love and grace so that she may be at peace despite these challenges. Amen.
 
Most Divine, I pray for this person that you may grant her the strength to accept Your will.
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 trespassed against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen :gopray2:
 
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