Prayers for Perspective

[Ophelia23]

It has been such a stressful week at work, and it pours out in the home. I sometimes feel like an inadequate wife and mother when I realize how easily I can be hurt by the foolish things my husband will say. At work, I am feeling so much pressure that I feel like my heart is going to break. At home, I worry that I am taking that pressure around with me and compounding it on top of my responsibilities.

I think we all have worries and stresses and fears that can swell up around us. Today, I am feeling almost a though I could drown. I offer my heart up in prayer for perspective. For appreciation of how wonderful my life is, regardless of how stressed I am feeling. For thanksgiving for my family, my job, my health, my friends… And most importantly, I offer prayers for those who have much more serious problems than my own petty worries.

 

[RileyG]

Hi Ophelia, I will be praying for you.

Remember, O gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or sought thy intercession was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence, I fly to thee, O Virgin of Virgins and my Mother; to thee I come, before thee I kneel, sinful and sorrowful;

O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy, hear and answer me.

Amen.

God Bless +

 

[UpUpAndAway]

I know that feeling and I’m sorry you’re experiencing it. Remembering you in my daily prayers. God bless :hug3:

 

[ready]

May our Lord help you to rejoice in the Lord always; to pray ceaselessly; and to give thanks in all circumstances. May you always seek first God’s kingdom and his justice and have all the things you need added unto you. May you love our Lord with all your heart, mind, soul and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself … without losing your peace over less important things in life, like worries and fears over things and events that our Lord has total control and dominion. Amen.

 

[Ophelia23]

Thanks for your prayers and encouragement, everyone. God is so good!

 

[NeedsMercy]

A prayer to the head of the Holy Family:

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 amongst 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.

Remember, O most pure spouse of Mary, and my dearly beloved guardian, St. Joseph, that never was it known that anyone who invoked your care and requested your help was left without consolation.

Inspired with this confidence, I come to you, and with all the ardor of my spirit I commend myself to you. Do not reject my prayer, O Foster Father of the Savior, but graciously receive and answer it.

Amen.

 

[NeedsMercy]

A prayer to the head of the Holy Family:

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 amongst 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.

Remember, O most pure spouse of Mary, and my dearly beloved guardian, St. Joseph, that never was it known that anyone who invoked your care and requested your help was left without consolation.

Inspired with this confidence, I come to you, and with all the ardor of my spirit I commend myself to you. Do not reject my prayer, O Foster Father of the Savior, but graciously receive and answer it.

Amen.

 

[tbcrawford]

Lord, I do not know what to ask for.
You alone know what my true needs are.
You love me more than I know how to love myself.

Help me to see my real needs which are too often hidden from me.
I dare not ask either for the cross or for consolation.

Visit and help me, for Your great mercy’s sake.
Strike me and heal me; cast me down and raise me up.

I worship in silence Your holy will and Your inscrutable ways.
I offer myself as a sacrifice to You. In You I place all my trust.

I have no other desire than to do Your will.
Teach me to pray, and do You,Your very self pray in me .

Archbishop Anthony Bloom