Prayer for the Day

[odhiambo]

How I love you, LORD!
You are my defender.
   The LORD is my protector;
 he is my strong fortress.
 My God is my protection,
 and with him I am safe.
 He protects me like a shield;
he defends me and keeps me safe.
I call to the LORD,
and he saves me from my enemies.
 Praise the LORD!
 
Psalm 18: 1-3

[odhiambo]

A PRAYER FOR
DAILY NEGLECTS


Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with all its love, all its sufferings and all its merits.

First
To expiate all the sins I have committed this day and during all my life.
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.

Second
To purify the good I have done poorly this day and during all my life.
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.

Third
To supply for the good I ought to have done, and that I have neglected this day and all my life.
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.

[odhiambo]

"Dear Jesus,
I do not want to know the wisdom of the world;
I do not want to know on whose anvil snowflakes are hammered
or the hiding place of darkness or from whose womb came the ice,
or why the gold falls to the earth earthly , and fire climbs to the
heavens heavenly; I do not want to know literature and science
or the four- dimensional universe in which we live; I do not want to know the length of the universe in terms of light years; I do not want to know the breath of the earth
as it dances about the chariot of the sun; I do not want to know the heights of the stars,
chaste candles of the night; I do not want to know the depths of the sea or the secrets of its watery palace. I want to be ignorant of all these things.
I want only to know the length, the breadth, the height and the depth of Your redeeming Love on the Cross.
Sweet Saviour of us all. I want to be ignorant of everything in the world---everything but You, dear Jesus. And then, by the strangest of strange paradoxes, I shall be wise!"
From "The Seven Last Words" by
Fulton J. Sheen.

[Shin]

A PRAYER FOR
DAILY NEGLECTS


Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with all its love, all its sufferings and all its merits.

First
To expiate all the sins I have committed this day and during all my life.
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.

Second
To purify the good I have done poorly this day and during all my life.
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.

Third
To supply for the good I ought to have done, and that I have neglected this day and all my life.
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.

[odhiambo]

A PRAYER FOR
DAILY NEGLECTS


Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with all its love, all its sufferings and all its merits.

First
To expiate all the sins I have committed this day and during all my life.
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.

Second
To purify the good I have done poorly this day and during all my life.
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.

Third
To supply for the good I ought to have done, and that I have neglected this day and all my life.
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.

[odhiambo]

Penitential Prayer of St. Augustine
O Lord,
The house of my soul is narrow;
enlarge it that you may enter in.
It is ruinous, O repair it!
It displeases Your sight.
I confess it, I know.
But who shall cleanse it,
to whom shall I cry but to you?
Cleanse me from my secret faults, O Lord,
and spare Your servant from strange sins.

[odhiambo]

Psalm 111

I will thank the Lord with all my heart.
Great are the works of the Lord,
to be pondered by all who love him.
His goodness stands firm for ever.
The Lord is compassion and love.
His precepts are for all peoples and all times.
He is to be honored by all nations.
To love and honor the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom...

[odhiambo]

"Blessed is he whose fault is taken away,
whose sin is covered.
Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt,
in whose spirit there is no guile.
Lord, forgive the wrong I have done."

Today's Responsorial Psalm

[odhiambo]

Today's Collect (Opening Prayer):

"O God, strength of all the Saints,
who through the Cross were pleased to call
the Martyrs Saint Paul Miki and companions to life,
grant, we pray, that by their intercession
we may hold with courage even until death
to the faith that we profess.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever."

Saint Pedro Bautista,
St. Paul Miki, Priests, and Companions,
Pray for us!

[odhiambo]

O Lord Jesus Christ,
Look not on our sins,
but on the faith of your Church,
and graciously grant her peace and unity,
in accordance with your will.

[odhiambo]

MOST HOLY SPIRIT
 
Help us to relive with Mary,
the joyful and glorious mysteries of Jesus.
 Amen
Grant that we may be
inspired by the faith of our Baptism,
nourished by the Eucharist,
renewed in the grace of Pentecost
So as to live, in word and deed,
always and everywhere,
as faithful witnesses of Christ
and of the love of His Divine Heart.
 Amen.

[odhiambo]

“Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory,
My understanding, and my entire will
 all that I have and call my own.
 You have given it all to me.
To You, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what You will.
Give me only your love and your grace.
That is enough for me”

Saint  Ignatius’s prayer

[odhiambo]

"O Lord,
help me to let go of my anxious striving for what I want. Instead, let me humbly accept that you will give me what I need today. And let me be satisfied with it. Amen."
From “A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture” by Mary Nadeau

[odhiambo]

"O God, who teach us that you abide
in hearts that are just and true,
grant that we may be so fashioned by your grace
as to become a dwelling pleasing to you.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever."

[odhiambo]

Heavenly Father,
“You are my defender and protector. You are my God; in you I trust.”
Psalm 91: 2

[odhiambo]

"O Lord, my faith is so weak and small!
I can't strengthen my faith by myself.
But You can, Lord; give me the gift of faith!
Help me to believe in You.
Give me more faith today.
O Jesus, I do believe in You!
Help my unbelief!
Amen."