Daily Prayers

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Radiating Christ

Dear Jesus, help us to spread Your fragrance everywhere we go. Flood our souls with Your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess our whole being so utterly, that our lives may only be a radiance of Yours. Shine through us and be so in us, that every soul we come in contact with may feel Your presence in our soul. Let them look up and see no longer us but only Jesus! Stay with us and then we shall begin to shine, as You shine; so to shine as to be a light to others; the light, O Jesus, will be all from You, none of it will be ours; it will be You shining on others through us. Let us praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around us. Let us preach You by our words and by our example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what we do, the evident fullness of the love our hearts bear to You. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary

Immaculate Heart of Mary, cause of our joy, bless your own Missionaries of Charity; help us to do all the good we can. Keep us in your most pure Heart, so that we may please Jesus through you, in you and with you.

Hymn

O most pure and loving heart Of my Mother and my Queen, Grant that I may love Thee, Love Thee daily more and more.

Pope Paul VI's Prayer

Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men throughout the world, who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread, and by our understanding love, give peace and joy. Amen.

Anima Christi

Soul of Christ, sanctify me, 
Body of Christ, save me, 
Blood of Christ, inebriate me,
Water from the side of Christ, wash me, Passion of Christ, strengthen me,
O good Jesus, hear me, 
Within thy wounds, hide me,
Suffer me not to be separated from Thee, From the malicious enemy defend me, 
In the hour of my death, call me,
And bid me come unto Thee,
That with Thy Saints I may praise Thee, forever and ever.  Amen.

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Prayer of Bl. Charles de Foucauld

Father, I abandon myself into your hands.
Do with me what You will.
Whatever You may do, I thank You.
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only Your will be done in me,
And in all Your creatures.
I wish no more than this, O Lord.
Into Your hands I commend my soul.
I offer it to you, with all the love of my heart
For I love You, Lord, and so need to give myself,
To surrender myself into Your hands,
Without reserve and with boundless confidence,
For You are my Father.

 

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me a channel of Your peace, that where there is hatred, I may bring love; where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness; where there is discord, I may bring harmony; where there is error, I may bring truth; where there is doubt, I may bring faith; where there is despair, I may bring hope; where there are shadows, I may bring light; where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted; to understand than to be understood; to love than to be loved; for it is by forgetting self that one finds; it is by forgiving that one is forgiven; it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life. Amen.