Daily Prayer Archive

O Mary, immaculate, and chaste are you
who has become the glowing gate of heaven.
O Mother of Christ,
so kind and most dear,
receive our devoted hymns of praise:
that our minds and bodies may be always chaste,
with fervent heart and tongue we now implore you.
Obtain for us,
through your sweetly sounding prayer,
pardon for ever.
O Mary, O tender Queen.

Amen.

Lord God,
you blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton with gifts of grace
as wife and mother,
educator and foundress,
so that she might spend her life in service to your people.

Through her example and prayers,
may we learn to express our love for you
in love for our fellow men and women.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.

O God, grant us a deeper sense of fellowship with all living this,
our little brothers and sisters
to whom in common with us
you have given this earth as home.
We recall with regret that in the past
we have acted high-handedly
and cruelly in exercising our domain over them.
Thus, the voice of the earth
which should have risen to you in song
has turned into a groan of travail.
May we realize that all these creatures
also live for themselves and for you,
not for us alone.
They too love the goodness of life,
as we do, and serve you better
in their way than we do in ours.

Amen.

Come, O Lord, to the help of Your people,
sustained by the intercession of Pope St. Sylvester,
so that, running the course of this present life
under Your guidance,
we may attain life without end.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in unity of the Holy Spirit,
on God forever and ever.

Amen.

O most loving Jesus,
Who by Your beautiful virtues of humility,
obedience, poverty, modesty, charity, patience and gentleness,
and by the example of Your domestic life,
blessed with peace and happiness
the family You choose on earth,
in Your clemency look down upon this household,
humbly prostrate before You and imploring Your mercy.
Remember that this family belongs to You;
for to You we have in a special way dedicated and devoted ourselves.
Look upon us in Your loving kindness;
preserve us from danger;
give us help in time of need,
and grant us the grace to persevere
to the end in the imitation of Your Holy Family;
that having revered You
and loved You faithfully on earth,
we may bless and praise You eternally in heaven.

Amen.

Shed upon Your Church, O Lord,
the brightness of Your light, that we,
being illumined by the teaching of
Your apostle and evangelist John,
may also walk in the light of Your truth,
that at length we may attain to the fullness
of eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with You forever and ever.

Amen.

Lord our God,
the heavens are the work of your hands,
the moon and the stars You made;
the earth and the sea,
and every living creature
came into being by Your word.
And all of us, too.
May this tree bring cheer to this house
though Jesus Christ Your good and holy Son,
who brings life and beauty to us and to our world.

Amen.