Prayers

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="094285a1erlcgo.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CCFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Prayers | </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Catholic GirlA Web Site"><U><B>Home</B></U></A><B> </B></FONT>   <A HREF="quotations.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quotations"><U>Quotes </U></A>   <A HREF="st__bernadette.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="St. Bernadette"><U>St. Bernadette</U></A>   <A HREF="lourdes.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lourdes"><U>Lourdes</U></A>  <A HREF="my_story.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Story"><U>My Story</U></A>   <A HREF="favorite_catholic_links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links    </U></A> <A HREF="calendar.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Calendar"><U>Calendar</U></A> <A HREF="rcia.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RCIA"><U>  RCIA</U></A>    <A HREF="pope_john_paul_ii.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pope John Paul II"><U>Pope John Paul II</U></A>  <A HREF="st__pio_of_pietrelcina.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina"><U>St. Pio</U></A>    <A HREF="sacred_heart_of_jesus.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sacred Heart of Jesus"><U>Sacred Heart </U></A>   <A HREF="st__therese_of_lisieux.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="St. Therese of Lisieux"><U>St. Therese</U></A>  <A HREF="mother_teresa.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bl. 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Lord Jesus, now and forever, I invite you into my life Jesus. I accept you as my Lord and Savior. </div> <div> Heal me, change me, strengthen me in body, soul and spirit. </div> <div> Come Lord Jesus, cover me with your precious blood, and fill me with your Holy Spirit, I love you Jesus. </div> <div> I praise you Jesus. I thank you Jesus. I shall follow you every day of my life. Amen.</div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#336699" FACE="Bradley Hand ITC" ><B><IMG SRC="b3427220.gif" border=0 width="39" height="34" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Say this prayer faithfully, no matter how you feel, when you come to the point where you sincerely mean each word, with all your heart, something good spiritually will happen to you. You will experience Jesus, and He will change your whole life in a very special way. You will see.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#336699" FACE="Bradley Hand ITC" ><I>   </I></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#336699" FACE="Enviro" ><I> </I></FONT><I> </I>                                </div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Prayers</I></div> <bR> <div> (Hit Refresh if you have been here before...:)</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <HEAD> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1">     </script> </HEAD>  </B></div> <bR> <div> Prayers</div> <div> <IMG SRC="4b328060.gif" border=0 width="552" height="6" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Quotes</div> <bR> <div> If you find yourself growing angry at someone, pray for him--anger cannot live in an atmosphere of prayer</div> <div> <I>-W.T. McElroy   </I>                                  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> If you pray with words, let them be filled with love and come from the deepest of your heart. Pray with great respect and trust. Fold your hands, close your eyes and lift up your heart to the Lord. Let your prayer be a pure sacrifice to God. Do not pray loud and not too quiet. Pray simply. Let your heart speak. Praise the Lord with all your soul. </div> <bR> <div> Words will come like that from the bottom of your heart and you will find joy in prayer. Stop once in a while by a word and think it over, let it sink to the bottom of your heart. </div> <bR> <div> Keep them during the rest of the day: They will bring you peace. </div> <bR> <div> <I> "Nothing but love" by Mother Teresa.</I> </div> <bR> <div> He who prays is saved; and he who does not prays is damned.</div> <div> <I>-St Alphonsus Liguori</I></div> <bR> <div> If we pray, we believe; if we believe, we will love, if we love, we will serve.</div> <div> <I>-Anonymous</I></div> <bR> <div> -If you pray, you are positive of saving your soul.  If you do not pray, you are just as positive of losing your soul.</div> <div> <I>-Anonymous</I></div> <bR> <div> Faith dies through lack of prayer</div> <div> <I>-Anonymous</I></div> <bR> <div> Nothing is equal to prayer; for what is impossible it makes possible, what is difficult, easy.... For it is impossible, utterly impossible, for the man who prays eagerly and invokes God ceaselessly ever to sin. </div> <bR> <div> <I>-</I><I>St. John Chrysostom</I></div> <bR> <div> If you are to recite the Our Father well, one thing is necessary: You</div> <div> must not leave the side of the Master who has taught it to you</div> <div> <I>-</I><I>St. Theresa of Avila</I></div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#336699" FACE="Lucida Sans Unicode" >Pray to be able to forgive those who have hurt you or whom you don't like, and forgive as you have forgiven.</FONT></div> <div>    <I>  -Mother Teresa</I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#336699" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><I>    </I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward Heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.</div> <div>   <I>   - St. Therese of Lisieux </I></div> <bR> <div> I say this prayer very often, because it is a prayer of complete trust in God:  "I cannot solve this, Lord, but into thy hands I commend my spirit."  To me, the fact that Jesus, dying on the Cross, prayed that prayer gives it a very special significance.</div> <div>      <I>-Cardinal Bail Hume, O.S.B.</I></div> <bR> <div> "When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons.  I replied:  Oh yes, my prayer books."</div> <div> <I>     -Mother Teresa</I></div> <bR> <div> Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for; something worth dying for.</div> <div> <I>-Dag Hammarskjold</I></div> <bR> <div> I tell you truly that before you have uttered your prayer, it is already recorded in heaven.</div> <div> <I>-St. Bernard of Clairdaux</I></div> <bR> <div> Why do you not use the time when you have nothing to do for reading or for prayer?  Why do you not go and visit Christ our Lord and speak with Him and listen to Him?  For when we pray, we speak to God; and when we read, we listen to God.</div> <div> <I>-St. Ambrose</I></div> <bR> <div> If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "thank you", that would suffice.</div> <div> <I>-Meister Eckhart</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Basically, there are only prayers</div> <div> <I>-Rainer Maria Rilke</I></div> <bR> <div> A prayer only makes sense if it is lived.</div> <div> <I>-Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>"</I>So, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."</div> <div> <I>-Mark 11:24</I></div> <bR> <div> Perservere in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving; at the same time, pray for us, too, that God May open a door to us for the word, to speak of the mystery of Christ, for which I am in prison.</div> <div> <I>-Colossians 4:2-3</I></div> <bR> <div> There are more tears shed over answered prayers than unanswered prayers.</div> <div> -St. Teresa of Avila</div> <div>  </div> <div> It is not enough to say prayers, one must <I>be </I>prayer.  One should not offer what one has, but what one is.</div> <div> <I>-Paul Evdokimov</I></div> <bR> <div> Prayer is remembering.  We remember that we are the life of God in the world.  We remember that love is our language and compassion our fruit.</div> <div> <I>-Adolfo Quezada</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Prayer is not asking.  Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to his voice in the debts of our hearts.</div> <div> <I>-Mother Teresa</I></div> <bR> <div> There is no extra time to pray.  Prayer must be put where something else would be.  Something else will have to go.</div> <div> <I>-Grace Adolphsen Brame</I></div> <bR> <div> Prayer is an exercise of love, and it would be incorrect to think that if there is not time for solitude there would be no prayer at all.</div> <div> <I>-St Teresa of Avila</I></div> <bR> <div> Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.</div> <div> <I>-Colossians 4:2</I></div> <bR> <div> Adoration is most often wordless.  Many people who are </div> <div> "not good with words" pray a good deal.  They allow themselves to be touched by God, and they respond by the way they live.</div> <div> <I>-Grace Adolphsen Brame</I></div> <bR> <div> You can do more than praying after you've prayed.  You can never do more than praying before you have prayed.</div> <div> <I>-Corrie Ten Boom</I></div> <bR> <div> So we must be prepared to offer our prayer and be ready for whatever God may give.</div> <div> <I>-Metropolitian Anthony of Sourozh</I></div> <bR> <div> The <B>fruit</B> of silence</div> <div> is prayer</div> <div> the <B>fruit</B> of prayer </div> <div> is faith</div> <div> the <B>fruit</B> of faith</div> <div> is love</div> <div> the <B>fruit</B> of love</div> <div> is service</div> <div> the <B>fruit</B> of service</div> <div> is peace</div> <div> <I>-Mother Teresa</I></div> <bR> <div> The day when God is absent, when God is silent--that is the beginning of prayer.</div> <div> <I>-Metropolitian Anthony of Sourozh</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> To stay awake for just this moment is all we need to do.  to stay awke in prayer is our vigil through the night.</div> <div> <I>-Adolfo Quezada</I></div> <bR> <div> You would never pass by a friend without a greeting.  Never pass by Our Lord in the Eucharist without saying a prayer.</div> <div> -<I>Fulton J. Sheen</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Pray as you can and allow yourself to be led.</div> <div> <I>-Monastic saying</I></div> <bR> <div> Are you willing to kneel on this prayer stool to consume yourself as a candle on the altar?</div> <div> <I>-St. Peter Julian Eymard</I></div> <bR> <div> Let us who are always in Christ; that is, in the light, not cease praying, even in the night.</div> <div> <I>-St. Cyprian</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> In prayer we are vulnerable, we stand naked and alone.  All our thoughts of self-sufficency have been laid to rest, and we no longer look to power for the protection of our soul.</div> <div> <I>-Adolfo Quezada</I></div> <bR> <div> The less we say in our prayers, the more room we give God to answer them.</div> <div> <I>David Yount</I></div> <bR> <div> In prayer, more than in any other action, what is important is honesty.</div> <div> <I>-Joseph-Marie Perrin, O.P.</I></div> <bR> <div> If you want a life of prayer, the way to get it is by praying.  You start where you are and you deepen what you already have.  And you realize that you are already there.</div> <div> <I>-Thomas Merton</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.</div> <div> <I>-Elizabeth O'Connor</I></div> <bR> <div> Go and pray to the Lord to command some struggle to be stirred up in you, for the soul is matured only in battles.</div> <div> <I>-Abbot John the Dwarf</I></div> <bR> <div> Prayer in action is love.  </div> <div> Love in action is service.</div> <div> <I>-Mother Teresa</I></div> <bR> <div> The greater the love, the greater the sufferings of the soul.  The fuller the love, the fuller the knowledge of God.  The more ardent the love, the more fervent the prayer.  The more perfect the love, the holier the life.</div> <div> -<I>St. Silouan</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> In my journal, I inscribe the names of particular people whom I love.  I remember also, those whose love has healed me in countless ways.  My remembrance of each of these dear ones becomes a silent prayer within my heart.</div> <div> <I>-Macrina Wiederkehr</I></div> <bR> <div> A quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.</div> <div> <I>-Sarah Orne Jewett     </I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The power of prayer is really tremendous.</div> <div> <I>-St. Therese of Lisieux</I></div> <bR> <div> The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himelf or the fact that he is praying.</div> <div> <I>-St. Anthony of Padua</I></div> <bR> <div> My God, I pray better to you by breathing.  I pray better to you by walking then by talking.</div> <div> <I>-Thomas Merton</I></div> <bR> <div> Prayer should be accomplished by grace and not by artifice.</div> <div> -<I>St. Jane Frances de Chantal</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> If saying your prayers is an obstacle to prayer, cut it out.  Let Jesus pray.  Thank God Jesus is praying.  Forget yourself.  Enter the prayer of Jesus.  Let Him pray in you.</div> <div> <I>-Thomas Merton</I></div> <bR> <div> Lord,</div> <div> grant that I may always allow myself to be guided by you,</div> <div> follow your plans and perfectly accomplish your holy will.</div> <div> Grant that in all things, great and small, today and all the days of my life, I may do whatever you require me.  Help me to respond to the slightest prompting of your grace; so that I may be your trustworthy instrument, for your Honor.  May your will be done; in time & eternity--by me, in me, and through me.</div> <div> Amen</div> <div> <I>-Prayer of St. Teresa of Avila</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Prayer is not asking.  It is a longing of the soul.  It is daily admission of one's weakness...It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.</div> <div> <I>-Mohandas Gandhi</I></div> <bR> <div> If I stopped praying, I think I'd stop living.  I pray because I can't help myself.  I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking & sleeping.  It doesn't change God.  It changes me.</div> <div> <I>-C.S. Lewis</I></div> <bR> <div> Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.</div> <div> <I>-Simone Weil</I></div> <bR> <div> Before our daily work should be the morning prayer.  Only thus will the work be done as a fulfillment of God's command.</div> <div> -<I>Dietrich Bonhoeffer        </I></div> <bR> <div> Souls without prayer are like people whose bodies or limbs are paralyzed:  They possess feet and hands but they cannot control them.  In the same way there are souls so infirm and so accustomed to busying themselves with outside affairs that they seem incapable of entering into themselves at all.</div> <div> -St. Teresa of Avila</div> <bR> <div> Prayer is the world in tune, a spirit-voice, and vocal joys whose echo is heaven's bliss.</div> <div> <I>-Henry Vaughan</I></div> <bR> <div> The prayer of one pure heart, I think, has the power to atone for many.</div> <div> <I>-Sophocles</I></div> <bR> <div> When lovers reunite after a long absence, they cling to each other and just hold on.  Words are not necessary, in fact, they get in the way.  Such is our time of prayer with God.</div> <div> <I>-Adolfo Quezada</I></div> <bR> <div> We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly a gift of God.</div> <div> <I>-St. Vincent de Paul</I></div> <bR> <div> Pray God, keep us simple.</div> <div> <I>-William Thackeray</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The best preparation for prayer is to read the lives of  the saints.</div> <div> <I>-St. Philip Neri</I></div> <bR> <div> Pray as if everything depended on God.  Work as if everything depended on you.</div> <div> -<I>St. Ignatius.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.</div> <div> <I>-St. John Chrysostom      </I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Build yourself a cell in your heart and retire there to pray.</div> <div> <I>-St. Catherine of Siena  </I></div> <bR> <div> Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself.</div> <div> -Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="d592e170.gif" border=0 width="46" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> Pray as you can, not as you can't.</div> <div> -Dom John Chapman</div> <bR> <div> Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer.</div> <div> -Verbena Woods</div> <bR> <div> Is Prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?</div> <div> -Corie Ten Boom</div> <bR> <div> Seven Days without prayer make one WEAK.</div> <div> -Author Unknown</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4b328060.gif" border=0 width="552" height="6" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CC9966" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >                    </FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Links</I></div> <bR> <div> The site below is an excellent reference for any prayer imaginable. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.yenra.com/catholic/prayers/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.yenra.com/catholic/prayers/"><U>http://www.yenra.com/catholic/prayers/</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Check out the Online Catholic Prayerbook.  It not only has info on prayers but also about the Mass and just really a lot of interesting information.</div> <div> This one has a different format but Prayers E book by Catholic Forum is worth looking into.  I found some really good "keepers" here.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.prayerbook.com/contents.htm#Prayerbook" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.prayerbook.com/contents.htm#P"><U>http://www.prayerbook.com/contents.htm#Prayerbook</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Visit The Catholic Doors Ministry for over 321 Prayers.   Find prayers for any situation, Feast Day, Novenas, traditional prayers.  This is a wonderful resource.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/ind"><U>http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/index.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4b328060.gif" border=0 width="552" height="6" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>BEATITUDES FOR THE HOME</B></div> <bR> <div> (Author Unknown)</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED are the husband and wife who continue to be affectionate and</div> <div> considerate, loving after the wedding bells have ceased ringing.</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED are the husband and wife who are as polite and courteous to one</div> <div> another as they are to their friends.</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED are they who have a sense of humor, for this attribute will be a</div> <div> handy shock absorber.</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED are they who love their mates more than any other person in the</div> <div> world and who joyfully fulfill their marriage vows of lifetime of</div> <div> fidelity and mutual helpfulness to one another.</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED are they who attain parenthood, for children are a heritage of the</div> <div> Lord.</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED are they who remember to thank God for their food before they</div> <div> partake of it, and who set apart some time each day for the reading of</div> <div> the Bible and for prayer.</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED are those mates who never speak loudly to one another and who</div> <div> make their home a place where "seldom is heard a discouraging word".</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED are the husband and wife who faithfully attend the worship</div> <div> service of the church and who work together in the church for the</div> <div> advancement of Christ's Kingdom.</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED are the husband and wife who can work out problems of adjustments</div> <div> without interference from relatives.</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED is the couple who has a complete understanding about financial</div> <div> matters and who has worked out a perfect partnership with all money under</div> <div> the control of both.</div> <bR> <div> BLESSED are the husband and wife who humbly dedicate their lives and</div> <div> their home to Christ and who practice the teachings of Christ in the home by</div> <div> being unselfish, loyal, and loving.</div> <bR> <div> May God Bless you and those you love, and keep you safe,</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4b42a030.gif" border=0 width="298" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>The St. Jude Novena</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>May the Sacred Heart of Jesus </I></div> <div> <I>be adored, glorified, loved and preserved,</I></div> <div> <I>throughout the world, now and forever.</I></div> <div> <I>Sacred Heart of Jesus</I></div> <div> <I>pray for us.</I></div> <div> <I>Saint Jude, worker of miracles,</I></div> <div> <I>pray for us.</I></div> <div> <I>Saint Jude, help of the hopeless,</I></div> <div> <I>pray for us.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Click </I><A HREF="http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/pelican/300/stjude.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/pelica"><U><I>here</I></U></A><I> for instructions on how to do a St. Jude Novena.</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4b42a030.gif" border=0 width="298" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="775efd30.jpg" border=0 width="239" height="211" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Lord,</div> <div> You invite all who are burdened to come to You,</div> <div> Allow Your healing hand to heal me.</div> <div> Touch my soul with Your Compassion for others.</div> <div> Touch my heart with Your courage and infinite love for all.</div> <div> Touch my mind with Your wisdom, that my mouth may always proclaim Your praise.</div> <div> Teach me to reach out to You in my need, and help me to lead others to You by my example.</div> <div> Most loving heart of Jesus, bring me health in body and spirit that I may serve You with all of my strength.</div> <div> Touch gently this life with You have created, now and forever.</div> <div> Amen</div> <div> -Priests of the Sacred Heart</div> <div> Sacred Heart Monastery</div> <div> Hales Corner, WI</div> <div> <IMG SRC="4b42a030.gif" border=0 width="298" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Come Holy Spirit</B></div> <bR> <div> Come, Holy Spirit</div> <div> Replace the tension within us</div> <div> with a holy relaxation</div> <div> Replace the turbulence within us</div> <div> with a sacred calm</div> <div> Replace the anxiety within us</div> <div> with a quiet confidence</div> <div> Replace the fear within us</div> <div> with a strong faith</div> <div> Replace the bitterness within us</div> <div> with the sweetness of grace</div> <div> Replace the darkness within us</div> <div> with a gentle light</div> <div> Replace the coolness within us</div> <div> with a loving warmth</div> <div> Replace the night within us</div> <div> with your light</div> <div> Straighten our crookedness</div> <div> Fill our emptiness</div> <div> Dull our edge of our humility</div> <div> Light our fires of our love</div> <div> Quench the flames of our lust</div> <div> Let us see ourselves</div> <div> as You see us</div> <div> That we may see You</div> <div> as You have promised</div> <div> and be fortunate</div> <div> according to Your word</div> <div> "Blessed are the pure of heart</div> <div> for they shall see God" " (Mt 5:8)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4b42a030.gif" border=0 width="298" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> St Jude</div> <div> Most holy apostle,  St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of.  Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone.  Make use I implore you, of that particular privilege given to you, to bring visible and speedy help when help is almost despaired of.  Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive consolation and help of Heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings (here make your request)</div> <div> and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever.</div> <div> I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to you.</div> <div> Amen</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4b42a030.gif" border=0 width="298" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Novena Prayer to our Lady of Good Remedy</B></div> <bR> <div> O Queen of Heaven and earth, Most Holy Virgin, we venerate thee.  Thou art the beloved Daughter of the Most High God, the chosen Mother of the Incarnate word, the Immaculate Spouse of the Holy Spirit, the Sacred Vessel of the Most Holy Trinity.</div> <bR> <div> O Mother of the Divine Redeemer, who under the title of Our Lady of Good Remedy comes to the aid of all who call upon thee, extend thy maternal protection to us.  We depend on thee, Dear Mother, as helpless and needy children depend on a tender and caring mother.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Hail Mary..full of grace...</I></div> <bR> <div> O Lady of Good Remedy, source of unfailing help, grant that we may draw from thy treasury of graces in our time of need.</div> <bR> <div> Touch the hearts of sinners, that they may seek reconciliation and forgiveness.  Bring comfort to the afflicted and the lonely; help the poor and the hopeless; aid the sick and the suffering.  May they be healed in body and strengthened in spirit to endure their sufferings with patient resignation and Christian fortitude.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Hail Mary, full of grace..</I></div> <bR> <div> Dear Lady of Good Remedy, source of unfailing help, thy compassionate heart knows a remedy for every affliction and misery we encounter in life.  Help me with thy prayers and intercession to find a remedy for my problems, needs, especially for....<I>.(indicate your special intentions)</I></div> <bR> <div> On my part, O Loving Mother, I pledge myself to a more intensely Christian lifestyle, to a more careful observance of the laws of God, to be more conscientious in fulfilling the obligations of my state in life, and to strive to be a source of healing in this broken world of ours.</div> <bR> <div> Dear Lady of Good Remedy, be ever present to me, and through thy intercession, may I enjoy health of body and peace of mind, and grow stronger in the faith and in the love of thy Son, Jesus.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Hail Mary..full of Grace..</I></div> <bR> <div> V.  Pray for us, O Holy Mother of Good Remedy</div> <bR> <div> R. That we may deepen our dedication to thy Son and make the world alive with His Spirit.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="6bf649b0.gif" border=0 width="100" height="155" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Prayer for Husbands & Wives</div> <div> <IMG SRC="4b328060.gif" border=0 width="552" height="6" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="501" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 958 WIDTH="497"><div> Lord, inspire those men and women</div> <div> who bear the titles "Husband" and "Wife".</div> <div> Help them to look to You</div> <div> to themselves</div> <div> to one another</div> <div> to rediscover the fullness and mystery</div> <div> they once felt in their union.</div> <div> Let them be honest enough to ask:</div> <div> "Where have we been together</div> <div> and where are we going?</div> <div> Let them be brave enough to question:</div> <div> "How have we failed?"</div> <div> Let each be foolhardy enough to say:</div> <div> "For me, we come first".</div> <div> Help them, together</div> <div> to reexamine their commitment</div> <div> in the light of Your love,</div> <div> willingly, openly, compassionately.</div> <div>  </div> <div> One Hail Mary... </div> <bR> <div> Hail, O Virgin of Guadalupe. We place under your powerful patronage the purity and integrity of the Holy Faith in Mexico and in all the American Continent, for we are certain that while you are recognized as Queen and Mother, America and Mexico and our Matrimony will be saved... </div> <div> Amen </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4b42a030.gif" border=0 width="298" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The Divine Praises</B></div> <bR> <div> Blessed be God!</div> <div> Blessed be His Holy Name!</div> <div> Blessed be Jesus Christ,</div> <div> true God and true Man!</div> <div> Blessed be His most Sacred Heart!</div> <div> Blessed be Jesus in the most holy Sacrarment of the Altar</div> <div> Blessed be the great Mother of God,</div> <div> Mary most holy!</div> <div> Blessed be her Holy and Immaculate Conception!</div> <div> Blessed be her Glorious Assumption!</div> <div> Blessed be the name of Mary, virgin and Mother!</div> <div> Blessed be Saint Joseph,</div> <div> her most chaste spouse!</div> <div> Blessed be God</div> <div> in his angels, and his Saints!</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="4b42a030.gif" border=0 width="298" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Prayer of </B><B>Saint Gertrude the Great</B><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> DICTATED BY OUR LORD TO RELEASE 1,000 SOULS FROM PURGATORY</div> <div> EACH TIME IT IS SAID</div> <bR> <div> 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, those in my own home and within my family. Amen. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4b42a030.gif" border=0 width="298" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="8b6da430.gif" border=0 width="218" height="67" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Prayer is POWERFUL!</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>   <table border="0" width="325" bgcolor="#000080" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1"> <tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr><td width="100%"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="http://www.verseoftheday.com" style="text-decoration:none"><center>Verse of the Day</a></font></center><br><font face="Verdana" size="1"><script src="http://www.verseoftheday.com/verse.js"></script></font></td> </tr></table></td></tr></table>   </div> <bR> <div>   <table BORDER WIDTH="275" HEIGHT="100" BGCOLOR="#FCFDD9" > <tr ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=TOP> <td><b><i><a href="http://www.verseoftheday.com/">Proverb of the Day</a></i></b> <hr SIZE=1 WIDTH="175"> <font size=-1><script src="http://www.verseoftheday.com/proverb.js"></script> <div align=right><font size=-2><a href="http://www.verseoftheday.com/copyright.html">NIV</font></div> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-2><a href="http://www.verseoftheday.com/"><center>GET A FREE PROVERB DAILY</center></font></a></font> </td> </tr> </table>   </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Check out this very special page that I made called</div> <div> "The Candle Prayer".  This prayer was in our bulletin one Sunday after Mass and both Tom and I thought it was so special and we wanted to share it with you.  I wanted to put it on a separate page so perhaps if you wished to print it out next time you were going to light a candle for someone you could have this prayer with you.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cathworld.org/worlds/light/catholicgirl/candle.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cathworld.org/worlds/light/ca"><U>Light A Candle Prayer</U></A>    </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="8b6da430.gif" border=0 width="218" height="67" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Lord Jesus,      </div> <div> I give you my hands to do your work.</div> <div> I give you my feet to go your way.</div> <div> I give you my eyes to see as you see.</div> <div> I give you my tongue to speak your words.</div> <div> I give you my mind to think as you think.</div> <div> I give you  my spirit so that you may pray in me.</div> <div> I give you myself so that you may grow in me</div> <div> so that it is you, Lord Jesus, who lives and works and prays in me.</div> <div> Amen.</div> <div> <I>-From Manual of Prayers</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8b6da430.gif" border=0 width="218" height="67" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The  Anima  Christa</div> <div> Soul of Christ,</div> <div> sanctify me</div> <div> Body of Christ,</div> <div> Save Me</div> <div> Blood of Christ</div> <div> inebriate me</div> <div> Water from Christ's side,</div> <div> wash me</div> <div> Passion of Christ,</div> <div> strengthen me</div> <div> O Good Jesus,</div> <div> hear me</div> <div> Within Thy</div> <div> wounds hide me</div> <div> Suffer me not to be</div> <div> separated from Thee</div> <div> From the malicious</div> <div> enemy defend me</div> <div> In the hour of </div> <div> my death call me</div> <div> And bid me</div> <div> come unto Thee</div> <div> That I may praise</div> <div> Thee with Thy saints</div> <div> and with Thy angels</div> <div> Forever and ever.</div> <div> <I>Amen</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Anima Christi is a prayer from around the 14th century.  It is often recited after receiving Holy Communion.</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="8b6da430.gif" border=0 width="218" height="67" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B><U>Positive Thoughts</U></B></div> <div> If God had a fridge, your picture would be on it.</div> <div> If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.</div> <div> He sends you flowers every spring </div> <div> and a sunrise every morning.</div> <div> Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen.</div> <div> He could live anywhere in the universe, </div> <div> and He chose your heart.</div> <div> What about the Christmas gift He sent you in Bethlehem;</div> <div> not to mention that Friday at Calvary?</div> <div> Face it...He's crazy about you:)</div> <div> -<I>Author Unknown</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="8b6da430.gif" border=0 width="218" height="67" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>(This poem was shared at Princess Diana's funeral. I thought I would share it with you.)</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>  </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#336699" FACE="French Script MT" >Funeral Poem </FONT></div> <div> You can shed tears that she is gone,</div> <div> or you can smile because she has lived.</div> <bR> <div> You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,</div> <div> or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.</div> <bR> <div> Your heart can be empty because you can't see her, </div> <div> or you can be full of the love you shared.</div> <bR> <div> You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,</div> <div> or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.</div> <bR> <div> You can remember her and only that she's gone,</div> <div> or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.</div> <bR> <div> You can cry and close your mind, be empty, and turn your back,</div> <div> or your can do what she'd want:</div> <div> smile, open your eyes, love and go on.</div> <div> -Author Unknown</div> <div> <IMG SRC="8b6da430.gif" border=0 width="218" height="67" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>A Prayer for Married Couples  </B></div> <bR> <div> Lord Jesus,</div> <div> Grant that I and my spouse may have a true and understanding love for each other.</div> <div> Grant that we may both</div> <div> be filled with faith and trust.</div> <div> Give us the grace to live</div> <div> with each other in peace and harmony.</div> <bR> <div> May we always bear with one another's weaknesses and grow from each other's strengths.</div> <div> Help us to forgive one another's failings, </div> <div> and grant us patience, kindness, cheerfulness, and the spirit of placing the well-being of one another ahead of self.</div> <bR> <div> May the love that brought us together</div> <div> grow and mature with each passing year.</div> <div> Bring us both ever closer to You</div> <div> through our love for each other.</div> <div> Let our love grow to perfection.</div> <div> Amen.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers"><U>www.catholicdoors.com/prayers</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-1448/thelordsprayer.mid" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </div> <div> (The Lord's Prayer Midi is playing..if you wish to turn the music off..just press the stop button...:)</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://users3.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g33-00466-2d" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://users3.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i="><U><IMG SRC="59e4f5a0.gif" border=0 width="79" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> Sign the guestbook</div> <div> or...</div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:catholicgirl@cox.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:catholicgirl@cox.net"><U><IMG SRC="46540800.gif" border=0 width="64" height="128" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>Send an email</div> <bR> <bR> <div>   <BODY> <center>[ Try right-clicking the image and then the text link below ] <p> <img src="http://javascript.internet.com/img/tjsbutton.gif"> <p> <a href="http://javascript.internet.com">Text Link</a> <p><center> <font face="arial, helvetica" size="-2">Free JavaScripts provided<br> by <a href="http://javascriptsource.com">The JavaScript Source</a></font> </center><p>   </div> <bR> <div> <I> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> // script from BoogieJack.com var m = "Page Last Updated " + document.lastModified; var p = m.length-8; document.writeln("<center>"); document.write(m.substring(p, 0)); document.writeln("</center>"); </SCRIPT>  </I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>