Monday, February 28, 2011

The Infant Jesus and the Angels

Dear Infant Jesus
In a short time
You will come
To visit us
And your holy, divine coming
Is full of peace, joy and love
Our hearts are full of your love
In our daily life.
Dear Jesus please help
All your devotees
Around the world.
Thanks my dear Lord.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Saint Monica

Exemplary Mother of the great Augustine,
you perseveringly pursued your wayward son
not with wild threats
but with prayerful cries to heaven.
Intercede for all mothers in our day
so that they may learn to draw their children to God.
Teach them how to remain close to their children,
even the prodigal sons and daughters who have sadly gone astray.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Saint Joseph the Worker

Blessed St. Joseph, patron of all working people, obtain for me the grace to labor in a spirit of penance for the atonement of my many sins. Help me to be conscientious in my work so that I may give as full a measure as I have received. May I labor in a spirit of thankfulness and joy, ever mindful of all the gifts I have received from God that enable me to perform these tasks. Permit me to work in peace, patience, and moderation, keeping in mind the account I must one day give of time lost, talents unused, good omitted, and vanity of success, so fatal to the work of God. Glorious St. Joseph, may my labors be all for Jesus, all through Mary, and all after your holy example in life and in death. Amen.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Vocation Prayer

Mary, O Blessed One of the Most High, your Servants, turn to you on their pilgrimage to your Son and in their task of proclaiming Him to the world.

By the example of your fiat they have learned to receive the word of God and to be attentive to the promptings of the Spirit. From your share in the redemptive missions of your Son they have learned to understand and lessen human suffering.

I pray, that through your intercession, the young people of today may answer the call to sreligious life as a servant of Mary and a life of service that has so inspired them throughout the centuries.

May they choose to live a life rooted in baptismal consecration, expessed in religious profession, and voluntarily undertaken to fulfill the commandment of love.

I present this petition to you in the name of Jesus Christ , your Son. Amen

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Santa Maria Goretti


ST. MARIA GORETTI,
Strengthened by God’s grace,
You did not hesitate,
Even at the age of eleven,
To shed your blood
To sacrifice life itself
To defend your virginal purity.

Deign to look graciously
On the unhappy human race,
Which has strayed far
From the path of eternal salvation.

Teach us all,
And especially the youth,
With the courage and promptness
We should flee anything
That could offend Jesus.

Obtain for me
From God a great horror of sin,
So that, keeping my soul undefiled,
I may live a holy life on earth
And win eternal glory in heaven.

Amen.

Friday, February 18, 2011

The Blessed Mother and Our Savior

Mother of our Savior, pray for us.