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During times of confusion, it always helps to turn to a powerful prayer to help us center our thoughts and erase our fears.  The following prayers are powerful tools during these times of need.

If God is your co-pilot…perhaps you should change seats!!!

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Take Lord and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my entire will, all I have and call my own.

You have given 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.

St. 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 mere 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 into Your hands without reserve and with boundless confidence, for You are my Father.

St. John Henry Newman

O my God, I will put myself without reserve into your hands, Wealth or woe, joy or sorrow, friends or bereavement, honor or humiliation, good report or ill report, comfort or discomfort, Your presence or the hiding of Your countenance, all is good if it comes from You.

You are wisdom and You are love.  What can I desire more?  You have led me in Your counsel, and with glory You received me.  What have I in heaven, and apart from You, what want I upon earth?

My flesh and my heart fail but God is the God of my heart, and my portion forever.

St. Therese of Lisieux

O my God, I offer You all my actions this day for the intentions and for the glory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

I desire to sanctify every beat of my heart, my every thought, my simplest works by uniting them to His infinite merits; and I wish to make reparation for my sins by casting them into the furnace of His merciful love.

Oh my God!  I ask You for myself and for those I hold dear, the grace to fulfill perfectly Your hoiy will, to accept for love of You the joys and sorrows of this passing life, so that we may one day be united together in heaven for all eternity.  Amen

St. Augustine 

Prayer to Holy Spirit

Breathe in me, O Holy Spirity, that my thoughts may all be Holy.

Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work too, may be holy.

Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love only what is holy.

Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.

Guard me, then O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.

Guard me, then O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.

You have created us for Yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.

St. Padre Pio

Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You.  You know how easily I abandon You.

Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak, and I need Your strength, so that I my not fall so often.

Stay with me Lord, for You are my Life and without You I am without meaning.  You are the power which sustains me, the unique Joy of my heart.

Stay with me Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to be with You.

St. John Henry Newman

Lead Kindly Light

Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom.  Lead Thou me on!

The night is dark and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on!

Keep thou my feet;  I do not ask to see the distant scene; one step is enough for me.

I was not ever thus, nor pray’d that Thou shouldst lead me on;  I loved to choose and see my path

but now lead Thou me on!

I loved the garish day and spite of fears; pride ruled my will; remember not my past years.  So long Your power hath blest me, sure it still will lead me on, o’er moor and fe, o’er crag and torrent, till the night is gone; and with the morn those angel faces smile which I have lived long since and lost awhile.

Lead Kindly Light

Candlelight Prayer