A Prayer for Understanding

Lord, pour out on us the spirit of understanding, truth and peace,
help us to strive with all our hearts to know what is pleasing to you, and when we know your will, make us determined to do it.

Prayer of Thomas a Kempis

Grant to me, O Lord,
to know what I ought to know,
to love what I ought to love,
to praise what delights thee most,
to value what is precious in thy sight,
to hate what is offensive to Thee.
Do not suffer me to judge according to the sight of my eyes,
nor to pass sentence according to the hearing of [...]

Prayer of Thomas Merton

My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to [...]

Jesus Prays for His Disciples (and all Christians)

John 17:1-26
After Jesus finished saying this,
he looked up to heaven and said,
Father, the hour has come.
Give glory to your Son,
so that the Son may give glory [...]

Prayer of St. Benedict

O Gracious and Holy Father,
give us the wisdom to perceive you,
intellect to understand you,
diligence to seek you,
patience to wait for you,
eyes to behold you,
a heart to meditate upon you,
and a life to proclaim you;
through the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Dearest Lord, Teach Me To Be Generous

By St. Ignatius Loyola (16th Century)
Dearest Lord,,
teach me to be generous,
teach me to serve you as I should,
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labour and ask not for reward,
save that of knowing that I do your most holy will.,

Prayer of Sir Walter Raleigh (Just Before His Execution)

Give me my scallop shell of of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon,
My scrip of joy, immortal diet,
My bottle of salvation,
My gown of glory, hope’s true gauge,
And thus I’ll take my pilgrimage.

Prayer of Mother Teresa

Dear Jesus
Help us to spread your frangrance 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 [...]

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name
Thy Kindom come
Thy will be done on earth
As it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those that trespasses against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
For Thine is the Kindom and the power and the [...]

Prayer of St. Francis Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be love [...]