Prayers
Prayers Before a Home Visit
Father, we ask You to provide all that we need as we do the work that you have given us. Fill our hearts with Your love, help us to listen with compassion and to speak with kindness and confidence. Clear the way before us, so that those we visit will be able
to receive not only the material goods, but also our love and blessing,
Jesus, we are going out in obedience to Your command to love. We pray for the grace to love with Purity and strength, not mindful of our own comfort or honor, but seeking to comfort and honor those who have called out to us. We ask Your peace on
their household and Your help in being peacemakers.
Holy Spirit, inspire us with joy and patience. Be at work in us to bring good news to the downcast, to heal the brokenhearted, and to be witnesses of the love of Christ. Stir in us the fire of Your love, and guide us with discernment and wisdom, generosity and
kindness.
Prayers At The End Of The Home Visit
Lord Jesus, we thank You for the opportunity to assist (name) in their time of need. Strengthen us and guide us all each day. Give us an awareness of Your presence in our lives. Help (name) to walk the path with You that will lead to the resolution of
these present needs and concerns. Amen.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this call. Thank you for the opportunity to meet with (name), our brothers and sisters in Christ. Lord, you know each of us. You knew us from the day we were born. You know our hearts, our needs, everything about
us. You told us that You will never leave us or forsake us. You ask us to seek and ye shall find, knock and the door will be opened, ask and it shall be given. We are all asking today for each of our needs, some spoken, some on our hearts. Please Lord, help us find our needs, show us the way, and help us all walk closer to You. Thank you again for this call. In Your name
and for Your sake. Amen.
Thank you, Lord, for all the blessings You have given us today. We ask You to continue to bless those we have visited, to inspire them to trust in You and come to You for their needs. We pray for (name, and their needs). We pray that our work may be
continued by Your other servants and completed by your grace.
In the poor and lowly of the world, let us see Christ.
In those forced to leave their homes because of war or famines, let us see Christ. In children who go to bed hungry and who can not attend school, let us see Christ. In those who are living with HIV/AIDS and other diseases, let us see Christ. In immigrants and refugees, seeking freedom and hope, let us see Christ. In those who are orphaned or abandoned, let us see Christ.
In the elderly who are forgotten, let us see Christ.
In those who struggle to find meaningful work, let us see Christ.
In those who work for justice and peace for all people, let us see Christ.
Let us pray. Jesus, teach us to recognize your presence in those who are in need. May we give of ourselves in service to them and so hasten the coming of the Kingdom you have promised, where you live with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen
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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 that I am following Your will does not mean
that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this
You will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust You always
though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for You are ever with me, and you will never leave me
to face my perils alone. Thomas Merton
1915 -1968
Mary Stuart's Prayer
Keep us O God, from all pettiness. Let us be large in thought, in word, in deed.
Let us be done with fault-finding, and leave off all self-seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face-to-face, without self-pity and without prejudice. May we never be hasty in judgement, and always be generous.
Let us always take time for all things, and make us to grow calm, serene and gentle. Teach us to put into action our better impulses, to be straight-forward and unafraid. Grant that we may realize that it is the little things of life that create differences,
that in the big things in life , we are as one. And O Lord, let us not forget to be kind! Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Come, Holy Spirit, fill my heart with Your holy gifts.
Let my weakness by penetrated with Your strength this very day that I may fufill all the duties of my state
conscientiously, that I may do what is right and just. Let my Charity be such as to offend no one, and hurt no one's feelings; so generousus as to pardon
sincerely any wrong done to me. Assist me, O Holy Spirit,
in all my trials of life, enligthen me in my ignorance, advise me in my doubts, strenthen me in my weakness, help me in all my needs, protect me in
temptations and console me in afflictions. Graciously hear me , O Holy Spirit,
and pour Your light into my heart, my soul, and my mind. Assist me to live a holy life and to grow in goodness and
grace. Amen
Prayer to the Holy Spirit (2)
Most Holy Spirit, we have a mission, the work our Savior left for us, the purpose for which we were born. But we need your help, your presence in our lives, to succeed.
Share your wisdom, that we will see the solution to problems and use our energy to solve, instead of complain,. Fill us with understanding of God's word and how it applies to our lives. Untangle the confusion of the decisions we face.
Advise us, show us the way to Christian living and make us strong against the temptations that surround us. Grant us fortitude, especially when our efforts seem to fail and we feel like giving up.
Give us knowledge, to see the truth about our God, ourselves, our families, our friends, and our world.
Make us loving, that we will build rather than tear down, reconcile more than polarize, think of others before ourselves. Help us, praise the greatness of God and God's unlimited love through our thoughts, our words, our actions, our lives.
Just for Today
Lord, for tomorrow and its needs I do not pray; Keep me, my God, from stain of sin,
Just for today.
Let me both diligently work and duly pray. Let me be kind in word and deed,
Just for today.
Let me be slow to do my will, prompt to obey. Help me to mortify me flesh,
Just for today.
Let me no wrong or idle word, unthinking, say. Set a seal upon my lips,
Just for today.
Let me in season, Lord, be grave, in season, gay. Let me be faithful to Your grace,
Just for today.
And if today my tide of life should ebb away, Give me Your sacraments divine,
Sweet Lord, today.
In purgatory's cleansing fires brief be my stay. O bid me, if today I die,
Come home today.
So, for tomorrow and its needs, I do not pray; But keep me, guide me, love me, Lord,
Just for today. Amen.
Prayer of the Vincentian Family
Lord Jesus, you who willed to become poor, give us eyes and a heart directed toward the poor;
help us recognize you in them
--in their thirst, their hunger, their lonel--iness, and their misfortune. Enkindle within our Vincentian Family
unity, simplicity, humility, and the fire of love that burned in St. Vincent de Paul
Strengthen us, so that faithful to the practice of these virtues, we may contemplate you and serve you in the person of the poor,
and may one day be united with you and them in your Kingdom. Amen.
