Catholic Online > Prayer of the Day Read today's prayer. https://www.catholic.org Copyright 2024 Catholic Online en Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:09:51 PDT Prayer for the Sick: Prayer of the Day for Friday, March 29, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-29 Dear Jesus, Divine Physician and Healer of the sick, we turn to you in this time of illness. O dearest comforter of the troubled, alleviate our worry and sorrow with your gentle love, and grant us the grace and strength to accept this burden. Dear God, we place our worries in your hands. We place our sick under your care and humbly ask that you restore your servant to health again. Above all, grant us the grace to acknowledge your will and know that whatever you do, you do for the love of us. Amen. Catholic Online 2024-03-29 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-29 Prayer to Serve God Well: Prayer of the Day for Thursday, March 28, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-28 Father of Mercy, forgive my failings, keep me in Your Grace, and lead me in the way of salvation. Give me strength in serving You as a follower of Christ. May the Eucharist bring me Your Forgiveness and give me freedom to serve You all my life. May it help me to remain faithful and give me the grace I need in Your service. May it teach me the way to eternal life. Catholic Online 2024-03-28 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-28 Prayer for a Sick Person # 4: Prayer of the Day for Wednesday, March 27, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-27 Dear Jesus, Divine Physician and Healer of the Sick, we turn to You in this time of illness. O dearest Comforter of the Troubled, alleviate our worry and sorrow with Your gentle love, and grant us the grace and strength to accept this burden. Dear God, we place our worries in Your hands. We ask that You restore Your servant to health again. Above all, grant us the grace to acknowledge Your holy will and know that whatsoever You do, You do for the love of us. Amen. Catholic Online 2024-03-27 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-27 Prayer before Confession: Prayer of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-26 Receive my confession, O most loving and gracious Lord Jesus Christ, only hope for the salvation of my soul. Grant to me true contrition of soul, so that day and night I may by penance make satisfaction for my many sins. Savior of the world, O good Jesus, Who gave Yourself to the death of the Cross to save sinners, look upon me, most wretched of all sinners; have pity on me, and give me the light to know my sins, true sorrow for them, and a firm purpose of never committing them again. O ... Catholic Online 2024-03-26 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-26 Saint Anthony, Performer of Miracles: Prayer of the Day for Monday, March 25, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-25 Dear St. Anthony, your prayers obtained miracles during your lifetime. You still seem to move at ease in the realm of minor and major miracles. St. Anthony, Performer of Miracles, please obtain for me the blessings God holds in reserve who serve Him. Pray that I may be worthy of the promises my Lord Jesus attaches to confident prayer. (Mention your special intentions.) Catholic Online 2024-03-25 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-25 Prayer to the Holy Spirit # 1: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, March 24, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-24 Come, Holy Spirit, fill my heart with Your holy gifts. Let my weakness be penetrated with Your strength this very day that I may fulfill 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 generous as to pardon sincerely any wrong done to me. Assist me, O Holy Spirit, in all my trials of life, enlighten me in my ignorance, advise me in my doubts, strengthen me in my ... Catholic Online 2024-03-24 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-24 Prayer for the Church the Authorities, Etc...: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, March 23, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-23 (Composed by Archbishop Carroll in 1800.) We pray Thee, O Almighty and Eternal God, who through Jesus Christ hast revealed Thy glory to all nations, to preserve the works of Thy mercy; that Thy Church, being spread through the whole world, may continue, with unchanging faith, in the confession of Thy name. We pray Thee, who alone art good and holy, to endow with heavenly knowledge, sincere zeal, and sanctity of life our chief bishop, N., the Vicar of our Lord ... Catholic Online 2024-03-23 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-23 Prayer for the Dead: Prayer of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-22 God our Father, Your power brings us to birth, Your providence guides our lives, and by Your command we return to dust. Lord, those who die still live in Your presence, their lives change but do not end. I pray in hope for my family, relatives and friends, and for all the dead known to You alone. In company with Christ, Who died and now lives, may they rejoice in Your kingdom, where all our tears are wiped away. Unite us together again in one family, ... Catholic Online 2024-03-22 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-22 Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi before the Blessed Sacrament: Prayer of the Day for Thursday, March 21, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-21 We adore You, O Lord Jesus Christ, in this Church and all the Churches of the world, and we bless You, because, by Your holy Cross You have redeemed the world. Catholic Online 2024-03-21 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-21 A Prayer for the Family: Prayer of the Day for Wednesday, March 20, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-20 O God of goodness and mercy, to Thy fatherly guidance we commend our family, our household and all our belongings. We commit all to Thy love and keeping; do Thou fill this house with Thy blessings even as Thou didst fill the holy House of Nazareth with Thy presence. Keep far from us, above all else, the blemish of sin, and do Thou alone reign in our midst by Thy law, by Thy most holy love and by the exercise of every Christian virtue. Let each one of us obey ... Catholic Online 2024-03-20 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-20 Prayer for Church Leaders: Prayer of the Day for Tuesday, March 19, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-19 Lord Jesus Christ, watch over those who are leaders in your Church. Keep them faithful to their vocation and to the proclamation of your message. Teach them to recognize and interpret the signs of the times. Strengthen them with the gifts of the Spirit, and help them to serve their subjects, especially the poor and lowly. Give them a vivid sense of your presence in the world and a knowledge of how to show it to others. Amen. Catholic Online 2024-03-19 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-19 Family Blessing of the Children: Prayer of the Day for Monday, March 18, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-18 Any parents can bless their children daily or on special occasions. They may use these words or similar ones. May God bless you + (Name), And keep you in love. The child answers: Amen. Catholic Online 2024-03-18 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-18 Prayer about St. Patrick: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, March 17, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-17 God our Father, you sent Saint Patrick to preach your glory to the people of Ireland. By the help of his prayers, may all Christians proclaim your love to all men. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Catholic Online 2024-03-17 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-17 Blood of Christ, Inebriate Me!: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, March 16, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-16 Blood of Christ, inebriate me! Inebriate me with Your Love, that I may be absorbed in Your interests and Your Will. Absorbed so as to be unmindful of my ills and petty cares. Unmindful of weariness and pain, heartache, and disappointment. Heedless of the lash of cruel words, and patient under wrongs. Amen. Catholic Online 2024-03-16 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-16 Advent Prayer: Prayer of the Day for Friday, March 15, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-15 Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in me a wonder at the wisdom and power of Your Father and ours. Receive my prayer as part of my service of the Lord who enlists me in God's own work for justice. Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in me a hunger for peace: peace in the world, peace in my home, peace in myself. Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in me a joy responsive to the Father's joy. I seek His will so I can serve with gladness, singing and love. Come, ... Catholic Online 2024-03-15 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-15 Prayer for God's Help in Daily Actions: Prayer of the Day for Thursday, March 14, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-14 Our Father, may everything I do begin with Your Inspiration, continue with Your Help, and reach perfection under Your Guidance. With Your loving care guide me in my daily actions. Help me to persevere with love and sincerity. Teach me to judge wisely the things of earth and to love the things of Heaven. Keep me in Your presence and never let me be separated from You. Your Spirit made me Your child, confident to call You Father. Make Your Love the foundation of ... Catholic Online 2024-03-14 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-14 To Perceive Animals as God's Gifts: Prayer of the Day for Wednesday, March 13, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-13 God Our Heavenly Father, You created the world to serve humanity's needs and to lead them to You. By our own fault we have lost the beautiful relationship which we once had with all Your creation. Help us to see that by restoring our relationship with You we will also restore it with all Your creation. Give us the grace to see all animals as gifts from You and to treat them with respect for they are Your creation. We pray for all animals who are suffering as a result of ... Catholic Online 2024-03-13 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-13 Prayer to St. Joseph: Prayer of the Day for Tuesday, March 12, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-12 O Blessed Saint Joseph, faithful guardian and protector of virgins, to whom God entrusted Jesus and Mary, I implore you by the love which you did bear them, to preserve me from every defilement of soul and body, that I may always serve them in holiness and purity of love. Amen. Catholic Online 2024-03-12 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-12 Act of Love #1: Prayer of the Day for Monday, March 11, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-11 O My God, I love you above all things, with my whole heart and soul, because you are all-good and worthy of all love. I love my neighbor as myself for the love of you. I forgive all who have injured me, and ask pardon of all whom I have injured. Amen. Catholic Online 2024-03-11 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-11 A Prayer for a Lately Deceased Person: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, March 10, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-10 Absolve, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the soul of Thy servant N..., from every bond of sin, that being raised in the glory of the resurrection, he may be refreshed among the Saints and Elect. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. Catholic Online 2024-03-10 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-10 Unfailing Prayer to St. Anthony: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, March 09, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-09 "Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints" O Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for God and Charity for His creatures, made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers. Encouraged by this thought, I implore you to obtain for me (request). O gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ears of the sweet Infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your arms; and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. ... Catholic Online 2024-03-09 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-09 Prayer in Time of Sickness or Trial: Prayer of the Day for Friday, March 08, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-08 O good Jesus, I accept willingly this sickness [or trial] which it has pleased you to lay upon me. I confide all my pains to your Sacred Heart, and beg you to unite them with your bitter sufferings, and thus perfect them by making them your own. Since I cannot render you the praise due to you because of the multitude of my sorrows and afflictions, I ask you to praise God the Father for all I suffer, with the same tribute of praise you offered him when your agony on the Cross was at its ... Catholic Online 2024-03-08 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-08 Act of Contrition: Prayer of the Day for Thursday, March 07, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-07 O, my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you. I detest all my sins because of your just punishment, but most of all because they offend you, my God, who are all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin. Catholic Online 2024-03-07 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-07 A Parent's Prayer for their Children: Prayer of the Day for Wednesday, March 06, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-06 O Heavenly Father, I commend my children unto Thee. Be Thou their God and Father; and mercifully supply whatever is wanting in me through frailty or negligence. Strengthen them to overcome the corruptions of the world, to resist all solicitations to evil, whether from within or without; and deliver them from the secret snares of the enemy. Pour Thy grace into their hearts, and confirm and multiply in them the gifts of Thy Holy Spirit, that they may daily grow in ... Catholic Online 2024-03-06 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-06 Psalm for the Sick: Prayer of the Day for Tuesday, March 05, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-05 O Lord, in your anger punish me not; in your wrath chastise me not. For your arrows have sunk deep in me; your hand has come down upon me. There is no health in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no wholeness in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are like a heavy burden, beyond my strength. Noisome and festering are my sores, because of my folly. I am stooped and bowed down profoundly; all the day I go in mourning. For my loins are filled with ... Catholic Online 2024-03-05 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-05 Morning Offering Prayer #4: Prayer of the Day for Monday, March 04, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-04 Almighty God, I thank you for your past blessings. Today I offer myself - whatever I do, say, or think - to your loving care. Continue to bless me, Lord. I make this morning offering in union with the divine intentions of Jesus Christ who offers himself daily inthe holy sacrifice of the Mass, and in union with Mary, his Virgin Mother and our Mother, who was always the faithful handmaid of the Lord. Amen. Catholic Online 2024-03-04 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-04 Prayer for the Sick: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, March 03, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-03 Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Christ. Rest your weary ones. Bless your dying ones. Soothe your suffering ones. Pity your afflicted ones. Shield your joyous ones. And for all your love's sake. Amen. Saint Augustine Catholic Online 2024-03-03 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-03 Thanks for Family and Friends: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, March 02, 2024 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-02 Blessed are You, loving Father, For all your gifts to us. Blessed are You for giving us family and friends To be with us in times of joy and sorrow, To help us in days of need, And to rejoice with us in moments of celebration.. Father, We praise You for Your Son Jesus, Who knew the happiness of family and friends, And in the love of Your Holy Spirit. Blessed are you for ever and ever. Amen. Catholic Online 2024-03-02 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayeroftheday/?select_date=2024-03-02