Prayers

In every need, let me come to You with humble trust, saying: Jesus, help me!
In all my doubts, perplexities, and temptations: Jesus, help me!
In hours of loneliness, weariness, and trials: Jesus, help me!
In the failure of my plans and hopes, in disappointments, troubles, and sorrows: Jesus, help me!
When others fail me, and Your Grace alone can assist me: Jesus, help me!
When I throw myself on Your tender Love as Savior: Jesus, help me!
When my heart is cast down by failure, at seeing no good come from my efforts: Jesus, help me!
When I feel impatient, and my cross irritates me: Jesus, help me!
When I am ill, and my head and hands cannot work, and I am lonely: Jesus, help me!
Always, in spite of weakness, falls, and shortcomings of every kind: Jesus, help me!
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me and never forsake me.

O most holy Heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore You, I love You, and, with a lively sorrow for my sins, I offer You this poor heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to Your will. Grant, Good Jesus, that I may live in You and for You. Protect me in the midst of danger. Comfort me in my afflictions. Give me health of body, assistance in my temporal needs, Your blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death. Amen.

Gentle Jesus, compassionate and caring Good Shepherd, help me to follow You faithfully. Strengthen me daily with Your love, and guide me along life’s paths. Keep me free from every evil, protect me from sickness and danger, and lead me to serve You with all my mind, heart, and soul. Hear my needs, and grant my petitions, especially these intentions important to me at this time. (Mention petitions) Bless me each day with peace of mind and heart. May I experience Your saving power in my daily life, as I await the fullness of life and joy with You forever. Amen.

(May be said on the rosary beads or as a single prayer)

On the large beads: Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ to heal the wounds of our souls.

On the small beads: My Jesus, pardon and mercy through the merits of Thy Sacred Wounds. Amen.

King Jesus, rich in Heavenly treasures, You Who chose to embrace earthly poverty, now look at Your eternal glory! Riches are indeed the root of all evil, poverty being the road to eternal life. Teach me to embrace a life of poverty, to endure with the bare necessities. If an over-abundance arrives my way, send Your needy children to gather it. Enrich my soul with Heavenly treasures, withdrawing its desires for earthly goods. I trust in Your spiritual providence!

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. 

Lord Jesus, I know that every perfect gift, and especially that of chastity, depends on the power of Your providence. Without You, a mere creature can do nothing. Therefore, I beg You to defend by Your grace the chastity and purity of my body and soul. And if I have ever sensed or imagined anything that could stain my chastity and purity, blot it out, Supreme Lord of my powers, that I may advance with a pure heart in Your love and service, offering myself on the most pure altar of Your divinity all the days of my life. Amen.