21. PRAYER TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

Sacred Heart of Jesus today I wish to live in You, in your grace, in which I desire at all costs to persevere.

Keep me from sin and strength my will by helping me to keep watch over my senses, may imagination, and my heart.

Help me to correct my faults which are the source of sin.

I beg You to do this, O Jesus, through Mary, Your Immaculate Mother.



22. PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH
O Blessed Saint Joseph, faithful guardian and protector of virgins, to whom God entrusted Jesus and Mary, I implore you by the love whch you did bear them, to preserve me from every defilement of soul and body, that may always serve them in holiness and purity of love. Amen.



23. PRAYER TO CHRIST THE KING
Christ Jesus, I acknowledge You King of the universe. All that has been created has been made for You. Make full use of Your rights over me.

I renew the promises I made in Baptism, when I renounced Satan and all his pomp and works, and I promise to live a good life and to do al i my power to procure the triump of the rights of God and Your Church.

Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer you my efforts in order to obtain that all hearts may acknowledge your Sacred Royalty, and that thus the Kigdom of Your peace may be established throughout the universe. Amen.



24. PRAYERS FOR PRIESTS
O Jesus, I pray for Yr faithful and fervent priests; for Your unfaithful and teid priests; for Your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Your tempted priests; for Your lonely priests; for Your young priests; for Your dying priests; for the souls of Your priests in purgatory.

But above all I recommend to You the priests dearest to me; the priest who baptized me; the priests who absolved me from my sins; the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the priests who taught and instructed me; all the priests to whom I am indebted i any other way.
O Jesus, keep them all close to Your heart, and bless them abundantly in time and eternity. Amen.



25. PRAYER FOR THE SICK
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 holy will and know that whatsoever You do, You do for the love of us. Amen.



26. PRAYER FOR THE UNBORN
Heavenly Father, You created us in Your own image, and You desire that not even the least mog us should perish. In Your love for us, You entrusted Your only Son to the holy Virgin Mary. Now, in Your love, protect against the wickedness of the devil, those little ones to whom You have given the gift of life.



27. PRAYER TO THE HOLY TRINITY
Glory be to the Father, Who by His almighty power and love created me, making me in the image and likeness of God.

Glory be to the Son, Who by His Precious Blood delivered me from hell, and opened for me the gates of heaven.

Glory be to the Holy Spirit, Who has sanctified me in the sacrament of Baptism, and continues to sanctify me by the graces I receive daily from His bounty.

Glory be to the Three Adorable Persons of the Holy Trinity, now and forever. Amen.



28. ANIMA CHRISTI
Soul of Christ sanctify me;
Body of Christ save me;
Blood of Christ inebriate me;
Water from the side of Christ wash me;
Passion of Christ strengthen me.
O good Jesus hear me;
Within your wounds hide me;
Never permit me to be separated from You;
From the evil one protect me,
At the hour of my death call me,
And bid me come to you
that with Your saints
I may praise You forever. Amen



29. SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most Holy Sacrament. I love you and desire you. Come into my heart. I embrace you. Oh, never leave me. May the burning and most sweet power of your love, O Lord Jesus Christ, I beseech you, absorb my mind that I may die through love of your love, who were graciously pleased to die through love of my love.



30. MEMORABLE JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH
Remember, Heart of Jesus, Immaculate Heart of Mary, and you, O glorious St. Joseph, that no one has ever had recourse to your protection, or implored your assistance without obtaining relief. Animated with the utmost lively confidence, I come laden with the weight of my sins, to prostrate myself before you. O Merciful Heart of Jesus, Immaculate Heart of Mary, and you, O glorious St. Joseph, reject not my prayer and petitions but graciously hear and grant them. Amen.


© 1998-1999 Fr. Rick, Diocese of Bacolod

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