The “Offering of Self” Prayer from St. Ignatius of Loyola
Pray this short prayer to make an offering of Self from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Pray this short prayer to make an offering of Self from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Prayers lift up our hearts to God and open them to receive His grace. For thousands of years, throughout the history of the Church and all of Biblical history, man always falls into slavery and sin when he turns from God and he finds redemption and deliverance from sin through prayer. Faith comes from knowing God and we come to know Him through prayer. By spending time with Jesus in prayer we contemplate His love and salvation message. This transforms our hearts over time.
The adoration chapel is where Jesus resides, with us, all days, in the consecrated Host, given to us by His priests, in what we call the Blessed Sacrament. He is with us always. This is His Real Presence in the world, and when the wounded, lost, suffering, and sinful people come to this place and kneel before Him, He makes his presence known to them. He is the King of Kings of the heavenly hosts, and He gives a grace within the walls of the adoration chapel that cannot be felt anywhere else in the world except when we partake of holy Communion.
Adoration is about uniting with Christ in His suffering. Your suffering, your loneliness, your hunger, your wounds – they are most efficacious when they are united with Christ’s suffering. Offer them up for the love of Jesus Christ. Ask Him to change your heart and make it like His own Sacred Heart.
Act of Faith, Hope and Love is a beautiful adoration prayer to Jesus Christ to be prayed before holy Communion or while in Eucharistic adoration after Mass.
A First Fridays devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus offers many graces and blessings and is done on nine consecutive first Fridays of the month.
Saint Francis of Assisi had a deep devotion to Jesus in adoration. When he began his ministry of rebuilding the church he entered a ruined church and heard Jesus speak to him from the crucifix.
The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy is prayed on a regular set of rosary beads. It begins with two prayers from the Diary of Saint Faustina.
Pray this beautiful prayer for priests every day written by the former Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Cushing, who established many new churches and seminaries before his death in 1970.
In times of uncertainty and distress, we ask the Lord to give us peace of mind and heart. Prayer this prayer for the peace that only God can give.
This devotional repentance prayer has been traditionally prayed before confession to help the penitent prepare to ask forgiveness of sins.
Direct your attention to God with the right frame of mind by humbly praying the Act of Petition prayer. Then pray from your heart your personal needs.
Pray the Confiteor prayer after confession, which is the prayer of the faithful after making a confession to the priest in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
The Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus, privately prayed for centuries, was approved for public recitation in 1960 by Pope John XXIII.
