Prayers by Father Joseph Mary Wolfe, MFVA

Caregivers of the Sick

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we adore You!  You have first loved us and through Your Son You have taught us the excellence of self-giving love.  Give to those who are caregivers of a sick parent or child, brother or sister, the assistance of your holy angles.  Lessen their burden and give them great joy in practicing a work of mercy.  And since charity is never forgotten by You, reveal to them their heavenly reward.  Through Jesus Christ or Lord.  Amen.

Children in Unhappy Homes

Almighty God, we thank You that each one of us is fearfully wonderfully made! You are our Father and we are Your children.  We pray for children who have not experienced Your love in their homes. Console them, Lord!  We pray for those whose parents are separated.  Comfort them, Lord.  We pray for those who have no one to turn to.  Be their refuge, Lord.  Grant all children the security of a happy home and assist those who now suffer.  Through Christ Our Lord. Amen

Christian Freedom

Almighty and ever-living God, we worship You who reigns over all!  There are many places in the world where Christianity is persecuted or outlawed.  Many Christians throughout the world practice their faith in hiding with fear of imprisonment, torture or death.  Grant them freedom, Lord, to follow you.  Protect them from their oppressors and use EWTN to bring them hope and encouragement.  Turn the hearts of their persecutors so that they, too, may experience the joy of salvation in Jesus Christ. Amen.

Corona Virus

O Holy Spirit, we thank you for the advancements that have led to improving the health of so many.  We beg you to inspire new breakthroughs in overcoming the corona virus and all serious flu viruses.  Protect, we pray, health care professionals from the illnesses they are treating and make then instruments of your healing.  Amen.

Deceased

Heavenly Father, the lasting hope of all who believe, we trust in Your goodness!  We pray for our loved ones who have died.  We pray, also, for all those who helped us during our lives: our friends, our teachers, clergy, religious, and all of our benefactors who have died.  Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.  May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed though Your mercy, rest in peace.  Amen.

Elderly

Almighty God and Father, we adore You from whom all life has come and to Whom all life returns!  Give to those who are suffering under the burden of years of hope and joy.  Fill them with gratitude for their many years and make them rich in love.  As they grow older on the outside make them younger on the inside through the work of the Holy Spirit.  Use this time to prepare them, Lord, for the joys of eternal life.  Through Christ Our Lord.  Amen.

Fathers

Heavenly Father, we adore You!  All fatherhood has its source in You.  Strengthen fatherhood in our land.  Give men hearts of courage to defend and protect what is good.  Help them in their sacrifices to provide for their families and console them with good friends.  Bless our fathers, reward them for their sacrificial love and grant eternal rest to those who have died.  Let men and women who never knew the support of a loving father come to know that of St. Joseph.  Amen

God’s Blessing Upon Our Work

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of David, we praise You!  You taught us the value of human labor through Your own work as a carpenter.  Bless our labors and bring success to the work of our hands.  Bring success to the work of our hands.  May everything we do begin with Your inspiration and continue with Your saving help.  Let our work always find its origin in You and through You reach its completion.  Amen.

Holy Spirit Gifts of Healing

Holy Spirit, Lord of Life, from the clear celestial height, Thy pure beaming radiance give!  Heal our wounds, our strength renew!  On our dryness, pour thy dew!  Wash the stains of guilt away!  Bend the stubborn heart and will, melt the frozen, warm the chill, guide the steps that go astray!  Give us comfort when we die, give us life with Thee on high, give us joys that never end!  Come, Holy Spirit, come.  Amen.

Marriage

Almighty God and Father, we adore you.  You are the author of marriage and have made it a covenant of faithful, exclusive and enduring love between one man and one woman.  Protect this sacred institution from those who are working to deform it.  Bring to conversion those who cohabitate and restore the dignity of marriage and family life to our land.  Strengthen those who are struggling in their marriages and protect our children from neglect and divorce.  We ask this through Christ our Lord.  Amen.

Mothers

Heavenly Father, we worship You our creator!  You have revealed Your tender love for us through the love of our mothers.  Bless our mothers and reward them for their sacrificial love.  Grant consolation and strength to mothers who are exhausted, those struggling to hold their families together, and those in difficult marriages.  Bless our mothers, Lord, and grant eternal rest to those who have died.  Let men and women who never knew a mother’s love come to know that of Mary, Your mother.  Amen.

Our Nation

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we love you!  We thank you for our nation and the many blessings we enjoy in our earthly homeland.  Protect us from those who plot evil against our country and use us to build a civilization of love.  Let obedience to Your commandments be our way of life so that we may have peace throughout our land, I our cities, our homes, and on our hearts.  Lead us all to our lasting homeland of Heaven.  Amen.

Ourselves

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore You!  You have brought me into existence. You support me throughout my life and you invite me to share in your life forever.  How good you ae to me!  Protect me from moral and physical harm.  Give me Your Spirit to inspire, guide, and transform me.  Use me for Your glory and the good of others and never let me be separated from You, my God and my all!  Amen.

Our Siblings

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we love You!  You have revealed your inner life as a communion of persons and so we pray today in thanksgiving for our brothers and sisters with whom we have shared our lives.  Grant us reconciliation with those who are estranged from us and help those who have fallen on hard times to rise up once again.  Bless, O Lord, all of my brothers and sisters and reunite us one day in Heaven.  Amen.

Peace in the World

Lord Jesus, Prince of Peace, we need you!  The world is filled with strife and violence and this fills us with fear.  You told your disciples that peace was Your gift to them.  Give us Your peace to bring us calm in the midst of the storm!  Instill Your gift of peace into the hearts of all men that they may seek reconciliation and understanding.  Quiet the sounds of war and hatred and raise up a chorus of harmony and peace.  Amen.

Prayer of Thanksgiving

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we thank you for this day, which is your gift to us.  Let us live it in a way that is pleasing to You.  We thank You for saving us from sin and death.  Make us virtuous and holy.  We thank You for a place being prepared for us in Your House for ever.  Do not let us be separated from You.  We thank you for the many things we take for granted.  Help us delight in Your goodness.  Amen.

Prisoners

Lord Jesus, we praise you for revealing Your love for prisoners, for you said that when we visit them, we visit you.  Sanctify this time of imprisonment for all prisoners.  Bring the grace of conversion to hardened criminals.  Give the joy of salvation to those who never knew a loving family and grant freedom to those unjustly imprisoned.  Teach our brothers and sisters in prison how to pray and let them find hope in Your words of forgiveness to the thief who died next to You.  Amen.

Protection in Time of Pandemic

O Mary, you always brighten our path as a sign of salvation and of hope.  We entrust ourselves to you.  Health of the sick, who, at the cross, took part in Jesus’ pain while remaining steadfast in faith. O loving mother, you know what we need, and we are confident that you will provide for us as at Cana in Galilee.  Intercede for us with your son Jesus, the Divine Physician, for those who have fallen ill, for those who are vulnerable, and for those who have died.  Intercede also for those charged with protecting the health and safety of others and for those who are tending to the sick and seeking a cure.  Help us, O Mother of Divine Love, to conform to the will of the Father and to do as we are told by Jesus, who took upon himself our sufferings and carried our sorrows, so as to lead us, through the cross, to the glory of the Resurrection.  Amen.

Terrorists

Heavenly Father, we come to You with tears and sorrow as witness the senseless killing of the innocent by terrorism.  We know that you do not delight in the destruction of the living and have commanded us not to kill.  You are the Father of all who walk this earth.  Speak to the hearts of those who are plotting evil.  Infuse into them love and respect for the dignity of every human person.  Send Your holy angles to safeguard those in danger.  Through Christ Our Lord.  Amen

The Pope

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Mary, we praise You!  Before ascending into Heaven, You, the Good Shepherd , entrusted the care of Your sheep to Peter to tend and feed them.  Send the Holy Spirit to our Holy Father, the Pope.  Enlighten his mind, enflame his heart,  and strengthen his will so that he may fulfill Your Holy Will toward us.  Console him in his trials, assist him in his labors, and make him a Saint. Amen

Those in Need of Employment

Our Provident Father in Heaven, Holy is Your name!  Many today are without employment and are struggling for themselves and their families.  “Give us, this day our daily bread.”  Reveal Your providential care and assist them in finding meaningful work.  Bring them closer to You in this time of trial and show them the way.  Let the door be opened to them for we are knocking.  Let them receive Your help, for we are asking.  Amen

Those in Nursing Homes

Heavenly Father, we worship You!  You loved the thought of each one of us and wanted us to exist and so You created us.   Never let the lonely forget that You desired them to be.  Shower your blessings upon those who are in nursing homes and make this time in their lives fruitful for eternity.  Reveal Your love to them.  Deepen their love for You and unite their prayers and sufferings to those of Jesus for the salvation of the world.  Amen .

Those Living with an Alcoholic

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we love You!  We pray for those who suffer with a parent, spouse, or child who is an alcoholic.  Give them wisdom Lord! Let them rise above their struggles and find consolation and light in prayer.  Show them the way to remedying their plight.  Speak to the heart of the one bringing distress into the home, showing them the path to conversion and freedom from alcoholism.  Amen.

Those Who Are Dying

Lord Jesus, Savior who suffered death so that we might live, be with those who are now dying.  Comfort those who are alone, console those who are suffering, renew the hope of those in despair and reveal yourself to those who do not believe.  Let Your Divine Mercy surround all those who are dying to bring them to the place that You have prepared for them in the Father’s House.  Let none of them be lost. Amen.

Those Who Govern Us

Lord Jesus Christ, we praise you who are King of kings and the Lord of lords!  For Your reign will never end.  We pray for all our government leaders.  Give us, O Lord, men and women after Your own heart.  Reverse the tide of immorality in our land and raise up Godly men and women to govern us.  Through our leaders protect life from its conception, safeguard marriage and family life, and grant us freedom of conscience.  Amen.

Those Who Have Left the Church

Lord Jesus Christ, Good Shepherd, we praise You!  You founded the Church on the foundation of the apostles and promised that the gates of Hell would never prevail against her.  Bring those who have left the faith back to Your Catholic Church.  Give them the grace of conversion from sin, stir into flame the gift of the Holy Spirit within them and restore to Your prodigal children their lost dignity.  Lord Jesus, have mercy. Amen.

Those Who Suffer with Cancer

Lord Jesus Christ, Healer of souls and bodies, we praise You for this day of life.  We ask you to look upon all those who have been diagnosed with cancer.  We pray for those who are undergoing difficult cancer treatments and for those who have lost heart.  O Divine Physician, bring them healing in body and mind and soul.  Console them with Your presence and five them even joy in their suffering.  Amen.

Those Who Suffer with Parkinson’s Disease

Lord Jesus Christ, Consoler of the afflicted, You are our refuge!  We pray for those who are suffering the effects of Parkinson’s Disease.  As they lose their physical strength and abilities, increase their spiritual strength and abilities.  Renew their inner spirit day after day and their share in Your sufferings give the grace of conversion to sinners. In their weakness, reveal Your strength.  Give peace and joy to those who care for them.  Amen.

Women Considering Abortion

Heavenly Father, we worship You! You loved the thought of each one of us and wanted us to exist and so You knit each one of us in our mother’s wombs.  Share Your love with those mothers who are considering aborting their unborn children.   Dispel their fears, free them from pressuring boyfriends or parents and give them joy in their motherhood.  Spare them, Lord, from a life of regret so that they may enjoy the satisfaction of a motherhood lived in love. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

Prayer of Thanksgiving

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we thank you for this day, which is your gift to us.  Let us live it in a way that is pleasing to You.  We thank You for saving us from sin and death.  Make us virtuous and holy.  We thank You for a place being prepared for us in Your House for ever.  Do not let us be separated from You.  We thank you for the many things we take for granted.  Help us delight in Your goodness.  Amen.

Pope Francis’ Prayer to the Mother of Divine Love

You, Salvation of Your People, know what we need.  We are certain that You will provide, so that, as You did at Cana of Galilee, joy and feasting might return after this moment of trial.  Dear Heavenly Mother, help us to live these difficult days filled with hope, with renewed unity, with a true spirit of obedience to what is required of us with a certainty that after this trial we may arrive at the blessed and glorious hour of the Resurrection.  Amen.