to Love One
AnotherPrayers for a Loving Attitude
to Love One
Another
Lord Jesus Christ, You gave your life out of love for all people, and You encouraged your followers to do good to others. Over the years many Christians have found this difficult and I am no exception. I try, but it is so hard to have a loving attitude toward all---and then I feel hypocritical in claiming to follow You.
Help me, dear Lord, to really believe that Christian love is the greatest energy in the world. Let me see that this is not an emotion, but a central attitude of one's being---an attitude of service for others in Your Name. It is the result of your grace, and prompts us to will only good things for others as images of God. Grant that I may always strive to attain this attitude and so live up to the noble vocation to which I am called. Amen.
Merciful Father, You have given me all that I have in this world, even life itself. In all my daily needs, help me to remember the needs of others, too. Make me aware of the need to pray to You not just for myself but for the Church, the Pope, for the clergy, and for people who suffer any need. Make me as selfless as Saint John Newmann was. Throughout my life, give me the grace to direct my first thoughts to the service of You and of others. Make my prayer--"Your will be done" knowing that in Your mercy and love, Your will for me is my sanctification. I ask this through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Heartfelt Prayer of Forgiveness
Hold in your mind someone you find it hard to forgive (this may be yourself also)
When you are
ready pray for that person, asking God to love and bless them.
Be specific and generous in your prayer.
If you find anger
still there tell God about that, don't pretend.
You will be able to forgive when the time comes.
If you will see
this person again imagine yourself being different with them, the
difference forgiveness will make.
If you won't see them again or if they have died simply open your
hands to let go of the anger and hand them over to God.
If you are not ready to forgive yet simply pray for the grace of forgiveness. There is no need to feel guilty, forgiveness takes time and healing. If the anger is still strong you may need to find a way to let it out. A way that is safe and doesn't harm anyone, such as punching a pillow or throwing rocks into the sea.
Remember to thank God for this time of prayer.
Prayer to be a Better Person
O God, help me today to think of the feelings of others as much as I think of my own. If I know there are things which annoy people with whom I live and work, help me not to do them. If I know there are things which would please them, help me to go out of my way to do them. Help me to think before I speak, so that I may not thoughtlessly or tactlessly hurt or embarrass anyone. If I have to disagree with anyone, help me to do so with courtesy. If I have to argue with anyone, help me to do so without losing my temper. If I have to criticize anyone, help me to do so with kindness. If anyone has to criticize me, help me to accept it with grace. Help me all through the day to treat others as I would wish to be treated. Amen.
Prayer for Understanding
Father in heaven, help me understand the needs of those who struggle every day to stand tall against the world's pain. Help me find a way to give hope to those who have turned to alcohol or drugs for survival. Help me teach the children the lessons of life that will shape their future, body, mind, and soul. Help me to feed the poor and elderly, too proud to say that they have not eaten today. Help me to look inside myself and see that all mankind is one. And, grant me the strength to understand that I can make a difference. Amen.
A Prayer For the Gift of Understanding
Lord Jesus Christ, grant me the gift of understanding. Help me to understand the feelings of others, the desires of others, the goals of others. At the same time, help me to understand myself in my actions and reactions. Widen my vision beyond my own small world to embrace with knowledge and love the worlds of others. Help me, Lord, to always see you at work in my own life and in the lives of others. Bless me with insight, acceptance and love that is tempered by you who are all things to all men. Help me to understand, Lord. Amen.
A Prayer for Understanding
Lord, teach me to be an understanding person. Don't let me be hasty in my judgments. I don't know what others have suffered, their reasons for doing what they do. I do know that You love others as much as You love me. Instead of judging them, teach me to help them, to be interested in them. I might be the very one they need to change their ways. Amen.
A Prayer to be Merciful
Help me, O Lord,
that my eyes may be merciful, so that I may never suspect or
judtge from appearances, but look for what is beautiful in my
neighbor's soul.
Help me, O Lord, that my ears may be merciful, so that I may give
heed to my neighbor's needs.
Help me, o Lord, that my tongue may be merciful, so that I should
never speak negatively of my neighbor.
Help me, o Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with
good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbor.
Help me, O Lord, that my feet may be merciful, so that I may
hurry to assist my neighbor.
Help me, O Lord, that my heart may be merciful, so that I myself
may feel all the sufferings of my neighbor.
May Your mercy, O Lord, rest upon me. Amen
Let Me Be A Blessing, Lord
Let me be a
blessing, Lord,
To all who pass my way;
Walk with me and guide me
In all I do and say.
Lead me to the
lonely ones
That I might bring them cheer,
To show I care and want to help
And that You are always near.
Let me share with
others
Your covenant and creed;
Help me to instill new faith,
Let me fill their void and need.
I strive to serve
You faithfully,
To channel hope in Your accord;
Empower me, show me the way,
Then let me be a blessing, Lord.
~~ by Anne Costa
Keep Us From Pettiness
Keep us, O God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with faultfinding and leave off self-seeking. May we put away all pretenses and meet each other, face to face, without self-pity and without prejudice. May we never be hasty in judgment and always generous. Let us take time for all things; make us to grow calm, serene, gentle. Teach us to put in action our better impulses-straightforward and unafraid. Grant that we may realize it is the little things of life that create difficulties; that in the big things of life we are as one. Oh, Lord, let us not forget to be kind. Amen.
~~ Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots
Prayer for Generosity
Teach us to be generous, good Lord; teach us to serve You as You deserve; to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing we do Your will.
~~Saint Ignatius of Loyola
A Prayer for You
When you're
lonely I pray you feel God's love.
When you're down I pray God gives you joy.
When you're troubled I pray you know God's peace.
When things are complicated I pray you find simple beauty.
When things are chaotic I pray you are given inner silence.
When things look empty I pray you know hope in Jesus.
~~ Author Unknown
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