Daily Prayer
Father, give me the grace this Lent to halt the action of the Evil One in my life. May my heart be freed and filled with the living charity of the Holy Spirit.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Spend fifteen minutes or more praying the Holy Name of Jesus.
Daily Prayer
Father Almighty, grant us the grace to hear clearly the challenge of Jesus your Son to offer our love to him wholeheartedly and without calculating the cost.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Offer your day for the intentions of another person whose name you keep in mind all day.
Daily Prayer
Almighty Father, let your Holy Spirit teach me and help me to abstain and to embrace on the road of life that leads to you.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Skip a meal or part of one.
Daily Prayer
Merciful Father, send to us the divine Physician, and give us the good sense to know how badly we need him, and to trust that only he can heal us: through the same Christ our Lord.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Visit an elderly person.
Daily Prayer
Almighty Father, help me to see that your kingdom is at hand and in fact begins where my hand reaches out to another in need.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Spend ten minutes reading the Bible.
Daily Prayer
Loving Father, let me share your gifts fearlessly and find your Son in my weakness and need.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Do something concrete to help the poor.
Daily Prayer
Most merciful Father, when everything inside me seems broken, I draw close to you in my poverties and wounds. Thank you for claiming me as your own.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Spend ten minutes slowly meditating on the Our Father.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, help us to give honor to the greatness of your Son by lives of deeper faith, trusting always in his near presence to us and our daily needs.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Sacrifice some ordinary comfort or convenience today.
Daily Prayer
Loving Father, keep me safely united with the Bishop of Rome. Grant him peace, long life, and enduring well-being.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Pray with special insistence for the most pressing petitions in your life.
Daily Prayer
God and Father, give us the courage and wisdom to be present to those we encounter today, not because we want to be good, but because you come to us through them.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Make a gesture of reconciliation with someone from whom you are alienated.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, even though I am imperfect you love me perfectly. Answer me in my need.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Do something kind for someone who does not like you.
Daily Prayer
Father, you covered over your beloved Son’s light with the shadow of a big cloud. Overshadow me with the veil of your Spirit, that I may also please you, accept your will, and share your glory.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Listen to someone you would otherwise pass by.
Daily Prayer
Gentle God, everything I have received is a gift. Today help me be grateful for those people whose love has shaped my life.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Do some extraordinary kindness to someone who would never expect it.
Daily Prayer
O Creator, God, you have given us the possibility of working and performing acts of usefulness and piety. Help us to work always for a relationship with you and with our neighbor through your Son our Savior.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Pray and offer some sacrifice for the pope.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, open our minds to true knowledge of our weakness. Crush our proud, hardened hearts with the force of your gentle love.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Serve someone today with love.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, may we seek your face through works of mercy, and encounter the presence of Christ your Son.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Do something charitable for the homeless.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, show me the power of surprising others and myself by imitating the forgiving love of you and your Son that fashioned a new creation.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Spend ten minutes praying before the Blessed Sacrament.
Daily Prayer
Father in heaven, give me the grace to find freedom in serving you and help me always to remember my heavenly home.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Go to confession.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, please forgive my Pharisaical nitpicking, complaining, and selfishness. May I repent of such distractions and keep my eyes only on you when I am tempted to murmur about my pastor, parish, or fellow Christians.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Volunteer in a shelter, a soup kitchen, or a tutorial center.
Daily Prayer
O Father, who have revealed yourself to us in your Son, let us never flag in our desire to know him, to love him, and to desire to be with him in our true country, the Jerusalem that is to be.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Give away some of your belongings.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, show me in my most recent heated exchange how inaccurate my judgments, inflated my emotions, and glaring my faults were. Grant me the grace of forgiveness, I pray.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Point out to another his or her virtue.
Daily Prayer
Loving Father, help me to live your will, the perfect law of freedom, so that, now bound to the project of transformation, I may later be free forever.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Clean up someone else’s mess.
Daily Prayer
Loving Father, we desire to be deeply faithful to the truth of Jesus Christ and his Church, and so ask for the bestowal of this grace in these special days of Lent.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Pray for and give alms to the missions.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, give me to see you in another today, someone who reminds me that you are making me now through every situation and face I encounter.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Fast from television or some other amusement.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, during this Lenten season, help me to be humble and see my own sinfulness, so that I am able to make a good confession and worthily receive your mercy and grace.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Console someone who is grieving.
Daily Prayer
Father of consolation, may we faithfully seek the presence of Christ in the midst of our own sufferings, and be moved by his mercy to offer ourselves to others who suffer.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Offer your day for someone who has fallen away from the Faith.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, stripped and laid bare, I fall at your feet. May this experience lead me and my household to believe in you more deeply.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Pray the rosary with the intention of renewing your Marian devotion.
Daily Prayer
Gentle God, I want to be well. Give me the grace to hear the voice of Jesus. Give me the grace to get up.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Prayerfully make a list of the greatest desires of your heart.
Daily Prayer
Kind and patient Father: Do not give up on us when we stop our ears against your Word, but send us again and again your Spirit, that we may become as little children, through Jesus Christ, your beloved Son.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Do something kind for someone you love.
Daily Prayer
Almighty Father, in times of fear and uncertainty, help me to love your Son more faithfully, following the Light of Light that leads to you.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Send a thank you note to someone to whom you owe a debt of gratitude.
Daily Prayer
O God, help us to stand in such amazement at the work of your Son in our midst, that we may only manage to ask the questions, “Who are you?” and “Where are you from?”
Today’s Suggested Penance
Reconnect with someone who was responsible for generating the Faith in you.
Daily Prayer
Father, you said, “This is my beloved Son, listen to him.” Let your Word speak in my heart. May I hear it addressed to me, full of divine power to liberate me from all my servitude.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Pray in a special way to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Daily Prayer
Father, as you sent Ananias to take the scales from Paul’s eyes, heal my blindness, that I may see your Risen Son in the way he chooses to bring me new life.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Do something loving for someone who is sick.
Daily Prayer
Gracious Father, grant us the gift of silence; empty us of our words, that we may be filled with your will, as Saint Joseph was.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Do something constructive to rescue someone ensnared in sin.
Daily Prayer
Gentle God, give me the grace to listen, to live in the spirit of calm, and to allow the words of Jesus to change my heart.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Give counsel to the doubtful.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, grant me a profound love for your paternity. Teach me to love everyone and to care for everything because they belong to you, my Father.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Instruct the ignorant.
Daily Prayer
Father, the awareness of our impending deaths can make life unendurable. Release us from this doom by letting us share in the victory of Christ, your Son.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Pray with special devotion to your patron saint(s).
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, may we see your love for us in the ordinary blessings of every day.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Bear wrongs that you experience today patiently.
Daily Prayer
Most merciful Father, help me to look for your Son. May my searching not be in vain. May my pursuit involve others.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Give comfort to someone who is afflicted.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, accept our prayer of thanksgiving for the earthly journey of your most beloved Son, whose Death on the cross has given us new life. Through your merciful love, allow us to become witnesses of his Resurrection.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Make a holy hour with your family to pray for the graces of Holy Week.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, may the fragrance of your Paschal Lamb animate your living memory within me, so I can respond with my life.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Say “I’m sorry” to someone who is alienated from you.
Daily Prayer
Dearest Father, show me a witness of your gratitude today, someone who is aware of your love, tenderness, compassion, and forgiveness.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Do something kind for those in prison.
Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, I am struck to the heart anew with my flippancy and disrespect toward you. May I frequent confession and guard my heart so that the intimate Bread you offer me is never again a painful betrayal of your love.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Give alms to a needy person or cause.
Daily Prayer
Gracious Father, bestow on me a great love for the Eucharist. Conform my life to the mystery I receive in Holy Communion.
Today’s Suggested Penance
Buy someone a meal or something to drink.
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