Daily Christian Devotions
A devotion is not one prayer but a habit — a small, repeatable practice you keep on ordinary days. Each entry here gives you the full text of the prayers and a plain description of how the practice is kept: what to pray, when, and why it was given.
Some are daily, like the Rosary, the Liturgy of the Hours, or a short visit to the Blessed Sacrament. Others follow a rhythm across weeks or months, like the Nine First Fridays, the Five First Saturdays, or the thirty-three day preparation for consecration to Jesus through Mary. Start with one. A devotion kept badly but kept is worth more than a perfect one abandoned.
18 prayers
- Act of Consecration on Receiving the Brown Scapular
This act of consecration is prayed at the moment of enrollment in the Brown Scapular, when a priest blesses and imposes the cloth for the…
- Act of Consecration to Jesus through Mary (St. Louis de Montfort)
This is the act of consecration composed by St. Louis de Montfort and printed at the end of his True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.…
- Act of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
This act of reparation is the prayer most commonly used with the Five First Saturdays devotion and on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of…
- Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
This act of reparation, known from its Latin opening as "Iesu dulcissime," was prescribed by Pope Pius XI in his 1928 encyclical…
- Prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel takes her title from the mountain range in northern Israel where the prophet Elijah confronted the prophets of…
- The Brown Scapular Devotion (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) — Daily Practice
The Brown Scapular is the habit of the Carmelite Order given in miniature to the laity. Carmelite tradition holds that on 16 July 1251 the…
- The Daily Rosary — Devotional Practice
The Rosary as a daily rule of life, rather than a single prayer, is one of the oldest lay devotions in the Western Church. It grew from the…
- The Five First Saturdays Devotion to the Immaculate Heart — Practice
The Five First Saturdays devotion belongs to the Fatima apparitions. On 13 July 1917 the children at Fatima were told that God wished to…
- The Green Scapular Devotion (For Conversion) — Daily Practice
The Green Scapular was given, according to the account of the Daughters of Charity, to Sister Justine Bisqueyburu at Blangy, France, in…
- The Green Scapular Prayer
This is the only prayer required by the Green Scapular devotion, given at Blangy in 1840 with the scapular itself. Its brevity is…
- The Heroic Act of Charity for the Souls in Purgatory
The Heroic Act of Charity is an offering, made once and renewable, by which a person gives to the souls in purgatory all the satisfactory…
- The Invitatory: Psalm 95 (Venite, Exultemus)
Psalm 95, known by its Latin opening as the Venite, is the Invitatory — the first psalm of the day in the Liturgy of the Hours and in the…
- The Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) — Daily Practice
The Liturgy of the Hours is the Church's daily public prayer, the ancient practice of sanctifying the hours of the day with psalms and…
- The Nine First Fridays Devotion to the Sacred Heart — Practice
The Nine First Fridays devotion comes from the revelations of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation nun at…
- The Scriptural Rosary — A Guide to Praying with the Word
The Scriptural Rosary is the practice of reading a short verse of Scripture before each Hail Mary, so that the whole Gospel narrative of a…
- The Way of the Cross (Stations of the Cross) — Complete Guide
The Way of the Cross began as a pilgrimage. Christians in Jerusalem walked the route Christ took from Pilate's judgment hall to Calvary,…
- Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary (33-Day Preparation) — Practice
St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716) was a French missionary priest whose "True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary" set out…
- Visits to the Blessed Sacrament — Daily Practice
The practice of visiting the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass grew up in the Western Church from the twelfth century onward, as the…