Prayers for Faith

22 prayers

• A Prayer for Healing of Body

  A contemporary prayer for physical healing rooted in the healing narratives of the Gospels and in James 5:14–15, which instructs the sick…

• Act of Consecration to Mary

  The consecration associated with St. Louis de Montfort's “True Devotion to Mary” (early eighteenth century). Its theology is explicitly…

• Adoro Te Devote (Humbly We Adore Thee)

  Composed by St. Thomas Aquinas around 1264 for the new feast of Corpus Christi. It is a Eucharistic hymn, moving from confession of faith…

• Behold, Lord, an Empty Vessel (Martin Luther)

  From Luther's writings on prayer and faith, and one of the clearest statements of the Reformation's central conviction: we come to God…

• Elijah's Prayer on Mount Carmel

  Two verses against four hundred and fifty prophets: 'Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God.' A…

• Eternal God, Eternal Trinity (St. Catherine of Siena)

  From The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena (1378), a Doctor of the Church and mystic. It captures her characteristic paradox: the more she…

• Mary's Fiat: Be It Unto Me According to Thy Word

  The shortest and most consequential prayer of consent in scripture. Read at the Annunciation and prayed daily at the Angelus, it is the…

• O God, I Love Thee (St. Francis Xavier)

  The Latin hymn O Deus ego amo te, long attributed to St. Francis Xavier, in Gerard Manley Hopkins's celebrated English version. It is the…

• Pardon Prayer of the Angel of Fatima

  Taught by the Angel of Peace to the three shepherd children of Fatima — Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta — during the spring apparition of…

• Paul's Prayer for Inner Strength (Ephesians 3)

  From Ephesians 3:14–21, written from prison. Unlike most petitions it asks for nothing external — only interior strength, indwelling, and…

• Prayer After the Rosary

  The traditional concluding collect of the Rosary. It states the discipline's purpose with unusual precision: meditation should lead to…

• Prayer of Abandonment (Charles de Foucauld)

  Charles de Foucauld was a French soldier and explorer who converted dramatically in 1886 and spent the rest of his life as a hermit among…

• Prayer of St. Richard of Chichester

  St. Richard of Chichester, an English bishop, is said to have prayed these words on his deathbed in 1253. The prayer was little known…

• Prayer to Jesus (St. Anselm of Canterbury)

  Adapted from St. Anselm of Canterbury's Prayers and Meditations, written for lay people in the eleventh century so that they could pray…

• Psalm 63 — My Soul Thirsts for You

  From the earliest centuries Psalm 63 was the psalm of Christian morning prayer; St. John Chrysostom records that the Church decreed no day…

• Renewal of Baptismal Promises

  The renewal of baptismal promises is the Church's own act of renunciation, made by every Christian at the Easter Vigil and at the reception…

• The Act of Faith

  The Acts of Faith, Hope, and Love are three short prayers corresponding to the theological virtues, formalised in catechisms from the…

• The Apostles' Creed

  The Apostles' Creed grew out of the questions asked of candidates at baptism in Rome as early as the second century, and reached its…

• The Canaanite Woman's Prayer

  'Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs.' A mother refuses to be dismissed and is told her faith is great. Prayed by those who feel…

• The Centurion's Prayer: Lord, I Am Not Worthy

  'Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only.' The Church has put this soldier's sentence on the…

• The Nicene Creed

  The Nicene Creed was drawn up by the Council of Nicaea in 325 and completed at the Council of Constantinople in 381 to answer the Arian…

• The Sign of the Cross

  The oldest and simplest Christian prayer of all, traced by Tertullian around AD 200, who wrote that Christians of his day traced the cross…

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