Prayers for Patience
Patience is asked for in three directions here: with a situation that will not move, with a person who is exhausting you, and with yourself.
They are short, which is fitting — you usually need them right in the moment.
11 prayers
- A Prayer for a Difficult Family Relationship
A contemporary pastoral prayer on Christ's command to love and pray for those who wound us (Matthew 5:44). The Christian tradition…
- A Prayer for a Troubled Marriage
A contemporary pastoral prayer for marital difficulty. It follows the biblical pattern of asking God to change the one praying first…
- A Prayer for Caregivers
A contemporary pastoral prayer for those caring for the sick, the elderly, the disabled, or a family member in crisis, drawing on Isaiah…
- A Prayer for Teachers and All Who Raise Children
A contemporary prayer for teachers, catechists, coaches, and parents, drawing on Mark 10:13–16 and Christ's warning in Matthew 18:6. St.…
- A Prayer in Chronic Illness
A contemporary pastoral prayer for long-term illness, disability, and pain, closing with God's answer to Paul's unhealed "thorn in the…
- Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Pope Pius IX entrusted the ancient Byzantine icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to the Redemptorists in 1866 with the instruction to “make…
- Novena to St. Rita of Cascia
St. Rita of Cascia (1381–1457) was an Italian wife, mother, widow, and finally an Augustinian nun. She endured an abusive marriage and the…
- Offering of the Day (St. Francis de Sales)
An offering from the Introduction to the Devout Life and the Salesian tradition, meant to be prayed at the start of a day already known to…
- Paul's Prayer for Wisdom and Endurance (Colossians 1)
From Colossians 1:9–12. Paul prays for a young church he had never visited, asking not for ease but for endurance "with joy." The prayer is…
- Psalm 123 — Unto Thee Lift I Up Mine Eyes
A short Song of Ascents, the prayer of servants watching their master's hand, prayed by the contemptuously treated and the overlooked. Part…
- Psalm 62 — My Soul, Wait Thou Only Upon God
A psalm of stillness and unhurried trust, insisting that God alone is rock and refuge while power and riches are a breath on the scales.…