Prayers for Work and Provision
These prayers cover work and money: finding a job, keeping one that is grinding you down, providing for a household, and doing ordinary labor as something offered to God.
Several are short enough to pray at a desk before starting the day.
26 prayers
- A Prayer for Daily Work and Provision
Drawn from the Book of Common Prayer's collect "For Every Man in His Work," this prayer treats ordinary labour as a genuine vocation rather…
- A Prayer for Doctors, Nurses, and Caregivers
A contemporary prayer for healthcare workers, drawing on the ancient title of Christus Medicus — Christ the Physician — used by the Church…
- A Prayer for Students
A contemporary student's prayer in the tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas's Ante Studium and of the medieval universities, which opened each…
- 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 for Those in Harm's Way
A contemporary prayer for those in dangerous service, in the tradition of the Book of Common Prayer's prayers "For those in the Armed…
- A Prayer for Those Seeking Work
A contemporary pastoral prayer for unemployment and job seeking, drawing on Matthew 6:25–33. St. Joseph the Worker and St. Cajetan are the…
- Blessing of a Boat and Those at Sea
A blessing for fishing and sailing vessels and for all who work or travel upon the sea.
- Blessing of a Garden
A blessing over a garden, asking fruitfulness of the soil and peace for those who tend it.
- Blessing of a Workplace
A blessing for an office, shop, farm, or business and for all who work there.
- Blessing of Fields and Crops
A Rogation-tide blessing over farmland and crops for a fruitful harvest.
- Blessing of Students and Teachers
A blessing for the beginning of a school term, for students, teachers, and schools.
- Christ Has No Body Now But Yours (St. Teresa of Ávila)
A prayer that grew out of St. Teresa's teaching in The Interior Castle and her letters, and reached its present form in the devotional…
- Consecration of One's Exterior Goods to the Blessed Virgin Mary
An act of Marian consecration applied specifically to material possessions, a practice recommended in deliverance ministry because…
- Let Me Not Live to Be Useless (John Wesley)
John Wesley's plea — recorded in his journals and letters — joined to the rule of life for which he is most remembered. It is prayed by…
- Luther's Sacristy Prayer
Martin Luther's prayer, framed in the sacristy of the Castle Church in Wittenberg and prayed by Lutheran pastors before preaching. It is…
- Morning Prayer (John Calvin, Geneva)
From the Geneva service book Calvin prepared for the Reformed congregations of the city, which printed prayers for households as well as…
- Nehemiah's Prayer
News of a ruined city sends Nehemiah into days of fasting and prayer before he asks a single practical question. It joins honest confession…
- Novena to St. Joseph
St. Joseph has been invoked as patron of workers, of families, and of a peaceful death since the Middle Ages, and was declared Patron of…
- Novena to the Infant Jesus of Prague
Centered on a sixteenth-century wax statue of the Child Jesus venerated in the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Prague since 1628. The…
- 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…
- Prayer for the Poor (St. Vincent de Paul)
St. Vincent de Paul (1581–1660) organised charity for the poor of France on a scale no one had attempted, and taught the Daughters of…
- Prayer of Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (c. 1614–1691) spent thirty years in a Carmelite kitchen in Paris and taught what he called the…
- Prayer of St. Benedict Before Work
A prayer of the Benedictine tradition, prayed before the day's work in monasteries that live by 'ora et labora'. Its seven petitions have…
- Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas Before Study
St. Thomas Aquinas, the thirteenth-century Dominican who wrote the Summa Theologiae, prayed before every period of study and dictation,…
- The Chaplet of St. Joseph
The chaplet honors St. Joseph in fifteen groups, echoing the traditional Seven Joys and Seven Sorrows of the foster-father of Jesus.…
- The Prayer of Jabez
A two-verse prayer buried in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles 4:9–10, which notes simply that "God granted him that which he requested."…