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Mother Teresa's Favorite Prayers

Love to pray

Feel often during the day the need for prayer and pray. Prayer opens the heart, till it is capable of containing God himself. Ask and seek and your heart will be big enough to receive Him and keep Him as Your Own. (Mother Teresa)
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The fruit...

The fruit of silence is prayer
the fruit of prayer is faith
the fruit of faith is love
the fruit of love is service
the fruit of service is peace.
M. Teresa
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Prayer by Pope Paul

Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men throughout the world, who live and die in poverty and hunger.
Give them today, through our hands, their daily bread and through our understanding love, give peace and joy.
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Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me a channel of Your peace,
that where there is hatred, I may bring love,
where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness,
where there is discord, I may bring harmony,
where there is error, I may bring truth,
where there is doubt, I may bring faith,
where there is despair, I may bring hope,
where there are shadows, I may bring light
and where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may confort, rather than to be conforted,
that I may understand, rather that to be understood
that I may love, rather than to be loved.
For it is by forgetting self, that one finds
it is by forgiving, that one is forgiven
it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
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Prayer for peace

Lead me from death to life,
from lies to truth
Lead me from despair to hope
from fear to trust
Lead me from hatred to love
from war to peace
Let peace fill our heart, our world
our universe... peace, peace, peace.
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Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy
Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work too may be holy
Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy
Guide me then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.
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Whatsoever you do

When I was hungry, you gave me to eat; when I was thirsty you gave me to drink
Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to Me. Come and enter the house of My Father.
When I was a stranger, you opened your doors; when I was naked, you gave me clothes
When I was tired, you gave me peace; when I was frightened, you calmed me down
When I was small, you taught me to read; when I was lonely, you gave me your love
I was in prison, you visited me; I was sick and you took care of me
In a strange country, you gave me a home; when I had no job, you found me one
When I was wounded, you took care of it; looking for friendship, you gave me your hand
Whether I was black, or white or yellow; mocked at or insulted, you carried my cross
When I was old, you smiled at me; when I couldn't find peace, you brought it to me.
You saw me: full of spit and blood; dirty with sweat, still you said you knew me.
You were on my side in times of despise; in the hour of joy, we were together.

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Radiating Christ

Dear Jesus, help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go.
Flood my soul with Your spirit and life.
Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of Yours.
Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul.
Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus!
Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as You shine, so to shine as to be a light to others; the light, O Jesus, will be all from You; none of it will be mine: it will be You shining on others through me.
Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me.
Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You.
Amen.

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Prayer to Our Lady

Mary, Mother of Jesus, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life, love Him as You loved Him and serve Him as You served Him in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor. Amen.
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Remember...

Remember, o most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence we fly to You, o virgin of the virgins, our Mother. To you we come, before you we stand sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the word incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in your clemency, hear and answer us. Amen.
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