Prayers

The Set Aside Prayer

 God, 

today help me set aside everything I think I know about You, 

everything I think I know about myself, 

everything I think I know about others, 

and everything I think I know about my own recovery 

so I may have an open mind and a new experience with all these things. 

Please help me see the truth. 

The Serenity Prayer

 God, 

grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next. 

The Lord's Prayer

 Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
 And forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.

Prayer of Saint Francis

 Lord, 

make me an instrument of your peace: 

where there is hatred, let me sow love; 

where there is injury, pardon; 

where there is doubt, faith; 

where there is despair, hope;

 where there is darkness, light; 

where there is sadness, joy. 

O divine Master, 

grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, 

to be understood as to understand, 

to be loved as to love. 

For it is in giving that we receive, 

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, 

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.  

Prayer to Seek God by Saint Augustine

 “O Lord my God, 

I believe in you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

Insofar as I can, insofar as you have given me the power, I have sought you.

 I became weary and I labored. 

 O Lord my God, my sole hope, help me to believe and never to cease seeking you. 

Grant that I may always and ardently seek out your countenance. 

Give me the strength to seek you, 

for you help me to find you and you have more and more given me the hope of finding you.   

Here I am before you with my firmness and my infirmity. 

Preserve the first and heal the second. 

Here I am before you with my strength and my ignorance. 

Where you have opened the door to me,

 welcome me at the entrance; 

where you have closed the door to me, open to my cry; 

enable me to remember you, 

to understand you, 

and to love you.