A New Liturgy For Prayer

A New Liturgy For Prayer

Opening Prayer 

New every morning is your love, great God of light, 

And all day long you are working for good in the world. 

Stir up in us desire to serve you, 

To live peacefully with our neighbors, 

And to devote each day to your Son, 

Our Savior, Jesus Christ the Lord, Amen. 

Psalm 63:1-4 

O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; My flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. 

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on your name. 

The Jesus Prayer 

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me. 

Prayers of Confession and Change 

Psalm 51 

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless in your judgement. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

Prayer for Illumination 

Most high, glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me Lord, a correct faith, a certain hope, a perfect charity, sense and knowledge, so that I may carry out Your holy and true command. 

Scripture/devotion reading 

Philippian Declaration 

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 

Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God As something to be exploited, 

But emptied himself, taking the form of a slave 

Being born in human likeness. 

And being found in human form, he humbled himself 

And became obedient to the point of death-even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him 

And gave him the name that is above every name, 

So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, 

in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 

And every tongue should confess 

That Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 

Psalm 71:1-8

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; 

incline your ear to me and save me. 

Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me For you are my rock and my fortress. 

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, 

From the grasp of the unjust and cruel. 

For you, O Lord, are my hope,

My trust, O Lord, from my youth. 

Upon you I have leaned from my birth; 

It was you who took me from my mother’s womb. 

My praise is continually of you. 

I have been an example to many, for you are my strong refuge. My mouth is filled with your praise 

And with your glory all the day. 

Prayers for Family 

Psalm 95:1-7 

O Come, let us sing to the Lord; 

Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; 

Let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; 

The heights of the mountains are his also. 

The sea is his, for he made it, 

and the dry land, which his hands have formed. 

O come, let us worship and bow down, 

Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker! 

For he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. 

The Lord’s Prayer 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, 

And forgive us our trespasses, 

As we forgive those who trespass against us. 

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever, amen.

Guidance Prayer 

Lord, grant that I may always allow myself to be guided by You, always follow Your plans, 

and perfectly accomplish Your Holy Will. 

Grant that in all things, great and small, 

today and all the days of my life, 

I may do whatever You require of me. 

Help me respond to the slightest prompting of Your Grace, so that I may be Your trustworthy instrument for Your honour. May Your Will be done in time and in eternity by me, in me, and through me. Amen. 

Your Own Prayers 

Sitting with Jesus 

Prayer to Jesus 

Sweet Jesus, Body and Blood most Holy, 

be the delight and pleasure of my soul, 

my strength and salvation in all temptations, 

my joy and peace in every trial, 

my light and guide in every word and deed, 

and my final protector in death. Amen. 

Romans 8:31-37 

What then are we to say about these things? 

If God is for us, who is against us? 

He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, Will he not with him also give us everything else?

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, Who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? 

Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or Peril, or sword? As it is written, 

For your sake we are being killed all day long; 

We are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered. 

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 

Prayer of Catherine of Sienna 

Holy Spirit, come into my heart; 

draw it to Thee by Thy power, O my God, 

and grant me charity with filial fear. 

Preserve me, O beautiful love, from every evil thought; warm me, inflame me with Thy dear love, and every pain will seem light to me. My Father, my sweet Lord, help me in all my actions. 

Jesus, love, Jesus, love. Amen. 

Benedict’s Prayer 

Gracious and Holy Father, 

give us the wisdom to discover You, 

the intelligence to understand You, 

the diligence to seek after You, 

the patience to wait for You, 

eyes to behold You, 

a heart to meditate upon You, 

and a life to proclaim You, 

through the power of the Spirit of Jesus, our Lord. Amen.

Prayer For This Day 

O Lord my God. 

Teach my heart this day, 

where and how to find you. 

You have made me and re-made me, 

and you have bestowed on me all the good things I possess, and still I do not know you. 

I have not yet done that for which I was made. Teach me to seek you, 

for I cannot seek you unless you teach me, 

or find you unless you show yourself to me. 

Let me seek you in my desire; 

Let me desire you in my seeking. 

Let me find you by loving you; 

Let me love you when I find you. Amen. 

Prayer For Mercy 

Lord, have mercy. 

Christ, have mercy. 

Lord, have mercy. 

Confession of the Mystery 

Christ has died. 

Christ is risen. 

Christ will come again. 

Prayer of Discipleship 

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, teach me your ways.