Wisdom and prayers of saints

Category: Lent

  • Lenten Prayers from the Saints for Renewal on Ash Wednesday

    As we step into the sacred season of Lent, Ash Wednesday serves as a profound call to repentance, humility, and renewal. The ashes placed on our foreheads remind us of our mortality—”Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return”—and invite us to turn our hearts back to God. Throughout Christian history, the…

  • Meditations and Prayers on the Seven Last Words of Jesus

    V. O God, come to my assistance. R. O Lord, make haste to help me. V. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. R. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. Amen. First Word: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”…

  • Prayer of Love to the Crucified Lord

    O Jesus, it is not the heavenly reward you have promised which impels me to love you; neither is it the threat of hell that keep me from offending you. It is you, O Lord, it is the sight of you affixed to the Cross and suffering insults; it is the sight of your broken…

  • Country Prayer for Lent

    Help us now, Lord, in our feeble attempts to make up for past sin. Bless our efforts with the rich blessing of Your grace. Make us realize ever more our need of penance and of mortification.

  • Prayer for Aid in Fasting by St. Joseph Studite, Lenten Triodion

    Hanging as a vine upon the Wood, O Christ our Saviour, Thou hast made the ends of the earth to drink from the wine of incorruption. Therefore do I cry aloud: I am darkened always by the hateful drunkenness of sin; Give me to drink from the sweet wine of true compunction, and grant me…

  • Lenten Prayer

    You were a man of suffering acquainted with grief, loved and despised in equal measure. You understand humanity, know our failings, love us despite the people that we are. When we, like Peter, deny you by word or action, forgive us. When we, like Judas, are tempted to follow a different path, forgive us. When…

  • Anglican Ash Wednesday Collect

    Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord

  • A Prayer for Ash Wednesday

    Gracious God, today begins a period of inner reflection and examination. The days stretch before me and invite me inward to that silent, holy space that holds your Spirit. This special time beckons me to see my life through Christ’s eyes and the truth and reality of your love incarnate. Give me the grace to…

  • The Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian

    {Making a prostration} O Lord and Master of my life, Grant not unto me a spirit of idleness, of discouragement, of lust for power, and of vain speaking. {Making a prostration} But bestow upon me, Thy servant, the spirit of chastity, of meekness, of patience, and of love. {Making a third prostration} O Lord and King, grant that I may perceive my own…