Prayers

“Deliver us from evil,” Psalm 91, St Patrick’s Breastplate and the St Michael prayer, with short prayers for night, fear, the home and family.

Twelve prayers for success.

Twelve prayers for healing in body and heart: strength through sickness, inner peace, a loved one’s recovery, wisdom for medical teams, and patience.

Short prayers for strength in exhaustion, illness, fear, temptation and grief, with the Anima Christi, the Prayer of St. Ephrem and an Anglican collect.

Twelve short prayers about lust, with a plain word about when prayer belongs alongside real help rather than instead of it.

Twelve prayers for a court case, written for someone who wants justice rather than simply to win.

Short prayers for unwanted thoughts, old prayers against evil thoughts, what Christian teaching says about them, and when to see a doctor about OCD.

Prayers of repentance from Luke 18 and Psalm 51, the General Confession, the Act of Contrition and St Ephraim’s prayer, with short prayers for particular sins.

Reconciliation prayers for mending broken relationships: rebuilding trust, forgiving yourself and others, healing old wounds, and accepting each other’s flaws.

Prayers for world peace and healing: an end to violence and war, relief for the suffering, an end to poverty and hunger, human dignity, and care for the earth.

Prayers for safety in travels and daily life: protection on the road, safety at home and in the community, freedom from accidents, and guardian angels.

Prayers thanking God for rain after drought, on the garden and the fields, the Benedicite’s praise of creation, and old prayers asking for rain.

Patience prayers for a calmer, more understanding you: gentleness in response, acceptance of God’s timing, serenity in waiting, and thinking before acting.

Short prayers for joy on ordinary and hard days, the General Thanksgiving for life, and what the Bible says about asking God for happiness.

Prayers for couples to say together, for trust, arguments and hard times, with old Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox prayers for husband and wife.