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Prayers for a Business: Opening, Customers, Hard Times and Honest Success

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Summary

  • Short prayers cover starting a business, opening day, customers, contracts, honesty, paying employees, a slow season, closing a business, thanks for a good year and the start of each working day.
  • Traditional prayers quoted: “For Every Man in his Work” from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the Catholic Actiones nostras (“Direct, we beseech Thee, O Lord, our actions”) from the 1888 Manual of Prayers.
  • Scripture commends honest, diligent trade (Proverbs 11:1; 22:29; 31:16–18; Acts 16:14) and sets limits: “If the Lord will” (James 4:15) and “the love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6:10).
  • A prayer of dedication serves for blessing a new shop or office; a Christian blessing is a prayer, not a charm.
  • Saint Homobonus, a merchant of Cremona, was canonized in 1199; Russian Orthodox believers popularly ask Saint Spyridon’s help with housing and work.

An owner can hand the whole business to God each morning: “Lord, this business is yours. Bless the work, send us customers we can serve well, keep us honest, and provide for everyone who depends on it. Amen.” The words echo Psalm 90:17, “establish thou the work of our hands upon us.” Prayers for hard times follow. Prayers for a business, from the first day to a hard year Say the name of the business, or of the people in…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 39:3; Leviticus 19:13; Deuteronomy 8:18; Psalm 90:17; 127:1; Proverbs 11:1; 15:22; 16:3; 22:29; 31:16, 18; Habakkuk 3:17–18; Matthew 6:24, 33; Luke 14:28; Acts 16:14; Colossians 3:23; 1 Timothy 6:10; James 4:13–15). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, “For Every Man in his Work,” p. 44. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
  • A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. The Litany of the Saints, p. 269. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
  • Ott, Michael. “Pope Innocent III.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08013a.htm
  • Vailhé, Siméon. “Tremithus.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15030b.htm
  • St. Elisabeth Convent, Minsk. “Saint Spyridon of Corfu, Wonderworker Through the Ages.” https://obitel-minsk.org/en/the-miracles-of-st-spyridon-of-trimythous

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