5 Short Prayers That Will Change Your Life

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I love an inspiring quote.

A few years ago I heard this quote attributed to Saint Catherine of Siena:

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire

I loved it the minute I heard it.  I then changed it into a prayer:

1. Dear God, help me to be who you want me to be and set the world on fire!”

Since I began praying this prayer I’ve:

published a book;

started a small business;

organized an international retreat/conference (with help, but still);

and

became a mother to 2 more children.

All of this happened in less than 3 years.

So if you are:

Searching for Big answers?

Desiring a huge change?

Just wondering what God wants you to do and if you are doing it?

I encourage you to pray that prayer and hold on!

Since this prayer made a huge impact on my life, I started thinking about how the wisdom of other saints might provide inspiration fro more great prayers.

More than once I have read the words of a saint and thought, wow – they were really good people.

I’m not that good.

But now I think, well nothing is impossible for God, right?  He can help me be that good – so why don’t I ask?

Plus, I firmly believe that true peace and joy come from God.

These saints “got that”. So when I see the wisdom of the saints and feel as though I could use an ounce of their faith, I take a moment and ask God for help.

One quote that inspires me to find joy in my daily life is from Saint Gianna Molla.  Her words:

The secret of happiness is to live moment by moment and to thank God for all that He, in His goodness, sends to us day after day.”  

My weaknesses shine through in everyday life.  I’m often tired – and that makes me not so patient and a little bit grumpy.  This quote inspires me to pray,

2. “Dear Lord Jesus, help me to find joy in today’s moments and desire to thank you more often; remembering each breath and person is a gift!”

I made sure I added “remembering each breath is a gift” because when I met Saint Gianna’s daughter, Gianna Emmanuela, she said to me, “I thank God for every breath I take!!!”

Read more about that incredible experience here: 5 Lessons I Learned from the Daughter of a Saint

Pink Salt Riot has a beautiful sticker with a version of this prayer. Check it out here: In the Present Moment Sticker

And because there could always be more fun in our lives, I absolutely love this Padre Pio quote:

Serve God with laughter.”

3. “Lord God, help me to serve you with laughter!”

Like short, powerful prayers – here are some with a free download! 11 Quick, but Powerful, Prayers

So simple, but so awesome! Padre Pio loved God with such self abandonment, yet he makes our faith accessible with guidance and direction.  His words, “Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry” is probably my favorite saint quote.

4. “Lord, help me to pray, hope and not to worry! Amen”

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For those of us who are married, we know it’s not a fairy tale.  Married love requires prayer and work

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One of my favorite saints lately is Saint Zelie’ Martin.  She wrote about how much she loved her husband in a letter to her brother and it struck me profoundly:

“I’m always so happy with him, he makes my life very pleasant.  What a holy man my husband is.  I wish the same for all women; that’s my wish for them for the New Year.” Saint Zelie Martin, telling her brother how much she loves her husband in a letter dated January 1, 1863.

I changed these words of hers into this prayer for her intercession:

5. “Saint Zelie’!  Please pray for my marriage!  Pray that I love my husband and always feel happy with him! Pray that we laugh together often! Saint Louis Martin, please pray for my husband and I to be happier every day!  Amen”

I wrote about a personal experience with this prayer here: 10 Years of Marriage and the Saints that Helped Us Get Here

What is your favorite quote?  How could that be re-worded into a prayer?

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I must have directed my 3 year-old to do this and stop doing that more than 100 times today.  He listened once or twice.  I’m not going to exaggerate and say he listened three times.  He definitely didn’t listen to me that many times today.  Oh, and his “best friend ever” . . . he too tested my patience today.  I think the throwing of the bike down a small flight of stairs might have been a breaking point . . . but

“See that you despise not one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven” Matthew 18:10

Well . . . their angels might have been looking towards heaven, but they were looking at each other giggling almost every time I put them in time-out.

It was that kind of day.

But, I am here to tell you there is a friend you have that is much more obedient than my three-year-old.  In fact, he’s more obedient than you or I.

Your Guardian Angel is a real spiritual being.  I have been reading up on them ever since I heard that people used to send their angels to Padre Pio if they could not get to him personally – and that he saw them and spoke with them.  This fascinated both my husband and I.  I decided that I wanted to learn more.

Throughout my reading, I kept thinking and asking . . . what is it I should know about my Guardian Angel?  I kept wondering, if I were to talk to my guardian angel like Padre Pio could, what would his response be to:

“What should people know about their Guardian Angels”?

With that question in mind, I found the following answers in my research.

1. God has given every person a Guardian Angel.
2. There are angels everywhere.  Not only do people have Guardian Angels, but towns, cities, diocese, countries, etc.
3. The main purpose of your Guardian Angel is to help you avoid sin, stay in a state of grace, and get you into heaven.
4. Your Guardian Angel watches and prays with you in hours of distress.
5. If you feel called to the vocation of marriage, your Guardian Angel will- if you call upon him- help you find the life companion whom God has destined for you.  If you are called to a religious life, he will help you preserve your purity.

1. If you want to picture what he looks like, picture a being gazing at Our Lord in heaven with more joy and peace on his face than you have ever seen on the face of any person.
2. Your Guardian Angel desires your friendship, your gratitude and in times of affliction or temptation or fear – your guardian angel wants you to implore his aid!
3. It doesn’t matter if you are religious, or spiritual, or how much you don’t or do pray – you still have a Guardian Angel.  (See # 1)
4. Our Guardian Angels obtain powerful graces for us from the mercy of God – they moderate our passions, remove hindrances to our use of grace and assist us to resist temptation.
5. Since Biblical times, Guardian Angels have protected people from physical dangers (for example, St. Peter was rescued from prison by an angel). Trust that your Guardian Angel has preserved you from many unknown dangers.
6. Guardian Angels are always with you – yet you can send them to others.  Saints have stated that you can “send your angel” places.  For example, Padre Pio told those that could not get to him to “send their angel”.  Saint Bernadette stated, “When you pass before a chapel and do not have time to stop for a while, tell your Guardian Angel to carry out your errand to Our Lord in the tabernacle. He will accomplish it and then still have time to catch up with you.”  I love how Philip Kosloski describes this phenomenon using the words of St. Thomas Aquinas: [T]he swiftness of the angel’s movement is not measured by the quantity of his power, but according to the determination of his will (Summa Theologica, I, 53, 3, ad 1) Philip explains further, “Angels are not bound by a material body like we are and so they can move super fast, the speed of “thought”…much faster than Superman. So if you ask your Guardian Angel to help someone else out, they will be back at your side before you realize.”
7. Your Guardian Angel is a gift to you from God.  A friend given to you that will never leave your side.  Don’t forget to talk to him once in a while

Angel of God, my Guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and to guide. Amen

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