My Godson’s Birthday
Today is my Godson’s birthday so I thought I’d do a little bit of a giveaway to mark the occasion. The prize up for grabs is a signed copy of Getting Started In Apologetics by the very excellent Patrick Coffin.
Entering is easy. Simply leave a comment below, together with the text of your favourite prayer (I’m always on the lookout for new ones!).
At the end of the month I will then use a random number generator to pick the winner and then mail out the CDs.
Good luck!
Happy Birthday to your Godson! May he have a blessed and joyful day!
Here’s the text of a favorite prayer of mine, the Prayer to Saint Thomas More.
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Prayer to Saint Thomas More
Thomas More, counselor of law and statesman of integrity, merry martyr and most human of saints:
Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be trustworthy with confidences, keen in study, accurate in analysis, correct in conclusion, able in argument, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, ever attentive to conscience. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients’ tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.
Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain—their good servant, and God’s first. Amen.
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear David’s Godson,
Happy birthday to you!
My Favorite prayer: Musician’s prayer
May my life be like a finely tuned instrument upon which the Master Musician creates a melody that brings His peace to all that may hear. (Unknown source)
Well, I already have a signed copy of “Getting Started in Apologetics” but I’ll post for posterity’s sake. Very excellent indeed, that Patrick Coffin.
One prayer I learned in senior year high school English (British Literature of all things) was to pray the Our Father in Old English. We were reading “Beowulf” and the “Canterbury Tales” at the time. I’ve since incorporated this into my post-communion Mass prayers.
Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum;
Si þin nama gehalgod
to becume þin rice
gewurþe ðin willa
on eorðan swa swa on heofonum.
urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg
and forgyf us ure gyltas
swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum
and ne gelæd þu us on costnunge
ac alys us of yfele, soþlice.
Rub a dub dub, Thanks for the grub, Yay God 😛
Yay cute baby!! <3
Favorite prayer: (or at least in the top three..) St. Padre Pio's after communion prayer:
Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You.
Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall so often.
Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life and without You I am without fervor.
Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light and without You I am in darkness.
Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will.
Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You.
Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much and alway be in Your company.
Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.
Stay with me, Lord, as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You, a nest of Love.
Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming to a close and life passes, death, judgment and eternity approaches. It is necessary to renew my strenth, so that I will not stop along the way and for that, I need You. It is getting late and death approaches, I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the cross, the sorrows. O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile!
Stay with me tonight, Jesus, in life with all its dangers, I need You.
Let me recognize You as Your disciples did at the breaking of the bread, so that the Eucharistic Communion be the Light which disperses the darkness, the force which sustains me, the unique joy of my heart.
Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to remain united to You, if not by Communion, at least by grace and love.
Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love, Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more.
With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on earth and continue to love You perfectly during all eternity. Amen.
“I belong to him whom the angels serve.”
Alright, I’ll play…
I did not make this one up. Some very dear, sweet, ridiculously silly young twins I know made it up…that I am aware of. They allowed me to steal it from them.
On the Road prayer:
“Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
Protect this road that we drive on
Protect the drivers
Protect the driven
Keep us safe and keep us liven.
Yay God!”
(I always add the Guardian Angel prayer to finish it off)
“Angel of God, my Guardian dear
to whom God’s love commits me here.
Ever this day/night, be at my side
to light and guard
to rule and guide.”
I also like,
“Hail Mary full of Grace
Help me find a parking space.”