Prayers for Thursday

 I found this at one of the Catholic sites I frequent and thought best to share with all of you!

 

 

 

Mathew 6 :25-33

Our Mother asked us to read this passage each thursday. Douay Rheims...

Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

26 Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

27 And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature by one cubit?

28 And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin.

29 But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.

30 And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith?

31 Be not solicitous therefore, saying, What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed?

32 For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things.

33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

34 Be not therefore solicitous for to morrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

She also asked us to pray for priests on Thursdays.

O Jesus, I pray for your faithful and fervent priests;

for Your unfaithful and tepid priests;

for Your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields;

for Your tempted priests;

for Your dying priests'

for the souls of your priests in Purgatory.

but above all, I recommed to You the priests who baptized me;

the priests who absolved me from my sins;

the priests at whose Masses I assisted;

and who gave me Your body and blood in Holy Communion;

for priests who taught and instructed me;

all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way (especially...).

O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart,

and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.

Amen