KEPHA

Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.

Consecration Prayer
Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my voice and let me sing, always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be filled, with messages from Thee. 

MORNING OFFERING
O my God, I adore You and I love You with all my heart. I thank You for having created me and saved me by your grace, and for having preserved me during this night. I offer You all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day. Grant that they may all be according to Your will and for Your greater glory. Keep me from all sin and evil, and may Your grace be with me always. Amen

PRAYER FOR THE POPE
Father of Providence, look with love on Benedict XVI, our Pope, Your appointed successor to St. Peter on whom You built Your Church. May he be the visible center and foundation of our unity in faith and love. Give him, O Lord, a spirit of courage and right judgment; a spirit of knowledge and love. By governing with fidelity those entrusted to his care, may he, the Vicar of Christ, build Your Church into a sacrament of unity, love, and peace for all the world. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, and His Holy Spirit. One God, forever and ever. Amen.

Leader  : The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary,
All : and she conceived by the Holy Spirit.  (Hail Mary)
Leader : Behold the handmaid of the Lord,
All : Be it done unto me according to thy word.  (Hail Mary)
Leader : And the Word was made flesh,
All : {genuflect} And dwelt among us.  (Hail Mary)
Leader : Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God,
All : That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Leader : Let us pray :
All : Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His passion and cross be brought to the glory of His resurrection, through the same Christ, our Lord.  Amen.

Guardian Angel Prayer  
O 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 guide. Amen.  

St. Patrick’s Breastplate
Christ be with me          Christ within me
Christ behind me           Christ before me
Christ beside  me          Christ to win me
Christ to comfort and restore me
Christ beneath me        Christ above me
Christ in quiet               Christ in danger
Christ in hearts of all that love me
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger

St. Michael the Archangel
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray.
And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

The Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

St. John Bosco   ...pray for us
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta ...pray for us
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati ...pray for us