Devotion to God the Father dedicated to the month of August
MONTH of AUGUST dedicated to GOD THE FATHER
I BLESS YOU
I bless you, Father, at the beginning of this new day. Accept my praise and thanks for the gift of life and faith. With the power of your Spirit, guide my plans and actions: make them according to your will. Free me from discouragement in the face of difficulties and from all evil. Make me attentive to the needs of others. Protect my family with your love. So be it.
PRAYER OF ABANDONMENT TO THE FATHER
(Charles de Foucauld)
My father, I abandon myself to you: make me what you will like. Whatever you do, I thank you. I am ready for anything, I accept everything, as long as your will is done in me, in all your creatures. I don't want anything else, my God. I put my soul back in your hands. I give it to you, my God, with all the love of my heart, because I love you and it is a need for me to love to give myself, to put myself without measure in your hands, with infinite trust, because you are my Father .
REPAIR PRAYER
My God, I believe, I love, I hope and I love you, I ask you for forgiveness for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you. Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: I deeply adore you and offer you the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the earth in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences with which He himself is offended. And for the infinite merits of his Most Sacred Heart and through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I ask you for the conversion of poor sinners.
GOD BE BLESSED
God be blessed. Blessed be his Holy Name. Blessed Jesus Christ true God and true Man. Blessed be the Name of Jesus. Blessed be his Most Sacred Heart. Blessed be his Precious Blood. Blessed Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar. Blessed be the Holy Spirit Paraclete. Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary Most Holy. Blessed be his Holy and Immaculate Conception. Blessed be his glorious Assumption. Blessed be the Name of Virgin Mary and Mother. Benedetto San Giuseppe, his most chaste husband. Blessed be God in his angels and saints.
PRAYER OF TOTAL TRUST TO GOD
My God, I not only trust in you, but I have no confidence but in you. So give me the spirit of abandonment to accept the things that I cannot change. Also give me the spirit of strength to change the things I can change. Finally, give me the spirit of wisdom to discern what actually depends on me, and then let me do your only holy will. Amen.
O GOD, CREATOR
O God, creator of all things: you dress the day with the splendor of light and the night with the peace of sleep, so that rest makes your limbs agile at work, relieve fatigue and dispel worries. We thank you for this day, at nightfall; we raise a prayer for you to come to our aid. Let us sing you from the bottom of the heart with a powerful voice; and we love you with strong love, worshiping your greatness. And when the darkness of the night has replaced the light of the day, let faith know no darkness, rather illuminate the night. Do not let our souls sleep without asking you for forgiveness; faith protect our rest from all the dangers of the night. Free us from impurities, fill us with your thoughts; do not let the evil one disturb our peace.
RECEIVE, LORD
Receive, Lord, all my freedom, accept my memory, my intelligence and all my will. Everything I am, what I own, was given to me by you; I put this gift into your hands, to leave myself entirely at the disposal of your will. Just give me your love with your grace, and I will be rich enough and ask for nothing more. Amen.
LORD, WHEN ...
Lord our God, when fear takes us, do not let us despair! When we are disappointed, don't let us become bitter! When we fell, don't leave us on the ground! When we no longer understand anything and are exhausted, do not let ourselves perish! No, make us feel your presence and your love that you promised to the humble and broken hearts who are afraid of your word. It is to all men that your beloved Son has come, to the abandoned: since we are all, he was born in a stable and died on the cross. Lord, awaken us all and keep us awake to recognize and confess it.
GOD OF PEACE
God of peace and love, we pray to you: Holy Lord, Almighty Father, eternal God, free us from all temptations, help us in every difficulty, comfort us in every tribulation. Give us patience in adversity, allow us to adore you in purity of heart, to sing you with upright conscience, to serve you with the highest virtue. We bless you, Holy Trinity. We thank you and praise you day by day. We beg you, Abbà Father. Our praise and prayer are welcome.
GOD AND LORD
God and Lord of all things, who have power over every life and every soul, only you can heal me: listen to the prayer of a wretch. It makes the snake that lurks in my heart die and disappear by the presence of your holy Spirit. Give humility to my heart and convenient thoughts to a sinner who has decided to convert. Do not abandon forever a soul that has now completely submitted to you, who has confessed his faith in you, who has chosen and honored you in preference to the whole world. Save me, Lord, despite the bad habits that prevent this desire; but for you, Lord, everything is possible of all that is impossible for men.