Prayer for Final Perseverance(St Alphonsus Ligouri): Our dear Redeemer, relying on your promises, because you are faithful, all-powerful and merciful, we hope, through the merits of your Passion, for the forgiveness of our sins, persevere until death in your grace; and at length we hope, by your mercy, to see and love you eternally in heaven.
Prayer for Christian Unity(John Henry Newman; adapted from ‘Meditations and Devotions.): O Lord Jesus Christ, when you were about to suffer, you prayed for your disciples to the end of time, that they might all be one, as you are in the Father, and the Father in you. Look down in pity on the many divisions among those who profess your faith and heal the wounds which the pride of man and the craft of Satan have inflicted on your people.
Break down the walls of separation which divide one party and denomination of Christians from another. Look with compassion on the souls who have been born in one or some other of these various communions and bring them all into that one communion which you set up in the beginning: the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church.
An Old French Prayer for Friends: Blessed Mother of those whose names you can read in my heart, watch over them with every care. Make their way easy and their labours fruitful. Dry their tears if they weep; sanctify their joys; raise their courage if they weaken; restore their hope if they lose heart, their health if they are ill, truth if they err, and repentance if they fall. Amen.
Act of Faith, Hope and Love: My God, I believe in you, I trust in you, I love you above all things, with all my heart and mind and strength. I love you because you are supremely good and worth loving; and because I love you, I am sorry with all my heart for offending you. Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner. Amen.
