Pray with Us
Beliefs about Prayer and Providence
God’s Providence governs all things provides for everything arranges everything and turns everything to good.
--Blessed John Martin Moye, founder of the Sisters of Divine Providence
A person with a spirituality of Providence believes that God cares for each of us as if we are the only person in the entire world. We learn to trust God’s transforming, life-giving presence in every circumstance as we fully embrace the present moment. God will provide what is needed to bring about good for us and the world, even in the most difficult of situations.
We invite all people regardless of faith background and belief to pray these Providence prayers with us. May they bring you strength, comfort and hope in the joys and trials of your everyday life.
Act of Abandonment to Divine Providence
Providence of my God, I adore you in all your designs. I place my destiny in your hands, confiding to you all that I have, all that I am, and all that I am to become – my body and my soul, my health and reputation, my life, my death, and my eternal salvation. As I rely entirely upon you and expect all from your goodness, I will not give myself up to any useless anxiety. I confide to you the success of all my undertakings, and in all difficulties I will have recourse to you as a never-failing source of help. I know that you will either preserve me from the evils I dread, or turn them to my good and your glory. Peaceful and contented in all, I will allow your Providence to govern my life without worry or over-eagerness.
Holy, wise, generous, and loving Providence! I thank you for the tender care you have taken of me up to this moment. I humbly and earnestly entreat you to continue the same for me; direct all that I do, guide me in your ways, govern me at every moment of my life, and bring me to the fullness of being that you have destined for me from all eternity. May I please you and give you glory forever. Amen.
Providence Blessings
May Providence be with you in strength, holding you in strong-fingered hands; and may you be the sacrament of God’s strength to those whose hands you hold.
May the blessing of strength be with you.
May Providence be with you in gentleness, caressing you with sunlight and rain and wind. May God’s tenderness shine through you to arm all who are hurt and lonely.
May the blessing of gentleness be with you.
May Providence be with you in mercy, forgiving you, beckoning you, encouraging you to say, “Now I will get up again and go to the houe of God.” May your readiness to forgive calm the fears and deepen the trust of those who have hurt you.
May the blessing of mercy be on you.
May Providence be with you in wonder, delighting you with thunder and birdson, sunrise and daisy; enchanting your senses, filling your heart, giving you wide-open eyes for seeing the splendor in the hmble and the majestic. And may you open the eyes and hands and the hearts of the blind and the deaf and the insensitive.
May the blessing of wonder be on you.
May Providence be with you in compassion, holding you close when you are weary and hurt and alone-when there is rain in your heart. And may you be the warm hands and warm eyes of compassion for your frie4nds when they reach out to you in need.
May the blessing of compassion be on you.
May Providence be with you in simplicity, opening you to a clear vision of what is real and true, leading you deeply into the mystery of childhood; and may your dealings with others be marked by the honesty which is simplicity.
May the blessing of simplicity be on you.
May Providence be with you in patience, waiting for you with outstretched arms, letting you find out for yourself. May God’s patience with all the young who fall from small heights and the hold, who fall from greater heights, be your patience.
May the blessing of patience be on you.
May Providence be with you in peace, stilling the heart that hammers with fear and doubt and confusion and may your peace, the warm mantle of your peace, cover those who are troubled or ancious.
May the blessing of peace be on you.
May Providence be with you in love, listening to you, telling you loving secrets, drawing you close as you tremble at the edge of self-gift. May God’s love in you light fires of faith and hope. May God’s fire grow and burn and burst and inflame the earth. May God’s love in you glow in your eyes and meet God’s love, glowing in the eyes of your friends.
May the blessing of love and the blessing of friendship be on you.
May Providence be with you in joy, thrilling you with such nearness, filling your heart to fullness and filling your throat to ringing, singing exultation.
May the blessing of joy be on you.
May the Holy God Providence be with you, drawing you eve nearer, speaking to you of unity, true community where distinction of perfsons is also oneness in being.
May the blessing of community arise from within us,
radiate around us and remain forever.
Amen.
