Every month, The Rock Catholic Radio airs special prayers throughout the day specifically relevant to that month. This month, we have a prayer to the Sacred Hear of Jesus and a Fathers’ Day prayer. You can find both below.
Listen for these while you’re tuned in to The Rock and pray along with us!
Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman
Most Sacred, most loving Heart of Jesus, You are concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and You beat for us still.
Now, as then, You say: “With desire I have desired.”
I worship You with all my best love and awe,
With fervent affection, with my most subdued, most resolved will.
For a while You take up Your abode within me.
O make my heart beat with Your Heart!
Purify it of all that is earthly, all that is proud and sensual, of all perversity, of all disorder.
So fill it with You, that neither the events of the day, nor the circumstances of the time, may have the power to ruffle it;
But that in Your love and Your fear, it may have peace.
Amen.
A Prayer for Fathers
God our Father, you govern and protect your people and shepherd them with a father’s love. You place a father in a family as a sign of Your love, care, and constant protection. May all fathers, biological, spiritual, and adoptive, be faithful to the example shown in the scriptures. Steadfast in love, forgiving transgressions, sustaining in times of trial, caring for those in need.
Give Your wisdom to fathers that they may encourage and guide their children. Keep them healthy so they may support a family. Guide every father with a spirit of Your love that they may grow in holiness and draw their family ever closer to you.
Bless every family that has lost a father, uphold and sustain them in your love.
Amen.