Prayer before Meals                                                                                                                                                                  Bless us, O Lord, and these your gifts
which we are about to receive from your
bounty. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prayer after Meals
We give you thanks, almighty God, for
all your benefits which we have received
from your bounty. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.                                                                                                                                                                                                          Prayer before Work or Study
Guide, we beseech you O Lord, our
actions by your holy inspirations, and help
us to carry them on with your gracious
assistance, that every prayer and work of
ours may always begin from you, and
through you be happily ended. Through
Christ our Lord. Amen                                                                                                                                                                            Prayer on a Birthday
O God, I thank you for giving me
another year of life. I thank you for all the
people who have remembered me today,
and who have sent me cards, and letters
and good wishes and presents. I thank
you for everything which I have been
enabled by you to do and to be in the past
year. I thank you for all the experiences of
the past year; for times of success which
will always be happy memories; for times
of failure which remind me of my own
weakness and of my need of your for
times of joy when the sun was shining; for
times of sorrow which drove me to you.                                                                                                                                              Prayer on a Wedding Anniversary
O God, we thank you that you have
given us another year of life together. We
thank you for the love which grows more
precious and for the bonds which grow
more close each day. We thank you for
the happiness we have known together;
for the sorrows we have faced together;
for all the experiences of sunshine and of
shadow through which we have come, up
to today.
We ask your forgiveness for any failure
on our part; for any times when we became
difficult to live with; for any selfishness
and inconsiderateness; for any lack of
sympathy and of understanding; for
anything which spoiled even for a moment
the perfect relationship which marriage
should be. Spare us to each other to go on
walking the way of life together, and grant
that for us it may be true that the best is
yet to be: through Jesus Christ our Lord.