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A Note

Seeking to enrich my prayer life and to avoid losing concentration by repeating only overly-familiar prayers and memorized prayers, I have written a number of prayers over the years to supplement those already widely known and used.

My choice has been to eliminate Old English
(Thee, Thou, amongst, wouldst, etc.), in my own desire to communicate more personally, directly, naturally and contemporaneously with
God and the saints.

I hope these prayers and meditations may be helpful
to you, the reader, in your own personal prayer life.

The many illustrations are taken from the Internet, and I have tried my best to attribute them to their sources as I found them. I will happy to remove any images, prayers or meditations at the request of their creators or owners immediately upon request. I do not intend to use anyone's artistic creations or writings against their wishes.

Donn B. Murphy
dbm@nowstar.net

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PRAYERS, MEDITATIONS AND REFLECTIONS


Abject Poverty
Acceptance
Agnus Dei
Acts of Faith, Hope and Charity
Alcoholics Anonymous
All Praise
All Saints
Alphabet - A Thought for Each Letter
America the Beautiful
Angelus - Noontime Prayer
Anima Christi - The Soul of Christ
Animal Cannibals
Animal Friends
Annie Oakley: Judge Not
Antidotes
Antisemetism
Ants
Apostles' Creed - Traditional
Arlington Cemetery
Armless Man
Art of Blessing the Day
Aspirations - Brief Prayers
Atheism
Atheists in Our Time
Attributions
Autumn
Ave Maria
Back Pain
Balance - Presumption and Despair
Baptism
Barack Obama
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Before God - by Karl Rahner
Behold, I Have Graven Thee
Belief/Unbelief
Belief
Birds of Paradise
Bishop Fulton Sheen
Bono + Obama
Bread - The Staff of Life
Breath
Builders - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Burlesk
Cardinal Newman's Mission of My Life
Catastrophes
Celestial Spirit
Challenges
Chance
Changes For the Better
Chaos
Chapel of the Mind
Child Miners - Children in Mines
Chosen People: the Tribes of Israel
Circus Fire
Cleanliness - Next to Godliness
Climb Every Mountain
Cloudburst - Refreshing the World
Coca-Cola
Colors
Compassion
Convert, Welcome!
Cowboy at the Pearly Gates
Creator Savior Spirit
Crispin & Crispinian: Saints & Martyrs
Crown of Thorns
Crusader's Prayer
Dainiel A Lord, SJ
Danny Dutton's Childhood Prayer
Dante's Inferno
Dark Dangers
Dawn - Fresh Hope for a New Day
Days of Grace
Dead and Forgotten
Death and Resurrection
Death - The Inevitable Final Curtain
Depression
Despair
Deterioration - All Will Pass Away
Devil Bunker - Bar the Door to Satan
Died Unexpectedly
Discontent With What I Have
Disfigurement - Facial Reconstruction
Distribution of Wealth in the U.S.
Dollars and Sense
Don't Look Back
Donn's Prayer
Doorways, Choices, Possibilities
Down Syndrome
Down Time Challenges
Drugs and Addiction
Dusk
Earthquake
Easter - by Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ
Eclipse of the Sun
Endgame
Enough
Environment
Evening
Evensong
Eventide Examination
Evergreens
Examen - Jesuit End-of-Day Reflection
Examination of Conscience One
Examination of Conscience Two
Experiencing God
Faces
Failing Senses
Faith Shield
Faith vs Fear
Fat Folk
Fatal Apple
Fate
Feast and Famine
Feathers
Fern and Bamboo
Filmmaker George Melies
Final Hour
Fire - Police - EMT's
Fires of Hell
Footpath to Peace - Henry van Dyke
For a Female Friend
For a Friend's Health
For a Male Friend
For Friends
For Miscreants
For Teachers One
For Teachers Two
For the Departed One
For the Sick
Forget Me Not
Forgotten Parks
Fort Knox
Fortitude - Nick Vujicic
Fortune Cookies
Four Things You Cannot Recover
Fra Giovanni's Christmas Letter
Frank Sinatra
Friend in Need
Friend Jesus
Friends
Full Moon Host
Full Moon
General Intentions
George Bernard Shaw
Gift of Faith
Gift of God
Gifts of the Holy Spirit
God and Adam
God Bless America
God Box - Personal Intentions
God Hates Fags
God of All
God of Gifts
God of Heaven and Earth
God Our Father
Golden Gates
Golden Silence
Good Days Bad Days
Good Fortune
Good Shepherd
Good Thief
Gratitude - e.e. cummings
Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow
Guardian Angel
Guardian Angels Home
Guns
Hachiko the Faithful Dog
Hail Mary
Hale Mary
Hallelujah Chorus - Andre Rieu
Hands
Happy Death
Having a Bad Day
Heal the Wounds
Heartbeats
Heart of Jesus
Heaven View
Helen Keller
Hellfire
Hindenberg
History of the World
Holding On
Holocaust
Holy Eucharist
Holy Saturday
Holy Snowfall
Honest to God
Hope Springs Eternal
Hope is the Thing With Feathers
Hope
Hospital Nurses
Hound of Heaven
Hour of Death
Humor
Hyacinths
Hymns & Sacred Music
I Believe
Ice Cream
Image and Likeness
Image of God
Immortality
Imperishable!
Indispensable
Inner Sanctum
Irish Blessing
Irish Prayer
Islam
Jesus Falls
Jesus Light of the World
Jesus Travels
Jesus
Jeweled Remains
Jewels
Job's Lament
Job-Seeker's Prayer
Journey's End
Journey and Decisions
Judas Iscariot
Judge Brown: On the Job
June Haver
Keeping Control
Kids' Letters to God
Kirk Douglas' Prayer
Klondike Bars
Knocking at the Door
Koch Brothers
Labyrinth
Lamb of God
Last Chance
Laughing with God
Lessons from Life
Let's Get Naked
Life Savers
Light
Listening
Litany
Literal Bible
Little Hut
Loneliness
Long-Lived Koi
Long Road Home
Loose Lips
Lord of the Dance
Lord's Prayer
Love Changes Everything
Love So Deep
Luther Antisemitism
Majesty of Nature
Male Friend
Mankind's Best Friends - Our Animals
Mankind Monsters
Manual Labor
Marilyn Monroe
Martin vs Leo
Martyrs
Mary Litany
Mass Murder
Mechanical World
Meditation
Memorare
Memorial Day
Memorial for Mike Leuthe
Memorial for Tom Harper
Memory
Mills of the Gods
Mind
Misfortune
Miss Pitty-Pat
Money
Morning Breaks
Morning Offering
Morning
Moses
Mother's Plight - An Essay
Musical Theatre
My Alpha and Omega
My Soul Assail
My Way
Mysterious Way
Mystical Rose
Name That Tune
Names Quilt
Native Americans
Nativity 
Nature's Wrath
Nature
Negroe Sales
Night Mares
Night Prayer Two
Night Prayer
Noah and the Ark
North Star
Nothing More?
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Nuns - Our Dear Sisters
Octavo Confusions
Old New York
Olden Time Traffic
Omnipresence
On Eagle's Wings
One Bread One Body
Order of the Holy Sepulchre
Our Fallen Heroes
Our Vanishing Nuns
Out of Anxiety
Owen and Mzee
Pain and Endurance
Paradoxical Commandments
Pathology
Paths of Autumn
Pathway to Success
Patience
Peace at Last
Peace Challenge
People
Personal Intentions
Pistols, Rifles, Assault Weapons
Piu Jesu
Pizzas and Pennies
Plea for a Fresh Start
Ponder - Examining My Life
Pope John XXIII
Popcorn and God's Simple Gifts
Pour Down Waters
Prayer for a Friend in Need
Prayer of an Aging Nun
Prayer Requests
Prayers from the Public
Prisoners - Outcasts from Society
Public Servants
Puppies
Quest
Rain
Rainbows
Rap Prayer - Contemporary Praise
Renewal
Request
Reveille for a New Day
Rich and the Poor
Right Road - by Thomas Merton
Road Into the Future
Sacred Heart Irish Prayer
Sacred Heart - Bleeding, Blessing
Sacristans - Faithful Altar Servants
Sadness
Saint Alphonsus
Saint Andrew - Buried Upside Down
Saint Anne - Mother of Mary
Saint Anthony - Finder
Saint Anthony of Padua
Saint Baldrick's Kids with Cancer
Saint Benedict - First Monastery
Saint Blaise - Physician and Martyr
Saint Cajetan
Saint Christopher - Safe Travel
Saint Clare of the Poor Clares
Saint Elizabeth - Cousin of Mary
Saint Francis de Sales - Hearing Loss
Saint Francis - Friend of Animals
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis Xavier - Jesuit
Saint Genesius - Actor of Rome
Saint Genevieve
Saint Helena and the True Cross
Saint Ignatius Loyola - Jesuit Founder
Saint John Chrysostom
Saint John - Christ's Beloved Disciple
Saint John of the Cross
Saint Joseph - Father of Jesus
Saint Jude - Desperate Lost Causes
Saint Luke - Physician
Saint Mark - Gospel Writer
Saint Matthew - Tax Collector
Saint Michael Archangel
Saint Patrick of Ireland
Saint Paul Newman of Pizza
Saint Peter Disney Greeter
Saint Peter - Keys to the Kingdom
Saint Rose of Lima
Saint Teresa of Avila's Wisdom
Saint Thérèse the "Little Flower"
Saint Thomas Aquinas - Church Doctor
Saints Mungo and Columbus - Scotland
Sands of Time
Satan's Smoke
Seeing God
Serenity
Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Seven Virtues
Sharp Tongue - Gossip
She Sells Sea Shells
Shelter
Simon
Simple GiftS - The Quakers
Sinning Priests - Sacred Scandal
Sky Lanterns Light the Heavens
Smoke
SOAR - Save Our Aging Religious
Song of the Soul
Sonnet 116 - Shakespeare
Soul Inner-Sanctum
Soul Winds
Sound Body - Sound Mind
Spinal Curve
Stages of Life - The Ages of Man
Stairway To Heaven
Star of the Sea - Ave Maris Stella
Stations of the Cross
Stay Hungry - The Sin of Gluttony
Sticks and Stones - Insults
Stoning Women for Adultery
Stronghold
Success
Suffering Jesus
Suffering
Suicide and Hope
Suicide Hot-Line
Suicide Statistics
Sun God
Sunrise - Another Day
Sunset
Supreme Court
Sweet Sensations
Take Me Home
Talents
Ten Commandments
Ten Things God Won't Ask
Terminal Illness
Terminals Along the Road of Life 
Thanks
The Fallen
The Lives I Touch
The Virtues
The Will of God
Things Like Heaven and Hell
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Thoughts for Couples
Three Kings
Three Monkeys
Time
Time Goes On
Tiny Opening
To Be in the World
To Kill An American
To the Lord
Town Square Tragedies
Treasures
Trees
Trinity
Trusting God's Roller-Coaster
Truth
Tsunami Destruction
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright
Unchanging God
Unicorn
Vigilance
Violence
Virtues
Vision
Volunteers
Voyage
Warning
Wars and Rumors of Wars
Water
Wealthy and Wanting
Weave
Wedding Feast at Cana
What I Did For Love
Whistleblowers
Winding Down
Wings of Hope
Wisdom
Worries
Writing
You, God

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