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We can all use a little help with prayer sometimes. The Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates hope to help inspire you! Whether it’s the perfect Saint Mother Theodore Guerin quote or a prayer written by a Sister of Providence, let the right words bring Providence into your life. Browse the prayers below or if you’re looking for something specific, use the “Topics” search in the search area.

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Topic: home

Prayer

Prayer for the sale of a home

Guide us — seller and buyer both —
through this change
with open and eager hearts.

Quote

“A good spirit reigns in our house...”

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Quote

“Very great hopes are founded upon this house.”

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Quote

“On the eighth of September, fifteen years ago, the day when for the first time we received Our Divine Savior in this land of American, at that very moment, America ceased to be for me a stranger-land. It became the land of my adoption.”

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Quote

“We dwell in [God], and [God] dwells in us.”

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Prayer

Holy Ground

O God,I kiss this holy groundThis place of promises in processThis place of people seeking GodAnd of God seeking and saving a peopleA place of knowing one is hungryAnd of […]

Prayer

Prayer for homecoming

Bless us, most loving provident God,may this coming home be a re-creation and experience of hospitality and hope. May all who enter this home, may all who walk through these […]

Prayer

A Blessing on Our Homes

O Provident God, we ask that you bless and protect our homes and all who come and go from them. May our homes be filled with welcome for family and […]

Prayer

Litany of Our Lady of Providence

A litany is a well-known form of prayer consisting of a series of petitions with a response that is the same for all petitions or for several in succession. Litany […]

Prayer

A Parent’s Prayer to Our Lady of Providence

O Lady of Providence, my mother, surround the children God entrusted to me with your loving prayer. May God keep them safe in body, soul and mind.

Prayer

A Grandparent’s Prayer to Our Lady of Providence

O Lady of Providence, my mother.
Thank you for your steady faithful prayer
and support as I have raised the children
God entrusted to me.

Prayer

Our Lady of Providence, Queen of the Home

Woman of responsewhose initial “yes” set in motionthe greatest possibility that could ever be;whose continuing “yes” fed a developing faiththoughout a lifetime of availability to God’s power in her regard. […]

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Quote of the day

December 6
“Were you not at Vincennes, Sister Theodore would not know whether we had daughters there or not. It seems something has made the atmosphere so cold that the ink is frozen.”
– Saint Mother Theodore Guerin