June 2025: Prayers and Reflections
The Pope’s Monthly Intention
That the World may Grow in Compassion: Let us pray that each one of us might find consolation in a personal relationship with Jesus, and from his Heart, learn to have compassion on the world.
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World Communications Day – Journalists’ prayer • 1 June
Pope Francis adapted the Franciscan prayer that begins: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace and adjusted it for those working in today’s media:
Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Help us to recognise the evil latent in a communication that does not build communion. Help us to remove the venom from our judgments. Help us to speak about others as our brothers and sisters. You are faithful and trustworthy; may our words be seeds of goodness for the world: where there is shouting, let us practise listening; where there is confusion, let us inspire harmony; where there is ambiguity, let us bring clarity; where there is exclusion, let us offer solidarity; where there is sensationalism, let us use sobriety; where there is superficiality, let us raise real questions; where there is prejudice, let us awaken trust; where there is hostility, let us bring respect; where there is falsehood, let us bring truth. Amen.
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Prayer to St Kevin of Glendalough • Feast: 3 June
Saint Kevin, You were privileged to live in the Age of Saints,
being baptised by one saint, taught by another
and buried by a third.
We celebrate your saintly and holy life.
You lived a life filled with a wonderful
reverence and awe of all living things.
Let us imitate the respect and appreciation
you showed toward life in all its forms, and
to see the presence of God in all his Creations.
Pray to God that He will raise up saints
in our day to help, support and guide us
into the Way of Salvation. Amen.
Columban.org
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A Blessing of St Columba • Feast 9 June
See that you be at peace among yourselves, my children,
and love one another.
Follow the example of good people of old,
and God will comfort you and help you,
both in this world
and in the world which is to come. Amen.
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Prayer to St Anthony for lost things • Feast: 13 June
O Blessed Saint Anthony
the grace of God has made you
a powerful advocate in all our needs
and the person for the restoring
of things lost or stolen.
I turn to you today with love and confidence.
You have helped countless people to find
the things they have lost,
material things, and more importantly
the things of the Spirit: faith, hope and love.
I come to you with confidence;
help me in my present need.
I recommend what I have lost to your care
in the hope that God will return it to me,
if it is His holy will.
Amen.
Knock Shrine
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Prayer for Good Humor by St Thomas More • Feast: 22 June
Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest.
Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humor to maintain it.
Grant me a simple soul that knows to treasure all that is good
and that doesn’t frighten easily at the sight of evil,
but rather finds the means to put things back in their place.
Give me a soul that knows not boredom, grumblings, sighs and laments,
nor excess of stress, because of that obstructing thing called ‘I.’
Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humor.
Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke to discover in life a bit of joy,
and to be able to share it with others. Amen.
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The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and world day of prayer for priests • 27 June
A Prayer for Priests by St Thérèse of Lisieux
O Jesus, eternal Priest, keep your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart, where none may touch them. Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily touch Your Sacred Body. Keep unsullied their lips, daily purpled with your Precious Blood. Keep pure and unearthly their hearts, sealed with the sublime mark of the priesthood. Let Your holy love surround them and shield them from the world’s contagion. Bless their labours with abundant fruit and may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. Amen.
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