Prayers for what you carry

The prayers people bring to the wall most often, written out so you can say them tonight. Each one can also be posted on the wall, where others will light a candle and pray it with you.

• Novena to St. Jude St. Jude Thaddeus, apostle and patron of hopeless causes, is the saint Filipinos turn to when nothing else has worked. This is the nine-day...
• Prayer for a sick loved one For a parent on dialysis, a child in the hospital, a biopsy result due on Friday. These are words for when you are afraid for someone and th...
• Prayer before an exam For the board exam you studied two years for, the finals, the licensure you sat for the third time. A prayer for the night before, the morni...
• Prayer for work and for family abroad For the interview on Monday, the visa that has taken fourteen months, the contract in Dubai that ends in March, the ones we love who are wor...
• Prayer for the soul of a loved one For the wake, for the ninth day and the fortieth, for the first anniversary and every one after. The prayer for the dead is short, and it is...
• Prayer of thanksgiving The biopsy was benign. The visa came through. He came home clean on his birthday. When a prayer is answered, this is how to say thank you, a...
• Prayer for the family For a marriage that is trying, a son who has stopped calling, a house where the money is short and the tempers are shorter. A prayer for the...