Lord, thank you for being a loving Father and for having my good in mind before the world began. As I come to know, love, and serve You I trust that You will fulfill the deepest longings of my heart.

Lord, teach me to hear Your voice. Create in me an attentive soul and a spirit willing to respond.

In times of confusion and doubt grant me peace and understanding.

In moments of temptation and struggle grant me the courage and fortitude to continue to follow after You.

Please place in my life men and women who will offer support and wise counsel on my journey to You.

Let my heart remain ever faithful so that, no matter where You may call me to serve You, I will always know the peace and joy that comes from loving You alone.

I ask this through the intercession of Jesus, Mother Mary, my patron saints, and guardian angel. Amen.

Lord, my God and my loving Father, you have made me to know you, to love you, to serve you, and thereby to find and to fulfill my deepest longings. I know that you are in all things, and that every path can lead me to you. 

But of them all, there is one especially by which you want me to come to you. Since I will do what you want of me, I pray you, send your Holy Spirit to me: into my mind, to show me what you want of me; into my heart, to give me the determination to do it, and to do it with all my love, with all my mind, and with all of my strength right to the end. Jesus, I trust in you. Amen