Most Holy Spirit, help us; teach us to how to pray to You as You intend us to.

Meditation

We recommend that you read the text of the meditation attentively; pray with all your heart, ask the Virgin Mary to grant you the grace to listen and remember the words of the Lord. 

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

The Rosary of the Holy Wounds

Open the prayer by saying:

"O Jesus, Divine Redeemer, be merciful to us and to the whole world. Amen.

Strong God, holy God, immortal God, have mercy on us and on the whole world. Amen.

Grace and mercy, O my Jesus, during present dangers; cover us with Your Precious Blood. Amen.

Eternal Father, grant us mercy through the Blood of Jesus Christ, Your only Son; grant us mercy, we implore You. Amen."

On the large beads:

"Eternal Father, I offer You the Wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ, to heal the wounds of our souls."

On the small beads:

"My Jesus, pardon and mercy, through the merits of Your Holy Wounds."

Finish the Rosary by reciting 3 times:

"O Eternal Father, be merciful to us through the Blood of Jesus Christ Your only Son! Be merciful to us, we implore You!"

Padre Pio's "Efficacious" Prayer

1. O my Jesus, you have said: 'Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. ' Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of... (name your request).

One Our Father, One Hail Mary and One Glory Be

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You!

2. O my Jesus, you have said: 'Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, He will give it to you. ' Behold, in Your name, I ask the Father for the grace of... (name your request).

One Our Father, One Hail Mary and One Glory Be

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You!

3. O my Jesus, you have said: 'Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not. ' Encouraged by You infallible words, I now ask for the grace of... (name your request). 

 One Our Father, One Hail Mary and One Glory Be

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You!

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us, poor sinners,  and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender mother and ours.

 St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.

Hail Holy Queen

"Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life our sweetness and our hope. 

To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. 

Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!

Amen."