• The Heart :: 

    There are many great web sites devoted to Catholic prayer.

    So if there is so much great resources, why more? To put it very simply, there is not anything quite like this anywhere else.

    This is the digitized form (with very little editing by myself) of my favorite prayer book: The Model Redemptorist Brother, 1932. My desire is to share this great prayer book with the world, with the hopes that the total 448 pages will be on the site.

    In my limited editing I tried to use modern english and removed portions that just pertain to being a Redemptorist Brother.

I am also including prayers from Mysteries of the Mass in Reasoned Prayers by Fr. W. Roche, S.J.

    If you find this helpful please email me your feedback

    Does our life become from day to day more painful, more oppressive, more replete with afflictions? Blessed be He a thousand times who desires it so. If life be harder, love makes it also stronger, and only this love, grounded on suffering, can carry the Cross of my Lord Jesus Christ.
    Love without egotism, without relying on self, but enkindling in the depth of the heart an ardent thirst to love and suffer for all those around us: a thirst that neither misfortune nor contempt can extinguish...
    I believe, O Lord; but strengthen my faith... Heart of Jesus, I love Thee; but increase my love. Heart of Jesus, I trust in You; but give greater vigor to my confidence. Heart of Jesus, I give my heart to You; but so enclose it in You that it may never be separated from You. Heart of Jesus, I am all Yours; but take care of my promise so that I may be able to put it in practice even unto the complete sacrifice of my life.