9 prayers

Protection & Travel

Prayers for safety: on the road, in storms and wildfires, and for everyone you are waiting to see come home.

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Many Catholic grandmothers had a routine when a thunderstorm rolled in. They lit the blessed candle…

St Paul wrote his famous passage on spiritual battle from prison, chained to a Roman soldier.…

Every spring, parishes across the country hold a Blessing of the Bikes. Hundreds of motorcycles line…

There is a particular kind of quiet in a house the first night a teenager takes…

Fire can take everything in minutes. A kitchen fire, a faulty wire, a wildfire driven by…

Hurricane tracks are watched for days. People board up windows, fill bathtubs, line up for gas,…

“Safely Home” is the poem that begins “I am home in heaven, dear ones”, and it…

The most famous weather prayer in Christian history asked for the opposite of sunshine. Once a…

The “white light” prayer of protection usually involves imagining yourself surrounded by bright light that shields…