![]() Help me to always make the effort to ease the pain and suffering of others, with an ever ready, always affectionate, and joyful heart. Help me to look at everyone I come across with a tender heart, truly feeling in my heart the pain and suffering of others. Thank you for comforting me in times of sickness and trouble. Jesus said, “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.” (Matthew 5:7)ĭear Jesus, thank you for the mercy you have shown me time and time again, even when my actions have not merited it. Help me to constantly hunger and thirst for righteousness just as you did, and please intercede with Jesus in asking him to grant my desperate request, (STATE REQUEST). Saint Matthew, you left behind a very financially lucrative career and the ways of the world to follow Jesus’s way instead. Help me to do everything just as you would. Please lead and guide me so I can live my life completely in conformity with the will of God, going contentedly wherever his will takes me. Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”(Matthew 5:6)ĭear Jesus, I want to be just like you. Please help me to have the quality of meekness before God constantly being produced within me, relying on his strength for every move I make and every action I take, and please intercede with Jesus in asking him to grant my desperate request, (STATE REQUEST). This must not have been easy, since you came from a life of privilege. Saint Matthew, you gave up a life of worldly pleasures to follow God’s word made flesh in Jesus, trusting that he would take care of all your needs. Although evil may seem to triumph, these are temporary triumphs indeed, because the meek, not the wicked, shall inherit the Earth. Therefore, I submit my will totally to you. Jesus said, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.” (Matthew 5:5)ĭear Jesus, I know that I can do all things through you who gives me strength, but not according to my will, but yours. Help me to truly mourn for all the sins I have committed and please intercede with Jesus in asking him to grant my desperate request, (STATE REQUEST). Saint Matthew, as a former tax-collector, you were considered one of the worst sinners, but Jesus called you anyway to be one of his apostles. All that I am and all that I hope to be is solely because of your grace and mercy and nothing else. I love you more than I love myself, and can do nothing without you. I know it was my sins that condemned you to die. With all my heart, please forgive me for ever having offended you. Jesus said, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4)ĭear Jesus, even though I have committed such grave offenses against you and God, you still loved me enough to give your life for me so I could be free in Heaven. ![]() Help me to be so poor in spirit that I acknowledge my own nothingness before God on a moment-by-moment basis, and please intercede with Jesus in asking him to grant my desperate request, (STATE REQUEST). Saint Matthew, as you were one of the lucky twelve who walked the Earth with Jesus by your side, you were continually made aware of your own nothingness before his greatness and saw many evidences of God’s immense grace. ![]() Please save me, and please forgive me, for I am lost without you. I am not worthy of your love, but you are my only hope. I have gone against you and hurt you with each and every sin I have committed. ![]() Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.” (Matthew 5:3)ĭear Jesus, I have sinned against God and you. We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, your son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. By his example and prayers help us to follow Christ and remain faithful in your service. God of mercy you chose a tax collector, Saint Matthew, to share the dignity of the apostles. ![]()
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