TOTUS TUUS
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(The responses in italics may be omitted.)
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Abba Father, I abide before you in this moment,
reposing against the breast of Christ, your Son,
who is my Beloved, the Spouse of my heart,
in whom, beyond all my deserving,
you have loved me and drawn me to yourself.
I thank you for this gift of grace,
through which he bore me in his saving Passion
and unveiled also his desire for the salvation of all your children,
each uniquely beloved and precious in your eyes.
In him, therefore, I know that I am
united to all of my brothers and sisters,
for he lovingly bears all of us within himself,
bridging the distance between heaven and earth in outstretched arms,
and reconciling all within the sinews of his Heart—
a Heart beating still under the guise of bread and wine,
a redeeming sacrifice perpetuated always in your holy Church,
the heartbeat of creation and the heartbeat of God, united.
I know that the love of which, in my thirst, I drink,
flowing from his compassionate Heart,
seeks to pour out also into the heart of every person,
to touch, heal, redeem, and save.
And so I place myself more deeply within his arms:
to share in his own filial intimacy with you, in the Spirit,
to share in his priestly prayer for all of your children,
to share in his spousal love for every person,
to share in his Eucharistic mystery for the sake of all
—taken, blessed, broken, and given,
that all may be gathered together into unity in you—
yes, to share, Father, in your own paternal charity,
burning with the fire of your tender compassion
and, in the mystery of faith, with your unending delight,
with the eternal play of the beautiful Three-in-One,
our origin and, through your mercy, our destiny.
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And so I pray now, most good and loving Father:
For all of your children throughout the world…
Draw us to your Heart.
For all the members of the Church…
For all who believe in Christ…
For the unity of all Christians…
For Israel, people of your choice and covenant…
For the Muslim people…
For the people of the Hindus…
For those who adhere to Buddhism, Shintoism,
and other Asiatic religions…
For those who adhere to the indigenous religions
of any people or culture…
For the people of all religions and beliefs…
For those who have a false image of you
or of your holy Church…
For those who do not yet believe in you…
For those who do not believe in Christ…
For those who have not found your Church…
For those who are seeking your face…
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For the healing of all your broken children,
physically and spiritually…
Pour out your healing, saving grace.
For those who suffer from any sickness of body or mind…
For those who suffer from terminal illness…
For those who suffer from chronic pain
or poor health…
For those who suffer from a broken marriage…
For those who suffer from any kind of fractured relationships…
For those who suffer from a sense of not belonging…
For those who suffer injustices and struggle to forgive…
For those who suffer persecution…
For those who persecute them…
For those who suffer the effects of war or violence…
For those whose rights are trampled…
For those who are enslaved and trafficked…
For those who are harmed in any way…
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For those who struggle to live in love…
Guide, hand in hand.
For those who struggle against the pull
of a world of comfort and ease…
For those who struggle
with possessiveness of material things…
For those who struggle
with chastity of mind, heart, and body…
For those who struggle to accept your love in their life…
For those who struggle
to find the beauty and joy in their path…
For those who struggle to remain faithful to you…
For those who struggle for justice and peace…
For those who struggle to make a living
for themselves and their families…
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For the poorest of the poor…
Show the abundance of your love.
For those who are hungry or starving…
For those who are forgotten and abandoned…
For those who thirst for love they don’t receive…
For those who feel naked and defenseless before evil…
For those without adequate housing…
For those without adequate medical care…
For those who have been forced from their homes…
For those seeking refuge and a better life…
For those who are imprisoned…
For those who are hospitalized…
For those who are dying…
For those who have already died…
For those who grieve the loss of a loved one…
For those who fear death…
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For those who seek to follow you, hand in hand…
Enfold within your grace.
For those who seek to draw closer to you in love…
For those who seek to live and love in integrity,
before you and before all…
For those who seek
healthy and meaningful relationships…
For those who seek their path in life…
For those who seek to know your love…
For those who seek a deeper life of prayer,
and for those who do not…
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For those who flee from your face…
Draw us, O God.
For those who are oppressed by spirits of darkness…
For those whose hearts have hardened to your voice…
For those who have lost their way…
For those who have stopped searching…
For those most in need of mercy this day…
For those on the brink of conversion,
and for those far from it…
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For those in whose hands is the good of many…
Grant your light and grace.
For those who are responsible for the welfare of nations…
For those whose wealth is a bounty not shared…
For those whose riches have blinded them to the poor…
For those most resistant to your grace…
For those who have the capacity to inflict great harm…
For those who have the capacity to do profound good…
For all of us, that we may bear the fruit entrusted to us…
For all of us, that abundant salvation may be ours,
and that we may mediate it to as many as possible…
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For children who die of hunger, cold, or sickness,
Have mercy, loving Father.
For children who do not have the basic necessities of life…
For children who are abused…
For children who are forced to work…
For children who do not have space to play…
For children who do not receive the love they need…
For children who are disregarded by society…
For children who are not cared for, educated, and led to life…
For all of your little ones, Father,
that we may know your fatherly closeness,
the joy of your kiss in the Spirit and the Son…
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For those who have received the gift of marriage…
Bestow the fullness of your life and joy, radiating freely.
For those who have embraced a life
of consecration to you…
For those who have embraced the call
to priesthood or diaconate…
For those whom you call to devote their lives to you
and to your people…
For those whom you invite
to a life of prayer and contemplation…
For those who live in the silence of solitude…
For those who seek you in littleness and ordinariness,
yes, for each one of us to find you here…
For the bishops of the world,
and especially the bishop of our local Church…
For the pope and all who work with him…
For the leaders of all Christian communities…
For the leaders of every religion…
For the leaders of governments
and all in political office…
For all to know the truth of belovedness
in your loving and cherishing gaze…
For all of us to keep our eyes on Jesus,
longing of our hearts, fairest of the children of men…
For all of us to see your glory unveiled,
and to be transformed into your likeness from glory unto glory…
For unity to blossom among all of your children
in the intimacy of the Trinity’s life and love…
For your sons and daughters, Father,
that we may rejoice to be your children…
For your sons and daughters,
that we may find our hearts blossoming in love…
For your sons and daughters,
that we may rejoice in the fruitfulness of your gift…
For all of us, my God, that we may live
the life of the Trinity for which we have been made…
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For those who walk in the darkness of sin…
Pour out the radiance of your light.
For those who walk in the darkness of error…
For those who walk
in the darkness of misunderstanding…
For those who walk in the darkness of self-hatred…
For those who walk
in the darkness of loneliness and isolation…
For those who walk in the darkness of superficiality…
For those who walk
in the darkness of sinful fragmentation…
For those who walk
in the darkness of complacency and pride…
For those who walk in the darkness of comfort
and forgetfulness of others…
For those who walk in the darkness of infidelity…
For those who walk in darkness of any kind…
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For those who are enslaved to sinful habits…
Grant the liberty of the children of God.
For those who are enslaved to addiction to drugs…
For those who are enslaved to alcohol…
For those who are enslaved
to pornography or impurity of life…
For those who are enslaved to work or achievement…
For those who are enslaved to money or things…
For those who are enslaved to sloth or gluttony…
For those who are enslaved
to the fragmentation of our world…
For those who are enslaved
to the relativism of our culture…
For those who are enslaved
to technology or social media…
For those who are enslaved
to video games or virtual reality…
For those who are enslaved to fear of any kind…
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For those whose sacred mystery is profaned…
Embrace and heal within the spousal love of your Son.
For those who are viewed as an object by others…
For those who live as prostitutes…
For those who are given to disordered sexual desire or practice…
For those who use others
for their own gain or pleasure…
For those who are so used…
For those whose lives are threatened
by the culture of death…
For those who find themselves failing every day…
For those who are discouraged by life…
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For those who are burdened
by a sense of shame and regret…
Console with your Spirit, granting perfect peace.
For those who are burdened
by abuse of past or present…
For those who are burdened by uncertainty and fear…
For those who are burdened
by mental illness of any kind…
For those who are burdened by emotional imbalance…
For those who are burdened
by mistakes or failures of the past…
For those who are burdened
by insecurity about the future…
For those who are burdened by doubts of any kind…
For those who are burdened by temptation…
For those who are burdened
by a sense of always falling short…
For those who are burdened
by a feeling of your absence…
For those who are burdened by despair…
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For those who are tempted to commit suicide…
Shelter in the Heart of your Son.
For those who are tempted to harm themselves…
For those who are tempted to hurt others…
For those who find life too hard to bear…
For all of us, invited to bear one another’s burdens…
For those who do not know your joy…
For those who do not know the peace
of sonship and daughterhood…
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For all of us, loving God,
that you may draw us into consummate intimacy with yourself,
in this life and for all eternity…
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
For all of us, that we may be taken
into the heart of the love of Father and Son,
united in the kiss and breath of the Spirit whom you share…
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For all the intentions that I carry within my heart…
For all the intentions that you desire
to be borne before you
and into which you desire to pour out your love…
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Heavenly Father, God of infinite love and goodness,
holding all of these things in my tiny heart,
yet held by the immensity of your immeasurable love,
I humbly intercede for all the burdens and sufferings of our world,
and every one of my brothers and sisters.
In childlike trust, I surrender all to you.
I stand before you on behalf of all, united to the Paschal Christ,
bearing all in my heart as, in your heart, I am borne—
for we are all one, inseparably united,
belonging to one another, adhering to one another,
a single Body, a single family,
in the One, your Son, who unites us.
Resting thus, in humility and the bold confidence of faith,
against your loving bosom,
I ask you to pour out ever more deeply into our hearts
the torrent of your love and mercy,
uniting us to yourself in the intimacy of love,
in the heart of the life that is eternally yours
with the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Amen.