Prayer before work brings protection and focus – Chapéus – Blog

Each day brings its challenges and joys. If you are looking for protection and blessings, prayer before work can help. It is believed that it also has the power to give more disposition, focus and strength to face activities, leaving aside discouragement and laziness.

How to say prayer before work?

One tip is to find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted. If you like, you can light a candle and/or incense. Sit comfortably and calm down by taking deep breaths. With great attention and faith, read the prayer before work. Before leaving home, be grateful for the help of spirituality.

“Bless, heavenly Father, the work I am about to begin; May Your Holy Spirit enlighten, inspire and guide me and Your grace help me to accomplish everything in a spirit of love and service, for the honor and glory of Your name and for the good of my brothers. Mary, Mother of Jesus and my Mother, intercede for me. Amen.”

Source: Dr. Filó

Prayer to ask for protection at work

“Heavenly Father, as I enter my workplace, I wish to invoke Your presence, so that I can give You thanks for this new day. I ask for Your peace, Your grace, Your mercy and Your perfect harmony for this enterprise. I ask that You bless everything that is said, thought, decided and done within these walls.

Bless my projects, my ideas and everything I do, so that even the smallest successes are testimonies of Your glory.

Bless, Lord, my bosses, colleagues, companions and all the people who will interact with me on this day.

Renew my strength, so that I can do my work in the best way possible.

On this day, Lord, I ask you for a generous heart to serve people with kindness and not be indifferent to their needs.

I ask you for eyes to better see those around me.

I ask you for a mouth that smiles often, that says optimistic phrases and that shuts up when it comes to rumors and offensive words.

I ask for hands that work honorably and enthusiastically to satisfy my needs and those of my family.

I ask you to have an open mind to all ideas, to think well of others and understand those who think differently than me.

Especially, Lord, give me a deep faith so that I believe in Your word and a strong will to act correctly and do good.

Lord, when I am confused, guide me; when I feel weak, strengthen me; When I am tired, fill me with the light of the Holy Spirit.

I ask that, on this day, the work I will do is in accordance with Your word and Your commandments. And I pray that when I have finished today’s work, the Lord may lead me safely to my home. Amen.”

Source: prayer originally published by webcatolicodejavier.org, translated and adapted into Portuguese by Aleteia

Prayer before work Saint Joseph

“Glorious Saint Joseph, model of all who dedicate themselves to work, obtain for me the grace to work with a spirit of penance to atone for my numerous sins;

To work with conscience, putting the cult of duty above my inclinations;

To work with recollection and joy, seeing it as an honor to employ and develop through work the gifts received from God;

To work with order, peace, moderation and patience, without ever backing down in the face of fatigue and difficulties;

To work, above all with purity of intention and detachment from myself, always having before my eyes death and the account that I must give for lost time, unused talents, omitted good and the vain complacency in successes, so disastrous to the work God’s!

All for Jesus, all for Mary, all in your imitation, oh! Patriarch Saint Joseph!

Such will be my motto in life and death. Amen.”

Source: Aleteia

Which psalm to read before working?

The habit of reading psalms is known for its power to promote spiritual cleansing, open paths and attract protection. But each of the texts is usually related to a theme in life. Psalm 79, for example, is related to more value at work and highlighting your abilities.

1. O God, the Gentiles have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; They reduced Jerusalem to heaps of stones.
2. They gave the dead bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the heavens, and the flesh of your saints to the wild beasts of the earth.
3. They poured out their blood like water around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.
4. We are made a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and mockery to those around us.
5. Until when, Lord? Will you be indignant forever? Will your zeal burn like fire?
6. Pour out your wrath on the Gentiles who do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call on your name.
7. Because they devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwellings.
8. Do not remember our past iniquities; let your mercies come to us quickly, for we are already very low.
9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; and deliver us, and forgive our sins for your name’s sake.
10. Why should the Gentiles say, Where is their God? Let him be known among the Gentiles in our sight, for the vengeance of the blood of your servants, which was shed.
11. Let the groaning of the prisoners come before your face; according to the greatness of your arm preserve those who are sentenced to death.
12. And return to our neighbors, in their lap, seven times as much of their insult with which they insulted you, Lord.
13. So we, your people and the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; From generation to generation we will sing your praises.

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