The Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini on November 13!
She is truly a saint for our times.
Saint Frances Cabrini founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She dedicated her life to caring for immigrants, orphans, the poor, and the sick.
During her life on earth, Saint Frances Cabrini focused on the spiritual and material needs of at-risk individuals. Today, she is celebrated for her unwavering faith and for practically living out our call to serve the most vulnerable.
Saint Frances Cabrini was canonized in 1946 by Pope Pius XII. She was the first American citizen to be recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church!
You can find out more about her life and legacy here.
The Shrine of Saint Frances Cabrini in New York City has provided the following prayers from Saint Frances Cabrini herself!
Anxiety
Jesus, fortify me with the grace of your Holy Spirit and give your peace to my soul that I may be free of all needless anxiety, solicitude, and worry.
Help me to desire always that which is pleasing and acceptable to You so that Your will may be my own.
A Prayer of Praise
Oh, Jesus, my Love, what are you like? I understand you — and yet I do not understand you — but I profoundly adore your majesty, bless your mercy, love your bounty, and love you yourself.
Yes, I love you, I love so much, so very much! With your grace, loving Jesus, I will run behind you to the end of the race, forever, for always. Help me, Jesus, because I want to do this ardently, swiftly.
For Discernment
My Jesus, I have not always recognized your loving plans for me. Every day, with the help of your light, I learn more of your loving care. Continue to increase my awareness of the gentleness of your loving plans.
I want to follow the purpose for which I was created. See, I am in your hands.
Help me choose the best way to serve you.
Walk with me, Jesus. Stay by my side and guide me!
Prayer for Surrender to Jesus
My loving Jesus, I enclose myself in you and surrender myself completely in your loving Heart…Enlighten my mind with a ray of your light, move my heart and soul, and make me do whatever pleases you and is for your greater glory.
Jesus, I love you so much…but I am so weak that in my ignorance and sinfulness, I still do not know how to correspond, even partially, to all the special graces and loving tenderness with which you surround me.
I will think of you and rest in you, my beloved Jesus.
Behold your servant — do with me whatever you want!
For Purification
Purify me, Jesus! With one drop of your precious blood, make my soul beautiful, make me worthy of you, who are immense beauty and ineffable purity.
A Prayer of Trust
My Beloved, enlarge my soul so that I may understand all your goodness and mercy… I completely surrender myself totally to you with great faith and rest tranquilly in your arms, like an infant with her mother.