A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Thank you, Lord, for bringing me home to Your True Church

O Lord Jesus, how thankful I am to You for showing me the error of my ways and convicting me of my many grievous sins!

O Lord Jesus, thank you for sending the Holy Spirit to wake me up to how I was offending You with my many terrible sins! Thank you for the grace I so desperately needed to turn from my many sins and repent.

O Lord Jesus, in Your Infinite Mercy, you infused me with enough graces to overcome my enslavement to sin, which was clouding my ability to love You!

O Eternal Father, Creator Almighty, thank You for the many wonders of this Natural world, which can be used to point to Your Infinite Glory, and settle my restless mind in searching after Your Existence!

O Holy Spirit, thank you for calling me into a cathedral where I could stand in awe at the sacred architecture You inspired in these master artisans!

O Lord, thank you for never making me choose between Faith and Reason!

O Lord, thank you for founding the Catholic Church, which has safeguarded Your teachings and sacraments for all these centuries so that I may come to know You.

O Holy Mary, Mother of God, thank you for saying, “Yes,” to our Lord!

O Lord, thank you for your sorrowful passion so that I may be washed clean of my many sins in the mercy font of your meritorious Blood and Water.

O Holy Spirit, thank you for giving me a zeal and fire for You!

O Father Almighty, thank you for creating and sustaining this reality, which is so beautiful and full of Your Glory!

O Jesus, thank You, in Your Infinite Divine Mercy, for choosing to incarnate as a man so that we may become more divine.

O Jesus, thank You, in Your Wisdom and compassion, for giving us the sacrament of the Eucharist so that we may become unified with You!

O Holy Spirit, thank You for coming down to every Mass around the world and performing the miracle of transubstantiation! How easy it is for you to perform such a miracle and how mysterious it is for us to understand!

O Holy Spirit, thank you for giving me the grace of Faith necessary to believe that the Eucharist is really the Body of Christ!

O Lord Jesus, thank You for establishing the papacy so that your Kingdom on Earth may have a unifying office guarded by the Holy Spirit that stands firm against the gates of hell in faithfully transmitting doctrine!

O Lord Jesus, thank You to all the saints of Christian history who give us such good examples to follow and inspire us to strive for ever greater holiness!

O Lord Jesus, thank You for bearing the weight of the entire world in Your Agony! In Your Infinite Mercy, you lovingly chose to experience the suffering of every sin that has ever been committed or will be committed, so that we may be washed clean by the meritorious Precious Blood dripping from your beautiful brow!

O Father, thank You for sending Your Son to save the world from the consequences of our own evil actions, which we have made freely in rebellion against You!

O Father, thank You for giving us the gift of our intellect and free will, so that we can be made in Your Image and elevated above the animals!

O Lord, I am so thankful for Your Church, for as a convert, without the Church to be a faithful and holy safeguard of Your Established Church on Earth, I would have never come to Know You and the Truths You have revealed in Your infinite Mercy, to offer a pathway to Eternal Life through faith in Your Ultimate act of self-sacrifice and Love, Your having died for our sins on The Cross, and risen again so that we too may be reborn, washed free with the free-flowing merits of your Precious Blood, and having been so purified by your most Merciful Blood, we can now also partake in the mystery of your divine nature, and have everlasting life.

Christ’s Precious Blood is a living stream of loving justice that washes away through baptism the deep guilt of our souls, showering us with the Merit of His Infinite Sacrifice wherein He, out of Ultimate self-sacrificial Love and Infinite Divine Mercy, offered unto Himself the excruciating fleshly pain of every offense of every human who has ever offended God’s Perfect Goodness, so that we may also be risen and reborn from a dead life of sin only insofar as we derive Grace from Jesus, our Perfect Redeemer, who was also reborn as he died from man’s sin and went down into hell and conquered death forever, rose again from the dead and extends His Most Merciful hands in Grace to give us also the eternal rewards of His Mighty Feat against Death.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Your Infinite Divine Mercy You have deigned to bless us with the loving gift of being able to stand humbly before You in our hearts, and offer faith and love to Your Sacred Heart, which did in the Most Terrible Agony of the Garden, take on all the sorrows and pains and sufferings and sins of every human who has or ever will live, and in His Infinite Wisdom and Knowledge, so too foresaw our devotion to his Suffering and was thereby comforted by our humble gift of faith and love.

O God, thank you for being the Father, almighty Creator of Reality, Who is the Infinite, Eternal, Unlimited foundation of Reality, the very ground of existence itself, who sustains and permits all things, for the sake of His Glory, Who in His Infinite Love, deigned to make us from Earth in His Very Image, male and female, so that we may partake in His Glory and Infinite Love.

O God, thank you for being the Son, who from His Sacred Suffering Heart poured out blood and water in an everlasting fountain of Merciful Redemption, so that we may be reborn and wear new clothes of righteousness, bathed in the sanctifying Precious Blood that poured forth from his sacred brow that sweated profusely in sorrow, suffering every sin ever sinned, suffering unto death by the punishing blows of mankind’s most grievous sins, so that we may merit, by dint of a single precious drop of that sanctifying blood, the rewards of everlasting life secured in Jesus having descended into hell and defeated Satan and conquered death for all eternity, thus securing our humble entryway into everlasting life.

O God, thank you for being the Holy Spirit, who was mercifully promised by the Son to be our great Consoler and Sanctifier, who dwells within us and thereby invites us to partake in the infinite divine love between Father and Son, who gifts us seven gifts so that we may bury them in good soil, and with Your Sweet Grace, bring forth the fruits of You, Blessed Holy Ghost, who makes us holy and pleasing to God.

O Holy Mary, Mother of God, perfect Blessed Virgin of virgins, you who were so holy and full of Grace, conceived without sin, humbly received the Holy Spirit into the sacred temple of your womb, our New Ark, so that you may provide sustaining, motherly life to our most Precious Savior, Lord Jesus Christ, who in His Infinite Mercy, deigned also to give us unworthy sinners and opportunity to receive His Body into our bodies through the Bread of Life, which He so mercifully gave us like manna from heaven to nourish our souls, so that we can be sanctified and united in love with our spiritual husband and Lord, Christ Jesus, who freely chose to suffer unto death for our sake, so that we may have Everlasting Life by means of the sanctifying Grace lovingly showered upon us from the Eternal Font of His Pierced and Sacred Heart, which gushes forth purifying blood and water, washing away our sins forever and ever by means of the merit contained within a single drop of His Most Precious Blood, which radiates like an Eternal Liquid Sunbeam, cleansing the souls of all mankind, forever and ever, conquering Satan and Death so that we may eternal share in the Infinite Glory of God, face to face, beholding in wonder and awe the Beauty and Perfect Goodness of His Ultimate Being, the ground of all Being, the foundation of Reality itself.

Come Holy Ghost, indwell in me so that my heart be lit on fire with love for Lord Jesus Christ, living son of God, who in His Infinite Divine Mercy, lovingly offered to take the crushing weight of every sinner’s sin directly upon his soul, and suffer those sins for us, as a loving self-giving sacrifice, to mercifully take the consequences of our sins, and bear them on His own heart, feeling the suffering of humanity as both fully human and fully divine, and thereby offer in His Mercy the cleansing and purifying merit contained in the Blood and Water which bountifully and eternally poured out from His Pierced and Sacred Heart, the Suffering Heart that Burns with Love for all sinners, that pours forth golden red sunbeams of Mercy and Grace, that pours forth our Greatest Advocate and Helper, the Holy Ghost, Who indwells within us, giving us His gifts and fruits, sanctifying us and making us holy in His Sight so that we may, purged with righteous fire, humbly take advantage of the great gift of everlasting life, purified and made holy with Grace so stand face to face with Our Almighty and All Good and All Beautiful God, our Loving Father and source of All, our Loving Son, sent by the Father out love, and the Eternal Bond of Love between them, the Holy Ghost, who sanctifies us.

Lord Jesus, thank you, thank you, thank you for being willing to do the Will of Your Father and suffer unto death the crushing weight of all the sin that ever will be sinned. You asked the Father if there was any other way. Still, you were in Your Infinite Mercy willing to do the Will of the Father, which was to suffer in our place, and thereby merit for us the Sanctifying Grace contained within Your Precious Blood, which flows freely along with baptismal water from Your Sacred and Pierced heart, showering us gently with a New Covenant, the Eucharist, that we can receive into our bodies as new manna from heaven Your Body and Blood, which gives us a Grace wherein we can participate in Your Divine Nature by having you indwell in our bodies through the Holy Ghost, who who sent by You and the Father as a Great Helper to sanctify us and so prepare us for Eternal Life.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, burning furnace of love, tabernacle of God, You were pierced so cruelly by the Roman lance, but how do you choose to respond to your enemies? You forgave their sins against You, their offense against the perfection of Your Divine Nature, and then in Your Infinite Mercy, when Your Sacred Heart was pierced it responded with Infinite Love and poured forth Your Precious Blood and the Purifying Water, baptizing us in the cleansing light of your Divine Mercy, a single photon of which contains the Infinite Merit of the Cross, which provides for us a sure passageway to Everlasting Life despite our many sins.

Come, Lord Jesus, wash me clean, purify me with the infinite merit of Your Precious Blood, have mercy on me, a sinner, baptize me in but a single drop of Your Precious Blood, which contains Infinite Mercy, which you have established as the New Covenant, made available to us in the Sacred of Your Supper, which in your mysterious Mercy has made Your Body, the Bread of Life, available to us, hidden by a veil so that we cannot see with our eyes that it is Your Glorious Body, but because You told us it is You, we can trust it is really You, so that we can receive You into your bodies, so that by Your Sanctifying Grace you can allow us to partake in Your Divinity as You nourish our body and soul, divinizing us, making us more like You, a temple for the Holy Ghost to indwell, making us holy, purified so that we may be worthy to behold the Face of God.

Lord Jesus, thank You for all the priests who faithfully act on Your Merciful behalf to perform the sacraments so that I, a lowly sinner, may receive so many precious graces.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner! Thank You for all the great mystics in Christian history, that I may be inspired to know You in a deeper way.

Blessed Mary, Ever Virgin, thank you for praying for me, that I may remain chaste! Saint Joseph, your Blessed Spouse, guardian of virgins, thank you for praying for me that I may submit my sexuality to the Lord and give up my many sins of self-abuse.

Saint Augustine, great Saint, thank you for being my patron. May I be continually inspired to be chaste, spend my precious time on Earth thinking of God, and use my intellectual gifts to help build the Kingdom!

Thank You, Lord Jesus, for this precious gift: your One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church! Without this gift, I would surely be lost, drowning in the consequences of my freely chosen sins!

Thank you, Holy Spirit, for sanctifying me, for guiding my thoughts, words, and deeds, for giving me the precious gift of Faith, Hope, and Charity! Thank You for opening my eyes to Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life!

Thank you, Lord, for giving us your Scriptures, so that we may profit in wisdom and knowledge of Your Will!

Thank you, Eternal Father, for being the ground of Existence itself, the ground of Goodness itself, and the ground of Consciousness itself, so that we may participate in Your reality and thereby enjoy the precious gift of existing as conscious beings!

O Lord, thank You for erasing the arrogance and pride in my mind which prevented me from submitting to the Magisterium of Your Holy Church!

O Lord, thank You for bringing so many wonderful Catholics into my parish life, so that I may experience the joys of being part of Your Kingdom and Your Body!

Thank You, Jesus, for all You have done for me. Thank You for patiently waiting for 38 years for me to come home to Your Church finally! Thank You for not giving up on this Prodigal Son. Thank You for welcoming me into Your Church with such a loving embrace.

Thank You, Holy Spirit, for giving me this fire in my belly, so that I may be inspired to spread your Good News!

Thank You, Savior of the World, for your Paschal sacrifice! O Lamb of God, Your Precious Blood has washed away my sins in a fountain of Mercy, which I do not deserve even a single drop!

You never gave up on me, Lord. Even though I blasphemed against You so many times. Even though I offended You over and over, You still sought after me and gave me the graces I needed to find You. Your Grace made the scales fall from my eyes so that I could see how much I need You. O Lord, I was so enslaved to sin! I was addicted to drugs and sex and sin, and did nothing to merit Your many Graces, and yet You were so generous in giving them to me anyway.