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Prayer For Protection

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Praesentia Tua ad Me Protegendum | AW

An adaption of an existing prayer.

HEAVENLY FATHER, I praise and thank Thee for all Thou hast bestowed upon me. I beseech Thee, shield me with the saving and Precious Blood of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, and increase within me Thy Holy Spirit, granting His gifts of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, a fervent desire for prayer, guidance, and discernment, that I may know Thy will and surrender wholly unto it. Father, please heal my troubled heart and any wounds to my spirit. Dispatch the blade of Thy Holy Spirit, to cleave and shatter all incantations, curses, hexes, sorceries and all matters genetic, inter-generational and addictive, be they past, present or yet to come, known or unknown, levied against me, my relationships and family, my worldly goods, my labors, and my service to Thee. Father, I forgive all trespasses against me, and seek forgiveness for mine own sins and failings, imploring that my whole being, body and mind, heart and will, soul and spirit, memory and affections, attitudes and values be purified, restored, and shielded by the sacred Blood of Thy Son, Jesus. In the name, power, blood, and authority of Jesus Christ, I bind and break the force and influence of any wicked spirits within or about me seeking to do me harm, and these spirits and their cohorts I command in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, to depart from me peacefully and forthwith, betaking themselves directly unto the Eucharistic presence of Jesus Christ in the nearest Catholic Church tabernacle, there to be dealt with by Jesus and nevermore to trouble me. Kind Holy Spirit, replenish any emptiness within me to overflowing with Thy boundless love. All this, Father, I pray in the Name of Jesus Christ, guided by Thy Holy Spirit. Immaculate Heart of Mary, spouse of the Holy Spirit, intercede for me and pray with me. Amen.

PATER CAELESTIS, laudo te et gratias ago pro omnibus quae mihi largitus es. Obsecro te, protege me Sanguine salutari et pretioso Filii tui, Iesu Christi, et auge in me Spiritum Sanctum tuum, tribuens dona eius sapientiae, scientiae, intellectus, fervidum desiderium orationis, ducatus, et discretionis, ut voluntatem tuam cognoscam et ei totum me tradam. Pater, sana quaeso cor meum afflictum et quaevis vulnera spiritus mei. Mitte ferrum Spiritus Sancti tui, ut secet et confringat omnes incantationes, maledictiones, maleficia, magias et omnia quae genetica, inter generationes et addictiva sunt, sive praeterita, praesens sive futura, nota sive ignota, quae contra me, necessitudines meas et familiam, bona mea terrena, labores meos, et servitium meum tibi imposita sunt. Pater, condono omnia delicta contra me, et veniam peto pro peccatis meis et defectibus, implorans ut totum meum esse, corpus et mens, cor et voluntas, anima et spiritus, memoria et affectiones, habitus et valores purificentur, restituantur et protegantur sacro Sanguine Filii tui, Iesu. In nomine, potentia, sanguine, et auctoritate Iesu Christi, ligo et frango vim et influxum quorumlibet spirituum malignorum intra me vel circa me qui mihi nocere volunt, et his spiritibus et eorum cohortibus, in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, impero ut a me pacifice et statim discedant, se directe ad praesentiam Eucharisticam Iesu Christi in proxima tabernaculo Ecclesiae Catholicae conferentes, ibi ut a Iesu curent et me numquam amplius vexent. Spiritus Sancte Benigne, imple omnem vacuitatem in me ut redundaret amore Tuo infinito. Haec omnia, Pater, precor in nomine Iesu Christi, Spiritu Tuo Sancto ductus. Cor Immaculatum Mariae, Sponsus Spiritus Sancti, intercede pro me et ora mecum. Amen.

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