Prayers For Study
Prayer before Study or
Instructions
Incomprehensible Creator, the true Fountain of light and only Author
of all knowledge: deign, we beseech Thee, to enlighten our
understanding, and to remove from us all darkness of sin and
ignorance. Thou, who makest eloquent the tongues of those who lack
utterance, direct our tongues, and pour on our lips the grace of thy
blessing. Give us a diligent and obedient spirit, quickness of
apprehension, capacity of retaining, and the powerful assistance of
Thy holy grace; that what we hear or learn we may apply to Thy honor
and the eternal salvation of our own souls. Amen.
Prayer for Students
Under thy patronage, dear Mother, and calling on the mystery of
thine Immaculate Conception, I desire to pursue my studies and my
literary labors: I hereby solemnly declare that I am giving myself
to these studies chiefly to the following end: that I may the better
contribute to the glory of God and to the promotion of thy
veneration among men. I pray thee, therefore, most loving Mother,
who art the Seat of Wisdom, to bless my labors in thy
loving-kindness. Moreover I promise with true affection and a
willing spirit, as it is right that I should do, to ascribe all the
good that shall come to me therefrom, wholly to thine intercession
for me in God’s holy presence. Amen.
An indulgence of 300 days once a day.