Prayer For Peace of Mind

This wonderful prayer for peace of mind prays for the release of anxiety and worry, and to bring peace to your soul.

Prayer For Peace of Mind
by Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini

FORTIFY me with the grace of Your Holy Spirit
and give Your peace to my soul
that I may be free from 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 will.
Amen

Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini (1850 - 1917)

Francis Cabrini (also called Mother Cabrini) was the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

Cabrini was the youngest of thirteen children and at the age of 27, took her religious vows. At this time, she also added Xavier to her name to honor the Jesuit priest, Francis Xavier, the patron saint of immigrants.

She taught at the House of Providence orphanage in Codogno, and became the mother superior there. On March 31, 1889, the Pope sent Cabrini to New York City to help the Italian Immigrants.

In 1890, she also founded an orphanage in West Park, Ulster County, New York after obtaining the permission of Archbishop Michael Corrigan. Today it is known as Saint Cabrini Home, and was the first of 67 institutions she founded throughout the United States, Europe and South America.

Cabrini was beatified on November 13, 1938, by Pope Pius XII for her beatification miracle which involved restoring the sight of a child whose eyes had been blinded by silver nitrate. On July 7, 1946, she was also canonized by the Pope for her canonization miracle involved the healing of a terminally ill nun.

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