Prayers to God the Father

 St. Catherine of Siena

O Deity, my love, I see the world lying in death and so great a death that my soul grows faint at the sight. How can life be restored to this corpse? Your beloved Son will not come again, except in majesty to judge. But You call Your servants “christs,” and by means of them You wish to cast out death and restore life to the world, if only they walk manfully along the way of the Word with ardent desire, and patiently endure sufferings and grief for the sake of Your honor and the salvation of souls. O Supreme Redeemer, grant us then such “christs” as will spend their lives in watching, in tears, in prayer for the salvation of the world!
Prayer XII

O Eternal God, O compassionate, merciful Father, have pity on us who are blind, deprived of all light. With that glance of compassion whereby You have created us and all things, look upon the needs of this world and provide for them. You gave us being out of nothingness; enlighten, then, this being which belongs to You.
Prayer VIII

Restore, O eternal God, health to the sick and life to the dead, and give us a voice, so that we may cry out to You, with the voice You give us, for mercy to the world and for the reformation of holy Church: listen to that voice of Yours whereby we cry out to You.
Prayer XX

Cancel out our sins today, O true God, and cleanse the face of our souls with the Blood of Your only-begotten Son, shed for us; so that, dead to ourselves, living for Him, we may exchange our passion for His with bright face and undivided soul.
Prayer VI

I implore Your omnipotence, Eternal Father, the wisdom of Your only-begotten Son through His Precious Blood, and the clemency of the Holy Spirit, furnace and abyss of charity, Who held the same Son fixed to the cross, to have mercy on the world and restore the warmth of love with peace and unity in the holy Church.
Prayer XXIV 

O delightful love, O fire, O abyss of charity, O incomprehensible sublimity! The more I consider Your exaltedness in the Passion of the Word, the more my soul is ashamed of never having known You. But today may it please the loftiness of Your charity to enlighten the eye of my intellect and that of all human beings!
Prayer XII

Do not delay, most benign Father. Turn the eye of Your mercy upon the world. You will be glorified more by bestowing light upon them than if they were to remain in the blindness and darkness of sin, although You draw the glory and praise of Your name from everything. But I wish to see the glory and praise of Your name in Your creatures, who follow Your will and reach the goal for which You created them. Grant, O most kind and compassionate Father, Your sweet and eternal blessing.
Prayer XX

You see, Eternal Father, that Your servants stand at the door of Your Truth and ask. And for what are they asking? For the Blood of this door, Your Truth. In His Blood You have cleansed our iniquity; His Blood is ours because You have made of It a bath for us. You neither can refuse It to anyone asking It of You in truth, nor wish to. Give, then, the fruit of the Blood to Your creatures; place on the scales the price of Your beloved Son’s Blood, so that the infernal demons may not abscond with Your little sheep.
Dialogue, 134

O Sweetest Father, I beseech You to have mercy on the world and on Your holy Church. Do not delay any longer: yield to and fulfill the desire of Your servants. It is You who bid them to cry out; listen, then, to their voice! Your Truth has told us: ask and You shall receive; seek and You shall find; knock and it shall be opened to You. O Eternal Father, Your servants cry out for Your mercy: do respond to them.
Dialogue, 134

O good Shepherd, You gave us the true Shepherd, Your only-begotten Son; and He, in obedience, laid down His life for Your sheep and made of His Blood a bath for us. In their hunger, Your servants beg of You this Blood, that You may take pity on the world and that Holy Church may blossom again with the fragrant flowers of good and holy shepherds.
Dialogue 134

What made You establish man in so great a dignity? Certainly the incalculable love by which You have looked on Your creature in Yourself! You are taken with love for her; for by love indeed You created her, by love You have given her a being capable of tasting your eternal Good.
Dialogue 4,13

Oh Eternal Truth, I appeal to Your mercy that You grant me the grace to follow Your Truth with a sincere heart; give me a fire, an abyss of charity; give me a constant thirst to endure pain and torment for Your sake. Grant to my eyes, Eternal Father, a fountain of tears whereby I may incline Your pity toward the whole world and in particular toward Your spouse.
Prayer XIX