Prayers for everyone

One day I just found myself researching prayers for specific intentions and found these interesting pleas to benefit our world.  I couldn't help but mull over the state of our society where everything bad that can happen has already happened.  It didn’t take very long before an answer dawned on me:  Perhaps we haven’t been lifting up prayers to the Universe like we used to?

PRAYER FOR SOCIETY

http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=2774

O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith and the charity of your tender heart the souls of those who work for the good of the people, for your poor. Impart in them your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, order and gentleness, preserving the flame of enthusiasm ever alight in their hearts. May that day come very soon, when we shall see you restored to the center of civic life, borne on the shoulders of your joyful people.
Amen.

PRAYER FOR AN END TO GOSSIP

http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=1962

Lord Jesus, Son of the Most Holy, How Divinely pure Your thoughts are! Your Words only reflect wonders, Parables worthy of searching minds. I earnestly strive to parallel after You. Tend to my need of respecting others, That I may never gossip against anyone. Guide me in the righteous path of life, Where sensational gossip is non-existent. If by Your will, my intervention is required, Guide me to extinguish the attacks of others. Jesus, You are the glorious light of truth!

PRAYER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=2773

Lord Jesus, Carpenter and King, supreme Sovereign of all men, look with tender mercy upon the multitudes of our day who bear the indignities of injustice everywhere. Raise up leaders in every land dedicated to Your standards of order, equity, and justice. Grant unto us, Lord Jesus, the grace to be worthy members of Your Mystical Body, laboring unceasingly to fulfill our vocation in the social apostolate of Your Church. Sharpen our intellects to pierce the pettiness of prejudice; to perceive the beauty of true human brotherhood. Guide our minds to a meaningful understanding of the problems of the poor, of the oppressed, of the unemployed, of all in need of assistance anywhere. Guide our hearts against the subtle lure of earthly things and undue regard for those who possess them. May we hunger and thirst after justice always.
Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE SALVATION OF THE WORLD

http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=2730

Father, hear our prayers for the salvation of the world. Grant Mercy to all souls that turned away from You. Open their hearts and minds with Your light.
Gather Your children from the east and the west, from the north and the south.
Have mercy O God on those who do not know You. Bring them out of darkness into Your light. You are our saving God Who leads us in our salvation. Protect us from evil.
Bless and praise You O Lord, hear our prayers and answer us. You, our Savior, are the hope of all the ends of the Earth and the distant seas. May Your way be known upon Earth; among all nations Your salvation.
We put the world in Your hands; fill us with Your love. Grant us peace through Christ, our Lord.
Amen