Release the day before sleep
Evening Prayer for Sleep
Close the day with a brief Catholic examination of conscience: give thanks, ask forgiveness and entrust the night to Jesus Christ. You can pray these original words or choose Compline, the Church’s Night Prayer; neither promises immediate sleep.
Scripture
Proverbs 3:24
Proverbs describes the security of a life guided by wisdom; its picture of restful sleep is not a medical guarantee.
A paraphrase for reflection, not a verbatim Bible quotation.
Read the passage in the Catholic NABREPray slowly
Evening Prayer for Sleep
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Father, I release this day into Your hands. I give You the conversations I keep replaying, the work left unfinished, and the questions I cannot answer tonight.
Quiet my thoughts, relax my body, and replace fear with the assurance that You are near. Protect my home and the people I love through the night.
Prepare me to wake with renewed faith and strength. I trust tomorrow to You. In Jesus' name, amen.
An original prayer for personal use, not a liturgical text.
A practice for today
Carry the prayer into your next choice.
Give thanks for a gift, examine one encounter and ask forgiveness. Plan a concrete act of repair or sacramental confession where needed. Then set your phone aside while preserving access needed for care and safety.
Pray before the scroll
Turn this pause into a daily rhythm.
Pray Shield places Scripture and a short prayer between the impulse to open a distracting app and the choice that follows.
