SOS4SOS · A prayer community
Each day we pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, and the SOS4SOS Prayer for every name written in every SOS4SOS journal, and we offer small sacrifices, with love, for the salvation of souls.
The intention
Our little sacrifices, joined with a loving posture of Christian charity, can help save souls.
SOS4SOS started with a small group of people who agreed to say one Our Father for everyone written in a little red SOS4SOS prayer journal. If you knew these people, you would soon recognize how powerfully and lovingly they pray, and how selflessly they offer parts of their days to help save souls.
When I pray, I try to get on my knees and imagine all the people written in all of the SOS4SOS journals kneeling with me. Not just the names in mine, but every name in every journal, all of us slowly and fervently praying the prayer Jesus taught us. I lovingly ask God to take this prayer and, in His perfect charity, accept it as if each one of these people were praying it themselves. It does not matter whether the person is living or has already passed, for God is outside of time.
The app is simply an extension of that prayer offering, with a gentle reminder that we can do even more. We can offer little sacrifices throughout the day to add to our prayers. Little sacrifices offered with love are powerful.
How it works
When you join SOS4SOS, you are choosing to do three things each day. SOS4SOS never asks you who you are praying for.
Write down the names of the people you would like to pray for. Your journal can be a dedicated notebook, a few simple pieces of paper, or even a list you carry quietly “written on your heart.” SOS4SOS never asks you to enter anyone’s name into the app.
Each time anyone in the SOS4SOS community prays the SOS4SOS prayers, they are offered not only for the people in their own journal, but for every person named in each SOS4SOS journal throughout the world.
Together, we are asking God to surround each soul with His grace, mercy, and love, to draw them ever closer to Him, and, with hope and trust in His mercy, to write their names in His Book of Life.
Pray one Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, and the SOS4SOS Prayer daily for the intention of saving all souls named in all SOS4SOS journals throughout the world.
SOS4SOS does not ask you who you are praying for. It simply encourages you to pray and lovingly offer little sacrifices along the way.
A sacrifice can be a simple act of self-denial, such as giving up a small comfort, choosing extra patience during a difficult moment, or offering to God a hardship you are already carrying.
Ask the Holy Spirit to show you what would be good to offer. Whatever He places on your heart, offer it with love. Even the smallest sacrifice can become meaningful when united with Jesus. For example:
SOS4SOS encourages small acts of love, not intentional suffering or self-harm. A sacrifice should never involve intentionally harming yourself, neglecting your health or well-being, or creating suffering for its own sake. If you are in crisis or considering hurting yourself, please contact emergency services or a crisis line immediately.
The prayers
Pray these four prayers each day for every soul named in every SOS4SOS journal.
Pray it slowly and purposefully.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Oh Sacred Heart of Jesus, with each act of sacrifice today, let my heart sing to you with pure love, “I would like to join this sacrifice with Yours on the cross, for the salvation of souls.”
Immaculate Heart of Mary, so closely united with the heart of Jesus, please pray for us.
When you have reached your goal for the day.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, please take all I’ve offered today, and through the tender hands of our Blessed Mother, use it to save souls.
To begin the day, asking to notice each chance to offer something.
Holy Spirit, please be present with me today and show me ways that I can offer little sacrifices for the salvation of souls. Help me to be aware of Your gentle communication, and help me to respond with my whole heart, saying a simple yes.
Amen.
For offering our crosses with love.
My Jesus, never permit me to detach love from the crosses You send me. I don’t want a prayer life; I want my life to be prayer.
Author unknown
A reflection
“Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church.”Colossians 1:24
SOS4SOS is anchored in Colossians 1:24 and in the desire to offer the small sacrifices of everyday life with love, uniting them with Jesus Christ for the salvation of souls.
In this verse, St. Paul reveals that Christ invites His followers to share in His mission. Through prayer, sacrifice, and acts of love, we can unite our own sufferings and daily offerings with the suffering of Christ and offer them for the good of others.
What, then, could be “lacking” in the sufferings of Christ? Nothing is lacking in the saving power of His sacrifice. Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross was complete, perfect, and sufficient.
What remains is our participation.
Christ allows us to unite our own crosses with His. Every small act of self-denial, every sacrifice freely offered, and every sincere “Thy will be done” can become an act of love when joined to Him.
Our sacrifices do not add to what Christ accomplished on the Cross. Rather, by His grace, they allow us to participate in His work of love and to offer our lives for the good and salvation of souls.
The Immaculate Heart of Mary is so closely united with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Mary stood faithfully at the foot of the Cross, united with her Son in love and in sorrow. From the Cross, Jesus gave her to us as our mother, saying to the beloved disciple, “Behold thy mother” (John 19:27). As we offer our sacrifices, we place them in her hands too, trusting that her Immaculate Heart, forever joined to the Heart of her Son, will carry them to Him.
It is hard to imagine how an all-loving God, who created a perfect world, would allow suffering. It is a mystery we won’t fully understand until we reach our heavenly home.
God’s perfect will was that we would never sin. But God gave each of us free will, and Adam and Eve used that freedom to disobey. That first disobedience, original sin, has stained each of us too. We don’t understand how their sin can affect us, born thousands of years later, but it does. The consequence of sin is death.
But God sent His only Son, Jesus, to suffer and die on the cross for each one of us, to atone for our sins. Jesus, God Himself in human form and free from any sin of His own, suffered crucifixion not because He deserved it, but to erase the death we owe for our sins. He endured excruciating torture and death to free us.
If God, in His omnipotence, used the suffering of His only Son to pay the debt of our sin, why is it hard to believe that our own suffering, offered in loving union with Jesus, can be used too?
Of course the price Jesus paid was enough. Of course God does not need us to do anything. He is outside of space and time and the laws of nature He created. And yet perhaps His love reaches further than our minds can fathom. Perhaps opening the door for us to offer our own suffering to help others is part of His perfect plan. Isn’t it beautiful to imagine that the suffering you carry, offered to Jesus in union with the one true King, can help save souls?
The app
A simple daily companion for prayer and small sacrifices, offered with love for the salvation of souls. Private, free of accounts, and stored only on your device.
The SOS4SOS app should be available by October 22, 2026.