Vocation-Centered Prayer
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Our prayers have been working. Archbishop Schnurr recently ordained 9 new priests - the largest class in over a decade!
As we continue our Vocations Chalice Ministry, we are struck with how many families have hosted the chalice, and by how many more families are still waiting!
We'd love for you to pray along with us! You don't have to be hosting the chalice to pray for vocations. The prayers below follow the chalice from family to family as a guide for the week. Use them or make up your own!
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Prayer for Vocations
Almighty Father,
You have created us for some definite purpose. Grant us the grace to know the path. You have planned for us in this life and to respond with a generous “Yes.”
Make our archdiocese, parishes, homes and hearts fruitful ground for Your gift of vocations. May our young people respond to Your call with courage and zeal. Stir among our men a desire and the strength to be good and holy priests. Bless us with consecrated religious and those called to a chaste single life, permanent deacons, and faithful husbands and wives, who are a sign of Christ’s love for
His Church.
We commend our prayer for vocations to You, Father, through the intercession of Mary our Mother, in the Holy Spirit, through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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Prayer to Know One's Vocation
Lord, my God and my loving Father,
You have made me to know You, to love You, to serve You, and thereby to find and fulfill myself. I know that every path can lead me to You, but of them all, there is one especially by which You want me to come to You.
Since I will do what You want of me, I pray, send Your Holy Spirit to me: into my mind, to show me what You want of me; into my heart, to give me the determination to do it, and to do it with all my love, with all my mind, and with all my strength right to the end.Amen.
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Simple Vocation Prayer
O My God, please send us holy priests, all for the sacred and Eucharistic heart of Jesus, all for the sorrowful and Immaculate heart of Mary, in union with St. Joseph. Amen.
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Prayer to Mary, Mother of the Church
We turn to you, Mary, Mother of the Church. Through your “yes,” you have opened the door that makes Christ present in the world, in history, and in individual lives. In humble silence and in total availability, you welcomed the call of the Most High.
May there be many men and women in our day who respond to your Son’s invitation: “Follow me!” Grant them courage to leave family, work, and earthly desires to follow Christ along the road that He walked. Mary, Queen of Apostles, pray for us and for an increase of priestly and religious vocations.
Amen.
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Prayer for Families
Lord Jesus Christ, we bring to You in prayer the young people of our Church. Give them hearts open to hearing Your voice. Help them to be generous in responding to Your call. Give them the grace to persevere in overcoming all the pressures in our world that keep them from embracing and truly living their vocation.
Graciously grant to parents a living faith and an ardent love, which will inspire them to encourage their children to live holy lives. May parents genuinely encourage and foster the God given vocation of their children and help them to respond generously. Let them rejoice when a child of theirs is called to be a priest or religious. May the example of Your life and that of Joseph and Mary encourage parents and children to form holy families and let Your grace sustain them.
Amen.
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Prayer for Seminiarians
Lord Jesus, Good Shepherd of the Church, Grant these Seminarians the necessary wisdom, guided by the Holy Spirit, to succeed and the grace to persevere. Enlighten them in their studies, help them in their difficulties, and sustain them in their struggles to be faithful.
O Mary, Our Lady of the Assumption, intercede on their behalf. Help them to imitate you in saying their own generous and unconditional “yes” to the ministry of love and divine election to which the Lord calls them. We ask this in the name of our Heavenly Father.
Amen.
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