Prayer For Religious Nuns
Mother of our Redeemer, in this era dedicated to you, with great joy we call you blessed. You believed in the Word of God the Father and declared yourself His handmaid, and so through you the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. We salute you as Mother of the Church. With what great love you must have watched over the infant Church and what motherly solicitude encouraged the Apostles as they committed themselves to carry on the work of Your Divine Son on earth. Make the Church ever to be the sign and instrument of intimate union with God.
To you, our mother, we entrust in a special way our bishop and the priests of our diocese. To them has been given a sharing in the priesthood of your Divine Son. He has chosen them to be ministers of His Word and sacrament. Ask Him to fill them with zeal, to keep them faithful and joyful in His service, bringing glory to the Father and honor to the Church.
Holy Mother, increase the ranks of our priests by inspiring our young people to be more generous in their response to Jesus in the priesthood and in religious life.
Lord,
give me a burning love
that I may love You
and love my brothers and sisters for You.
Give me your never-ending divine love,
and I will go anywhere and everywhere
You want me to go.
Amen.
Gracious and all-loving God, we thank you that You call us to be one with You and to be, in every way of life, doers of Your Word and not hearers only.
In this National Catholic Sisters Week, we celebrate women religious who consecrate their lives in poverty, celibacy and obedience.
We thank you for their character, courage and commitment to live in solidarity with those who live in poverty and suffer violence in everyday living.
Your love and grace inspire them.
Their joy and total generosity inspire us.
Together they form a global sisterhood whose network of prayer and ministry call all of us to broader and deeper understanding and communal responsibility for the common good of our Earth community.
May their powerful stories ignite the hearts of girls and women today to answer your call to live a life dedicated to the common good through living in community and sharing ministry.
May religious life abound in vitality so that the boundless power of your love and care will be known more and more throughout our world.
In every way of living we are all called to be poor in spirit, faithful in heart, and obedient to Your Love.
Strengthen in each of us a deeper commitment to our own calling, that all may be one with each other and with You.
We ask this in Jesus' name and the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O lovely Mother Mary, Mother of priests and nuns, take to your heart your sons and daughters who are close to you because of their higher calling and because of the power which they have received to carry on the work of Christ in a world which needs them so much. Be their comfort; be their joy; be their strength; and especially help them to live and defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy. Amen.
O Jesus, our beloved Lord and Savior, hear our humble prayers on behalf of your priests and nuns. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope, and a burning love which will constantly increase throughout the course of their holy life. In their loneliness, comfort them; In their sorrows, strengthen them; In their frustrations, point out to them that it is through suffering that the soul is purified and show them that they are needed by the Church, that they are needed by souls, that they are needed for the work of redemption. Amen.
O Most Holy Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit, hear the prayers we offer for our priests and nuns. Let them know clearly the work that You are calling them to do. Grant them every grace to answer Your call with courage, love, and a lasting dedication to Your will. We ask Mary's intercession as their loving mother. Amen.
Heavenly Father, in your wisdom you have called certain women and men to a life of special consecration so that in prayerful observance of a lifestyle of poverty, chaste celibacy and obedience, they might be witnesses to us that as St. Paul says, "our true citizenship is in heaven." Give them, Lord, the grace of joy and perseverance in their holy vocation. We ask this through Christ, our Lord.