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Prayer for seminarians
Dear God,
I pray for all of the senior citizens in my life. May they be blessed with good health and a long life. May they be surrounded by friends and family who love them dearly. Help them to find joy in their daily lives, and may they always remember to put others first. Protect them from harm and give them the strength to overcome any obstacles that come their way. Thank you for your mercy on all the senior citizens in my life. Amen
words of encouragement for seminarians
Father, we come to you today to pray for our senior citizens.
We know that you are always with them, and we know that they always have your ear. We lift up our grandparents, great-grandparents, and all others who are elderly in our lives.
Bless their hearts as they grow older and more frail. Bring them peace and comfort as they continue to live out their days here on earth. Help us to remember that we can never repay them for the love they have shown us.
And Lord… if it is your will to take them home soon, we pray that you would carry them gently into your loving arms. We thank you for the years of service these people have given us on this earth. We love them dearly and want only the best for them now and forevermore. Amen!
Dear God,
We pray for all of our senior citizens, who are in their final years of life. We ask that you comfort them and their families as they go through this difficult time. Help them to feel at peace in your arms and know that you are always with them.
Thank you for all the memories that have been made and for the legacy that will be left behind. Fill us with the strength needed to carry on without them when the time comes. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen
Dear Lord, we pray for the senior citizens in our community.
They have lived a long, full life and contributed so much to this world.
They have loved and been loved, experienced joy and sadness, had success and failure, been rich and poor.
We pray that they will be comforted by the knowledge that they are not forgotten as they age into their golden years. We pray that they will be given strength to face whatever challenges come their way. We pray that you will grant them wisdom in their decisions so that they may find peace and contentment with their lives. And we pray that you will grant them the grace to accept death when it comes, allowing them to pass away peacefully surrounded by family and loved ones. Amen.
Dear God, we pray for the senior citizens in our lives.
We pray for them to be safe and healthy, and to be able to live out their lives with independence and dignity.
We ask that you give them strength, wisdom, and patience as they navigate the challenges of aging.
And finally, we ask that you guide us in how best to care for those who are older than ourselves—that we might make their lives a little easier if only by doing what is expected of us: caring for them as family members or friends.
prayer for religious life
Lord Jesus Christ,
in your great love you draw all people to yourself:
and in your wisdom you call us to your service.
We pray at this time,
you will kindle in the hearts of men and women
the desire to follow you in the Religious life.
Give to those whom you call,
grace to accept their vocation readily and thankfully,
to make the whole-hearted surrender which you ask of them,
and for love of you, to persevere to the end.
This we ask in your name. Amen.
Gracious and loving God, help the men and women of the Diocese of Calgary hear your call to serve. Our needs are great and our people thirst for your presence. Open the hearts of many; raise up faithful servants of the Gospel, dedicated, holy sisters, brothers, deacons and priests, who will give themselves for your people and their needs. Bless those who are serving now with courage and perseverance. Grant that many will be inspired by their example and faith. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is the same yesterday, today and forever.
JESUS, I pray for: your faithful and fervent priests, your unfaithful and lukewarm priests, your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields, your tempted priests, your lonely and desolate priests, your young priests, your dying priests, and the souls of your priests in purgatory. But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me: the priest who baptized me, the priests who absolved me from my sins, the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me your body and blood in Holy Communion, the priests who taught and instructed me; all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way (especially….). O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen.
HEAVENLY FATHER, Lord of the harvest, we earnestly ask you to bless our diocese and our world with many priests who will love you fervently, and gladly and courageously spend their lives in service to your Son’s Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We pray that their lives may be always centered on our Eucharistic Lord, that they may be always faithful to the Holy Father, and that they may be devoted Sons of Mary, our mother, in making you known and loved; and that all may attain heaven. Bless our families and our children and choose from our homes those whom you desire for this holy work. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.