vocation prayer

O Virgin Mary, we commend to you those who seek to follow your Son as priests, brothers, sisters, and deacons. You know the difficulties, struggles, and obstacles they face. Assist them to utter their "yes" to the divine call as you did at the invitation of the Angel. Draw them near to your heart so they may understand with you the joy and beauty that awaits when the Lord calls them into His intimacy. Make them witnesses of His love. Enable them to inspire the Church with their holiness. May your all-powerful intercession touch the hearts of many that they may respond to the Lord's call. Repeat to them in the depths of their hearts what you said to the waiters at Cana: "Do whatever Jesus asks."

John Paul II

Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
All that I am and all that I possess You have given me:
I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will.
Give me only Your love and Your grace;
with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.

St. Ignatius Loyola

Teach us, Good Lord,
To serve you as you deserve.
To give and not count the cost.
To fight and not heed the wounds.
To toil and not to seek for rest.
To labor and not to ask for any reward.
Except that of knowing that we do Your Will.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

St. Ignatius Loyola

My Lord and my God, you are Love itself, the source of all love and goodness. Out of love you created me to know you, to love you, and to serve you in a unique way, as no one else can. I believe that you have a plan for my life, that you have a mission in your Kingdom reserved for me alone. Your plan and your mission are far better than any other I might choose: they will glorify you, fulfill the desires of my heart, and bring salvation to those souls who are depending on my generous response.
Lord grant me the light of grace I need to see the next step in Your plan; grant me the generosity necessary to follow your call; and grant me the courage required to take up my cross and to follow you.
Show me your will, O gentle and eternal God, and help me to say with Mary, “I am the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.” Let me say with Jesus,
“Let not my will be done, but yours.” Amen.

God, our Father, I offer You my day.
I offer You my prayers, thoughts, words, actions,
and sufferings in union with Your Son Jesus Christ,
Who continues to offer Himself in the Eucharist
for the salvation of the world. May the Holy Spirit,
Who guided Jesus, be my guide and my strength today
so that I may witness to Your love. With Mary,
the mother of our Lord and of the Church,
I pray especially for this month's intentions
as proposed by the Holy Father.

Apostleship of Prayer

Message of the Holy Father for the 45th world day of Prayer for Vocations

http://www.usccb.org/vocations/wdp.shtml

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