Archdiocesan Prayer for Vocations

O God, we earnestly ask You to bless this archdiocese with many priests, Brothers, and Sisters who will love You with their whole strength and gladly spend their entire lives  to serve your Church and  to make You known and loved.

Bless our families, bless our children. Choose from our homes those needed for your work.

Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for us, pray for our priests, Religious, and deacons. Obtain for us many more.

                                                                                                                  +Most Rev. Harry J. Flynn, D.D.
                                                                                                                  Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis

Prayer for My Vocation

Dear God,
You have a great and loving plan
for our world
and for me.
I want to do my part in your plan.

Help me to see
the signs that You give me.
Open my heart to respond to You.

Grant me the courage
 to follow your call.
Give me the strength
 to serve You and your people
with generosity and love.
Amen.

Prayers of Pope Benedict XVI
On the World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2006

Grant, O Father, that the Church may welcome with joy the numerous inspirations of the Spirit of Your Son and, docile to His teachings, may she care for vocations to the ministerial priesthood and to the consecrated life.  Amen.

Sustain, O Lord, bishops, priests and deacons, consecrated men and women, and all the baptized in Christ, so that they may faithfully fulfill their mission at the service of the Gospel.  Amen.