These are the petitions currently on the Morning Prayer List. Each petition is offered up daily early in the morning. If you wish, please join us. Pray for all, or pick a few. Every prayer counts.
Petitions
Jorey’s Prayer
Lord, it’s time to remember Your servant, JOREY CANTU. Watch over her, Father. Bless her. Protect her. Guide her. Direct her. Keep her safe from every harm and danger in body, mind, and spirit. See to her temporal needs and continue to draw her to an ever-deeper spiritual awareness of and commitment to you through Jesus. Increase her faith and fill her with Light.
We are placing this intention in the hands of Saint Damien, knowing that he will carry it to Your Precious Heart, and to assist him we ask St. Pio, Charles, Merilee, Van, Julie, and David to join him in petitioning You for her healing. We ask for a complete healing for JOREY CANTU. Take that tumor away, and make her whole. Pull it out of her with Your own hand or guide the hands of the surgeons who take it from her. Bless her with hope, healing, and health.
We anticipate the inevitable supernatural intervention of God – we expect a MIRACLE! Deliver her from the worries, the side-effects, and the discomforts this tumor brings and let her life be a testimony to the power of love and prayer. We ask this in the name of Jesus, the Christ, who lives and reigns with You, The Father Almighty, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life. Amen!
And now that Jorey has had her operations and is going back to school:
1. Father God we thank you for the privilege of being part of Jorey’s life.
2. With grateful hearts we thank and praise you for the healing you have provided through your mercy in response to our prayers.
3. We also thank you and praise you for the healing you have provided through the work of the surgeons, physicians, and other healthcare practitioners.
4. We thank you and praise you for the compassion you have shown in the healing you have provided.
5. We humbly ask you to continue healing Jorey Cantu. Help her successfully return to her studies, and help her family recover from the impact this experience has had on them emotionally and financially.
6. We ask you to continue strengthening Jorey Cantu’s faith, and strengthen her – in body, mind, and spirit – as she moves toward complete healing.
7. In faith believing, we CLAIM that healing in Jesus’ name and toss in a humongous AMEN.
Prayer for Vocations
Heavenly Father, Your Divine Son taught us to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into his vineyard.
We earnestly beg you to bless our Diocese and our world with many priests, deacons, and religious who will love you fervently, and who will gladly and courageously spend their lives in service to Your Son’s Church, especially the poor and needy.
Bless our families and our children, and choose from our homes those whom you desire for this holy work. Teach them to respond generously and keep them ever faithful in following Your Son, Jesus Christ, that under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and with the inspiration of Saint Damien and Blessed Marianne the Good News of redemption may be brought to all.
Father we also pray for those men and women who have already answered Your call as St. Damien and Blessed Marianne did. Strengthen and guide them in serving You through the work that they do. Bless them for the sacrifices they make to bring souls into the Kingdom.
Please, Lord, touch also the hearts and minds of our laity to come forward to serve in the ministries of our parishes and encourage many parishioners to volunteer time, talent, and treasure to help our parish be a blessing to our community through their compassionate service to others.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
General Intercessions
Jesus we pray for All the Peoples especially those suffering in Haiti (Daniel & Patterson & Taisha & Jacob), Pakistan, Chile, Darfur and in Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, as well as Tennessee and in other disasters both natural and man-made over the entire world. We pray for Christians and for people of all faiths who are being persecuted for their beliefs.
We also pray that those who fear they cannot or should not be forgiven will find that your mercy exceeds all their fears.
And remember these intentions in your Mercy:
AT – refinement, repentance & reconciliation
A&JB & family >>> house, health, security & happiness
BL >> Vocation, strength and sanctity
B&DW >> healing, access to healthcare
BF – Renewal and rejoicing ♥+♥
CC & family – peace of heart an mind
CT – conversion
CTS – sobriety, renewed family ties
C&SD + FAMILY – reunion and a good job for all
CZ&SK – stability in jobs, joyous faith
C&DO – health
Clergy & Religious in our Diocese – sanctity, wisdom, strength
Clergy & Religious, laity, pastors, and teachers in my past – thanksgiving and praise for the ways they shaped my faith
CA’s job – many blessings for her and the kids, more positive experiences at work and home
C C & HK + I – mental and physical health
C&GW – continued remission
M&P – liberation from bondage, strength, thanks for Guidance
TTs – health and security, reconciliation
Dc. MP – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise for his role in our lives
DN& family – Peace of mind, strength, endurance, respite
DG – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise for being a great example of faith
D’s son, C – conversion
D&S >> gentle life together filled with happiness and love
DR – blessings and thanks for a lasting friendship
CPF – proper use of his gifts
EP & Staff – CONVERSION
FP & family – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise; success in school, growth in holiness
FlO >> Hope, Healing, and Health
Fr. WB – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise; success in his work + traveler’s safety
Fr. BG & staff – OLF&OFM – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise; success in his work; health and freedom from pain, funds for the little stone church
Fr. CF – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise; health; success in his work + traveler’s safety
Fr. EV, Fr. AR, Fr. AS – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise; success in their assigned parishes
Fr. EF & St. Joseph’s Parish – rebuild the church destroyed in bad weather, blessing to the parish
Fr. PM – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise for his presence; success in his work, success for our youth program
Fr. PD & Seminarians – many good priests, – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise; success in his work
Fr. RR – continued and accelerated success for his work; health
Fr. RS & staff – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise; success in his work; strength for challenges
Fr. S and Seminarians in Zambia – many good priests, – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise; success in his work and in their formation
SI’s guardian & teachers – continued success, personal growth and confidence
J&GH – safety, security, peace
J&IM – health and fullness of life
JK & family – courage, health, and faith
JDT & family – deliverance from temporal and health problems, resolution of family problems
J&S – Security, health, and success in their ministries.
KV – rest, health, security, and freedom from pain, success in planning travel
KL & family >> great love, peace of heart and mind
KD – preserve him from evil and despair, improve his health, shelter and income + HOPE.
J&SL + family – resolution
LMG – hope peace joy and love, great faith and many blessings
MG – thanksgiving and praise for that miraculous recovery
MC & family ♥♥♥♥♥ – resolution, freedom, morality, conversion, return to Church, favorable outcome in court.
MEG and ♥♥♥♥♥ her family hope peace joy and love and many blessings
NCB & family great love ♥ – discernment & humility WRT significant others
NA ♥ & Relief from her declining health; genuine love fand a very special other.
NS ♪♫♫♫ blessings and praise; help with her studies
PAB >> Multiple addictions severely affecting health
M&DH – continued discernment and great love; strength to endure the final days of illness.
PF – a joyful and comforting life followed by a peaceful death; MF – patience love strength
Pierce family and their mission in Haiti, traveler’s safety, FUNDING from all of us
Pastors, Rabbis, Priests and Religious, retired – a rich life full of meaning and rest
RU – stay on his meds and stay employed
RG & family – thousands and thousands of blessings for enduring in faith
R&DH – peace and quiet in their lives
RFK & ♥♥♥ family – hope peace joy and great love, many blessings as faith and service increase
Sacred Heart Seminarians Nick Brown and Pila Tulua – many good priests, – blessings, thanksgiving, and praise; success in their studies
S&CC – continued remission
TH – employment and security
Troy in Afghanistan – safety for him and for his comrades, peace of mind for his parents
TM – a call to a vocation
V&S – blessings and peace as they finish out their life together
ZL – comfort while in hospice and a peaceful death soon
