Saints LightPrayer for Our Parish
A prayer for your local parish community and its clergy, staff and people; written for this app. Pray it before or after Sunday Mass, and add your parish's patron saint by name in the last line.
The prayer
Lord Jesus, Good Shepherd, bless our parish family. Bless our pastor and the priests and deacons who serve us, and keep them faithful, joyful and holy.
Bless the staff and volunteers who give their time, the families who fill our pews, the sick and homebound who cannot come, and those who have drifted away. Make our church a place where strangers are welcomed, sinners find mercy, and the poor are not forgotten.
Let the Mass we celebrate together send us out to love and serve you in the world. Our patron saint, pray for us. Amen.
Pray it this week
Find out who your parish's patron saint is this week, and pray this prayer with that saint's name at the end.
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