Vocation Prayers
Diocese of Rapid City Diocesan Prayer for Vocations
Heavenly Father,
we beg you for an increase
in religious vocations
and holy marriages
in the Diocese of Rapid City.
Look upon us with favor
and choose from our homes
those who are needed for your work.
Send your Spirit to strengthen us
and give us open hearts and minds
ready to say “Yes” when you call.
Help our parishes and families
encourage vocations to the priesthood,
diaconate, and consecrated life.
We commend our prayers to our Patroness,
Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
Through Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
Invisible Monastery Prayer for Vocations
God our Father, You made each of us
to use our gifts in the Body of Christ.
We ask that You inspire
young people whom you call to
priesthood and consecrated life
to courageously follow Your will.
Send workers into Your great harvest
so that the Gospel is preached,
the poor are served with love,
the suffering are comforted,
and Your people are strengthened
by the sacraments.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Pledge to pray for vocations at invisiblemonastery.com
Prayer to Know my Vocation
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.
Vocation Prayer for Children
I glorify You, God in all that I do.
In mind, body, and spirit
I give my best to you.
Help me to follow your will
No matter the call:
Sister, brother, or priest,
I promise my all.
If you call me to marriage,
I promise to love,
And to teach my own children
To seek grace from above.
Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
Way of the Cross for Vocations
Find a very good Way of the Cross for Vocations on the USCCB website here.