- Prayer Before a Missionary Activity
- Bless, O Father, the missionary work that we are about to begin. May your Holy Spirit enlighten us, inspire us and guide us...
Leader. Lord God, for St. Joseph Freinademetz our holy faith was a joyous conviction that became the foundation of a life prepared for sacrifice in your service.
All. Through his intercession may we too develop a strong faith that will prepare us for a life of sacrifice in your service.
L: Lord, you chose St Joseph to bring the good news of salvation to his brothers and sisters in China.
A: Help us to discern our vocation carefully and follow it faithfully as St. Joseph did.
L: Lord Jesus Christ, you taught your disciples, including St. Joseph, how to pray and you gave them an example of intimate union with God, your heavenly Father.
A: Teach us also how to pray and thus with the help of the Holy Spirit to keep united with you and your heavenly Father.
L: Lord Jesus, Missionary sent by the Father, your missionary, St. Joseph, by imitating your example has become for us a model of zeal in bringing people to salvation.
A: Give us too a burning zeal to win people for you.
L: Jesus, St. Joseph served the people of South Shantung with loving kindness, for he knew that to love our neighbor is part of the great commandment
A: We humbly ask you to help us acquire such great love of neighbor that we too, may willingly go to distant lands and serve our needy brothers and sisters there.
L: Jesus, your missionary St. Joseph wonderfully combined zeal with prudence in his missionary work.
A: Help us also to be very zealous and yet prudent in our service of you and your people.
L: Jesus, following your example, St. Joseph did not hesitate to accept poverty and deprivation in his missionary work.
A: Train us likewise to accept conditions, which are not always ideal and demand sacrifice.
L: Jesus, you put St. Joseph through the school of suffering for your name and thus helped him to practice heroic virtue.
A: Help us not to refuse to go through this same school that we too may become heroic in your service.
L: Jesus, you have given an eternal reward and heavenly glory to St. Joseph for his missionary service.
A: Give us the grace to be with you and him in heaven when we have finished our assigned task on earth. Amen.
Source: SVD Vademecum2009, page 99, # 110.4
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