Vocations in General
Oh God,
You have chosen the apostles
to make disciples of all nations
and by baptism and confirmation
have called all of us
to build up Your Holy Church.
We earnestly implore You
to choose from among us, Your children,
many priests, brothers and sisters
who will love you with their whole heart
and will gladly spend their entire lives
to make You known and loved by all.
Amen.
Passionist Vocations
Heavenly Father,
You inspired St. Paul of the Cross to gather companions
to keep alive in the Church and the world
the memory of your Son’s Passion.
This greatest manifestation of your love for us
has set so many hearts on fire
and among them have called those to follow in the footsteps of Paul of the Cross
through a life of special consecration.
Keep us aware of the importance of this charism
within the Church
and its relevance for our world today.
Help us keep alive the fire of your love in our lives
and move others to join this Community in the Church
so that they may be able to take the gospel of the Passion
to every corner of the world,
reaching out to all those who are suffering
and enkindling in the hearts of all,
the immense love of Jesus Crucified.
Amen.
~Fr. Chris Gibson, CP
Morning Offering
Lord, here I am in Your Presence.
I am entirely Yours.
I adore You.
I offer You my whole heart.
I wish only to do Your will.
I offer You all my efforts
I offer You all my sufferings.
I offer You this day with all that it brings.
I offer them now,
but especially in the Eucharist,
in union with Your Sacrifice, on the Cross,
and in union with all those
who offer themselves to You
for the Salvation of the World.
Amen.
“In this we know what love is: in that he died for us. We too should lay down our life for one another” (1 John 3:16)
~Fr. Chris Gibson, CP
Litany of Love
Lord have mercy (R)
Christ have mercy (R)
Lord have mercy (R)
Loving Father (R: Teach us Love)
Good Father
Kind Father
Merciful Father
Attentive Father
Watchful Father
Generous Father
Just Father
Patient Father
Father rich in Love
Father giver of Love
Father loving Creator
Son of the Loving God
Jesus, Beloved Son of the Father
Jesus, Consecrated Son to the Father
Jesus, Most Faithful Son
Jesus, Word of Love
Jesus, Seed of Love
Jesus, Vine of Love
Jesus, Bread of Love
Jesus, Sacrament of Love
Jesus, Incarnated Love
Jesus, Maximum expression of Love
Jesus, Loving Shepherd
Jesus, Lover of the poor
Jesus, Lover of the oppressed
Jesus, Lover of the abandoned
Jesus, Lover of the sick
Jesus, Lover of the afflicted
Jesus, Lover of the disabled
Jesus, Lover of the young
Jesus, Lover of the old
Jesus, Lover of sinners
Jesus, most understanding
Jesus, most compassionate
Jesus, most tolerant
Jesus, most serviceable
Jesus, most sacrificial
Jesus, most hungry for justice
Jesus, most free in loving
Jesus, most dead to sin
Spirit, Love of God
Spirit, Gift of Love
Spirit, Love that unites us in God
Spirit, Love that strengthen us
Spirit, Love that gives us courage
Spirit, Love that makes us free
Spirit, Love that makes us be like God
Spirit, Love that makes us God’s children
Spirit, Love that urges us to love
Spirit, Love that leads us to Heaven
Spirit, Love in whom we love
Spirit, Love in whom we consecrate our life to God
Spirit, Love in whom we rejoice
Mary, Mother of Love (R: Pray for us)
Mary, teacher of Love
Mary, model of Love
Mary, sure road to Love
Mary, giver of Love
Mary, animator of Love
Mary, most loving
Mary, most compassionate
Mary, most tender
Mary, most courageous
Mary, most decisive
Mary, our protector
All apostles, pillars of Love
All saints, expressions of Love
All angels, guardians of Love
Lamb of God,
who takes away the sins of the world
R: Have mercy on us!
Lamb of God,
who takes way the sins of the world
R: Fill us with Your Love!
Lamb of God,
who takes away the sins of the world
R: Make us instruments of Your Love!
From all hatred (R: Free us Lord!)
From all pride and conceit
From all jealousy and envy
From all harshness and rudeness
From all narrow-mindedness
From all bitterness and pessimism
From all indifference
From a lack of confidence
From all uncharitable thoughts
From all tepidness and laziness
From all sarcasm
From a loose tongue
From all emotional slavery
From all evil.
Let us pray
Heavenly Father, we thank you for
sending your Beloved Son in a great
gesture of Love to Humankind;
He showed us the Way to Love.
We ask that we may learn to love by the Power of Your Spirit, with the same intensity that Jesus loved us. May Our Loving Mother, protect and guide us to the Kingdom of Mature Love. This we ask through Christ Our Lord who loved us unto death. Amen.
~Fr. Chris Gibson, CP
Prayer of St Francis
Lord,
Make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
~Traditional Prayer
A Prayer for our Earth, Pope Francis
A Prayer for Our Earth
All-powerful God,
you are present in the whole universe
and in the smallest of your creatures.
You embrace with your tenderness
all that exists.
Pour out upon us the power of your love,
that we may protect life and beauty.
Fill us with peace, that we may live
as brothers and sisters, harming no one.
O God of the poor,
help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth,
so precious in your eyes.
Bring healing to our lives,
that we my protect the world and not prey on it,
that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction.
Touch the hearts
of those who look only for gain
at the expense of the poor and the earth.
Teach us to discover the worth of each thing,
to be filled with awe and contemplation,
to recognize that we are profoundly united
with every creature
as we journey toward your infinite light.
We thank you for being with us each day.
Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle
for justice, love and peace.
~Pope Francis, Laudato Si’
Stabat Mater +
At the Cross her Station Keeping (Stabat Mater)
At the Cross her station keeping,
stood the mournful Mother weeping,
close to Jesus to the last.
Through her heart,
His sorrow sharing,
all His bitter anguish bearing,
now at length the sword has passed.
O how sad and sore distressed
was that Mother, highly blest,
of the sole-begotten One.
Christ above in torment hangs,
she beneath beholds the pangs
of her dying glorious Son.
Is there one who would not weep,
whelmed in miseries so deep,
Christ’s dear Mother to behold?
Can the human heart refrain
from partaking in her pain,
in that Mother’s pain untold?
Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled,
she beheld her tender Child
All with bloody scourges rent:
For the sins of His own nation,
saw Him hang in desolation,
Till His spirit forth He sent.
O thou Mother! fount of love!
Touch my spirit from above,
make my heart with thine accord:
Make me feel as thou hast felt;
make my soul to glow and melt
with the love of Christ my Lord.
Holy Mother! pierce me through,
in my heart each wound renew
of my Savior crucified:
Let me share with thee His pain,
who for all my sins was slain,
who for me in torments died.
Let me mingle tears with thee,
mourning Him who mourned for me,
all the days that I may live.
