Wednesday, July 8 : Saint John-Paul II

Spirit of eternal Love, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, we thank you for all the vocations to be apostles and saints that have made the Church fruitful. Continue your work, we beg you. Remember the moment when, on Pentecost, you came down on the apostles united in prayer together with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and look at your Church, which today has a special need for holy priests, for faithful and authorized witnesses of your grace, which needs consecrated men and women who radiate the joy of those who live only for the Father, of those who make their own the mission and offering of Christ, of those who build the new world in love. Holy Spirit, eternal Source of joy and peace, you open our hearts and minds to the divine call; you make effective every surge towards the good, towards truth, towards love. Your inexpressible groanings rise up to the Father from the heart of the Church that is suffering and struggling for the Gospel. Open the hearts and minds of young men and women, so that a new flowering of holy vocations might show forth the fidelity of your love, and that all might know Christ, the true light who came into the world to give every human being the assured hope of eternal life. Amen.
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