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Resources for Prayer for Vocations in 2021
Ideal for parish prayer for vocations are these resources, provided at no cost by Vocation Ministry and the Liguori Society. For the Liturgical Year beginning on Sunday, November 29, 2020, and ending on November 21, 2021, Sunday Masses are in Cycle B. Here are General Intercessions for an entire year of Sunday Masses (in English or Spanish, in MS Word or PDF) and "Bulletin Blurbs" for insertion into an entire year of Sunday bulletins (in English or Spanish, in MS Word or PDF). Download, read, share, and pray.
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Vocations Awareness Week, November 1 - 7, 2020
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Our Prayer
St. Alphonsus Liguori, patron saint of vocations, I come before you seeking your intercession for our people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Open their hearts and minds to know the vocation God has planned for them for all eternity. If they are being invited to follow God as a priest, deacon, or consecrated person, give them a generous heart to respond to God’s challenging call and the strength to follow wherever God leads them. May families desire to please God by encouraging and supporting vocations within their homes. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. Amen.
Hail Mary (say three times):
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary,
Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.
St. Alphonsus Ligouri…
pray for us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary….
pray for us
St. Joseph….
pray for us.
Download a PDF file of the daily prayer here
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Let us join together in prayer for vocations...
“National Vocation Awareness Week will be celebrated in our country November 1 - 7, 2020. Please ask Our Lord for more dedicated, holy priests, deacons, and consecrated men and women. May they be inspired by Jesus Christ, supported by our faith community, and respond generously to God’s gift of a vocation." (from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops).
In our contemporary times, it is a “mini-miracle” that anyone is able to hear and respond to a religious vocation. It is a miracle that can only be explained by the power of prayer and the efficaciousness of God’s grace. Our prayer for vocations is ultimately a response to Christ’s personal call for us to “ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Mt 9:38).
In observance of this week, the Office of Vocations of the Archdiocese of San Francisco is sponsoring and promoting a prayer campaign that involves praying a short prayer each day so that the Catholic faithful in the Archdiocese may be open to a religious vocation.
Join the Archdiocesan prayer campaign: Text VOCATIONS to 84576 or go to http://sfpriest.flocknote.com/VocationWeek.
Meet Our Seminarians + Meet the Vocation Team
Daily Prayer for Vocations in PDF Format here.
Stained glass window in Carlow Cathedral, Ireland, showing St. Alphonsus Liguori, patron saint of religious vocations, kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament. Created for the cathedral by Franz Mayer & Co. in the 19th century.
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