We invite you to join us in praying for the needs of our Seminary community. Each year presents the opportunity for us to bring new intentions before God. It is our hope that friends of the Seminary will take each intention into their personal prayer time. Please remember our intentions in your daily prayer.
Petitions for the 2024-2025 Academic Year
Heavenly Father, we ask you to prepare our hearts to desire your will for our lives. Protect those whom you choose for service in your Church. May you send many more laborers into the vineyard. May the Kenrick community be renewed in hope and zeal by all that you are doing, and may we experience your endless mercy poured out upon our families, benefactors, and loved ones.
May you, Mary, our Mother, be present to us in every moment of every day, and may you console us as you lead us closer to your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
About Intercessory Prayer
Prayer for one another has been a rich tradition in the Church. “On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit of the Promise was poured out on the disciples, gathered together in one place. While awaiting the Spirit, “all these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer. The Spirit who teaches the Church and recalls for her everything that Jesus said was also to form her in the life of prayer.”
The Catechism defines Prayer of Intercession as follows: “Intercession is a prayer of petition which leads us to pray as Jesus did. He is the one intercessor with the Father on behalf of all men, especially sinners. He is “able for all time to save those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. The Holy Spirit “himself intercedes for us . . . and intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” Since Abraham, intercession – asking on behalf of another – has been characteristic of a heart attuned to God’s mercy. In the age of the Church, Christian intercession participates in Christ’s, as an expression of the communion of saints. In intercession, he who prays looks “not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others,” even to the point of praying for those who do him harm. The first Christian communities lived this form of fellowship intensely. Thus the Apostle Paul gives them a share in his ministry of preaching the Gospel but also intercedes for them. The intercession of Christians recognizes no boundaries: “for all men, for kings and all who are in high positions,” for persecutors, for the salvation of those who reject the Gospel (CCC 2634-36).”
It is the hope of the seminary community that you will take each weekly intention into your personal prayer time and to your Eucharistic celebration intentions. May our journey of intercession for others bring joy and delight in our hearts and the Father’s heart.
