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Prayer Partners

Behind and before every vocation to the priesthood or the consecrated life, there is always the strong and intense prayer of someone: a grandmother, a grandfather, a mother, a father, a community. Pope Francis

We invite you to join us in praying for the needs of our future priests and our Seminary community. Each week of the year will bring an intention being held up by the seminary. It is our hope that friends of the Seminary will take each intention into their personal prayer time. Each month, the list of intentions will be updated for the upcoming weeks. Please remember our intentions in your daily prayer.

February 2024

February 4 – May the staff, administration, faculty, and seminarians be protected by the Lord and my they be fortified by the goodness of God. We pray to the Lord.
February 11 – May the Kenrick Community be healed of all ailments, physical and spiritual, as we prepare ourselves to enter the Lenten Season. We pray to the Lord.
February 18 – May the whole Archdiocese be fortified this Lent to believe, and help be, disciples who make disciples. We pray to the Lord.
February 25 – May our ears be truly open so as to fully respond to the Lord for we are listening and our hearts are filled with gratitude for the seminarians that have listened to the Lord’s call and responded. We pray to the Lord.

March 2024

March 3 – May we desire to be consumed by zeal for the house of the Lord as Jesus. We pray to the Lord.
March 10 – On this Joyful Sunday may we rejoice truly that our journey through Lent is bringing about the transformation seeing what was once blinded from our eyes. Help us continue to desire transformation Lord. We pray to the Lord.
March 17 – May each of us experience freedom from all bondage allowing us walk as light in the world. We pray to the Lord.
March 24 – May this Passion Sunday call us to recognize the great love of the Father for us to send His son Jesus to suffer and die for us and may our seminarians be led evermore to claim their spiritual Fatherhood through their reflection.
March 31 – May the Resurrection of the Lord bring light to all darkness and fill our hearts with hope and the desire to bring the Good News to others. We pray to the Lord.

April 2024

April 7 – May mercy be experienced by our seminary families, our benefactors and their loved ones. We pray to the Lord.
April 14 – May we all know the Lord more fully as we recognize Him in the breaking of the bread. We pray for the Eucharistic Revival in our nation and all the effects on the Catholic Church. We pray to the Lord.
April 21 – May the Good Shepherd find all those who are lost and far from their faith and bring them back to community of faith. We pray to the Lord.
April 28 – May each seminarian remain in Him being able to rely fully on the Lord so they may bear fruit in their final papers and final tests for the semester. We pray to the Lord.

May 2024

May 5 – We pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life and may those who the Lord is calling hear their call as friends of the Lord and may the vocation office guide their discernment process well. We pray to the Lord.
May 12 – May Mary, our Mother watch over our seminarians and priests and may we each remember our own mothers today with a desire to recognize the dignity of women as restoration to our family life. We pray to the Lord
May 19 – May the Holy Spirit bring about a new spring time in our Archdiocese and may the National Eucharstic Pilgrims that will begin their journey on the Serra Route in San Francisco to St. Louis today be safe in their journey and blessed along the way.
May 26 – May the newly ordained bring new life to the presbyterate of the Archdiocese and may pray for them as they begin their ministry to the people of God in the parishes they have been assigned to serve. We pray to the Lord.

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.