Message from Honolulu Bishop and a Prayer for Vocations

The following prayer is from our Sunday Church bulletin:

A Note from Bishop Larry Silva

As you know, Father Peter Dumag is the new full-time Director of Vocations of the Diocese of Honolulu... Father Peter has prepared a Diocesan Prayer for Vocations...I ask you to distribute and use this prayer as widely as possible.

May the Master of the harvest hear our prayers and bless us wtih an abundance of laborers for his harvest here in Hawaii!

Sincerely yours in Christ,
Most Reverent Larry Silva Bishop of Honolulu

Prayer for Vocations

Heavenly Father,
your divine Son taught us
to pray to the Lord of the harvest
to send laborers into His vineyard.

We earnestly beg you
to bless our Diocese and our world
with many priests and religious
who will love you fervently and gladly
and courageously spend their lives
in service to your Son's Church,
especially the poor and the needy.

Bless our families and our children,
and choose from our homes those who you desire for this holy work.

Teach them to respond generously
and keep them ever faithful
in following your Son Jesus Christ,
that under the guidance of the Holy
Spirit
and with the inspiration of
Blessed Damien and Blessed Marianne
the Good News of redemption
may be brought to all.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.