Loving and merciful Father,
We give you praise and glory for 75 years as a Diocese and for the opportunity to serve your people in Central Texas. Help us to continue to spread the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ to all we encounter - in our words and in our deeds - for the next 75 years and beyond.
O Lord, we are grateful to you for our shepherd, Bishop Joe Vásquez, for his servant leadership and compassion for us, the flock you have entrusted to his love and pastoral care. We ask for your continued blessings upon his Episcopate, his family, his Vicars who help him govern the Diocese, as well as his staff and all their families.
Pour forth your blessings upon all priests, deacons, religious brothers and sisters, and seminarians whom you have called to serve your people alongside our Bishop. Protect them from the snares of the Devil and help them to resist all his empty promises.
Strengthen the faith of the laity, that they may hear and answer your call to serve the Catholic Church in Austin in their own special ways, sharing of their time, talents, and treasures without counting the costs. In a special way, we pray for all Knights of Columbus and their families that they may continue to live out the Order’s pillars of charity, unity, fraternity, and patriotism with boldness and confidence.
Protect and preserve the sanctity of life from conception to natural death, the holiness of marriage between one man and one woman, and the dignity of the family - the domestic church - so that all children may come to love and adore you, O Lord, and to know of your love for them in the love of their fathers and mothers.
O Lord, through the outpouring of grace from your Holy Spirit, may we courageously answer the call to the vocation to which you have called us to in life, so that we may live out our baptismal call as priest, prophet, and king, always faithful to you and the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of your Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We ask all this through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary as we pray. . . Hail Mary. . .
The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. May Almighty God bless you. . . + the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Go in peace. 🙏🕊❤️
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