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Discernment Resources

Prayers, scripture passages, websites and recommended reading to help you in the process of discerning God's call to you.

PRAYERS

Vocation Prayer by Pope Francis

From Pope Francis' message on the 51st World Day of Prayer for vocations

Vocation Prayer by Pope Francis

LORD OF THE HARVEST,

BLESS young people with the gift of courage
to respond to your call. Open their hearts
to great ideals, to great things.

INSPIRE all of your disciples to mutual love
and giving — for vocations blossom in the good
soil of faithful people.

INSTILL those in religious life, parish
ministries and families with the confidence
and grace to invite others to embrace the bold
and noble path of a life consecrated to you.

UNITE us to Jesus through prayer and
sacrament, so that we may cooperate
with you in building your reign of mercy
and truth, of justice and peace. Amen.
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

For enlightenment to recognize God's will

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Great and glorious God,
and my Lord Jesus Christ,
Enlighten the darkness of my mind.
Give me a right faith
a firm hope
and a perfect charity.
Grant that I may know you, Lord
in order that I may always
and in all things act
according to your most
holy and perfect will.
Amen.
Family Prayer for Vocations

SM Barbara Ann Bosch and SM Eliana Remiszewska

Family Prayer for Vocations

Lord Jesus,

I believe that you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
I believe that it is in you alone that we can find fulfillment and happiness by giving ourselves to you in loving service of others.
I dream that my children will be a reflection of you and that they will be a blessing to the world.
I ask you to look kindly upon them and keep them close to you.
If it is your will to choose them to follow you as a vowed religious or priest, help them to be generous in their response to your loving invitation.
I ask this in your holy name.

Amen.
Prayer to Know One's Vocation

From the USCCB

Prayer to Know One's Vocation

Lord, my God and my loving Father, you have made me to know you, to love you, to serve you, and thereby to find and to fulfill my deepest longings. I know that you are in all things, and that every path can lead me to you.

But of them all, there is one especially by which you want me to come to you. Since I will do what you want of me, I pray you, send your Holy Spirit to me: into my mind, to show me what you want of me; into my heart, to give me the determination to do it, and to do it with all my love, with all my mind, and with all of my strength right to the end. Jesus, I trust in you. Amen.