Prayers for Youth
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Loving God,
we ask for your blessing as we journey through this Year of Youth in the Diocese of Trenton. Surround us with your care and enfold us in your love. Guide our bishop. Inspire our priests, our deacons, our religious, and all the faithful. Bless our families. Strengthen our parishes and schools. Make this a time of grace for the young Church; a time of growth and renewal for all who take part in this Year of Youth. Send your Holy Spirit among us to awaken in our hearts the courage to live the joy of the Gospel in everything we do, through Christ our Lord.
Holy Spirit of Love
we pray to you for the youth of our parish and diocese.
Fill their hearts with the certainty that you have chosen them to love, to praise, and to serve!
Enable them to savor your friendship.
Fill them with your joy and consolation.
Help them to overcome moments of difficulty and to rise up again with trust after they have fallen.
Give them the courage to face the challenges of our time and the joy of living in friendship with our Savior Jesus Christ.
Loving Father,
you look with compassion on all your children,
especially those who are vulnerable.
May we work to create a world in which every child has access to food, clean water, shelter, education, health care, and all other basic rights.
May we teach youth about their role in working for peace, justice and the common good.
May we act together to ensure that the lives and dignity of children everywhere can be respected. Amen.
We pray for our young people. Shine your truth into their hearts, O Lord. May they hear you in music, see you in art, and experience you through the love and care of family, friends, and teachers. Build your hope into their lives as they encounter the power of nature, the majesty of the oceans, and the beauty in creation. Sow your wisdom into their minds as they read their bibles, discuss deeper issues of life, or encounter hardships or difficulties. Weave your love into their dreams. Help them find vision in their interests, opportunities for their talents, and aspirations for their abilities. May this new generation of your men and women know, love, and serve you. Amen.
We offer to you, Loving God, the gifts and needs of youth.
Bless them with your guiding grace as they face the
challenges and opportunities in their lives.
Touch their hearts with the gentleness of our love,
that they may know they are valued and valuable beings.
Send your spirit of hope to their lives, that they may believe
in themselves and know they are needed in this world.
Grace them with the gift of joy that they may celebrate life
through laughter and tears alike.
We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen
God our Father,
you see your children growing up in an unsteady and confusing world:
Show them that your ways give more life than the ways of the world, and that following you is better than chasing after selfish goals.
Help them to take failure, not as a measure of their worth, but as a chance for a new start.
Give them strength to hold their faith in you, and to keep alive their joy in your creation;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
May our Lord bless and protect our youth.
May they always be cognizant of their baptismal commitment and their place in this community of faith – the Holy Catholic Church.
May their parents and the adults in their lives be worthy examples of Christian life. We ask all this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Loving God,
please protect our youth from the dangers
present in our world today.
Be with them through sickness and health,
sorrow and joy, loneliness and friendship,
success and failure.
Give them the courage and strength to make the right decisions. We ask this through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.
Loving Father, you look with compassion on all your children, especially those who are vulnerable. May we work to create a world in which every child has access to food, clean water, shelter, education, health care, and all other basic rights. May we teach youth about their role in working for peace, justice and the common good. May we act together to ensure that the lives and dignity of children everywhere can be respected. Amen.
Come Holy Spirit of Vocation,
Stir within young people an awareness of God’s call;
reveal to us the graces of young people;
guide them all, in finding their place and
raising their voices to build a civilization of love.
Come Holy Spirit of Youth, fill the hearts of young people with the hope and love of Jesus Christ; enliven our parish with the creativity, energy, and joy of youth; guide us together as we strive to offer God’s mercy to those who feel abandoned or outcast.
We offer to you, Loving God, the gifts and needs of youth. Bless them with your guiding grace as they face the challenges and opportunities in their lives. Touch their hearts with the gentleness of your love, that they may know they are valued and valuable beings. Send your spirit of hope to their lives, that they may believe in themselves and know they are needed in this world. Grace them with the gift of joy that they may celebrate life through laughter and tears alike. Guide us, as we continue to grow in appreciation of the many gifts of young people, in the ministry opportunities we offer to them, in the journey of faith we walk with them, in our shared mission as a community called to discipleship in the world. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Loving God and Father, You have given us every good gift and promised to be with us always. We ask for your blessing as we journey through this Year of Youth in the Diocese of Trenton. Surround us with your care and enfold us in your love. Guide our bishop. Inspire our priests, our deacons, our religious, and all the faithful. Bless our families. Strengthen our parishes and schools. Make this a time of grace for the young Church; a time of growth and renewal for all who take part in this Year of Youth. Send your Holy Spirit among us to awaken in our hearts the courage to live the joy of the Gospel in everything we do, through Christ our Lord.
God and Father, you are the divine companion. We ask you to continue to be with young people as they experience sorrow and joy, loneliness and friendship Guide and protect them from the dangers that are present in our world today. Gracious God, give to them and their families the courage to follow you as they journey through life. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, may they experience your loving care and mercy. We make this prayer through Christ, our Lord, Amen.
Lead in truth, O Christ, the young people of the parish. Let them not be attracted by new idols, such as consumerism, well-being at any cost, moral permissiveness, violent protest, but let them live your message with joy, which is the message of the beatitudes, the message of love for God and for one’s neighbor, the message of moral commitment to the genuine transformation of society.
Prayer from St. John Paul II, often called "the Pope of the Young."Turn your loving gaze, O God, upon young people.
They carry in their hearts a great hope:
make them strong and pure,
so that they can build their tomorrow with confidence.
Let them receive freely the gift of the faith,
accept it with gratitude,
and develop it with generosity.
Mother of Christ, and our Mother,
help them to be now and forever faithful
to Christ and the Church.
Amen.