Marking the New Year with Prayer
Happy 2008 to everyone! In this new year, I offer a few thoughts/suggestions for ordering our prayer. I find the Holy Father’s intentions this month particularly necessary in light of the recent events in Kenya. A former Aquinas professor, Tom Esselman, CM, is now teaching at the Vincentian Seminary in Nairobi. He and the other Vincentians there are safe for the time, but they ask for your prayers.
Daily Offering
O Jesus, through the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers,
works, joys and sufferings of this day, in
union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
throughout the world.
I offer them for all the intentions
of your Sacred Heart: the salvation of souls,
reparation for sin, the reunion of all
Christians.
I offer them for the intentions of our
Bishops, and all members of the Apostleship
of Prayer and in particular for the intentions
of the Holy Father for this month.
POPE BENEDICT XVI’S
MONTHLY PRAYER INTENTIONS – 2008
January:
• Christian Unity. That the Church work for full visible unity that better manifests a community of love which reflects the Blessed Trinity.
• Church in Africa. That the Church in Africa, preparing for a special Synod, may be an instrument of reconciliation and justice.
Source for the rest of the year’s intentions:
http://www.apostleshipofprayer.org/2008.html