28/06/2022
STS. PETER & PAUL, Apostles πβ
29 June; Solemnity
A PRAYER TO BE LIKE ST. PETER
LORD JESUS, Your dear friend and APOSTLE PETER is a guiding light for us. Let St. Peter's way of following You help us to love You more dearly. Although he found it difficult at times and needed to struggle in order to be wholly focused on You, Lord, his willingness to follow You inspires us. When we find it difficult to follow You, we ask for a heart like St. Peterβs reflective heart, so we can always find our way back to You like he did.
Lord, guide us closer to the dream You have for us. As St. Peter bravely asked for forgiveness, may we also have the courage and open hearts needed to say sorry and to grieve because we have not loved You as much as we should.
Jesus, you appointed St. Peter as leader to care for Your flock. We ask You to bless us and show us how to lead others to You, as St. Peter did. We make this prayer in Your Most Holy Name. Amen!
PRAYER TO ST. PAUL FOR PATIENCE
O GLORIOUS ST. PAUL, who from a persecutor of Christianity, did become a most ardent apostle of zeal; and who to make known the Saviour Jesus Christ to the ends of the world did suffer with joy imprisonment, scourging, stoningβs, shipwrecks and persecutions of every kind, and in the end did shed your blood to the last drop, obtain for us the grace to receive, as favours of the Divine Mercy, infirmities, tribulations, and misfortunes of the present life, so that the vicissitudes of this our exile will not render us cold in the service of God, but will render us always more faithful and fervent. Amen!
ST. PETER, pray for us! ππ
ST. PAUL, pray for us! πβ