Youth Ministry: pray for us

Intercede For Youth Ministry

     First of all, then, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity.  This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.  For there is one God.  There is also one mediator between God and the human race, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself as ransom for all. (1 Timothy 2:1-6)

     This is a call to all the members of St. Joseph’s parish, parents of teens, and all faithful Christians to join in doing intercessory prayer for the needs of Youth Ministry.  This is your chance to really make an impact on the Youth Ministry program even if you aren’t called to work directly with the teens.

     Intercessory prayer can be defined as the act of asking on behalf of another or others.  Intercessory prayer is about loving others enough to embrace their needs as one’s own, and on their behalf, take them to the throne of God.  What you are being asked to do is pray for that which we cannot do ourselves, and could never deliver: the intercession of an all-loving and all powerful God.  (Basil Pennington quote from Tobin, Eamon. Prayer: A handbook for today’s Catholic. 72.)

     Where to start with intercessory prayer, simply ask God to pour upon us a “spirit of grace and supplication.”

     A simple prayer for this is:  God help us pray!  Give us the desire and ability to pray.  Provide for us the grace to earnestly pray in behalf of the youth of our community.  Help      motivate us to fervently pray our vision for our teens into reality. Amen.

     Thank you for being an important part of Youth Ministry!