Have you noticed that the vast majority of priests today are older, nearing retirement, and nuns are becoming a rare sighting?

The Church is facing a very real vocations crisis.

A Prayer for Vocations asks the Holy Spirit to illuminate the path of all those discerning a call to the priesthood, religious life, or a life of service to God — with Our Lady and St. Joseph interceding on their behalf.

Join us in praying that God will stir in the hearts of young people a deep and lasting desire to serve Him — for “the harvest is abundant but the laborers are few.” (Matthew 9:37)

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The “Prayer for Protection from Sudden Death” draws inspiration from St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church, who taught believers to “keep death before our eyes” while trusting completely in God’s mercy. This prayer asks for the grace to live each day prepared to meet God, to receive the sacraments frequently, and to practice daily “dying to self” so that death may come as a friend rather than a stranger. It invokes the intercession of Our Blessed Mother, St. Joseph (patron of a happy death), and our guardian angels, while begging for the grace of final perseverance and a death precious in God’s sight, whenever and however it may come.