Petitionary prayers | Song | Vocation prayers

During the Year of Consecrated Life and beyond, we encourage liturgy planners to include petitionary prayers in each liturgy that celebrate the lives and witness of those in consecrated life and invite others to consider a religious vocation. 

We also hope that you will sing our specially commissioned song “Wake the world with dawning joy,” and include prayers for vocations in other parish services and resources.
See: http://www.vocationnetwork.org/articles/show/485-for-liturgists-petionary-prayers-song-vocation-prayers

Prayer for Discernment 

God our Father,
You have a plan for each one of us,
You hold out to us a future full of hope.
Give us the wisdom of your Spirit
so that we can see the shape of your plan
in the gifts you have given us,
and in the circumstances of our daily lives.
Give us the freedom of your Spirit,
to seek you with all our hearts,
and to choose your will above all else.
We make this prayer through Christ our Lord.

—Based on Jeremiah 29:11-13