Prayer for Unleashing the Gospel

Heavenly Father,

Thank you for the abundant graces of Synod 16:

for awakening in us the vision and resolve

to become again your Church on mission,

eagerly working together to “make disciples of all nat

ions,” according to our commission from the Lord Jesus.

Pour out upon us your Holy Spirit, as a new Pentecost,

to guide us in our next phase in our movement to Unleash the Gospel.

By his power at work in us, transform our parishes

into bands of joyful missionary disciples.

Come Holy Spirit:

Set our hearts on fire to share the Good News of Jesus with all those

who stumble in darkness, who hunger for hope, who thirst for eternal life.

Above all, grant us the boldness and courage of the apostles

to put the mission above all else, so that our community becomes the spark

to ignite the fire of divine love that transforms this time and this place

into the Kingdom of Heaven.

We pray through the intercession of Our Lady, Star of the New Evangelization,

and her mother, our Patron, St. Anne;

and in the spirit of Blessed Solanus we thank you ahead of time

for “accomplishing in us far more than all we ask or imagine.”

We ask all of this in the all-powerful name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

who lives and reigns forever.

Amen