Parishes and prayer groups are encouraged to pray for vocations to lay ministry:
That we will confidently place our trust in the Lord and allow the Spirit to guide our hearts in discerning a call to lay pastoral leadership, we pray to the Lord. . .
In gratitude for the many persons who serve this parish community as volunteers and lay pastoral leaders, we pray to the Lord . . .
That those who have responded to the call to serve as lay pastoral ministers will know the goodness of the Lord, we pray to the Lord. . .
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