O God, we earnestly ask You to bless this archdiocese with many priests, deacons, and consecrated women and men, who will love You with their whole strength and gladly spend their entire lives to serve your Church and to make You known and loved.

Bless our families; bless our children. Choose from our homes those needed for your work.

Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us and pray for our clergy and all those in consecrated life. Obtain for us many more.

Original prayer written by +Most Rev. William O. Brady
Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

Revised in 2025 by +Most Rev. Bernard A. Hebda

For more Catholic prayers and additional resources, visit the EWTN website.

In the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, we are blessed with the witness of various forms of consecrated life. Consecrated life includes religious brothers and sisters, religious order priests, members of secular institutes, and consecrated virgins living in the world.