Prayer
Prayer is an essential part of the life of any Catholic community, and the Friends of the Ordinariate are no exception.
Mass is offered regularly for the intentions of benefactors of the Friends, including an annual Requiem Mass in November, and benefactors are also prayed for daily.
Please do keep us and our work in your prayers.
A Prayer to Our Lady of Walsingham
(In thanksgiving for the foundation of the Ordinariate in England, the Dowry of Mary)
O Mary, recall the solemn moment when Jesus, your divine Son, dying on the Cross, confided us to your maternal care. You are ever our Mother; we desire ever to remain your devout children. Let us therefore feel the effects of your powerful intercession with Jesus Christ. Make your Name again glorious in that place once renowned throughout our land by your visits, favours and many miracles. Pray, O holy Mother of God, for the conversion of England, restoration of the sick, consolation for the afflicted, repentance of sinners, peace to the departed.
O blessed Mary, Mother of God,
Our Lady of Walsingham, intercede for us.
A Prayer for the Ordinariate
Eternal Father, We place before you the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, and Anglicans seeking full communion with the Catholic Church. We thank you for this initiative and we ask that, through the Holy Spirit, it may become: a family of charity and peace; a service to the poor;
a focus for Christian unity and reconciliation; a community of the New Evangelisation; a school for the faith in all its fullness, celebrating the liturgy with prayerful reverence, maintaining a distinctive patrimony of Christian faith and culture. Grant this, we pray, through Christ our Lord.
Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us.
Saint John Henry Newman, pray for us.
Adapted from a prayer by Bishop Peter Elliott.
For the happy repose of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Almighty God, Thou art the author and sustainer of all human life; grant that thy servant, Elizabeth our Queen, to whom thou granted a long and happy reign as Monarch of these lands, may be forgiven her sins and rewarded with that eternal life promised to all those born again in the water of baptism and the power of thy Spirit.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever. Amen.
Rest eternal, grant unto her O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon her. May she rest in peace. Amen.
Prayer for the King
O God, unto whom every human power is subject, grant unto thy servant His Majesty King Charles wisdom in the exercise of his high office, so that, always revering thee and striving to please thee, he may constantly secure and preserve for the people entrusted into his care the freedom that comes from unity and peace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever. Amen.
