Altar serving & Deacon Mel

[willisboy]

Prayer warriors,

My daughter and I (my daughter is 10 and I am 49 years old) made our debut on the Altar at yesterdays morning Mass (Sunday 7th Aug.) It went very well.

Please pray that we can make a good job of serving the Parish Priest.

Please pray too for the other faithful servers, there are not very many in our Parish.

Please pray too for Deacon Mel, who left us after the last Mass in July to become the Chaplain at a prison in a neighbouring county.

Thank you

God bless you

Graham

 

[wild_thing]

Altar Server’s Prayer:

Open my mouth, O Lord, to bless your Holy Name.

Cleanse my heart from all evil and distracting thoughts.

Enlighten my understanding and inflame my will that I may serve more worthily at your holy altar.

O Mary, Mother of Christ the High Priest, obtain for me the most important grace of knowing my vocation in life.

Grant me a true spirit of faith and humble obedience so that I may ever behold the priest as a representative of God and willing follow him in the Way, the Truth, and the Life of Christ.

Amen.

For deacon Mel:

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

 

[ready]

Lord, please help Graham and his daughter to be the best and most holy altar servers. May they do their duties well and all for you. May the other altar servers do well and do their duties all for you. Grant Deacon Mel all the graces he needs to be the best chaplain for the prisoners. May he save many souls at the prison. Thank you, Lord, for hearing my prayer.