Loving God,
We lift up all RCIA participants, both catechumens and candidates, and ask for the continued love and guidance from your Holy Spirit as they continue their formation and spiritual development in order to join your Holy Mother Church. Please strengthen the candidate jazzbaby1 is sponsoring and help her to be strong, develop a strong prayer life, and to follow through with this most important step in her life regardless of what her family thinks. Lord Jesus, you called your disciples and they left family, work, and comforts behind to follow you. Please strengthen all RCIA participants to develop this deep love and appreciation for the righteousness of this step in their journey of faith, while also providing courage and wisdom to all their sponsors who support them on the journey. If the RCIA participants face discord and challenges from their family and friends we pray that your Holy Spirit will soften the hardened hearts and make them supportive of the RCIA participant’s choice. However, if your divine and perfect will is not to intervene in the families who are not supportive, please provide the faith, fortitude, and fear of the Lord to the RCIA participants so they will complete their formation and spiritual development and find their true home in your Holy Church with your community of faith.
We pray in the name of your beloved son Jesus, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever.
Amen.