Skip to content

Keep the Faith, Change the Church.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • LinkedIn
Voice of The Faithful
  • About
    • Mission
    • Who We Are
    • Financial Reports
    • Current Campaigns
    • VOTF FAQs
    • Contact Us
  • Media
    • Blog
    • In the Vineyard
    • Press Releases
    • Videos
    • Publications
    • Documents
  • Conferences
    • VOTF 20th Year Commemoration: 20 Years Keeping the Faith, Changing the Church
    • VOTF 2021
      Conference: Re–Membering the Church
    • 2020 Conference: Visions of a Just Church
    • 2019 Conference: Creating a Just Church
    • 2018
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2012
    • 2011
    • 2009
  • Giving
    • Give Now
    • Monthly Giving
    • Planned Giving
  • Programs
    • SYNOD 2021-2024
    • SURVIVOR SUPPORT
    • PRIEST SUPPORT
    • STRUCTURAL CHANGE
    • Bishop Selection
    • Child Protection
    • Clericalism
    • Financial Accountability
    • Healing Circles
    • Lay Education
    • Mandatory Celibacy
    • Ordain Married Men
    • Prayerful Voice
    • Women’s Emerging Voices
    • The BridgeDialogues
  • Home
Home / Opening Prayer for VOTF Meetings

Opening Prayer for VOTF Meetings

VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL, together we pray:

For all victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests,
We pray always for you.
We mean to be agents of your healing.

Response: We are the Church; we are the Body of Christ.
Hear us, Christ our strength and salvation,
Help us all.

For all our brothers and sisters in faith,
As we struggle to become the Spirit-filled Church we are called to be,
Move us to accept the challenges of reform that are demanded by today’s injustices.

Response: We are the Church; we are the Body of Christ.
Hear us, Christ our truth and salvation,
Help us all.

For all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church,
That their hearts and minds be opened to the Church’s call to genuine holiness and truth,
A call to inclusion and collaboration with the faithful.

Response: We are the Church; we are the Body of Christ.
Hear us, Christ our hope and salvation,
Help us all.

For all who minister in the name of Jesus Christ,
and especially for our Roman Catholic priests.
We pray for your continued faithfulness to the Gospel and to the voice of the faithful.

Response: We are the Church; we are the Body of Christ.
Hear us, Christ our strength and salvation,
Help us all.

We are the Church; we are the Body of Christ.
Strengthen us, fill us with wisdom,
Lead us to holy action in building up your reign.
Help us to respect our voice and the voices of all the faithful.

Response: We are your Church; we are the Body of Christ.
Hear us, Christ our true life and salvation.
Amen.

Mission Statement

To provide a prayerful voice, attentive to the Spirit, through which the Faithful can actively participate in the governance and guidance of the Catholic Church.

Search VOTF

Follow...

Watch VOTF videos...

Confronting Clericalism
By the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests and Voice of the Faithful; endorsed by FutureChuch

Voice of the Faithful
P.O. Box 920408
Needham, MA 02492
(781) 559-3360

Copyright © 2023 Voice of the Faithful, Inc.
All rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy  

↑